I am the Dean and Chair of Literature at Outer Coast, a new institution of higher education in Sitka, Alaska. I oversee the school's academic program, and I co-teach its core Indigenous Studies curriculum with Yeidikook'áa Dionne Brady-Howard and Maggie Spivey-Faulkner. My research concerns oral tradition; language revitalization; the performing arts; and the history of dreaming and the imagination across different cultures. I am particularly interested in the Indigenous Pacific Northwest and Europe; I study languages from those two regions. I have been a learner of the Tlingit language since 2019, and I help teach many of Outer Coast's free online Tlingit classes. I was co-founder of the Native Cultures of the Americas Seminar at Harvard, and I am the creator of the Dream Parliament, a set of techniques for communally reimagining dreams which has been performed throughout the United States and Canada. I serve on the planning committee for the biennial Sharing Our Knowledge Conference in Southeast Alaska, and I am the Principal Investigator for a related National Science Foundation grant. I have a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton, and for six years I taught in New Jersey prisons with the Princeton University Prison Teaching Initiative. I am an Editor-at-Large at Cabinet Magazine, and I was Guest Editor of Cabinet Issue 67, on "Dreams." In fall 2020, I was a Visiting Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design. From 2017 to 2021, I was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.