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. She co-founded and co-edited The Encyclopedia Project and once played in a band called My Invisible. She teaches at

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, Mills College, and University of San Francisco and has taught undergraduates at University of Chicago, University of California at Santa Cruz, and Brown University.

Bibliography

*
The Revisionist
' (2007) * ''Materialisms'' (2009) *
None of This Is Real
' (2012) *

' (2012) * ''The Quarry (2013)'' *
The Instead
(2016)'' * ''Demystifications (2021)'' *
The Revolutionary
(2022)''

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