Syntactics

Recent Publications:

• Co-Editor: Spiritual Politics After Deleuze
• Co-Editor, Time: Limits and Constraints
• Essay in Cahiers de L'Herne: Michel Serres

Welcome! I'm Professor of English at LMU; I teach courses in literary theory and interdisciplinary topics like Nothing, Wonder, and Chaos. The different site headings reflect various interests and activities that keep me busy when I'm not making rock sculptures in my ever-evolving front yard, where 'Nothing' is written in stone....

Synergistics

• President, International Society for the Study of Time
• Co-Editor, SubStance: A Journal of Theory and Criticism
  
• Director, SynThink

Futuristics

Presenting at conference on Time and Emergence in Paris, October 14-15, 2011.

Participating in Radcliffe Seminar on Topological Thinking in the Humanities, Harvard, December 2-3, 2011.

Semantics

• Simon Rodia's Watts Towers of Los Angeles
  • My essay on the Watts Towers
  • Interview for LMU Magazine
    
• Constraint-based Writing
  • What is the Oulipo?
  • Alpha Rap live with David Ornette Cherry!
    

Pragmatics

• Chair, Department of English
  
  
• Courses