ESSAYS AND LITERARY CRITICISM

︎︎︎“25 Ways to Read a Poem.” On Wallace Stevens’ Collected Poems and Derridean deconstruction. Independent, 4660 words, Spring 2018

︎︎︎“‘Autobiography of a Fever’.” Review of Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II: 1956-1963. Independent, 5840 words, January 2019

︎︎︎“Autofiction and the Self.” On Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle, vols. 1-6 and Edward St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose quintet. Independent, 3431 words, Fall 2019

︎︎︎“Autonomous Sanctification: Regarding Melville’s Second Best.” On Clarel. Independent, 5443 words, Fall 2020

︎︎︎“Edifice of Memory.” Review of Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal. Texte zur Kunst, 21 July 2021

︎︎︎“Eliot’s Shadow: Striding Behind You, Rising to Meet You.” On Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive, Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and the aesthetics of T.S. Eliot’s poetry. Independent, 2728 words, Spring 2020

︎︎︎“Marximalism.” On Mark McGurl’s The Program Era, Raymond Carver, Sandra Cisneros, Denis Johnson and literary minimalism. Independent, 1500 words, Spring 2020

︎︎︎“The Literal Disadvantage.” On the post-colonial problems in the theory of early American literature. Independent, 3241 words, Spring 2020

︎︎︎“The Reaper: Death as a Force of Nature in O Pioneers!” Independent, 3961 words, Fall 2020

︎︎︎“The Rest is Noise.” On Don DeLillo’s White Noise and 1980s literary politics. Independent, 4561 words, Spring 2020

︎︎︎“Thomas Jefferson: Choosing the Chosen.” On the works of Robert Beverley, William Byrd, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Smith, Royall Tyler, and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecouer. Independent, 5113 words, Spring 2020

︎︎︎“Review of ‘Howl’ (Part I): Three Swedish Translation.” The first comparative review review of every extant translation of Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ published in Swedish. Independent, 5960 words, Fall 2020

︎︎︎“Whitman’s Stature.” On the critical reception of Leaves of Grass and Whitman’s influence on English and American poetics and criticism, from Randall Jarrell, Ezra Pound, Denise Levertov, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Eliot Norton and Harold Bloom to Jorge Luis Borges. Independent, 2844 words, Fall 2019

POETRY

︎︎︎‘Again’ and ‘Listening to Wagner,’ The SCOP. (4 June 2024)

︎︎︎‘Botswana in the Time of Plato,’ Eunoia Review. (17 May 2023)

︎︎︎The Veil, illustrated by Sam Kentridge. Private press (limited edition of 25), Johannesburg (2022)

︎︎︎Except Everything. Chapbook, Stockholm (2020)

︎︎︎Imitations of ‘Imitations’: Robert Lowell Translations Retold. Unreleased, Stockholm (2018)

ACADEMIC

︎︎︎Ars Poetica and the Manual for Living in Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.” Master’s Thesis, supervised by Professor Daniel Kane. Department of English, Uppsala University. Spring 2021