I am a literary scholar and cultural historian specializing in the long history of modernism, especially in the United States. I teach in the department of Literatures in English at Cornell. I write about collaboration and artistic groups; cultural institutions; material texts, media, and sound; libraries and information. My work is strongly based in archives and primary sources.
I am the author of Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums (California, 2024) and Collecting as Modernist Practice (Johns Hopkins 2012).
This webpage offers links to my books and other writings, talks, and recent syllabi. A more detailed description of my scholarly profile can be found here.
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