I am a fifth year PhD student in Technology and Social Behavior (joint communications & computer science) at Northwestern University, advised by Prof. Duri Long. I research how humanistic perspectives, from formalist aesthetics to affect theory, can inform the critical design of human-computer interactions. My proposed dissertation, Rooting Defamiliarization: Theorizing and Practicing Ostranenie in HCI Design, investigates how Shklovsky's ostranenie can be grounded in phenomenology and applied to the critical design of AI systems.

I am also an assistant editor at Loose Tooth Press. In my free time, I enjoy rock climbing and cooking.