Research

Peer-reviewed publications:

"'Grimé comme un Rembrandt': Proust, Ruskin, and Ageing," forthcoming in French Studies 79.3 (July 2025)

"The Morning After and the Mourning to Come: Photography, AIDS, and Narrative Form in Hervé Guibert’s Fou de Vincent," forthcoming in Romanic Review 115.3 (December 2024)

“The Skin of the Past: Archival Encounter in Marie NDiaye’s Un pas de chat sauvage,” forthcoming in Fixxion 28 (June 2024) (“Displacements of Fiction,” edited by Alison James and Alison Rice)

Recent Conference Presentations:

“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.