Education
2016 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL PhD Comparative Literature (honors)
2005 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL MA Humanities
2004 Pomona College, Claremont, CA BA English Literature (cum laude)
Academic Publications
2025 “We Say We are Doing ‘The Work,” and What We Mean When We Say It.” Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, vol. 50
2017 “Concealed Labor: The Grammar of Sanguineti’s Capriccio italiano.” In On the Fringe of the Neo-Avant-Garde. New York: Agincourt Press, 2017.
2016 Special Journal Issue: “Reading and Social Imagination: Essays in Historical Poetics.” Modern Language Quarterly 77:1 (March 2016), editor and co-author of introduction.
Editing
Editor-in-chief, Chicago Review (September 2010–October 2014)
Special issues edited:
“Elliott Carter: Settings,” Chicago Review 58:3/4 (Summer 2014)
“A. R. Ammons,” Chicago Review 57:1/2 (Summer/Autumn 2012)
“Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Three Essays,” Chicago Review 56:2/3 (Autumn 2011)
“New Italian Writing,” Chicago Review 56:1 (Spring 2011)
Literary Translation
The Bees: Book IV of the Georgics by Vergil. Verge Books, 2024.
Laura Pugno. DNAct (e-book). Zona Editrice, 2017.
“3 Essays by Edoardo Sanguineti: The Futurist War, Surrealism Discovered Kitsch, and Toward a Literature of Cruelty.” Lana Turner 7 (Fall 2014)
“From the European Archive: 2 Essays by Edoardo Sanguineti,” Lana Turner 6 (Fall 2013)
Giovanna Frene. The Noted, The Known. Chapbook. Transeuropa Edizioni, 2011.
“Gabriele Frasca, you rhymed”; “Marcello Frixione, gallery”; “Nicola Lagioia, from Bringing It All Back Home.” Chicago Review 56:1 (Spring 2011)
“Edoardo Sanguineti, Erotopaegnia 1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10.” Lana Turner 3 (Fall 2010)
“Edoardo Sanguineti, Laborintus 1, 3, 6, 11”; “Paolo Gentiluomo, Catalog 2111, 2112, 2113”; “Piero Cademartori, Specific afflictions, A chauffeur manifests”; “Marcello Frixione, pledges.” Cambridge Literary Review 3 (Summer 2010)
“Marcello Frixione, stations.” Aufgabe 6 (Spring 2007) (with V. Joshua Adams)
“Marcello Frixione, diaries.” Circumference 6 (Winter 2007) (with V. Joshua Adams)
Teaching Experience
Julian Charter School (2021–present): English instructor/mentor teacher
Escondido Charter High School (2017–2021): English instructor
Tempe Preparatory Academy (2015–2017): Great Books faculty
University of Chicago (2010–2014): undergraduate course instructor, MA preceptor for Master of Arts Program in Humanities