I write and speak on epistolary literature and postal history, eighteenth-century news and newspapers, women’s writing, and caregiving.

• “Good Noticings Book Club: Wuthering Heights.” Live Good Noticings podcast with Claire Parker and Ashley Hamilton. March 3, 2026.
• “Navigating ALS with Rachael King.” Peaceful Exit podcast with Sarah Cavanaugh. May 7, 2024.
• “Caregivers Helped Us Be a Family. Everyone Should Have That Option.” The New York Times. Jan. 1, 2024.
• “By understanding the ends of research can universities regain their relevance?” Co-authored with Seth Rudy. LSE Impact Blog. Nov. 14, 2023.
• “The Ends of Knowledge.” Co-authored with Seth Rudy. Aeon. Sept. 29, 2023.
• “The Ends of Knowledge.” Co-authored with Seth Rudy. Inside Higher Education. July 26, 2023.
• “What COVID Shows Us About the Need for Home Care.” KCET. Jan. 20, 2022.
• “For families like mine, the social services in Biden’s budget proposal are a choice between life and death.” CNN. Oct. 15, 2021.
• “The Care Economy Makes My Family’s Lives Worth Living.” Elle. Sept. 30, 2021.
• “John Locke and America’s Cult of Private Property.” The Nation. Dec. 24, 2020.
• “The Frontiers of Form.” Los Angeles Review of Books. Sept. 19, 2020.
• “The USPS is more than a service. It’s a symbol of a functioning society.” CNN. Aug. 19, 2020.
• “The Radical Idea that Undergirds Our Postal System.” The Nation. April 21, 2020.
• “Public Thinker: Josephine Livingstone on the Critic’s Voice.” Public Books. March 14, 2019.
• Segment on “Counterpoint with Amanda Vanstone” (Australian Broadcasting Company), Sept. 30, 2019.
• “Reddit, with wigs and ink.” Aeon. Aug. 13, 2019.
• “Ceci n’est pas une lettre.” Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal 21 (Feb. 2019): 17-21.
• “‘Difficult’ Mothering.” Avidly: A Channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Aug. 23, 2018.
• “Americans have been ‘blogging’ about politics for 250 years.” The Washington Post. Oct. 31, 2016.
• “Coined by Shakespeare? Think Again.” Boston Globe. Aug. 18, 2013.
• “The Art of the Recap: Spoilers, Easter eggs, and listicles as cultural obsession.” New Haven Review 1, No. 9 (Winter 2011): 186-195.
• “Rewatching Watchmen.”New Haven Review 1, No. 5 (Winter 2009): 79-94.
• Featured in the UCSB Current discussing the UC-HBCU Initiative, the Ballitore Project, and eighteenth-century news.