Courses
English 100 Introduction to Literary Study
English 255 Survey of American Literature I Lecture (180 students)
English 296 Honors Seminar: Formation of American Culture
English 296 Honors Seminar: American Technological Sublime
English 300 Antebellum Junk: Popular Literature in the American Renaissance
English 449 American Literature, 1820-1865
English 455 Major Authors: Melville and Whitman
English 461 Nineteenth Century American Poetry
English 593 The American Renaissance
English 547 Grad Seminar: The Nation and Its Fragments: U.S. Cultural Production, 1776-1876
English 547 Grad Seminar: The Production of Nationalist Space, 1700-1860
English 547 Grad Seminar: Modernity at Sea: Early Literature of the Atlantic World, 1590-1850
English 547 Grad Seminar: American Enlightenment: Material Culture in Theory and Practice
Areas of Interest
Eighteenth and nineteenth century American literature and culture; material and visual culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; early U.S. political culture; history and theory of nationalism; history the book; archival research methods.
Work in Progress
Franklin’s Fins: Bodies, Travel, and Print Culture, 1590-1800 (book manuscript in progress)
Utopia: American Futures from Reformation to Reconstruction (book manuscript in progress)
Recent and Forthcoming Publications
The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation-Building 1770-1870 (NY: Columbia University Press, 2007).
“The Book’s Two Bodies: Common Sense, Revolutionary Print Culture, and the Problem of the Early National Bestseller,” American Literature 78(1): 1-28 (2006).
“The First American Contrasts: Region and Nation Under the Articles of Confederation” in Explorations in Early American Culture, eds. George Boudreau and William Pencak. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Historical Association, 2001.
“Letters in the Early Republic: Forms and Readers,” The Blackwell Companion to American Literature and Culture, ed. Paul Lauter (in progress)
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