I study English modernism and its immediate aftermath to think about the philosophical stakes of symbolism, imagism, and mid-centutry formalisms. For my dissertation, I'm studying 20th-century revitalizations of the Renaissance plain style, and how the desire for plainness occasions satisfying departures from modernist aesthetics. My understanding and discussion of poetry are continuously informed by German Idealist philosophy and Wittgenstein.
 
I also work Turkish and German poetry. I have written on Gottfried Benn and German expressionism and am currently exploring semiotic intersections between expressionism and psychoanalysis.
 
You can read some of my poetry reviews at the links below.

• Skeleton Coast by Elizabeth Arnold
• Equilibrium by Tiana Clark
• Archeophonics by Peter Gizzi
• Rayfish by Mary Hickman
• A Turkish Dictionary by Andrew Wessels
• Three Poems by Hannah Sullivan
• Kill Class by Nomi Stone
   

My translation of one of the first Turkish novels into English was published by Syracuse University Press in 2016. (Ahmet Mithat Efendi, Felatun Bey and Rakim Efendi, co-translated with Monica M. Ringer.)