Research and Teaching
Selected academic articles, lectures, and courses taught
My chapter "Magic, Money, Ink, and Blood: Mediating the Social Body in the Case of Simon of Trent" appears in the edited volume Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories: Comparing and Connecting Old and new Trends (Routledge, 2023).
Order / more info here.
My essay "Learning from documenta: The Material Performance of Education, Ethno-nationalism, and Wealth at documenta 14" appears in Vol. 1 of Monday, the journal of the University of Washington's Jacob Lawrence Gallery.
Full text here.
I presented a slide lecture called "Apocalypse and the Early Print" at the Center for the Arts and Religion at GTU Berkeley, Feb. 25, 2022.
Lecture description here.
I designed and taught a course called Sound As Sacred Presence at GTU Berkeley in Fall 2021.
Course description here.
Music writing
Liner notes and selected feature articles
I contributed liner notes for Michele Mercure's Beside Herself (RVNG International, 2018).
More info here.
I contributed an essay titled "Alchemy In Reverse" to the multi cassette box set On Corrosion (Helen Scarsdale Agency, 2019).
More info here.
I interviewed the experimental vocalist Phew for the cover feature in the June 2022 issue of The Wire Magazine.
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My interview with Argentinian psych punks Reynols is the cover feature in the May 2022 issue of The Wire Magazine.
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My interview with ambient music legend Laraaji is the cover feature in the December 2021 issue of The Wire Magazine.
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I interviewed experimental noise luminary Aaron Dilloway for the cover feature in the August 2021 issue of The Wire Magazine.
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