Working across a variety of topics and mediums—including literature, film, and video games—my research seeks to theorize the relationship between cultural production, social processes of mystification, and the historical crises of late capitalism. My dissertation and first book project, The Denialist Unconscious, examines the production of climate denial within contemporary speculative novels, films, and video games of climate change. A second monograph project, tentatively titled The Solarpunk Symptom: The Automatic Fetish of Green Energy Transition, will interrogate the constitutive contradictions of the science fiction subgenre of solarpunk, developing a critical re-consideration of its utopianism and exploring what its narrative, aesthetic, and affective structures reveal about discourses of green energy (de)mystification. In addition to these larger projects, I am exploring the narrative and symbolic means by which science fictional texts (de)mystify so-called “artificial intelligence” as a process of the transformation of living labor into dead labor. Across my academic career, I have taught literature and writing courses spanning and extending beyond these topics. My writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Science Fiction Studies, and Statement Magazine, with articles currently forthcoming with CR: The New Centennial Review and Science Fiction Film and Television.