Recent Public Writing
“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
“Audre Lorde, Sound Theorist: Register, Silence, Vibrato, Timbre.” PMLA. Forthcoming May 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). Forthcoming.
“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.