My book Becoming Insomniac: How Sleeplessness Alarmed Modernity is forthcoming from Palgrave-Macmillan.

My main research investigates insomnia and theories of sensation, attention, and the will in literature from the second half of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century.

I studied under Steven Connor at the London Consortium. My doctoral dissertation--Modern Insomnia: Vicious Circles and Paradoxes of Attention and Will (1860-1910)--traces insomnia as a subject of increasing medical and cultural interest in the late nineteenth century; it also shows how this "rise of insomnia" influenced literary Modernism.

I write and lecture about a variety of interrelated topics. I also have a tendency to engage in original creative work, some of which can be viewed on this site.

I wrote and directed 'Lord Garden's Masque (an anti-masque)' for the Weak Signals & Wild Cards exhibition at De Appel in Amsterdam (June, 2009); I presented a manifesto called 'The Memory of Futurism and the Rise of The Insomnauts' at Birkbeck College, London (February 2009); I wrote and directed 'The Sound Moneyfesto' for the Serpentine Gallery’s Manifesto Marathon, London (October 2008); and I wrote and performed '"With Usura" with Bells and Manifesto' at the Ezra Pound Room at Tate Britain (October 2008).

I appeared as a panelist in the A Slap in the Face of Public Taste: The Art of Manifestos debate at the British Library’s exhibition Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant-Garde, 1900-37 (London, February 2008), where I discussed my first pseudo-manifesto, entitled 'How to Write an Avant-Garde Manifesto'. I have also presented work at Wigmore Hall, the ICA, RADA, the CCA in Glasgow, as well as in Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin.