Some questions are old. Who is the author? What counts as creation? Where does value come from? AI has made them urgent again.

I study these questions at the intersection of technology, culture, and imagination. Specifically, how artificial intelligence is reshaping the conditions under which creativity is recognized, attributed, and legitimized within cultural systems.

I am a faculty member in the Department of Technology, AI, and Society at Stony Brook University. I received my Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, and have taught at Ohio State and Columbia University.

Before entering academia, I worked in cultural institutions and the entertainment industry. Those were environments where the politics of creativity were never abstract: where decisions about whose work mattered, and why, had immediate consequences. That experience left me with questions that scholarship, I found, was the right tool to pursue.