Recent Writing

“Spinster Class,” on Paula Byrne’s Pym bio. For bookforum, Summer 2022.

“Daughters and Lovers,” on Tessa Hadley for bookforum, spring 2022.

“Playing Fast and Loose,” on Rachel Cusk’s Second Place at the NYRB, February 24, 2022.

“Stories of War and its Aftermath” for The New York Times Book Review, March 9, 2021

“Apocalypse When” (for Bookforum), Spring 2021

“Deep Cuts” (for Bookforum), December 15, 2020

“Restless Minds” (for Reading Room) in The Point, October 12, 2020

“Pictures from an Institution” (Brandon Taylor’s Real Life), Bookforum, Autumn 2020.

“The Sweet Stuff,” (on Sally Rooney’s sex plots), Post45 Cluster, June 15, 2020

“Tell me about your Mother,” (on Melanie Klein), The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2020.

“Love in a Cold Climate,” (on Rachel Cusk), Bookforum, Winter 2020.

“Beholding Virginia Woolf Through the Women in Her Life,” review of Gillian Gill’s Woolf biography, The New York Times, December 2019.

“The Mysterious Ingenue and Siren who Wowed 19th Century Readers with her Verse,” The New York Times, May 24, 2019

“Contemporary Clothing,” Slate, April 22, 2019

“The Birth of a Mother,” Public Books, July 16, 2018

“In Knausgaard’s ‘Spring,’ a Man Considers How Best to Help His Sick Wife,” The New York Times Book Review, July 8, 2018

“Object Relations,” n+1, “Motherland” print issue, January, 2018

“The Latest, Troubling Chapter in Feminist Dystopian Fiction,” The New York Times Book Review, October 13, 2017

“Cankerworms,”n+1, July 14, 2017

“No one thinks of Rilke in the Recovery Room,” n+1, July 6, 2017

“That’s More Like It,” L. A. Review of Books, July 1, 2017

“Woman Problems,” n+1, February 10, 2017

“Something that that might be happening to me right now,” n+1, October 26, 2016

“Patient Atavism,” L. A. Review of Books, March 1, 2016

“Austen’s Bodies,” Public Books, July 8, 2016

“Being in Love,” Colloquy: The Nature of Literary Being, Arcade, March 16, 2015

Academic Work

Exquisite Masochism: Sex, Marriage, and the Novel Form. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

“Pip’s Life.” English Literary History. 81:4. Winter 2014.

Interests

The form and history of the novel, Nineteenth-century British poetry and prose; Twentieth and Twenty-first century British fiction; feminist and queer theory; contemporary British prose.