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My critical writing primarily concerns the intersection of fiction, poetry, and visual art with mathematics and science. Using my background in Montessori education, I also work on community-engaged and creative writing pedagogies, such as in courses like Writers in the Schools.

PEER-REVIEWED SCHOLARSHIP

+ “The Mathematical Affect of Pamela Lu,” Identity, Representation, and Literary Experiment in the United States (1970-2000): Ambivalent Lyrical Subjects, edited by Tessel Veneboer & Hannah Van Hove, Bloomsbury Academic (forthcoming)
+  “‘Not Unordered’: Gertrude Stein’s Numbers“, Journal of Modern Literature, 2024
+ “Notice, Ask, Explore: Transforming Peer Observation into Dialogic Reflection,” with Megan Kelly, Juli Parrish, & Olivia Tracy, WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, 2022
+ “Language of Measurement in Henry James’ In the Cage,”The Explicator, 2020

MISC. LITERARY CRITICISM & PRESENTATIONS

+ “‘my sand my sand my said’: On Reading Stanzas in Meditation Aloud,” a row of trees & live during Symposium of the Whole, 2025
+ “Scientific Reference & Absence: On Citation,” Modern Language Association Convention, 2025
+ “Accessing Modernist Difficulty Through Creative Writing,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, 2024
+ “What Counts: Asiya Wadud’s Revolutionary Mathematics,” ASAP/15, 2024
+ “A Poetics of Perceptual Strata: On Clark Coolidge,” The Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture Since 1900, 2024
+ “On Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘Vague Poem (Vaguely Love Poem),’” Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, 2021

LATEST BOOK REVIEWS

+ Surface Studies by Mike Corrao (Action Books, 2024), Cleveland Review of Books, 2024
+ The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy (tr. Gini Alhadeff, New Directions, 2021), Newfound, 2022
+ The Regal Lemon Tree by Juan José Saer (tr. Sergio Waisman, Open Letter, 2020), Full Stop, 2021

from FIGURING, a column for Tarpaulin Sky Magazine (2020-22)

+ “Any viewing demands imagination: On Mel Bochner’s Drawings: A Retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago & Renee Gladman’s Plans for Sentences,“ 2022
+ “On Dams,” 2021
+ “Five Small Rocks,” 2020
+ “A Geometric Meditation on Renee Gladman’s One Long Black Sentence,” 2020
+ “On Fractals, Part 1,” & “On Fractals, Part 2,” 2020