writing

Select publications:

Liquid Obscurity. On Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies (2007), Kenwood Ladies’ Pond, Sedgewick’s queer closets, Heraclitus and his ancient reception. In — Wilderness House Literary Review (WHLR).

—— Liquid Ladders, a poem which acts as a companion piece to the article, is published in — Paloma Magazine.

Letter to a Quarterlifer. On Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, Ramin Jahanbegloo’s Letters to a Young Philosopher, Satya Doyle Byock’s Quarterlife. In — Minor Literature[s] (reposted in The Washington Review of Books).

Heritage in Blue. On English Heritage, blue plaque schemes, Highgate (North London), literary pilgrimage, cultural identity. In — Oxford Review of Books.

Fragmented at Best. On the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, ‘Classics twitter’, online academic discourse, Grice’s implicature and pragmatics. In — The Isis.

The Nine Editors, or, A Commentary on the University. On David Lodge’s Campus Trilogy, Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love, Netflix’s The Chair. In — The Isis.

‘Revelations’. On Portia Zvavahera’s Zvakazarurwa at Kettle’s Yard. In — The Camera.

The Classical Impetus of the Römische Elegien of Goethe. On Goethe, Ovid, Propertius, The Grand Tour. In — The Goethe Project 2021.

Language and Nationalism. On German Romantic philosophy of language (Herder, Fichte, Schlegel), Belgian Wallonia, Douglas Hyde and the Gaelic League. In — Babel: The Language Magazine (no. 25, print).

More of my personal writing can be found on my Substack (@pseudoetymology).