About

I am an educator, writer, and analyst. My main areas of expertise and interest lie in digital humanities, theoretical and corpus-driven linguistics, comparative literature, foreign language teaching, computer science, and outdoorsing. Somewhere within my 4,000 weeks, give or take a 1,000, I would love a small farmstead where I can practice beekeeping and various fermentation techniques like making kimchi, cheese, and Czech pilseners and build out a small analog nook of my antilibrary even if the bulk of it must remain digital. I am slowly working on an experimental Western, a short story collection, and a home lab.

Currently, I teach British and American literature at the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah, and previously served as the Director of the Writing Center from 2020 to 2023.

My educational background includes a Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford University, as well as an M.A. in German from Georgetown University. I graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Irvine, and also studied German language and literature at Göttingen as an affiliate student.

The title of my public website, Phantisocracy, is a playful reference to the utopian ideal proposed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey in the 1790s, known as Pantisocracy. Although their pantisocratic vision was never fully realized, I use the term "Phantisocracy" to describe any hypothetical utopian scheme. See this article I wrote on a possibly earlier use of the term. While personal websites have become increasingly antiquated, they have also become minor political curios regardless of their content: The Web, largely destroyed, could have been digitally pantisocratic, not a Dantean hall of mirrors crawling with "AI" worms, scolds, and corporate behemoths.

This website is built with the open source Hugo engine, based on a theme by Varun Adiyeri Parambath, and is currently hosted on Github and served through Netlify.