About
Professor of English, Brown University Education
Ph.D., Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, 1977
A. B., summa cum laude, History and Literature, Harvard College, 1971 Publications
Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2013)
A Norton Critical Edition of Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 4th Edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006), 5th Edition (forthcoming 2016)
Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 2005)
A Norton Critical Edition of E. M. Forster, Howards End (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998)
Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P , 1990)
The Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 1987)
The Phenomenology of Henry James (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1983)
Projects
A scholarly textual edition of Henry James, The Ivory Tower for the Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James, ed. Philip Horne et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, in press: expected publication 2017-18)
A Norton Critical Edition of E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (New York: W. W. Norton, forthcoming 2021)
