Recent Public Writing
“I asked ChatGPT to write the graduation speech for me,” Wheeler Column (2024).
“With great economy, ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ stages global economic collapse,” SF Chronicle (2024)
“In Mills College Art Museum Show, Technology Becomes an Active Collaborator,” KQED (2023)
“Notes on Sculpting a Friendship: Fugard’s The Road to Mecca at Z Space,” SF/Arts (2023)
“The Haunting Ventriloquism of Dana H. Asks Us to Listen Differently,” KQED (2022).
“Bobby McFerrin’s ‘Circlesongs’ and the Politics of Play,” KQED (2022).
“In Otto Frank, Roger Guenveur Smith Compares the Incomparable,” KQED (2022).
Review of Gerald Shea, The Language of Light. MAKE Literary Magazine (2020).
Review of Alain Corbin, A History of Silence: From the Renaissance to the Present Day. MAKE Literary Magazine (2019).
Recent Academic Writing
“Meditations on Meredith Monk.” Qui Parle, Forthcoming 2025.
“On the State of American Jewish Literary Studies 2010-2020.” Studies in American Jewish Literature, Forthcoming 2025. Coauthored with Josh Lambert.
“Audre Lorde, Sound Theorist: Register, Silence, Vibrato, Timbre.” PMLA, May 2024.
“This Feeling Tone: The Sound of Black and Jewish Collaboration 1981-2006.” ProQuest. 2024.
“The Poetics of Conversation: Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde’s Uses of Voice.” Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History, ed. Lori Harrison-Kahan, Annie Atura Bushnell, Ashley Walters (Wayne State, 2024).
“The Ontogenesis of Fear in Héctor Tobar’s The Barbarian Nurseries.” Human Rights in the Americas, ed. by María Herrera-Sobek, Francisco A. Lomelí, Luz Angélica Kirschner (London: Routledge, 2021): 196-208.
“A Tradition of Free and Odious Utterance: Free Speech and Sacred Utterance in Steve Waters’ Temple.” Sounding Out!, April 2018. Coauthored with Gabriel Mindel.
“The Sound of Translation: Joyce, the Zukofskys, and Liturgical piyutim.” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 16.1 (January 2018): 43-64.