Welcome, comrade! I’m a critic and cultural historian of fantasy, horror, and sf, and an acquiring editor. Genre Fantasies is an ongoing blog on the cultural history of American fantasy, horror, and sf—mostly focused on fantasy fiction, c. 1960s–1990s.

I write about genre and cultural history—with attention to power, empire, capitalism, and race—for academic and popular publications, including Strange Horizons, Los Angeles Review of Books, World Literature Today, Reactor Magazine (formerly Tordotcom), and more. My shorter writing (peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, essays, reviews, etc.) is available here, and information about the books, journal issues, and book series I’ve edited can be found here. I am also the associate editor of the sf section at Los Angeles Review of Books.

As the senior acquiring editor for Lever Press, I work to bring diverse, conversation-changing scholarship into the world, emphasizing writing that appeals to general audiences, speaks truth to power, and reveals the many ways inequality operates. I value writing that works toward practicable critical and community responses, that seeks to do something for the world.