简介

I specialize in American and African-American cultural production in the 20th century. I am currently exploring the influence of architecture and urban planning on literary form alongside the ways that narrative intervenes in our historical and experiential understandings of space. My work also considers a range of objects beyond the literary, considering the ways TV shows hear, journalists see, and class may be felt, and analyzing race's sonic and spatial dimensions. I am working on a book recovering the skyscraper's central role in structuring American social and aesthetic perception in the early twentieth century. Attending to both the skyscraper's fraught presence in canonical texts as well as the structure's remarkable presence at Modernism's generic borders, this project explores how an array of writers approached the skyscraper as a radical instrument of perception that was transforming modernity's modes of seeing.