Areas of Research/Interest: Restoration and 18th-century British literature; authorship; satire; Milton

Select Publications:

Patriotism and Poetry in 18th-Century Britain" (Cambridge, 2002).
Literary Patronage in England, 1650-1800 . New York: Cambridge University Press. 1996.
Satire: A Critical Reintroduction. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1994.
Regaining Paradise: Milton and the 18th Century. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1986.
Alexander Pope: The Poet in the Poems. Princeton University Press.1978 

Affiliations: American Society for 18th-Century Studies; Northeast American Society for 18th-Century Studies; New York 18th-Century Seminar; Columbia University Seminar in 18th-Century European Culture;

Fellowships/Honors: Guggenheim Fellowship; American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship; National Endowment for the Humanities Grant.