He studied fiction writing at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, completed an M.A. in English literature at Arizona State University, and is currently finishing his Ph.D. at the University of California, Riverside, where he has been fortunate enough to work with a number of wonderful scholars in literature as well as in gender and sexuality studies.
His dissertation, Engendering Melancholy: Romantic Gender Performance and the Pre-History of Abnormality, traces the social and psychological causes of self-inflicted violence in people whose gender “performance” falls outside established social norms through the literature and cultural history of the Romantic period. The project analyzes works by Blake, Godwin, Burney, Wordsworth, Opie, Dacre, Byron, Percy Shelley, Hogg, Eliot, and Herculine Barbin.
An avid online gamer, he also enjoys cooking, fiction writing, drinking lots of latté, and playing bass.
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind
--William Wordsworth, Ode. Intimations of Immortality
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