Degrees

MA, MPhil, PhD Comparative Literature (Yale University)

BA, History and Literature (Harvard College)
 

Research interests

My research focuses on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century novel, narrative theory, and the politics of aesthetics from a comparative perspective. In my current book project, Provinces of the Mind: The Modern Novel on Provincial Time, I trace a literary history of the province-capital divide across the Anglophone and Francophone traditions. The project seeks to historicize (and shift the terms of) contemporary center-periphery debates by anchoring them in the intertwined developments of political economy and the modern novel. I am also currently at work on a book on the friendship in letters, and eventual rupture, between Gustave Flaubert and Amélie Bosquet, a socialist-feminist novelist and activist in the waning years of France’s Second Empire. My broader research interests include Marxist and feminist theories, histories of empire and (anti-)colonialism, and translation. 

Selected honors and fellowships

Cambridge Humanities Research Grant (2025)

Camargo Foundation Fellowship, Cassis, France (2024)

Jentel Arts Residency, Sheridan, Wyoming (2024)

Finalist, Malcolm Bowie Prize, Society for French Studies (2024)

Shortlist, Tony Lothian First Biography Prize, Biographers’ Club (2023)

Kathy Chamberlain Award, Women Writing Women’s Lives Association (2023)

Finalist, Royal Portrait Society Critical Writing Prize (2023)

Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship, New York Public Library (2022)

Teaching Innovation Grant, Yale University (2021)

Naomi Schor Memorial Award, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association (2019)
 

Selected publications

“The Task of the Translator: Influence Beyond the Monolingual Condition,” Textual Practice (forthcoming)

"Provincial,"  Victorian Literature and Culture 51.3 (2023) [special ‘Keywords Redux’ issue]

"Cartographies of Region and Empire: Scaling Le tour de la France par deux enfants (and its Afterlives)," Dix-Neuf (2023)

​"History's Borrowed Languages: Emily Brontë, Karl Marx, and the Novel Of 1848." English Literary History, vol. 90 no. 1 (2023)

“Romanesque Commitments: Amélie Bosquet’s Narrative Theory and Popular Aesthetics,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies (vol. 50, nos. 1–2), 2021

“Labor, Thought, and the Work of Authorship: Virginia Woolf and Hannah Arendt,” ​Diacritics (vol. 48, no. 1), 2020

Translations

Abdeslam Ziou Ziou, “The Sanctuary of the Mad,” Parapraxis Magazine, Issue 06: Resistance, summer 2025 Annie Ernaux, “Rouen’s Municipal Library, 1959–1964, or, The Formative Years,” The Paris Review, December 9, 2024 Marie NDiaye, “Step of a Feral Cat,” in Visible: Text + Image, Two Lines Press, 2022
 

Other writing

I also regularly write essays and reviews for venues like The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The New York Review of Books, The Baffler, Boston Review, Dissent, and the L.A. Review of Books.