Ph.D., University of North Carolina

Scholarly interests: 
I study British Romanticism, with an emphasis on William Wordsworth.  I have written on the classical background of Romantic literature, and am currently working on 19th-century representations of landscape and rural life, in both literature and the visual arts.  My book-in-progress is called "The Stereographic Picturesque;" it will examine stereo photographs of British and American landscape scenery, especially scenes connected with the life and works of major Romantic writers. 

Publications include :
Wordsworth's Translations of Chaucer and Virgil, for the Cornell Wordsworth series, an electronic edition of Lyrical Ballads for Cambridge University Press, and essays in journals such as European Romantic Review, Romanticism, Studies in Philology, and The Wordsworth Circle.  Recent publications include “Classical Inheritances,” in Romanticism: an Oxford Guide, edited by Nicholas Roe, and “Romanticism and the Classical Tradition,” in Blackwell’s Companion to the Classical Tradition, edited by Craig Kallendorf.

Current courses:
English 440: Nature and the Arts
English 481: American Picturesque
I am also directing senior theses on John Keats and Jane Austen.
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