Writing

2021

Book Chapter: ‘Understanding Steve McQueen’ (co-authored with Ashley Clark, Ozlem Koksal and Clive Nwonka), in Black Film British Cinema II, eds. Clive Nwonka and Anamik Saha (London: Goldsmiths Press, 2021).

2020

Exhibition Review: Thao Nguyen Phan at Chisenhale Gallery, Apollo (November 2020).

Article: ‘David Lynch Sprawls’, New American Notes Online, no.15 (February 2020).

2019

Essay: ‘Sight Seer’, on Derek Jarman, Apollo (October 2019).

Catalogue Essay: ‘Irregular Monuments: On Silvia Giambrone and Jacopo Mazzonelli’s La Correzione’ (September 2019).

Preview: 58th Venice Biennale, Apollo (May 2019).

2018

Catalogue Essay: 20 Responses to The Past is Singing in Our Teeth, in Kate McMillan, The Past is Singing in Our Teeth (Berlin: Momentum, 2018).

2017

Essay: ‘Painting for Pleasure’, Interview with Carolee Schneemann, Apollo (July/August 2017).

Exhibition Review: Maeve Brennan at Chisenhale Gallery, The Burlington Magazine, vol.159, no.1371 (June 2017).

2016

Book Review: Douglas Crimp, Before Pictures, Apollo (December 2016).

Essay: ‘What are Design Museums for?’, Apollo (October 2016).

Exhibition Review: Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick at Somerset House, Apollo (August 2016).

Film Review: Remainder (dir. Omer Fast), Apollo (June 2016).

Exhibition Review: Omer Fast at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Apollo (May 2016).

Exhibition Review: John Akomfrah at the Arnolfini and Lisson Gallery, The Burlington Magazine, vol.158, no.1357 (April 2016).

Exhibition Review: Hajra Waheed at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and The Mosaic Rooms, Apollo (April 2016).

Exhibition Review: Mark Wallinger at Hauser & Wirth, Apollo (March 2016).

Exhibition Review: Carolee Schneemann at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Apollo (February 2016).

Article: ‘Duration Without Breaks: Marclay and McQueen Against the Clock’, Alluvium, vol. 4, no.6 (January 2016).

Essay: ‘Letter from Salzburg’, Apollo (January 2016).

2015

Essay: ‘Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: Renee Vaughan Sutherland’s Waterhouse at TAP Southend’.

Exhibition Review: Kara Walker at Victoria Miro, Apollo (October 2015).

Essay: ‘California Dreaming’, on Charles and Ray Eames, Apollo (October 2015).

Catalogue Essay: ‘Regeneration!’, in Jessie Brennan, Regeneration! Conversations, Drawings, Archives & Photographs from Robin Hood Gardens (2015).

Book Chapter: ‘Archived Desires: Eyes Wide Shut’ (co-authored with Lucy Scholes), in Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives, eds. Peter Krämer, Tatjana Ljujic and Richard Daniels (London: Black Dog, 2015).

Book Review: Jenny Kidd, Museums in the New Mediascape: Transmedia, Participation, Ethics, LSE Review of Books (February 2015).

Exhibition Review: Christian Marclay at White Cube, Apollo (February 2015).

2014

Book: The Architecture of David Lynch (London/New York: Bloomsbury, 2014). Reviewed in Cultural Politics, Media International Australia, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Senses of Cinema, CINEJ Cinema Journal, and Architizer.

Essay: ‘Attention Seekers’, Apollo (December 2014).

Interview Series: ‘American Studies in Europe’, US Studies Online (December 2014 – January 2015).

Festival Report: ‘Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud: The 58th BFI London Film Festival’, Senses of Cinema, Issue 73 (December 2014).

Book Review: Vincanne Adams, Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina and May Joseph, Fluid New York: Cosmopolitan Urbanism and the Green Imagination, Journal of American Studies, vol. 48, no.4 (November 2014).

Article: ‘David Lynch’, Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies, ed. Krin Gabbard (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).

