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
Recent Awards
- John P. Crozer Chair in English Literature (2006-2011)
Selected Publications
Miriam’s Book: A Poem (Fomite Press, 2017).
The Book of Stones and Angels (Tupelo Press, 2015).
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).