About me

I’m an assistant professor at Stanford University, where I teach courses on German literature, on poetry, on graphic novels, and on literary and cultural theory.

My current book project explores the ways in which ideas about information—and the history of twentieth-century information theory—shape our thinking about poetry’s social, cultural, and linguistic work (and vice versa).

I’m the translator of Q. G. Li’s Tian Shu into German, as Buch des Himmels (Letter P Verlag, 2012), and the co-translator of Peter Janich’s What is Information? (University of Minnesota Press, 2018). I’m editing, with a team of scholars associated with Penn State’s Center for Humanities and Information, two books on the relation between information, literature, and society: Information: A Reader, and Information: Keywords (both forthcoming from Columbia University Press).

My departmental website is here.