Education
2009 Ph.D. in English, University of California, Irvine
2004 M.A. in English, University of California, Irvine, June 2004
2001 B.A. in Philosophy with Honors, Dartmouth College
Honors and Fellowships
2014 to present John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities
2013 Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Visiting Fellow
2011 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science – University of Tokyo, Kaken Grant
2010-2012 New Faculty Fellow Award (offer declined), American Council of Learned Societies
2010 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan, Department of Foreign Literatures
2009 U.C. Irvine Chancellor’s Club Fund for Excellence Dissertation Fellowship (campus-wide competition)
2008 U.C. Irvine Summer Research Initiative Grant to build the “Mapping Romantic
Orientalism” Website
First Book - The Orient and the Young Romantics(Cambridge University Press, November 2014)—reviews have appeared in The Byron Journal, The European Romantic Review, The Keats-Shelley Journal,Studies in English Literature, Studies in Romanticism and The Wordsworth Circle.
Current Book Project- Romantic Entanglements: the Figure of an Era, 1759-1845 - chapters include readings of: Sterne and Hume, Rousseau and Wollstonecraft, Blake, Shelley and Wordsworth and Rossetti, Keats, and De Quincey.
Edited Collection: Selected Essays on British Romanticism, 1985-2015, 4 Volumes, ed. with David Vallins (forthcoming Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) – projected 1,100,000 words: The book aims to provide students and scholars a guide to the large and diverse field of modern Romantic studies, and a selection of the most interesting and influential essays on British Romanticism from the last thirty years.
Journal Articles
2019 - (commissioned, in progress) Review Essay on Angus Fletcher’s The Topological
Imagination (Harvard UP, 2016) in boundary2, 8,000 words
2019 - (forthcoming) - “Incomprehensible Contextures: Sterne and Hume on Entanglement,” Studies in English Literature (Summer, 59.3) – 8,000 words
2017 - “Incapable of Being Disentangled: On De Quincey’s Impassioned Prose,” Romantic
Praxis series on New Approaches to Romantic Prose, ed. Yoon Sun Lee; 6,500 words
2016 - “On the Uses and Abuses of Theory (for Life),” Romantic Pedagogiesin the Romantic Praxis Series, ed. Brian McGrath; 6,800 words
2014 - “Theory for Romanticism,” North American Society for the Study
of Romanticism Newsletter, 1,400 words
2013 - “Designing and ‘Undrawing’ Veils: Anxiety and Authorship in Radcliffe’s The
Italian,”The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 54.4(Winter2013), 521-
544
2013 - “How to Listen to ‘Sirens’: Narrative Distraction at the Ormond Hotel,” James Joyce
Quarterly,50.3 (Spring)655-74
2012 - “Community Organizing and Narrative Modeling in Infinite Jest and The Pale King,”
Studies in the Novel, special issue on David Foster Wallace as Novelist, ed. Marshall
Boswell. 44:4, 389-408
2010 - “Unentangled Intermixture: Love and Materialism in Shelley’s Epipsychidion,” Keats-Shelley Journal59, 78-95
Book Chapters
2020 - (commissioned) “Philosophy,” in the Oxford Handbook of Romantic Prose, ed. Robert Morrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
2018 - (forthcoming) - “David Foster Wallace & Politics,” in The Cambridge Companion to
David Foster Wallace, ed. Ralph Clare – 6,700 words
2018 - (forthcoming) - “Early Wallace & Program Culture,” in Teaching David Foster
Wallace, Modern Language Association Pedagogy Series, ed. Stephen Burn and Mary
Holland – 5,000 words
2014 - “Modeling Community and Narrative in Infinite Jest andThe Pale King,” in David
Foster Wallace and 'The Long Thing', ed. Marshall Boswell (London, Bloomsbury),
61-84; (a revised version of the essay appearing in Studies in the Novel, 2012)
2013 - “Coleridge, Philosophy, Orient,” in Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient: Cultural
Negotiations, David Vallins, Kaz Oishi, and Seamus Perry (eds.) (London,
Bloomsbury Academic), 103-119.
2010 - Entries on “David Foster Wallace,” “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,”and“Girl
with Curious Hair.” Encyclopedia of Contemporary Writers and their Work. Eds.
Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones
Book Reviews
2019 - (commissioned) Review of Clifford Siskin’s System: the Shaping of Modern
Knowledge, Studies in Romanticism
2016 - Review of Anahid Nersessian's Utopia, Limited: on Romanticism & Adjustment, in
Studies in Romanticism, 55 (Spring 2016), 130-33
2012 - Review of Tilottama Rajan’s Romantic Narrative,Keats-Shelley Journal 60, 139-40
2008 - Review of Michael Vicario’s Shelley’s Intellectual System and Its Epicurean
Background, for the Keats-Shelley Journal 56, 174-76
Courses Taught (Harvard University)• Fall 2019: (Very) Contemporary American Fiction
• Spring 2018: How to Do Literary Theory
• Fall 2017: Poets: Nature Poetry (Common Grounds)
• Spring 2017: Kaleidoscopic Romanticism (Graduate Seminar)
• Fall 2010, 2011, 2014 & Spring 2015 & 2019: Poets: Narrative & Lyric (Common Grounds)
• Fall 2011, 2013, 2014 & 2016: David Foster Wallace
• Spring 2015: Blake & Ginsberg (Undergraduate Seminar)
• Fall 2013: The Romantics (Graduate Seminar)
• Spring 2012 & 2014: The Comic Enlightenment
• Spring 2012: Late Romanticism (Graduate Seminar)
• Spring 2011: British Women Poets
• Spring 2011: Wordsworth and the Shelleys
• Fall 2010: The Gothic Tradition
(National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
• Spring 2010: British Literature from Beowulf to Swift (Undergraduate Course)
• Spring 2010: The Young Romantics (Graduate Seminar)
(University of California, Irvine)
• Fall 2005, Winter & Summer 2006, Summer 2007, 2008: Writing 139 (Adv. Expository Writing)
• Fall 2007 & Winter 2008: UCI Humanities Out There Program (Santa Ana Unified School Dist.)
• Spring 2006: Writing 39B (The Rhetoric of Consciousness)
• Spring 2005: English 28B (Comic and Tragic Vision)
• Winter 2005: Teaching Assistant for English 102C (the Young Romantics)
• Fall 2004 & Summer 2005: English 28A (The Poetic Imagination)
• Winter & Spring 2004: Writing 39C (Argument and Research)
• Fall 2003: Writing 37 (Intensive Writing)
Professional Service
(Harvard)
2016 to present Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of English
2014 to present Co-director,Seminar in Dialectical Thinking, Mahindra Humanities Center
2017-18 Sophomore Adviser, Mather House
2018 Selection Committee, Mahindra Center Postdoctoral Fellows - Mellon
Seminar on Migration and the Humanities
2010 to present Faculty Adviser, Long Eighteenth-Century & Romanticism Colloquium
2013 to present Freshman Adviser
2013 Fulbright Campus Evaluation Committee
(External)
2014 Advisory Board, Romantic Connections – North American Society for the Study
of Romanticism Supernumerary Conference, University of Tokyo
2013 Advisory Committee, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Editorial & Curatorial Work
2013 Curator, “Ruins of Unseasonable Time,” in the Keats Room of Houghton Library, with
Peter X. Accardo - presented for North American Society for the Study
of Romanticism, “Romantic Movements,” in coordination with Harvard’s “Time &
Time Again” exhibition (2013-14)
2004 Research Assistant, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, ed. Robert Folkenflik
(Modern Library)