Degrees

• B.A., Sociological Poetics, Reed College, Portland, OR, 2003

Research Areas

• Conceptual art, linguistic theory, poetics, art historiography, Marxism, crypto-fascism, punk rock, William Faulkner

Current Research

• "Voicing the Unrepresentable: Post-War German Aesthetics and Nico's The End"
• "Neo-Avant-Garde and the Music Industry: Interventions of D.I.Y. Punk Rock"
• "Four Hangings and a Funeral: 18. Oktober 1977 and Horizontalizing Revolution"
• "E-ification and the Consciousness of the Internet User: The Structural Ideology of the Hyperlink"
• "The Swans at Coole Re-Revisited: W. B. Yeats and Figured Poetic Identity"

Current Courses

• On sabbatical, 2006

Current Positions

• Steering Committee, Graduate Student Representative
• In Visible Culture, Submissions Editor

Professional Societies

• The (Imaginary) Pop Résistance, Tradition and the Individual Talents, Monoculture Media Conglomerate, Hegemony

Biography

• Before he learned how to walk, before he learned how to rock, he learned to rollerskate.