I’m a writer, editor, and researcher born and raised in New York City and based in Paris, France. At Columbia, I wrote my award-winning thesis in the department of history with Emmanuelle Saada. You can read it here, if you have a lot of time on your hands: “Public Women, Private Vice: Resisting and Reforming the State Regulation of Sex Work in 1940s Algiers.”

While an undergrad, I worked at the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School in research and communications for three years. I did a research stint with the historian Victoria de Grazia and at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, where I contributed to a paper in PNAS on “The impact of flooding on food security across Africa.” I served as a writer, then an editor, then editor-in-chief chez The Blue and White Magazine, a beloved community of artists and writers to whom I owe a great deal. While abroad for a semester in the UK, I scratched the editorial itch at the Oxford Review of Books.

After graduating summa cum laude & phi beta kappa (if I do say so myself), I moved back to the UK, supported by the Euretta J. Kellett fellowship. There, I completed an MPhil in English with Distinction at the University of Cambridge. My dissertation was called “‘The Shame of that City’: Djuna Barnes, Interior Carnival, and the Question of License.” You can’t read it online, but you can buy or borrow the novel I wrote it about, Nightwood.

I currently live in Paris, France, where I’m completing a Master’s in Human Rights at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). My (third!) thesis (get a life) will examine juridical personality for “ecological beings.” I’m keeping my writing up with a Substack called interior fictions, which roughly fifty people pretend to read. I’m freelancing with BOMB, an immigration law firm, and a biographer, but I’m always open to new collaborations. If you have a project you’d like my eyes on, please reach out!