About

I teach British and American literature at the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah. I hold a PhD in linguistics from Stanford and an MA in German from Georgetown; I read and speak German at a high level and am slowly acquiring Korean.

My interests include formal linguistics and Shakespeare, jazz and the Beatles, classical literature and horror films, backpacking in the Great Basin and the desert ranges of Southern California, piano, cooking and fermentation, and homelabbing. Somewhere within my 4,000 weeks I would love a small farmstead where I can practice beekeeping and various fermentation techniques and build out a proper analog nook of my antilibrary, even if the bulk of it must remain digital.

This site is a compass rose, not a map — a set of bearings rather than a complete picture. Posts appear when something is worth saying. The garden is English, not French: occasionally tended, mostly left to its own devices.