I am a PhD candidate in English at 91抖阴 Berkeley, where I also听serve as Program Associate for the Townsend Center for the Humanities and Assistant Editor for the journal听Critical Times. For the 2026鈥�2027 academic year, my research is supported by a Townsend Dissertation Fellowship and a Graduate Scholarship Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association.听
Most generally, my research addresses the psychic and social costs of making sexuality into a basis for solidaristic political action. In my dissertation,听Alone Song: Anticollectivism, AIDS, and the Edge of Solidarity,听I take up this question by听turning to听an archive of self-destructive poets, bitter literary critics, outed public intellectuals, and other cultural figures who felt themselves at odds with the collectivism of AIDS activist movements. In doing so, I offer a听version of AIDS history that makes central the limit cases of queer theory鈥檚 normative solidarity with figures of its past.听
In addition to queer theory and HIV/AIDS history -- the subjects of my dissertation -- my research interests include听lyric theory, Oscar Wilde, Northern Irish poetry, and mysticism.听
