I am an Associate Professor of English 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. It also practices reductive reading through close analysis of simple patterns in sentence structure across texts by George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, As a member of the Stanford Literary Lab, I co-authored several of the studies in Canon/Archive (n+1 books, 2017). Essays have appeared in ELH, Genre, Victorian Literature and Culture, Journal of Cultural Analytics, Public Books and Avidly.
I am affiliated with the Section on the Sociology of Literature 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. It also practices reductive reading through close analysis of simple patterns in sentence structure across texts by George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, As a member of the Stanford Literary Lab, I co-authored several of the studies in Canon/Archive (n+1 books, 2017). Essays have appeared in ELH, Genre, Victorian Literature and Culture, Journal of Cultural Analytics, Public Books and Avidly.
I am affiliated with the Section on the Sociology of Literature at Uppsala University.
