Research
Publications:
"'Grimé comme un Rembrandt': Proust, Ruskin, and Ageing," French Studies 79.3 (July 2025): 402-421.
“A Gathering in a Forest: The Unsettling Environment and Culinary Ethics of Marie NDiaye’s The Cheffe,” SubStance 166 (Spring 2025): 108-115.
"The Morning After and the Mourning to Come: Photography, AIDS, and Narrative Form in Hervé Guibert’s Fou de Vincent," Romanic Review 115.3 (December 2024): 595-619.
“The Skin of the Past: Archival Encounter in Marie NDiaye’s Un pas de chat sauvage,” Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine 28 (June 2024).
Recent Conference Presentations:
“Infinite Intimacy: The Cosmic Everyday in the Antarctic Landscape of Marie Darrieussecq’s White,” MLA, Toronto, 2026.
“In a Grandson’s Eye: Love, Vision, and Mourning in Proust.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Durham, 2024.
“Nadar in NDiaye: Spectrality and Narrative in the Archive.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Baltimore, 2023.
“Cooking Class: Decadence and Simplicity in NDiaye’s La Cheffe.” Words on Food, MLA, San Francisco, 2023.
“Moved to Tears: Mourning and Aestheticism in the Recherche.” Proust and the Fin de Siècle, MLA, San Francisco, 2023.
“Writing at the End of Photography: Practice and Perishability in Hervé Guibert’s L’Image fantôme.” 20th- & 21st-Century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Pittsburgh, 2022.
“Domestic Distortion: Staging Invisibility and Exploitation in Marie NDiaye’s Hilda.” Women and the Invisible Labor of Care, NeMLA, Baltimore, 2022.
“The Patina of Looking: Proust, Ruskin, and Monumentality.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Washington, D.C., 2021.
“The Pine Trees of the Landes in Marie NDiaye’s La Cheffe.” Tree, Roundtable, MLA, Toronto, 2021.
“Intimate Catastrophe: Roland Barthes’s Indecent Comparison.” 20th- & 21st-Century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Oklahoma City, 2019.
“Je vous laisse le meilleur de moi-même: Albertine and the Fictions of Indifference.” Albertine at 100, MLA, Chicago, 2019.