Essays & Media

I write and speak on epistolary literature and postal history, eighteenth-century news and newspapers, contemporary media, and caregiving.
“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.

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