Publications
Book
The Sound Era: Poetry’s Machinery in the Long Nineteenth Century (under contract with Princeton University Press)
Latest
“Stethoscape: Auscultation in British Fiction,” in Modern Fiction, Disability, and the Hearing Sciences (ed. Edward Allen, Routledge, 2025).
Articles
“[Review] The Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson (2022),” Review of English Studies, vol. 71, no. 317, November 2023, pp. 906–908.
“Fidelity and Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Voice(s).” Victorian Review, vol. 46, no. 1, 2020, pp. 26-30.
“‘I heard his silver Call’: Emily Dickinson and the Poetry of Telegraphic Acoustics.” Review of English Studies, vol. 71, no. 299, 2019, pp. 328–354. (NCSA Emerging Scholars Award)
“Hearing Wireless in Hardy’s ‘The Convergence of the Twain’.” Thomas Hardy Journal, vol. 35, 2019, pp. 17-39. (Patrick Tolfree Prize)
“Phonographic Hopkins: Sound, Cylinders, Silence, and ‘Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves’.” Victorian Poetry (Hopkins Centenary Issue), vol. 56, no. 2, 2018, pp. 147-165.
“‘Ballade of the Periodical’: An Undocumented Poem by Charles Williams.” Notes and Queries, vol. 63, no. 2, 2016, pp. 292-3.
“From the Margin to the Core: The Vagaries of Publicizing Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1918 and 1930.” The Hopkins Quarterly, vol. 42, nos. 1-2, 2015, pp. 1-22.
“Gerard Manley Hopkins (and Others) in OUP’s Periodical.” Notes and Queries, vol. 257, no. 3, 2012, pp. 416-7.
Public Engagement
“The Poems of John Rollin Ridge, or Yellow Bird (Chees-quat-a-law-ny),” Public Books, 14 May 2024.
“What Thomas Hardy knew about the unknowable: We may never know what went wrong with the Titan submersible. A 111-year old poem about the Titanic can help us come to terms with that.” Boston Globe, 9 July 2023.
“Deep(er) Nostalgia: Formulating Tech’s In-control Valley and Uncanny Asymptote.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 25 September 2021.
“Reading 1984 in 2017.” with Alex Woloch, Kenneth Ligda, Abigail Droge, and Juan Lamata. Reading After Trump Podcast, 8 June 2018.
“News anchor Ted Koppel at Stanford Humanities Center to discuss trajectory of American journalism.” Stanford Humanities Center, 9 April 2018.
“Stanford poetry competition inspires high school students.” Stanford News, 21 May 2014.
“Stanford scholars debate the moral merits of reading fiction.” Stanford News, 20 February 2014.
“Listening to the Victorians.” Oxford University Press Blog, 18 July 2011.