Research

Peer-Reviewed Writing

“Unwritten Writing: Deconstruction and the Folklore of Dice Games.” The Comparatist, vol. 47, University of North Carolina Press, pp. 232–256. Online and in print.

“Death and Fairy Tale: Queer Autothanatography in Claude Vivier.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, Duke University Press, pp. 30–57. Online and in print.

“Axiom and Durcharbeitung: Lyotard’s Analysis of Schoenberg.” The Undecidable Unconscious: A Journal of Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis, vol. 6, University of Nebraska Press, pp. 47–76. Online.

“Of Spiritual Failure: The Matter of Hegel’s Pyramids,” in Excursions, vol. 7, no. 1, “Failure,” University of Sussex, pp. 27–48. Online and in print.

Book Reviews

Review of Music, Philosophy, and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou, in H-France Review, vol. 23, no. 105. Online.

“Derrida’s Relevance,” in Postmodern Culture, vol. 29, no. 2. Online.

Recent Conference Papers

[Upcoming] “Metaphor in the Text of Astronomy: Reading the Stars with Derrida, Aristotle, Mallarmé.” Derrida Today, Biennial Meeting. Online. (2024)

“Occultations: Preserving Dark Skies in Longfellow’s Astronomical Poetry.” 55th Annual Convention, NeMLA. Boston, United States (2024)

“Orphic Echoes: Myth and Self-Reference in Céline Sciamma’s Portrait de la jeune fille en feu.” SAMLA 94, Panel for the Association of Adaptation Studies. Jacksonville, United States (2022)

“Echo’s Calculus: Derrida, Democracy, and the Pragmatics of the Divided Voice.” Derrida Today, Biennial Meeting. Online video. (2022)

“Voices in Conflict: Oral Literature and Post-Literate Politics.” Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, Annual Meeting. Montréal, Canada (2022)

“Montréalgerian Fables: Vocal Hybridity in Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar.” Royal Musical Association Online Study Day: Vicarious Vocalities, Simulated Songs (2021)

“‘strings of broken lyres:’ Decadence and Social Harmony in Hardy and Derrida.” SCLA: Crisis and Community. Atlanta, United States (2019)

“Mime’s Ring, or Derrida’s Mallarmé’s Wagner.” Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group, Biennial Meeting. London, United Kingdom (2019)

“Sovereignty of Fantasy/Fantasy of Sovereignty: Salomé and Symbolism between Mallarmé and Wilde.” SAMLA 90: Fighters from the Margins: Socio-Political Activists and Their Allies. Birmingham, United States (2018)

Community Engagement

NPR radio interview about The American Music Show

Guest blog post for Atlanta Studies: on sexuality and performance in The American Music Show

Guest blog post for the Stuart A. Rose Library’s Scholar Blog: on community formation, networks, and Wikipedia