I am Winship Distinguished Research Professor of English at Emory University with a courtesy appointment in Quantitative Theory and Methods. My first book, American Literature and the Long Downturn: Neoliberal Apocalypse, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. My second book, Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature, was published with Columbia University Press in 2023. My third book, Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, co-edited with Johanna Winant, was published with Princeton University Press in 2025.
I am at work on three book projects: on the rise of, and alternatives to, Zionism in the Pale of Settlement; on certainty and skepticism in academic disciplines (how little we know); and on a virtue ethics for the left (via close reading).
I co-founded the Post45 Data Collective and co-edit the Culture Industries section at Public Books with Laura B. McGrath.