EDUCATION
PhD, English, Johns Hopkins University, August 2025
MA, English, Johns Hopkins University, May 2022
MA, English, California State University, Los Angeles, May 2019
BA, Cinema-Television Production, University of Southern California, May 2011
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Junior Lecturer, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University (2025 – 2026)
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“’This mess my fault?’: Cyberpsychosis and the Cyberpunk Critique of Late Capitalism.” Science Fiction Film and Television, Forthcoming
“The Gendered Subject of Geoengineering and the Denialist Unconscious.” CR: The New Centennial Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 2024
Essays and Reviews
“Fascist Pleasures and Failed Satire.” Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2025
“There Is No Such Thing As Green Capitalism.” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2025
“‘our not-yet-realised almanac of the future’: On Corroding the Now: Poetry + Science/SF.” Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, March 2024
“Neoliberalism as Cyberpunk.” Review of Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction: Living on the Edge of Burnout, by Caroline Alphin, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 49, Fall 2022
“Recruitment, Ridicule, and Revolution in ‘The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.,’” Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2018
“We,” Human, WordsUncaged, Vol. 1, April 2017
Fiction
“Yourself Not Your Self,” Statement Magazine, Vol 69, 2019
“ImmiGreat, Inc.,” Statement Magazine, Vol 68, 2018
“The Ninth Day,” Statement Magazine, Vol 67, 2017
“Once We Collapse,” Statement Magazine, Vol 67, 2017
“Ambush Doctrine,” Statement Magazine, Vol 67, 2017
FELLOWSHIPS & SCHOLARSHIPS
Johns Hopkins University
Baisley Fellowship (2024 – 2025)
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship (2024 – 2025)
California State University Los Angeles
Alfred Bendixen Endowed Fellowship (2017 – 2018)
Interdisciplinary Working Group Fellowship, American Communities Program (2017 – 2018; 2018 – 2019)
ASI Leadership Scholarship (2017 – 2018)
CSULA Veterans Scholarship (2017 – 2018)
New World Endowed Scholarship (2017 – 2018)
William Dyer Scholarship (2017 – 2018)
Barbara Herman Scholarship (2016 – 2017)
Emeriti Association Fellowship (2016 – 2017)
John Cleman Graduate Fellowship (2016 – 2017)
AWARDS
Dean’s Prize for Prose, for “Yourself Not Your Self,” Statement Magazine, California State University Los Angeles, 2019
Dean’s Prize for Prose, for “ImmiGreat, Inc.,” Statement Magazine, California State University Los Angeles, 2018
Dean’s Prize for Prose, for “The Ninth Day,” Statement Magazine, California State University Los Angeles, 2017
First Prize, David Kubal Essay Competition, Department of English, California State University Los Angeles, 2017
Student Emmy, Drama, for “The Fifth Horseman,” 34th Annual College Television Awards, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, 2013
INVITED TALKS
“Never Fade Away: The Ludonarrative Structure and Contradictions of Cyberpunk 2077.” California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, November 2025
“’This Mess My Fault?’: Cyberpsychosis and the Cyberpunk Critique of Neoliberal Capitalism.” California State University Los Angeles, March 2023
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“The Contradiction of Profitability and Sustainability in Digital Ecogames and the Video Games Industry.” Strategies Summer School of Ecogames and Sustainability in the Video Game Industry, Warsaw, Poland, August 2025
“The Solarpunk Symptom: The Automatic Fetish of Green Energy Transition.” Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference, Rochester, New York, July 2025
“Adorno in Hell: Aesthetic Theory, Doom, and Videogames in the Wrong World.” Institute on Culture and Society, Baltimore, June 2025
“Arcological Rituals of Renewal and Revolution in Snowpiercer and Frostpunk.” Forgotten SF, Warsaw, Poland, May 2025
“The (Gendered) Subject of Geoengineering.” Speculative Fiction Across Media, Los Angeles, California, October 2024
“Infinite Green Growth in Terra Nil (2023).” Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference, Tartu, Estonia, May 2024
“‘Opportunity knocks’: Artificial Intelligence, Capital Accumulation, and the End(s) of Humanity in Ixion (2022).” Eagle-Con, Los Angeles, California, October 2023
“Geoengineering Disruption and the Suturing of Climate Contradiction in Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock.” Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference, Dresden, Germany, August 2023
“The Function of Appropriated Indigeneity in the Climate Catastrophe-(Un)Consciousness of Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West.” Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference, Oslo, Norway, June 2022
“Cybernetic Distractions, Capitalist Realism, and Glitched Reality in Cyberpunk 2077,” Dust and Distraction conference, Johns Hopkins University, February 2021
“The Political Aesthetic of Negative Empathy in Samuel Delany’s Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand,” Senses of Science Fiction: Visions, Sounds, Spaces conference, Warsaw, December 2019
“Two Visions of Lagosian Future/Futurity: Empire, Solidarity, and Insurrection in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon and The Chagoury Group’s Eko Atlantic,” the Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference, Honolulu, June 2019
