Areas of Research/Interest: British romanticism; English and Scottish literature and culture, 1750-1830; twentieth-century and contemporary North American poetry; modernism; postmodernism; media studies; Anglophone poetries/poetics; human sciences and literature

Select Publications:
Balladeering, Minstrelsy, and the Making of British Romantic Poetry  (Cambridge University Press, 2008);
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry, co-edited with James Chandler (Cambridge University Press, 2008);
Same Life: poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species (Cambridge University Press, 2000, 2006)

Affiliations: Modern Language Association; North American Society for the Study of Romanticism; American Studies Association; National Book Critics Circle (Board of Directors, 2007-2010)

Fellowships/Honors: Fellow, Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall (Paris); Fellow, Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities, Bogliasco, Italy; Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1999-2004; Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh; Harper-Schmidt Post-Doctoral Fellow in the College and the Department of English, University of Chicago; Mellon Fellowship; Rhodes Scholarship