Narrative designer and strategist with a proven ability to create and edit content for emergent and traditional media. Help teams create engaging experiences for audiences. Utilize strong written and verbal communication skills with an inclusive approach to working both collaboratively and independently. Adept at creating and activating complex content campaigns for large audiences, often on extremely tight deadlines. Years of experience editing written, audio, and video content, as well as managing the creation, publication, and dissemination of web content.
EDUCATION
PhD, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2015
Dissertation: “The Labor of the Avant-Garde: Experimental Form and the Politics of Work in Post-War American Poetry and Fiction” (Committee: Brent Hayes Edwards, Michael Golston, Bruce Robbins)
MA, English Literature, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2008
BA, English, College of Charleston, 2005
VIDEO GAMES AND INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Narrative Strategy, Shareability (2022-present)
Narrative Designer, Annapurna Interactive (2022)
Consultant, Google Wordcraft Writers Workshop (2022)
Narrative/UX Consultant, Mascot (2021-2022)
Environmental designer, LA2050 Project, Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (2021-present)
Writer, Star Renegades (Massive Damage 2020)
Creative consultant, Pharos by Childish Gambino (2n 2018)
Narrative designer and lead writer, River Road (2n), Unity build for Oculus Rift, 2018-2019 (demo)
Communications and copy writer, Human Scale App (independent algorithmic music record label), 2018-present
EDITING
Managing Editor, Air/Light, University of Southern California, 2019-present
PUBLICATIONS
“13 Reasons Not to be a Lighthouse Keeper,” Vera: Virgin Atlantic Magazine, March 2020
“10 Reasons Why You Should NOT Get Your (Master of Lighthouse Studies), McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, January 7 2020
“Goddamn Werewolves,” Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal no 22, April 2019
“Posthumanism for Regular Humans Trapped in an Inhuman World: On The Human Reimagined,” Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2019
“Russian Cosmism Versus Interstellar Bosses: Reclaiming Full-Throttle Luxury Space Communism,” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2018
“‘The Conspiracy of Architecture’: the Bureaucratic Fantasies of Renee Gladman’s Houses of Ravicka,” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 2018
“Life finds a Way: Tony Duvert’s Odd Jobs and District,” Full Stop, 2017
“A Little Gross: a Conversation with Kristen Gallagher and Ed Steck,” Social Text Online, 2017
“The Riddle of the Fay King: A Steven Toole Art Mystery,” Public, 2017
“How to Write a Better World: On Samuel Delany’s Journals,” Full Stop Quarterly, 2017
“Review: Down Below, by Leonora Carrington,” Full Stop, 2017
“Labors in a Field,” Social Text Online, 2016
“A Conversation with Shiv Kotecha,” Full Stop, 2016
Jobs of the Great Misery, Skeleton Man Press, 2016
“Giuseppe Zambonini: Loft Utopia,” The New School Archives: A Blog, 2016
“Emil Antonucci: Designing New York,” The New School Archives: A Blog, 2016
“Jeremiah B. Lighter: The Central Margin of 20th-Century Book Design,” The New School Archives: A Blog, 2016
Excerpt from Murders of the Great Misery, Intercourse, 2015
“The Liberty of Horrors: On Marie Buck’s Portrait of Doom,” Jacket2, 2015
“Poetry is Not the Final Girl,” Harriet, 2015
Excerpt from Murders of the Great Misery, Theme Can, 2015
“Night of the Flesh Scanners” and “Schmitt’s Gambit,” The Claudius App, 2014
“Feeding the SeaWall,” Armed Cell, 2014
“Vikings of the New Earth,” “A Tapping of the Bone,” “The Serf within the Machine,” P-QUEUE, 2013
“Night of the Flesh Scanners,” Smallwork, 2012
“Interview with Amiri Baraka,” The Argotist Online, 2009
“Notes on Giacomo Joyce and Nausicaa,” James Joyce Quarterly 44, 2007
ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES
Assistant Archivist, The New School Libraries and Archives, 2017-18
Senior Library Clerk, The New School Libraries and Archives, 2016-17
Project Archivist, The New School Archives, 2015-16
Project Archivist, American Society of International Law, 2014-15
Processing Archivist Intern, Columbia U. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2009-14
TEACHING
University of Southern California
ENGL 609a: Internship in Editing and Publishing: Eloquence and Ethics, with David L. Ulin, Fall 2020
ENGL 263g: American Literature, Fall 2020
ENGL 375: Science Fiction, Summer 2020
Writing Seminar II: Don’t Go in There: Transgression, Identity, and the Self in Popular Culture and New Media, Spring 2020
Writing Seminar I, Thematic Option Honors Program, Fall 2018, Fall 2019
Writing Seminar II: Mutation, Modification, Transformation: Identity, Difference, and the Body in Popular Culture, Thematic Option Honors Program, Spring 2019, Spring 2020
Columbia University
“Literary Texts, Critical Methods,” Spring 2013
“University Writing,” Fall 2010, 2011; Spring 2011, 2012
University of Massachusetts – Amherst
“College Writing,” Fall 2005, 2006, 2007; Spring 2006, 2007, 2008
“Political Imaginative Writing,” co-taught with Steven Zultanski, Spring 2007
SELECTED LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS, AND FICTION READINGS
“Tabletop RPGs and Worldbuilding,” ENGL M138.2: Gaming Experiments & Multimedia Scripting, UCLA, Spring 2020
Presentation and discussion of Evil Dead 2 (dir. Sam Raimi), Tunnel Vision Screening Series, hosted by Prof. Mike Petitti, March, 2020
“Slashers and Final Girls: the Materiality of Horror,” Introduction to Visual Culture, UCLA, Fall 2019
Fiction reading at Moe’s Books, Berkeley, CA, April 2019
Fiction reading at Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles, CA, August 2018
“Mountains of Paper: The Archival Entry-Point for Writing and Research,” First-Year Writing Program, The New School, Spring 2018
Fiction reading at Hiding Place Books, Philadelphia, PA, February 2018
Fiction reading at Ruthless Grip Reading Series, Washington, DC, January 2018
“Archives and Activism in Newark: Documenting Newark’s Long History of Civil Rights,” Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Spring 2017
Fiction reading at Bridge Street Books, Washington, DC, April 2017
Fiction reading at Blonde Arts Book Fair, Brooklyn, NY, July 2016
“Post-Burroughsian Sci-Fi,” ENGL W4635, taught by Michael Golston, Science Fiction Poetics, Columbia University, Spring 2016
Fiction reading at Segue Reading Series, New York, NY, January 2016
Fiction reading at Random Name Series, Philadelphia, PA, April 2015
Fiction reading at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s, New York, NY, January 2015
“How to Build a Shitty World: On World Building in Speculative Fiction,” Penn Poetry and Poetics, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2014
“Processing the Amiri Baraka Papers,” Black Radicalism and the Archive, taught by Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia University, Spring 2013
Fiction reading at 92Y Tribeca, New York, NY, March 2012
Fiction reading at Segue Reading Series, New York, NY, December 2011