Recent Writing
“Why Criterion 24/7 Is the Only Way To Watch Movies,” Slate
“In Defense of the Single-Use Object,” Dirt
“The Cinema of Body Euphoria,” AF Weekly
“Can You Learn a New Language from a ChatBot?,” The Daily Beast
“The Year of the Rabbit,” LitHub
“Towards the Afropastoral,” Bright Wall/Dark Room
2023
“STANOPTICON,” Food for the Worm
“Keep It To Yourself: Shared Anxiety in She Dies Tomorrow,” Certified Forgotten
“Teen Bands of Y2K TV, Ranked by How Well They’d Do on TikTok,” The Stopgap
“Draculas, Ranked,” Vulture
“drain-o dreamin’,” dream interpretation for dummies
“The Little Mermaid if It Were Scientifically Accurate,” The Stopgap
“The Ethan Hunt Origin Story Changes Dramatically in Dead Reckoning,” MovieMaker Magazine
“When Mermaids Come of Age: Sisterhood in The Little Mermaid and The Lure,” Bright Wall/Dark Room
“The Scream Gap,” The Audacity, republished without a paywall here
“Ravenous,” In the Mood Magazine
2022
“Memoria and the Limitations of Ebert's Empathy Machine,” Bright Wall/Dark Room
“What The Menu Says—and Doesn't Say—About American Wealth,” Moviemaker Magazine
“RIP Ronzoni’s Pastina, the Star-Shaped Pasta of So Many Italian American Childhoods,” Bon Appétit
“Why I Started Writing Crossword Puzzles,”Catapult
“This Halloween, Nothing Is Scarier Than an Aging Woman,” BuzzFeed News
“Why Nope is the Perfect Movie for the Biden Era,” Electric Literature
“Sex, Love, and Assimilation in the New World: A Brief History of White Ethnicities in Rom-Coms,” The Syllabus Project
“Reject Tradition and Watch a Crime Drama This Thanksgiving,” Crime Reads
“Publishing is a Nightmare,” Crime Reads
“White Audiences & Black Martyrdom,” Electric Literature
“The Enduring Filth of Seven Beauties,” Projektor
Books
“An Interview with Jenny Odell,” BookPage
“31 New Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2023,” Vulture
“Review: The Architecture of Suspense: The Built World in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock by Christine Madrid French,” Enter Magazine
“Review: Men I Trust by Tommi Parrish,” The Comics Journal
“Review: Rest is Relaxation by Tricia Hersey,” BookPage
“Review: Predator by Andre Monson,” BookPage
“Review: Animal Joy by Nuar Alsadir,” BookPage
“Review: Fruit Punch by Kendra Allen,” BookPage
“Review: Some of My Best Friends by Tajja Isen,” BookPage
“Review: The Impossible City by Karen Cheung,” BookPage
Zines and Other Publications
swiftly: A Close Reading of Taylor Swift, (editor) itch.io, DropBox, Google Drive
Celia’s Gourmet Sleep Supply, a zzZZZzzine, (editor) Dropbox, Google Drive
“Finding Home in Pokémon’s Secret Bases,” Filmmakers Without Cameras, Issue 3
“This Is Not My Digital Dollhouse,” BuliLit Zine, Issue 2