Biography

I am a DPhil candidate in Modern Languages at Jesus College, University of Oxford. Before coming to Oxford, I received a Bachelor of Arts degree from UC Berkeley in Philosophy and Comparative Literature with language concentrations in Chinese and French.  Afterwards, I studied at University College London’s The Bartlett School of Architecture where I received a Masters of Research degree in Architecture and Digital Theory under the supervision of architectural historian Mario Carpo and art critic Frédéric Migayrou. My thesis titled “Structuralism, Schizophrenia, and Schema: The Psychiatric Origins of ‘Folding’ in Contemporary Architectural Theory” was marked with distinction.

DPhil Research

My DPhil thesis, preliminarily titled Semio-Informatique: Magnetic Fields and Logic Circuits in the Avant Garde (1948-1968), recasts avant-garde poetry and literature in relation to late 20th-century French Theory, mathematics, and the computer sciences. The theoretical intention of my research is to trace the extent to which French literary critics conceived of logic circuits and information theory in their analysis of the avant-garde. In many ways, my research explores how French thought observes the technological developments of the Silicon Valley and how art, culture, and society have become increasingly analyzed and expressed as networks devoid of historical and ontological foundations. I also trace how this trend was anticipated by 20th-century avant-garde movements, psychology, and cybernetics. By synthesizing these developments, I consider methods of interpretation for certain experimental traditions in the present day. I study under the supervision of Professor Nikolaj Lübecker.

Main Research Interests

20th Century Avant-Garde, Literature, Architecture, Cinema, Poetry

Cybernetics, Information, Deconstruction, Phenomenology, Semiotics

Comte de Lautréamont, Stéphane Mallarmé, André Breton, Antonin Artaud, Isidore Isou

Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Roman Jakobson, Julia Kristeva, Gilbert Simondon

George Boole, Kurt Gödel, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon, Alan Turing

Selected Conferences, Curations, and Speaking Events

Panel Chair, “Cybernetics and the Construction of the Future,” International Workshop Questioning Human Technogenesis, 9 December 2024, Maison Française d’Oxford, organized by Maison Française d’Oxford, ENS-AXA Chair Geopolitics of Risk, and École Normale Supérieure de Paris - PSL University.

Guest Lecturer, “The Motor Content of Images” Postgraduate Seminar Simondon Oxford Seminars, 11 February 2025, St. John's College, University of Oxford, organized by Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages.

Curator, Representation and Displacement in the Avant-Garde. Featuring artists Hélène de Beauvoir, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, and Hugo Vasarely. Taylor Institution, Oxford, 20 February 2025–21 March 2025. Organized by Taylor Institution, Oxford.

Presenter, “Lettrism, Language, and Cybernetics: Technically Reading the Avant-garde,” 8th Annual Medieval & Modern Languages Graduate Network Conference, 26 June 2025, Taylor Institution Library, University of Oxford. Organized by the Medieval & Modern Languages Graduate Network, University of Oxford.

Teaching

Prelims French Single Honours (‘Sole’) Paper XI, "Introduction to French Film Studies" (2025-2026)

Scholarships and Awards

Mary Wentworth Kelly Fund's T. E. Lawrence award (2024-25)