I am a PhD candidate in English at UC Berkeley, where I also serve as Program Associate for the Townsend Center for the Humanities and Assistant Editor for the journal Critical Times. For the 2026–2027 academic year, my research is supported by a Townsend Dissertation Fellowship and a Graduate Scholarship Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association.
Most generally, my research addresses the psychic and social costs of making sexuality into a basis for solidaristic political action. In my dissertation, Alone Song: AIDS and the Edge of Solidarity, I take up this question by turning to an archive of reactionary lyric 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 version of AIDS history that makes central the limit cases of queer theory’s normative solidarity with figures of its past in order to explicate the implicit terms of that solidarity.
In addition to queer theory and HIV/AIDS history -- the subjects of my dissertation -- my research interests include lyric theory, Oscar Wilde, Northern Irish poetry, and mysticism.
