I am an Associate Professor of English and Hutchinson Distinguished Professor at Loyola University New Orleans, a liberal arts college.
I specialize in nineteenth-century British fiction, poetry and essays. My first book, Reductive Reading: A Syntax of Victorian Moralizing (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), is a study of deliberately reductive reading practices from nineteenth-century moralism to distant reading in the present that yield surprising--and surprisingly subtle--results. As a member of the Stanford Literary Lab, I co-authored several of the studies in Canon/Archive (n+1 books, 2017). My essays have appeared in ELH, Genre, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Poetry, Journal of Cultural Analytics, Public Books, The Rambling, and Avidly. My second book, Collectively Authored: Literary Celebrity in Antislavery Print Culture, is under contract with Columbia University Press.
I am affiliated with the Section on the Sociology of Literature and the Uppsala Computational Literary Studies Group at Uppsala University.
I specialize in nineteenth-century British fiction, poetry and essays. My first book, Reductive Reading: A Syntax of Victorian Moralizing (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), is a study of deliberately reductive reading practices from nineteenth-century moralism to distant reading in the present that yield surprising--and surprisingly subtle--results. As a member of the Stanford Literary Lab, I co-authored several of the studies in Canon/Archive (n+1 books, 2017). My essays have appeared in ELH, Genre, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Poetry, Journal of Cultural Analytics, Public Books, The Rambling, and Avidly. My second book, Collectively Authored: Literary Celebrity in Antislavery Print Culture, is under contract with Columbia University Press.
I am affiliated with the Section on the Sociology of Literature and the Uppsala Computational Literary Studies Group at Uppsala University.
