I'm Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. I was a Humanities editor at LARB from 2012 to 2020. I've written fiction, criticism, and reviews. I wrote the novel Pop Apocalypse (Ecco/HarperPerennial, 2009) and co-edited (with Sam Cohen) The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (University of Iowa Press, 2012). Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction was published in 2016 by Harvard University Press. The Last Samurai Reread is forthcoming from the Rereadings series at Columbia University Press. An edited collection I co-edited with Georgiana Banita called Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman is forthcoming from the Critical Approaches to Comics Artists series at University Press of Mississippi. I'm working on a new project called “Platform-Art: Graphic Storytelling in the Age of Social Media.” It’s a study of innovative artworks that explore and critique corporate digital platforms and communications systems. There are chapters on the Graphical User Interface, the emoji, animated GIFs, YouTube's Partner Program, Instagram, and NFTs.