Education
Ph.D. in English, University of California, Irvine, September 2009
M.A. in English, University of California, Irvine, June 2004
B.A. in Philosophy with Honors, Dartmouth College, June 2001
Book Manuscript (under reader review at Cambridge University Press)
Populous Solitudes: The Orient and the Young Romantics — The project is an examination of the trope of the Orient in the poetry of Shelley, Byron and Keats, read through their radical political, philosophical and poetic commitments. Close readings of precursors such as Southey and Coleridge, and political thinkers such as Montesquieu and Rousseau, reveal two things: first, that the problematic of solipsism is generative of the Young Romantics’ literary engagements with the Near East; and second, that these poets are in a sense “postcolonial” critics of Orientalism avant la lettre.
Publications and Reviews
• “Coleridge, Philosophy, Orient,” forthcoming chapter in Coleridge and the Orient, ed. Kaz Oishi, Seamus Perry, and David Vallins (Continuum, 2012-13)
• “Designing and ‘Undrawing’ Veils: Anxiety and Authorship in Radcliffe’s The Italian,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (Winter 2013)
• “Unentangled Intermixture: Love and Materialism in Shelley’s Epipsychidion,” accepted for publication, Keats-Shelley Journal (2010)
• Review of Tilottama Rajan’s Romantic Narrative, Keats-Shelley Journal (forthcoming 2012)
• Review of Michael Vicario’s Shelley’s Intellectual System and Its Epicurean Background, for the Keats-Shelley Journal 56 (2008), 174-76
Academic Conferences
• “Shelley’s Leveling Sands,” ACLA forum on “Romantic Catastrophe,” mod. by Jacques Khalip (March 2012)
• “Byron’s Gothic Orient,” International Conference on Romanticism; panel on “Poets as Objects of Representation,” chair (November 2011)
• “The Form First,” New Faculty Lunch, Harvard University (October 2011)
• “Rousseau’s Foreigners,” Special Session on “Mobility & the Foreign,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (August 2011)
• “Coleridge, Philosophy, Orient,” Coleridge, Romanticism, and the Orient: Cultural Negotiations; JSPS and Friends of Coleridge; panel on “Blake in the Orient,” moderator (Kobe, Japan, July 2011)
• “Lyric Ease,” British Women Writers Conference (April 2011)
• “Southey’s ‘High Romantic’ Orient,” The International Conference on Romanticism (November, 2010)
• “What Is Romanticism Responsible for?” Long Eighteenth Century and Romanticism Colloquium, Harvard University (September, 2010)
• Organizer, Colloquium on Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49; “A Great Unanchored Wig: Order and Disorder in Pynchon’s Sentences,” National Tsing Hua University (June 2010)
• “Mapping Blake’s Jerusalem, Digitally,” Digital Romanticisms Conference, University of Tokyo (May 2010)
• Chair, Ancient and Modern Relations, Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference (Nov. 2009)
• “Unperplexing Bliss: the Orient in Keats’s Poetics,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference (November 2008)
• “Shelley’s Adjectival Human: Knowledge and Problematization, 1815-17,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference (Tilottama Rajan’s “Archaeologies of Knowledge” Special Session, Toronto, August 2008)
• “Pedagogy, Bilingualism, Empowerment: Translating Roberto Bolaño’s Los Perros Románticos at Santa Ana High School,” California Association of Freirean Educators Conference (Paolo Freire Institute, UCLA, May 2008)
• “Feral Infants and the Outlandish Growth of Satire in Infinite Jest,” American Literature Association Conference (May 2008)
• “’Unentangled Intermixture’: Love and Shelley’s Materialism,” American Comparative Literature Conference (April 2008)
• “How to Listen to ‘Sirens’: Narrative and Event at the Ormond Hotel,” Bloomsday 100: the International James Joyce Symposium (Dublin, June 2004)
Honors and Fellowships
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science – University of Tokyo, Kaken Grant, Summer 2011
• New Faculty Fellow Award (2010-2012; offer declined), American Council of Learned Societies
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan, Department of Foreign Literatures, February – July 2010
• U.C. Irvine Chancellor’s Club Fund for Excellence Dissertation Fellowship, 2009 (campus-wide competition)
• North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Competitive Travel Bursary, August 2008
• U.C. Irvine Summer Research Initiative Grant to build the “Mapping Romantic Orientalism” Website, June 2008
• U.C. Irvine Humanities Research Grant for study at the James Joyce Archives, National Library of Ireland, 2005
• Conference Travel Grant, U.C. Irvine Department of English, Summer 2004
• Pre-Doctoral Humanities Fellowship, U.C. Irvine 2002-2008
• Honors Thesis in Philosophy, Dartmouth College
• Dartmouth Ethics Institute Research Grant for study at the Foucault Archives, IMEC, Paris, France
(Last updated: January 25, 2012)