writing

Select (para-academic) publications and prose:

Alarmed Entanglements. A journey through ((anti-)classical/classicizing) erotic responses to art, from the story of Aphrodite of Knidos in Pseudo-Lucian’s Amores to the Cy Twombly ‘Phaedrus Incident’. Featuring Goethe on Emma Hamilton’s Attitudes, A. V. Marraccini on parasites/critics, me on the Lepanto Cycle. In — Parentheses Review.

Supersnapshots. On the relationship between poetry and photography, explored through selected writing from Thom Gunn, Robert Lowell, and James Schuyler. In — And Other Poems.

Featured print story. In — In Jest vol. 2: The Misreadings Edition.

Disembodied Voices. On my move from London to Basel, family (linguistic) history and immigration, Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen’s Penthesilea (1974), Nefeli Chrysa Avgeris’ SEA FULL OF SONG (2025). In — Minor Literature[s].

Liquid Obscurity. On Céline Sciamma’s Water Lilies (2007), Kenwood Ladies’ Pond, Sedgwick’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] (spotlighted in The Washington Review of Books).

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

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 Magazine.

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

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

(*) 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).

(*= peer-reviewed)