Campus Directory

Division Graduate Studies Division

Department/College/Unit History of Consciousness Department

Title PhD Student

Affiliation Graduate

Mail Stop History Of Consciousness

Research Interests

My tentative project focuses on the political thought of Pier Paolo Pasolini and makes two key arguments. First, I argue that Pasolini should be read as a political theorist who charts a non-reactionary course through anti-progressive politics. Second, where other thinkers have found only resignation and pessimism, I argue that Pasolini’s late work opens onto a revolutionary and anti-progressive hope that orients itself toward redemption of the past. So far I have read Pasolini in concert with Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, and Bertolt Brecht. I see this project expanding along three lines of inquiry: first, the Italian left of the mid 20th century and wider Marxist and communist traditions; second, queer theory and anti-progressive visions of sexual liberation; third, political theology and theology (particularly with regard to messianism and hope).

Selected Publications

"Who Cares for Care Workers? Review of Premilla Nadasen's Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism." Theory & Event, vol. 27 no. 3, 2024.