As a writer, scholar, and aging human, I have an eclectic and ever-expanding range of research interests—from the compositional practices of neurodivergent writers, to sexual iconography and feminisms, to science fiction and monster jurisprudence, to rhetoric and stand-up comedy. I am particularly fascinated by the creation, maintenance, and transgression of digital and rhetorical spaces. My writing can be found in Journal of American Culture, Jump Cut, Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Studies in American Humor, The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy, The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy, American Political Humor: Masters of Satire and Their Impact on U.S. Policy and Culture, and the Griffith Law Review.

My latest publication—on legal personhood and Doctor Who—can be found in Cultural Legal Studies of Science Fiction, and I have a chapter on Marc Maron, sobriety, and comedy as affective collaboration—co-authored with the inimitable Lauren Hess—in a forthcoming collection edited by Linda Mizejewski and Robyn Warhol.

Oh, and I’m still (always) working on a monograph about the rhetorical genius of stand-up legend George Carlin.