“Reading from, and panel discussion of, my novel-in-progress, Worlds to Win,” International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 2019
“The Thread of the Wish that Runs Through Them: General Intellect, the Multitude, and the Singularity,” the Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, July 2018
“The Concept of Symbiosis,” Significations, California State University Los Angeles, April 2018
“On ImmiGreat, Inc.,” Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities Annual Student Research Conference, California State University Los Angeles, April 2018
“Object Oriented Invention: Transformative Languaging,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Kansas City, March 2018
“ImmiGreat, Inc.,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Honolulu, November 2017
“Inventor, Inventio, Invention, Inventing, Invented: Toward an Object-Oriented Theory of Invention,” Significations, Cal State LA, May 2017
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor of Record, Johns Hopkins University
Science Fiction and the Futures of Climate Change (Spring 2025)
Science Fictions of the Singularity: A.I. and the Ends of Humanity (Intersession 2020, 2024)
Science Fiction and Climate Change (Summer 2021, 2022)
Cyberpunk: High-Tech, Low Life (Summer 2021, 2022)
Confronting the Climate Apocalypse through Contemporary Science Fiction (Spring 2022)
Expository Writing: Science Fiction and Climate Catastrophe (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
Science Fiction and Entropy (Intersession 2021)
Instructor of Record, California State University Los Angeles
College Writing I/II (Fall 2017 – Spring 2019)
Teaching Assistant, Johns Hopkins University
Zombies (Spring 2024, 2026)
Detective Fiction (Fall 2020, 2025)
African American Literature of the 20th Century (Fall 2023)
Shakespeare The Novel (Spring 2021)
Teaching Assistant, California State University Los Angeles
Readings in Theory (Spring 2018)
DEPARTMENTAL TALKS
“Blade Runner (game; 1997): The Forking Maze of Real Subsumption.” Department of English, Johns Hopkins University, November 2025
“The Denialist Unconscious: Capital Accumulation and Repressive Novums in Speculative Media of Climate Wreckage.” Department of English, Johns Hopkins University, March 2025
“Navigating the Hidden Abode of (Zombie) Production in Resident Evil (1996).” Department of English, Johns Hopkins University, March 2024
“The Political Unconscious of Season of Migration to the North.” Department of English, Johns Hopkins University, April 2021
“Alienation in Blade Runner as Detective Film.” Department of English, Johns Hopkins University, December 2020
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University (2022 – 2024)
· For Nadia Nurhussein, Department of English, Johns Hopkins University.
· Performed research and editorial duties in support of preparing critical edition of The Pedro Gorino (1929), published with Broadview Press in 2024.
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
Journal Manuscript Reviews
New Horizons in English Studies (2025)
European Journal of English Studies (2024)
Service Positions
Web Director, Science Fiction Research Association (2024 – Present)
Principal Organizer, Science Fiction Reading Group, California State University Los Angeles (2017 – 2019)
Organizing Fellow, Revolution Interdisciplinary Working Group, American Communities Program, California State University Los Angeles (2018 – 2019)
Organizing Fellow, Nonhuman Civility Interdisciplinary Working Group, American Communities Program, California State University Los Angeles (2017 – 2018)
DEPARTMENTAL & UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Johns Hopkins University
President, English Graduate Student Association, Johns Hopkins University (2023 – 2024)
1st- and 2nd-year Cohorts Representative, English Graduate Student Association, Johns Hopkins University (2020 – 2021)
English Department Representative, Graduate Representative Organization, Johns Hopkins University (2019 – 2020)
California State University Los Angeles
Editor, The Owl—The English Department Graduate Student Newsletter (2017 – 2019)
Reader & Feedback Writer, WordsUncaged, Vol. 2, Department of English (2017 – 2018)
Vice President, English Graduate Student Association (2017 – 2018)
Creative Director, Conference Committee, English Graduate Student Association (2016 – 2017)
Editor, WordsUncaged, Vol. 1, Department of English (2016 – 2017)
COURSES PREPARED TO TEACH
Lower Division
Introduction to Literature
Introduction to Literary Studies
Introduction to Literary Theory
Introduction to Science Fiction: The (De)Mystifying Realism of Our Times
American Literature, 1624 – 1865
American Literature, 1866 – Present
Upper Division
America’s Long Twentieth Century: Recontextualizing American Literatures from 1624 to 2025
Artificial Intelligence and Science Fiction
Cyberpunk Science Fiction: High-Tech, Low Life
Detective Fiction
Oceanic Literatures
Science Fiction and the Futures of Climate Change
Zombie Fiction
NON-ACADEMIC WORK
Graduate Assistant, First-Year Writing Program, Department of English, California State University Los Angeles (2016 – 2019)
Commissioned Officer, California Army National Guard (2011-2019)
Production Assistant, DreamWorks Animation (2014-2015)
Assistant Director Production Assistant, Freelance (2011 – 2014)
MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
Science Fiction Research Association (2017 – Present)
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (2019 – Present)
Modern Language Association (2025 – Present)