I am a writer with particular interests in poetry, philosophy and art. I studied architecture at Cornell before graduating with a BA in English. My PhD from University of California, Berkeley became the book Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie (2006), which tracks interactions between postwar poetry and art while theorizing O’Hara’s model of coterie as a paradoxically democratic mode of writing. Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics (2013) considers poets including Williams, Olson, Baraka, and Mayer as experimental ethnographers and historians. A collection of recent art essays is forthcoming as Specimen Box. Written for institutions including DIA Center, Reina Sofia, De Hallen, and Whitechapel, these essays track the changing terms of institutional critique over the last 25 years. I am a contributing editor for Cabinet magazine and a Professor of English at New York University and a Visiting Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Limerick.