About Me

My research explores how texts and textual practices move through different social worlds. My ethnographic work has focused in particular on how literature becomes integral to the ways people ordinarily think and talk about language and difference in Germany. I frequently write on the history of anthropological theory and its connections with literature and philosophy, especially ordinary language philosophy, romanticism, and postcolonial thought.

I am a series co-editor for the award-winning Fordham University Press series Thinking from Elsewhere, and an Associate Editor at American Anthropologist.

At the University of Chicago, I primarily teach courses in social and political thought, philosophy of language, and democratic theory.