Essays & Scholarship

 

ESSAYS & REVIEWS

“The Screen is a Mirror: Gender Transition in the Zoom Era,” The Yale Review

On Lynn Xu’s Those Ashen Heaps… (Wave Books), The Rumpus
On Camille Guthrie’s Diamonds (Boa Editions), The Los Angeles Review of Books
On Cameron Awkward-Rich’s “Essay on the Theory of Motion,” Annulet
On Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s Empathy & A Treatise on Stars (New Directions), AGNI

On Yentl (dir. Streisand, 1983), Bright Wall/Dark Room
On The Double Life of Véronique (dir. Kieslowski, 1991), Bright Wall/Dark Room

SCHOLARSHIP (links are open-access PDFs)

On The Argonauts, Testo Junkie, and Generating Autotheory by Changing Gender,” about gender transition’s role as engine and red herring in the proliferation of “autotheory,” in the special issue “Queer Generosity,” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 8.3, p.65-84 (2022)

On Not Knowing Students’ Genders, Nor Being Able to Predict When or How They Will Change,” about gender transition and teaching outcomes in the first-year writing classroom, in College Composition and Communication 73.2, p. 261-286 (2021)

Melting Muscles: Cassils’ Tiresias at the Intersection of Affect and Gendered Embodiment,” about non-medical body modification and heat as affect in performance artist Cassils’ Tiresias, in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 7.1, p.5-19 (2019)


Review of Anahid Nersessian’s The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life (University of Chicago Press, 2020), in RSQ: Rhetoric Society Quarterly 51.3, p.254-257 (2021)