About
I’m Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina State University. I’ve held positions at Stanford University, the University of Warwick, Utah State University, and the City College of New York. I’ve published work in Public Books, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Review of Books, Review of English Studies, Victorian Poetry, Victorian Review, Oxford University Press Blog, and others.
I specialize in transatlantic literatures from the eighteenth century to the present with a focus on technology, media, science, and culture. My recent publications have included studies of Paul Laurence Dunbar, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Charles Williams. My current book project, The Sound Era: Poetry’s Machinery in the Long Nineteenth Century (under contract with Princeton University Press), addresses the relationships between sound technology (stethoscopes, telegraphs, phonographs, telephones, microphones, wireless, etc.) and the poetry of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, the Brontës, the Brownings, John Clare, William Cowper, Sarah Josepha Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, John Rollin Ridge, Alfred Tennyson, Walt Whitman, and many more.
I teach on topics including interdisciplinary and transnational studies; poetry and poetics; sound studies; early film; digital humanities; gender and sexuality; race studies; medical humanities and disability studies; archive, book, and periodical studies.
Education
PhD, MA, Stanford University, English Literature
MSt, University of Oxford, English Literature
BA, University of Pennsylvania, English Literature and Humanistic Philosophy
Profiles