Current Projects
Truth and Consequences: Game Shows in Fiction and Film
A book-length study of how writers and filmmakers use the game show as a metaphor to discuss memory, the self, love, family, and state power.
Conversations with Steve Erickson (w/Matthew Luter)
A collection of interviews with the American novelist.
Peer-Reviewed
“Infinite Unrest: ‘Octet,’ High School, and the Revolving Door of Metanarrative” In Approaches to Teaching David Foster Wallace. MLA Press (forthcoming)
“… And Starring David Foster Wallace as Himself: Performance and Persona in The Pale King” Critique 57:2 (Spring 2016) 191-207.
“David Lynch at the Crossroads: Deconstructing Rock, Reconstructing Wild at Heart” Music and the Moving Image 2014:3 (Fall 2014) 41-60.
“Treme and the Battle for a Certified New Orleans” New Orleans Review 37:1 (Spring 2011) 94-101..
Public Writing
“How Capitalism Took Over Sports Movies” The Atlantic.com 8 May 2016.
“David Fincher’s Alien Autopsy” Film International 13:3 (Fall 2015) 144-147.
“When the Levees Broke” The Atlantic.com 23 August 2015.
“The Eye of Sauron: David Foster Wallace and the Interview” Just Words 18 July 2015.
“Caught in the Bandana Trap: A Radically Condensed History of David Foster Wallace’s Bandana” Just Words 30 June 2015.
“Reading Wallace Reading” The Smart Set 17 August 2014.
“Haneke’s Home Invasion: Three Looks at Funny Games (2008)” Scope 16: February 2010.
“Deciphering the Indecipherable: Procedure as Art in Fincher’s Zodiac” Bright Lights Film Journal 67, February 2010.
Reviews
Embers Sonder Magazine. 27 January 2016.
Don DeLillo: Mao II, Underworld, Falling Man. English Studies 95:3 (2014) 349-350.
The Bride Wore Black. Directory of World Cinema: France, Vol. I. Intellect Books, 2013. 238-240.
Paths of Glory (Criterion Collection DVD). Film International 10:4-5 (2012) 113-115.
Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language. Film International 9:5 (2011) 73-74.
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Cultographies Series) Scope 19: February 2011.
Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko Film International 8:1 (February 2010) 64-66.
Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard Bright Lights Film Journal 64, May 2009.