I am an assistant professor of English at the University of Virginia, where I primarily teach Writing and Rhetoric courses. Here are a few areas of my interest.

 

Writing and A.I.

Like everybody else, I have lately been trying to wrap my head around generative A.I. and its implications for teaching and learning. Here is an essay about my experimentation with generative A.I. in the college writing classroom, which has received some attention from a range of online communities including Longreads, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Y Combinator’s Hacker News.

 

Writing With Sound

I teach upper-level courses in podcast production and co-organize, with Steph Ceraso, the Writing With Sound speaker series, which brings to UVA brilliant people working in the podcast/audio space, who give lectures open to the public and craft workshops for UVA students. So far our guests have included Avery Trufelman (Articles of Interest, 99% Invisible), Ronald Young, Jr. (Weight For It), and New Yorker staff writer Sarah Larson.

 

Writing about Labor

My courses often involve collaborations with labor unions in the Charlottesville area. From March to June of 2024, the Small Special Collections Library at UVA exhibited a show that my students and I curated alongside members of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1220, United Campus Workers of Virginia (UCWVA-CWA), the Graduate Labor Union (GLU-CWA), and the Staff Union of UVA (SUUVA-CWA). We got some nice coverage from NPR, and I presented on this project at conferences held by the UVA Library and VIVA’s Open and Affordable Community Forum.

My students recently collaborated with unionized graduate student workers at UVA to produce a podcast series, which is forthcoming as a digital book from the “Working and Writing for Change” series at Parlor Press. I presented on this project at the 2024 Humanities Podcast Network Symposium.

 

Collaborative Authorship

I teach a course on texts by multiple authors, which is also a topic I’ve written about for The Point. I gave a talk (“Exquisite Corpse, or Human Centipede?”) about this course at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center’s 2021 ReHAPPENING Conference in Asheville, North Carolina.

 

If you are an instructor who is interested in talking or collaborating, please do reach out. And if you are a current or prospective student who has Googled me, you might enjoy this music video in which I get my head shaved.