Greetings!  I am a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Brown University (to be completed June 2026).  

My research interests include 20th century American and British modernism and alternative poetry movements / groups since 1945 (e.g. Black Mountain College, International Concrete Poetry, Berkeley and San Francisco Renaissance, New York Schools); textual-editorial and bibliographical studies; outsider poetry post-1945; contemporary poetry and its relation to the institutionalization of the avant-garde; classical reception; the esoteric in literature from Archaic Greece to our present day; Aestheticism and Decadence in the late 19th century (Walter Pater, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Oscar Wilde, Gilbert & Sullivan, etc.); the use of Noh drama in Yeatsian drama; Hellenistic epigram; theories of translation; theories and practices of poetic meter (e.g. English, Latin, Ancient Greek, Old Occitan, French); myth; literature and medicine (the subjective and objective experiences of trauma, grief, crisis, relations between doctors and patients, etc.); the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns; ancient performance of Pindar’s ἐπινίκια; theories of ἐνάργεια and ekphrasis; landscape poetry; poetry, jazz, and film in the Black Arts Movement (1960s–70s), especially in relation to French New Wave Cinema.