I write about work and play, media and culture.

Publications

Forthcoming

“The New Cinema of Surplus: Partial Lumpenization and the Reserve Army of Labor in Contemporary Cinema,” contribution to The Idea of the Lumpenproletariat, edited by Ben Clarke and Michael Bailey (Routledge, 2025)

“Machine Learning: INSIDE’s Cinematic Lessons in Control,” contribution to special issue of Open Screens on Teaching Video Games in the Humanities: New Media, New Pedagogies, edited by Iris Kleinecka-Bates and Marta F. Suarez (2026)

In Print

“Abolitionist Pedagogies, Pedagogical Labor: A Critical Dialogue” co-authored with Vineeta Singh and Roopika Risam (Ethnic Studies Review, 45.3, Fall 2022)

Review of Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women’s Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War by Kristen Ghodsee. Lateral: The Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, 9.1, Spring 2020.

“1956: The British New Left and the “big-bang” theory of Cultural Studies.” Lateral: The Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, 8.2, Fall 2019.

“Speaking of the Working Class – On Richard Hoggart.” The Los Angeles Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2018.

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