Published Work.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Academic Articles
‘You’re Like the Cute Harmless Version of QAnon’: Taylor Swift ‘Gaylor’ Subreddits and Microconspiracy Archives, Affects, and Aesthetics International Journal of Cultural Studies, March 2025
Re-heating the ‘First’ Thanksgiving: The Thanksgiving Episode as Settler Colonial Narrative Critical Studies in Television, September 2024
There’s Certainly a Lot of History Here, But We’re Here to Roast Oysters: Afterlives of Trans-Atlantic Exchange in Top Chef: Charleston Television & New Media, January 2023
‘It’s Top Chef, Not a Personality Contest’: Grammars of Stereotype, Neoliberal Logics of Personhood, and the Performance of the Racialized Self in Top Chef: New York New Review of Film & Television, November 2022
Selected Public Writing
“Goncharov’s Auteurish Aesthetics” In Media Res
“The American Vandal’s Tale of Today” with Matt Seybold, Mid Theory Collective
“When Keeping It ‘Real’ Goes Wrong” with Cory Barker, TV Plus
“A Show About People Like Them” Los Angeles Review of Books
“Pre-Recession Bliss, or Ignorance: Laguna Beach at 20” Public Books
“Let Down by Television” Mid Theory Collective
“Suspicion, as Seen on TV” Post45 Contemporaries
“To Be Real: On Emily Nussbaum’s Cue the Sun!” Los Angeles Review of Books
“You Better Work, Ben: On Labor and Ben Stiller” ASAP/J
“Pilgrimage to Pumptinis” Avidly
“Family No Longer Sustains: On Michael Szalay’s Second Lives” Los Angeles Review of Books
“The Confessional Edge” ASAP/J
“Time to Be Real?: Nostalgia, Authenticity, and the Digital Return to the Everyday” with Jasmine Banks & Mel Monier, FLOW: A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
“Our Bodies, Our Time Machines” Novel Dialogue
“The Time Warp, Again?” Post45 Contemporaries, published in the cluster “Dark Academia”
“Introduction: Dark Academia” with Mitch Therieau, Post45 Contemporaries, published in the cluster “Dark Academia”
“Adriana’s Abs and the Return of Low-Rise Jeans” Avidly: A Channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books
“History as Metaphor” Post45 Contemporaries, published in the cluster “’Tis the Damn Season: Taylor Swift’s evermore.”
“Racial Injustice at Westmont College” with Emily Mata & Caitlyn Wells, Santa Barbara Independent
Academic Book Reviews
Review of Digital Femininities: The Gendered Construction of Cultural and Political Identities Online, Frankie Rogan (Taylor and Francis, 2022). Global Storytelling, 6 November 2024.
Review of The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, Alfred L. Martin (Indiana University Press, 2021). Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, 26 March 2024.
Review of Everybody Eats: Communication and the Paths to Food Justice, Marianne LeGreco and Niesha Douglas (University of California Press, 2021). Critical Studies in Media Communication, 13 February 2024.