Dissertation

My dissertation examines the life and work of Renata Adler, an American journalist and novelist. Archival research has been supported by the American Historical Association, the Pozen Center for Human Rights, the Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression, and Friends of the Princeton University Library.

My committee consists of Jonathan Levy (co-chair), Joel Isaac (co-chair), Amy Dru Stanley, and Ross Posnock.

In 2026, I was awarded the Kitty Kelley Dissertation Fellowship from the Biographers International Organization, selected by Linda Leavell, Heather Clark, and Carla Kaplan.

Academic Papers

My book chapter, “Equality as a Feint: Philip Roth and Alimony Law,” is forthcoming in Connubial Fictions: The Evolution of American Marriage in Law and Literature, edited by Jonathan Masur, Richard McAdams, and Martha C. Nussbaum, to be published by Oxford.

I have working papers on James Alan McPherson, Henry David Thoreau, and Renata Adler. Details will be added here soon.

Photo: A passage from Adler’s second novel, Pitch Dark, which bears the marks of Yale Law School.