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Featured
March 2026
"The Monster's Monster"
Brooklyn Rail
"What does it mean that 'the Others'—let's call them 'the Pluribus'—lack precisely what makes a monster: i.e., its monstrous figure? What does it mean that the monster is now simply us?"
Recent Articles, Essays, and Talks
June 2025
"Kissing Sovereignty: The Telepathetic Friendship of Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy"
American Comparative Literature Association
2024
"Diderot's Anarcheological Museum"
In Diderot et l'archéologie, eds. Falaky, Hakim, and Baumer (Paris: Classiques Garnier)
April 2024
"Hubert Robert: Afterimages of Absolutism"
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
2022
"Rousseau's Shameless Beginnings"
Parallax, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 291–303
Forthcoming
Summer 2026
"Babbling Cosmopolitanism: Commerce and the Ruins of Sovereignty in Diderot's Mélanges pour Catherine II"
Diderot Studies, No. 43, ed. Andrew Curran
April 10, 2026
"Babbling Cosmopolitanism: Diderot's Home Invasion of Russia"
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia
February 27, 2026
"The Double Aspect of the Vampire: Nosferatu, Cinema, and the Final 'Final Girl'"
American Comparative Literature Association, Montreal
Translations
Jean-Luc Nancy, The Discourse of the Syncope: Logodaedalus
Stanford University Press, 2008
Critical Introduction: "Kant in Stereo"
Books
Lee Friedlander's Little Screens
Lee Friedlander's Little Screens
Afterall Books / MIT Press, 2015
Warhol's Dream
Warhol's Dream
Les presses du réel, 2007
Roxy Paine: Dioramas
Roxy Paine: Dioramas
Skira, 2021