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; history of ideas; French literature and French-American literary influence; poetry; detective fiction; science-fiction.

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


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--"Is 'Against Theory' a Pragmatism?", minnesota review 70: Spring, 2008

--"Pym, Poe, and the "golden bowl," The Henry James Review 29, 2008

--"Antebellum A.I.: 'Maelzel's Chess Player' and Poe's Reverse Constraints," forthcoming in Poetics Today

--"Emerson's Adjacencies" forthcoming in The Other Emerson, Minnesota University Press

-- Essays and reviews in American Literature, Bookforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Radical Philosophy, and The Yale Review  

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Introduction to the Study of American Literature, Detective Fiction: Poe to the Present