English

EDUCATION:
Ph.D. English Language and Literature, Yale University, 1988
B.A. English, Yale University, 1980

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INTERESTS: 19th century American literature; biography, literature and philosophy
Work in progress: biography of James Fenimore Cooper co-authored with April Alliston

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--Less Legible Meanings: Between Poetry and Philosophy in the Work of Emerson  
   (Stanford, 1999)

--Representative Men, editor (Marsilio, 1996)

--The Consolations of Space: The Place of Romance in Hawthorne, Melville and James
    (Stanford, 1990)

--“Freud in America,” Psychoanalytic Dialogues 14 (2004) 2: 265-86

--“Die Ruinen der Gemeinschaft—Die Gemeinschaft als Ruine: Emerson’s ‘Experience’,” in Ruinenbilder, ed. Aleida Assmann (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2002)

--“A Gentlemanlike Training: James Fenimore Cooper at Yale,” with April Alliston, The Yale Review 89 (2001) 3: 46-89

--"James Fenimore Cooper: Entrepreneur of the Self," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 107 (1997)1: 41-64

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Directed Studies (literature track), Introduction to Narrative, the Quarrel between Literature and Philosophy, seminars on 19th century American literature