Coverage

The Vexing Art of Duchamp, Picasso and FromSoftware by Ethan Davison | The New York Times | 2025
An article about Bloodborne, modernism, and Grant Us Eyes.



Recorded Talks

Aboutness: “Death Stranding” and Labor | Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah | 2022
I discuss the video game Death Stranding and the strange way we use the word “about” in criticism today.



Podcast Appearances

Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel | New Books Network | 2026
I chat with Dan Moran about my book Bad Writing in the Modernist Novel.

Grant Us Eyes | New Books Network | 2025
A conversation with Rudolph Thomas Inderst about Grant Us Eyes.

Aesthetic Experience with Bryan Counter | The Virtual Jewel Box | 2025
A conversation with my Authors Die Twice cohost Bryan Counter about his book Four Moments of Aesthetic Experience.

The Turn of the Screw | Reel Rap | 2025
I talk to the hosts of Reel Rap about Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw and Jack Clayton’s 1961 film adaptation The Innocents.

Bloodborne and the Aesthetics of Video Games | The Virtual Jewel Box | 2025
A conversation with author Michael Clune (Gamelife, A Defense of Judgment) about my book Grant Us Eyes: The Art of Paradox in Bloodborne.