I’m a PhD student in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago and a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary and the University of California, Santa Barbara. 

In general, I study how continental philosophy and the history of mystical literature are imbricated in a longue durée of Western thought. I also have a long-standing interest in how German Idealism can and should be read in a political theological manner that centers the problem of evil, sovereignty, race, and modernity. At one point I wrote a thesis, which I now largely disagree with, on the parallels and convergences between medieval apophatic and mystical Christian literatures and a type of heterodox marxism. I prefer not to be subjected to academia’s modes of disciplining and categorizing knowledge. 

Like many, I read quite a bit more than I write and use this site as a way to catalog writing for an audience beyond the hellscape of academia. As such, a portion of the writing on this site is anti-academic insofar that it is well outside my typical fields of research, provocative, and speculative. However, I hope to build my Substack archive and readership so that, in the very most, I could line my pockets for groceries. That being said, I’m fairly active on Goodreads, where you can see what I’m currently reading and have recently read.