Writing
Essays & Criticism
Remembering Frederick Wiseman: The Filmmaker Who Changed Documentary Cinema Forever.
The Conversation, 2026.
Complex Vibrations.
Sydney Review of Books, 2026.
A Lingering in Stillness: Philosopher Byung-Chul Han on the Radical Power of Gardening.
The Conversation, 2026.
Process and Play: The Notebook as Masquerade.
Un Magazine, 2025.
Suburban Grotesque: Body Melt (1993) and the Anti-Suburban Tradition.
Overland, 2025.
How Jia Zhangke's Caught by the Tides Uses 20 Years of Footage to Capture a Changing China.
The Conversation, 2025.
Long Before Debates About Wokeness, Epicurus Built a Philosophy That Welcomed Slaves, Women and Outsiders.
The Conversation, 2025.
The Irretrievable Archive: Lost Films and Analogue Elegies.
Art and Australia 59.2 (2024).
Beyond the Warp: Occult Poetics in HD and Robert Duncan.
Cordite Poetry Review 114 (2024).
Sci-fi Realism: M. Barnard Eldershaw's Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1947).
Overland 248 (2022).
A Cinema of Intimacy: The Enduring Beauty of Wong Kar-wai.
The Conversation, 2021.
Scholarly Publications
Epistolary Cinema: Letter Writing in the Films of Pedro Costa.
In Emotion and the Letter: A History from Antiquity to the Present, edited by Katie Barclay and Diana G. Barnes. Bloomsbury, 2025.
Divination with Digital Animals: Sci-fi Realism in Jia Zhangke's Tian Zhuding (A Touch of Sin).
In Animals and Science Fiction, edited by Nora Castle and Giulia Champion. Palgrave, 2024.
Theme Park Lover: Longing and Flight through Tourist Space in Jia Zhangke's The World 世 界 (2004).
In Urban Emotions and the Making of the City, edited by Katie Barclay and Jade Riddle. Routledge, 2021.
The Camera Devoured: Cinematic Cannibalism in Pedro Costa's Casa de Lava (1994).
In Exchanges: Interdiscipinary Research Journal. (2020)
The Perverse Utopianism of Willed Human Extinction in Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem 三体.
In Ethical Futures and Global Science Fiction, edited by Zachary Kendal, Aisling Smith et al. Routledge, 2020.