Scholarship
Research Areas
Digital Rhetoric
Tracing the tropical topography of mediated identity, & the ephemeral gap between the on- & the offline.
Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Ideological constructions of virtual subjectivity, discursive pathologies, & the institution(s) of desire.
Social Media Ecology
How a subject is unconsciously enframed by, & an extension of, technological networks.
Speculative Posthumanism
Speculating beyond the traditional frame of self-same, self-present, self-conscious humanist personhood.
Featured Publications
The Constitutive Rhetoric of Late Nationalism
"The Constitutive Rhetoric of Late Nationalism: Imagined Communities after the Digital Revolution."
Rhetoric Review 40.2 (2021)
Autobituary: The Life and/as Death of David Bowie
“Autobituary: The Life and/as Death of David Bowie & the Specters from Mourning.”
Miranda 17 (2018)
Freudian Typos & Rhetorical Parapraxes
"Freudian Typos, Rhetorical Parapraxis, and the Psychopathology of Digital Life."
enculturation (2019)
Dissertation: The Instance of the Post in the Digital Unconscious: Rhetorical Subjects after Posthumanism
Rethinking agency, being, & consciousness within digital environments.
Featured Presentations
“And Another Thing: I’m Not Mad”—Cyberspace & the Lacanian Sinthome
LACKiv @ the University of Vermont (April 2023)
All Watched Over By Machines of Rhetorical Opportunity
20th Biennial RSA Conference (May 2022)
Beating Around the Bushisms: Parapraxes, Politics, & Perversion
Clinic & Culture @ Duquesne University (Oct 2022)