English

EDUCATION:
Ph.D., English and American Literature, New York University, 2007
B.A., English Literature, UW-Madison, 1996

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INTERESTS: Nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature; literature and philosophy; philosophies of experience and the history of empiricism; pragmatism; French literature and French-American literary influence; poetry; detective fiction; science-fiction.

My book project, Experience and Experimental Writing from Emerson to William James, explores the links between philosophies of experience and literary innovation in Emerson, Poe, Melville, Charles Peirce, William and Henry James, Henri Bergson and John Dewey. The further aim of the study is to show how literary experimentation for these figures often arose from non-American encounters, and as such complicates the project of establishing an original American literature in the nineteenth-century. 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--“Emerson’s Adjacencies,” in The Other Emerson (Eds. Branka Arsic and Cary Wolfe), Minnesota University Press (forthcoming Fall, 2007)

--“C. Auguste Dupin and Charles S. Peirce: An Abductive Affinity,” in The Edgar Allan Poe Review, Fall 2005, Volume VI, Number 2.

--“Genre—Algorithm—linguisterie,” Journal of Modern Literature, Volume 27, Number 4, Summer 2004.

-- Literary journalism and reviews in Bookforum, Radical Philosophy, Parallax and the Brooklyn Rail

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Literature Seminars I, Introduction to the Study of American Literature