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publications
Quixotic Influence and the Underhill Legacy in The Algerine Captive
Published in Comparative American Studies 9.2: 119-30, 2011
Re-Reading Gulliver as Quixote: Toward a Theory of Quixotic Exceptionalism
Published in Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 21.2-3: 278-303, 2012
Gender-Class Kyriarchy in The Female Quixote and Female Quixotism
Published in The Eighteenth Century 55.1: 77-96, 2014
Toward a Counter-Poetics of Quixotism
Published in Studies in the Novel 46.2: 141-58, 2014
Margaret Cavendish’s Anthropocene Worlds
Published in New Literary History 47.1: 49-66, 2016
Quixotism as Global Heuristic: Atlantic and Pacific Diasporas
Published in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 46: 49-62, 2017
Perlocutionary Verse in Augustan England
Published in Modern Philology 114.3: 657-79, 2017
Teaching Literature in the Age of Trump
Published in In 'Trumping Ethical Norms', eds. L. Sandy Maisel and Hannah Dineen | Routledge, 2018
Book Chapter.
A World of Disorderly Notions: Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism
Published at University of Virginia Press, 2019
Shortlisted for the Kenshur Prize for best book in eighteenth-century studies.
Fanny Hill and the Legibility of Consent
Published in English Literary History 86.4: 941-66, 2019
Disambiguating ‘Critical Theory’
Published in In 'Liberalism and Socialism: Enemies or Kin?', ed. Matthew McManus | Palgrave, 2021
Book Chapter.
Empirical Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Published at Cambridge University Press Elements Series, 2022
Information and Credibility in A Journal of the Plague Year
Published in Digital Defoe: Studies of Defoe and His Contemporaries 14.1, 2022
Smollett’s Ramblers and the Law of the Land
Published in In 'A Clubbable Man', ed. Anthony Lee | Bucknell University Press, 2022
Book Chapter.
British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830
Published at Bucknell University Press (with Kristen Girten), 2023
Edited volume.
Sense and Sensibility as Social-Epistemic System
Published in Studies in the Novel 55.2: 131-47, 2023
From Writing Lives to Scaling Lives in Joseph Priestley’s Chart of Biography
Published in The Eighteenth Century 62.3-4 ([2021] 2023): 279-293, 2023
Comedy versus Satire in Eighteenth-Century Contexts
Published in In 'Teaching Comedy', ed. Beverly Hogue | MLA Options for Teaching, 2023
Book Chapter.
Defoe and Censorship
Published in In 'Daniel Defoe in Context', eds. George Justice and Albert Rivero | Cambridge University Press, 2023
Book Chapter.
The Ends of Literary Studies
Published in In 'The Ends of Knowledge', eds. Rachael Scarborough King and Seth Rudy | Bloomsbury, 2023
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Abraham Cowley against Bacon’s “Idols of the Mind”
Published in Configurations 32.1: 51-70, 2024
Explanation Beyond Interpretation
Published in Philosophy and Literature 48.1: 165-184, 2024
LLM Outputs Are Fictions
Published in Critical AI 2:1, 2024
Literary Technologies of the Sextant in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Published in In 'Histories of Science', eds. David Alff and Danielle Spratt | University of Virginia Press, 2025
Book Chapter.
The Success that Was The Humanities
Published in In 'The Humanities Division', eds. Sid Dobrin and Jason Crider | Parlor Press, 2026
Book Chapter. Forthcoming.
LLM Outputs as Stochascript
Published in Modern Fiction Studies (with Hannah H. Kim), 2027
Preprint / Forthcoming
talks
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teaching
EN200: Foundations of Literary Studies
seminar, Colby College, Department of English, 2026
This course focuses on “English” or literary studies as a discipline, some different ways to study literature, and why to do it in the first place. We’ll cover aspects of genre, canonicity,, and other heuristic categories of analysis. We’ll read novels, poems, and articles about the study of literature. We’ll also examine and practice different methods for studying literature, including interpretation, historical analysis, and computational and quantitative analysis.* Syllabus: Syllabus (PDF)