EDUCATION
Ph.D., Northwestern University | Media, Technology, and Society | Expected June 2026-2027
- Certificate in Rhetoric and Public Culture (in progress)
M.A., The University of Chicago, Humanities (English Literature and Language) | June 2019
- Recipient, Master of Arts Program in the Humanities Award ($18,500 merit-based tuition fellowship)
- Thesis: “The Assumption of Saint Dave: Mediated Subjects, Desperate Attachments, and the Reinvention of David Foster Wallace” (Advisor: Dr. Patrick Jagoda, Professor of English and Cinema & Media Studies)
B.A., Johns Hopkins University | May 2015
Major: The Writing Seminars | Minor: History
- Winner, The Stephen Dixon Literary Prize (“ A yearly literary prize awarded to a graduating senior whose work has demonstrated distinctive stylistic flair.”)
RESEARCH FIELDS AND AREAS OF EXPERTISE
New media studies; 20th and 21st century Anglophone literature; postwar American political history; contemporary cultural studies (film, television, and media); journalism (practice and history); psychoanalytic theory; critical/Marxist theory; creative writing (fiction, nonfiction)
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
TIME Magazine
Correspondent | Washington, D.C. | August 2017 – August 2018
- Covered Congress for TIME Magazine and TIME.com. Wrote reported print features on national elections and candidates.
Staff Writer | Hong Kong | January 2017 – July 2017
Writer- Reporter | Hong Kong | June 2015 – December 2016
- Reported on politics and culture in the Asia-Pacific region, specifically Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, for TIME Magazine and TIME.com. Wrote September 2016 cover story for TIME’s Asia edition on Hong Kong-China relations.
Freelance Writer | August 2013 – Present
Cultural and political commentary and reporting has appeared in The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere.
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
“Burn Down The Disco: Reactionary Nihilism and Online Subjecthood in the Post-Truth Era.”
- Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference | Milwaukee, WI | February 2019
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, Dr. Lisa Ruddick (Associate Professor, English Language and Literature, The University of Chicago) | June 2019 – Present
- Researched contemporary trends in psychoanalytic literary criticism and theory for Prof. Ruddick’s forthcoming scholarship; proofread and critiqued chapters from book in progress on methodologies in contemporary literary studies
Research Assistant, Dr. Jeffrey Wasserstrom (Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California, Irvine) | September 2019 – October 2019
- Proofread, critiqued, and provided research for Prof. Wasserstrom’s forthcoming Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (February 2020, Columbia Global Reports)
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Summer Language Scholarship (German) | The University of Chicago | May 2019
Graduate Council Travel Fund Award | The University of Chicago | April 2019
Master of Arts Program in the Humanities Award (Tuition Fellowship) | The University of Chicago | May 2018
The Stephen Dixon Literary Prize | Johns Hopkins University | May 2015
The Louis Azrael Fellowship in Communications | Johns Hopkins University | April 2014
LANGUAGE SKILLS
German: Professional spoken and written proficiency
Spanish: Competent spoken and written proficiency
Hindi and Urdu: Limited spoken and written proficiency
Cantonese: Elementary spoken proficiency