Exhibition Review: Steve McQueen at Thomas Dane Gallery, Apollo (October 2014).

Article: ‘Snapshots of the Executioners’, Alluvium, vol.3, no.2 (October 2014).

Exhibition Review: ‘Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age’ at the Barbican Art Gallery, Apollo (October 2014).

Essay: ‘Never Home’, inspired by the project HOUSE, curated by Alex McDonald and Anne-Marie Watson.

2013

Article: ‘Precarious Dreams: The Housing Crisis and US Cinema’, Flow, vol.19, no.1 (November 2013).

Book Review: Birgit Vanderbeke, The Mussel Feast, MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine (November 2013).

Article: ‘Neighbourhoods or Nothing? Social Relations in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet’, European Journal of American Culture, vol.32, no.3 (September 2013).

Review Essay: ‘More Rapture!’, Senses of Cinema, Issue 68 (September 2013). Includes a review of David Thomson, The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did To Us.

Book Review: Karl F. Seidman, Coming Home to New Orleans: Neighborhood Rebuilding after Katrina, LSE Review of Books (August 2013).

Book Review: Alan Ehrenhalt, The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City, Journal of American Studies, vol.47, no.3 (August 2013).

Essay: ‘Berlin, Capital of a Country That No Longer Exists’ (co-authored with Honor Gavin), The Modernist, Issue 7 (April 2013)

Review Essay: ‘Participate!’, The Berlin Review of Books (March 2013). Includes a review of Claire Bishop, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship.

Book Review: Irmgard Keun, After Midnight, MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine (March 2013).

Book Review: Mark Shiel, Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles, Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 79 (February 2013).

Essay: ‘Notes Towards a Spatial Reading of a Contemporary Film Festival’, When We Build Again (February 2013)

Book Review: Deborah Levy, Swimming Home, MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine (January 2013).

2012

Book Chapter: ‘“So What Am I Supposed To Do?” Thoughts of Action and Actions of Thought in Godard’s Contempt’, in Godard’s Contempt: Essays from The London Consortium, eds. Colin MacCabe and Laura Mulvey (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)

Review Essay: ‘The Uses of Guilt’, Senses of Cinema, Issue 65 (December 2012). Includes a review of Ben McCann and David Sorfa (eds.), The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia.

Catalogue Essay: ‘It is Happening Again: Returning to Twin Peaks’, in Twin Peaks – 20^th Anniversary, ed. Suet-Ming Lau (Snowbright Productions: London, 2012).

Book Review: Victor Serge, Conquered City, MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine (November 2012).

Catalogue Essay: ‘The Crimes of Modernism’, in Casting Modernist Architecture, ed. Constantinos Taliotis (Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH, 2012).

Article: ‘The Third Reich in Contemporary Fiction’, Alluvium, vol.1, no.5 (October 2012).

Review Essay: ‘Designs for Life’, Senses of Cinema, Issue 64 (September 2012). Includes a review of Justus Nieland, David Lynch.

Essay: ‘Campo Gulbenkian’, The Modernist, Issue 5 (August 2012).

Research Report: ‘American Studies in the UK, 2000-2010’ (July 2012). Report funded by the British Association for American Studies (BAAS) and the Fulbright Commission.

Essay: ‘Berlin, Before I Go’, When We Build Again (July 2012).

Book Review: Stanley Corkin, Starring New York: Filming the Grime and the Glamour of the Long 1970s, Journal of American Studies, vol.46, no.2 (May 2012).

Essay: ‘The Liban Quarry’, All That Is Common, Issue 1 (2012).

2011

Book Review: James Worthen, The Young Nixon and His Rivals: Four Californian Republicans Eye the White House, 1946-1958, 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies, vol.26 (Autumn 2011).

Article: ‘An Old Tale: The Marriage of Łódź and Los Angeles in David Lynch’s Inland Empire’, 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies, vol.25 (Spring 2011).

Book Review: Christine Stansell, American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century, American Studies Online, Issue 20 (2011).