Areas of Research/Interest: American literature; colonial, early national and antebellum literary and intellectual history; American Romanticism

Select Publications:

"Economics and Early American Studies." A Special Issue of Early American Literature 41:3 (Fall 2006). Co-edited with Eric Wertheimer.

"Judith Sargent Murray's Medium Between Calculation and Feeling." Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies. Mary Carruth, ed. University of Alabama Press, 2006.

Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

"Staging Revolution in Melville’s 'Benito Cereno': Babo, Figaro and the 'Play of the Barber.'" Prospects 26 (2001).

"'It is uncertain where the Fates will carry me': Cotton Mather's Theology of Finance."  Arizona Quarterly 56:4 (Winter 2000).

"Benjamin Franklin and the Credibility of Personality." Early American Literature 35:3 (Fall 2000).

Fellowships/Honors: Heyman Prize for outstanding publication by junior faculty member in the humanities, Yale University, 2004; Morse Fellowship, Yale University, 2005; Barra Postdoctoral Fellowship, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, 2001 (declined); Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1997-98; Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Research Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 1996.