Essays

Here’s a selection of non-embarrassing stuff I’ve written in my college career. Obviously, don’t plagiarize.

  • “Wound Up by Any Hand:” Samuel Adams, Peter Oliver, & the Problem of Stamp Act Violence (2009) Download PDF
  • Ajax and the Suicide in Homer, Sophocles, and Ovid (2009) Download PDF
  • Last Fair Deal Gone Down: The Ethics of Divine Punishment in Walpole’s Castle of Otranto (2009) Download PDF
  • Review: Lisa Jardine’s The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London” (2009) Download PDF
  • The Swift Hits the Fan: Excrement and Misanthropy in Gulliver’s Travels (2009) Download PDF
  • “A Bully Fight and a Bully Time”: Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (2009) Download PDF
  • “How did the old ladies turn into Russians?” American History in The Manchurian Candidate (2008) Download PDF
  • Essays on Bob Dylan (2008) Download PDF
  • “The Last Dalai Lama?” (Berkeley Political Review, Spring 2008) Download PDF
  • “Great, Anguished Hope”—The Reverend Barbee in Invisible Man (2008) Download PDF
  • Review: Berkeley Art Museum’s “One Way or Another” (2007) Download PDF
  • Music in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” (2007) Download PDF
  • The Presidential War (2007) Download PDF