Areas of Research/Interest: Romantic literature; philosophical criticism; biography; American cultural studies

Select Publications:

Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of Raintree County. New York: Viking Penguin. 1994. Penguin Books. 1995.
The Ethics of Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1989.
Coleridge the Moralist. Cornell University Press, 1977.

Affiliations: Executive Committee, The New York Institute for the Humanities; PEN American Center; American Association of Suicidology; Authors' Guild; The Manuscript Society; New York Institute for the Humanities; Modem Language Association.

Fellowships/Honors: MidAmerica Award, 1998; Suicide Prevention Award, 1995; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984; National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1977-1978; Danforth Fellowship, 1964-1969; Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1964-1965.