Teaching and Research Interests: Romanticism; Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Cultural History and Contemporary Theory; Jewish Studies.

Degrees: M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)

Publications:

Imageless Truths: Shelley’s Poetic Fictions (1994).

Editor, The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).

Author of the chapter, "Shelley and Lyric," for The Cambridge Companion to Percy Bysshe Shelley (Cambridge University Press, 2006). 

Articles concerning such issues as Romanticism and legal discourse (in European Romantic Review), the canon debates (in Salmagundi), contemporary poetry and Romantic epic (in Modern Language Quarterly), Amy Clampitt and Keats (in Criticism), William Collins and elegy (in Style). Amy Levy and poetic forms (in Criticism); Charlotte Smith (in The Wordsworth Circle), and various others.

Current Research: Book on Romantic Constructions, which synthesizes some of the above-listed material; work on nineteenth-century Jewish authors; work on elegiac forms.