Educational Background
- Ph.D., University of Zürich
Teaching Interests
- Literary theory
- Modern and contemporary poetry
- Humanities
- History of ideas
- Holocaust studies
Scholarly Interests
- Modern poetry
- Literary theory
- Studies in suffering and representation
- Comparative humanities
Current Projects
- “Waiting as Resistance: Against the Culture of Greed and Haste”
Recent Awards
- John P. Crozer Chair in English Literature (2006-2011)
Selected Publications
Miriam’s Book: A Poem (Fomite Press, 2017).
Rarity and the Poetic: The Gesture of Small Flowers, Palgrave Macmillan, Pivot Series (2015).
“To Suffer to Wait: Reading Trauma in Two Poems.” Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies (2014).
“Are We Not Beautiful?” Nineteenth Century Prose (2013).
“Literary Autonomy: Growth of a Modern Concept.” Cambridge History of Criticism: The 19th Century (2013).
“The Accident and the Beautiful: On Alan Shapiro’s “The Accident.” Literature and Medicine (2012).
On Waiting Routledge, Thinking in Action Philosophy Series, (2008).
POEMS
in American Poetry Review, New Orleans Review, Cincinnati Review, Diode, Georgia Review, Pleiades, Poetry International, Narrative Magazine, Kenyon Review, etc.
The Book of Stones and Angels (Tupelo Press, 2015).