About
I’m an associate professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, where I specialize in Romanticism, the history and philosophy of science, and gothic studies. Education
Ph.D. Rutgers, 2012
M.A. Rutgers, 2009
B.A. New York University, 2005 Publications
Book:
Articles and Book Chapters:
- “Gothic Ecologies of Mind,” in Joel Faflak and Richard C. Sha, Romanticism and Consciousness Revisited (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2022).
- “Cognitive Scaffolding, Aids to Reflection,“ in Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture, ed. Miranda Anderson, George Rousseau, and Michael Wheeler (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2019).
- “Baillie’s Diagnostic Sublime,” European Romantic Review 29.3 (June 2018).
- “Social Minds in Romanticism,” Literature Compass 14.2 (February 2017).
- “Wordsworth between Minds,” Multi-Media Romanticisms, ed. Andrew Burkett and James Brooke-Smith, Romantic Circles Praxis Series (November 2016).
- “Ossian’s Folk Psychology,” ELH 80.3 (Fall 2013).
- “Reading One’s Own Mind: Hazlitt, Cognition, Fiction,” European Romantic Review 24.4 (2013).
- Lyric Mindedness and the ‘Automaton Poet,’” in Romantic Numbers, ed. Maureen N. McLane. Romantic Circles Praxis Series (April 2013).
- “Psyche’s ‘Whisp’ring Fan’ and Keats’s Genealogy of the Secular,” Studies in Romanticism 50.3 (Fall 2011).
Review Essays:
- “From the Lecture Hall to the Tavern: Romantic Literature’s Social Venues,” in preparation for European Romantic Review (2021).
- “Romanticism, Cognition, Culture: A Review Essay,” co-written with Colin Jager, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 57-58 (February-May 2010).
