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. 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, Portraits of the Author with Pen in Hand: Transatlantic Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century, 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, Portraits of the Author with Pen in Hand: Transatlantic Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century, 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.
