Professor of English; English Department Chair
English / Academic
- Office:
- Sherman Hall 310
- Mailbox:
- 61607
- Phone:
- 903.813.2243
Education:
B.A., Yale University
M.A., Ph.D., Washington University
Publications:
“Worlds Enough and Time: The Fantastic Afterlives of ‘To His Coy Mistress,’” Marvell Studies 6.1 (2021): 1-51
“The Rehearsal Transpros’d and The Rehearsal Transpros’d, The Second Part,” in The Oxford Handbook of Marvell, ed. Martin Dzelzainis and Edward Holberton (Oxford University Press, 2019), 517-37
Samson’s Cords: Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler (University of Toronto Press, 2018)
“Marvell’s Personal Elegy? Rewriting Shakespeare in A Poem upon the Death of O.C.,” in Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell, ed. Christopher D’Addario and Matthew Augustine (Manchester University Press, 2018)
“God’s Swearing By Himself: Milton’s Troubling Coronation Oath,” in With Wandering Steps: Generative Irresolution in Milton’s Poetry, ed. Louis Schwartz and Mary Fenton (Duquesne University Press, 2016)
“Samson’s Cords: Imposing Oaths in Samson Agonistes,” Milton Studies 50 (2009): 125-49
“William without Mary: Mourning Sensibly in the Public Sphere,” The Seventeenth Century 23.1 (Spring 2008): 105-41
“The Heroic Drama’s Legend of Good Women,” Criticism 45.4 (Fall 2003): 483-505
“Mourning the Headless Body Politic: The Regicide Elegies & Marvell’s Horatian Ode,” Exemplaria 15.2 (Fall 2003): 509-50
“Coriolanus, the Union Controversy, & Access to the Royal Person,” SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 42.2 (Spring 2002): 335-59. Reprinted in Shakespearean Criticism, Vol. 75, ed. Michael L. LaBlanc (Detroit: Gale, 2003), 127-39
Book Review of Feisal G. Mohamed, Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century England and the Making of the Modern Political Imaginary (Oxford University Press, 2020), in Seventeenth Century News (forthcoming)
Book Review of Stewart Mottram, Ruin and Reformation in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Marvell (Oxford University Press, 2019), in Journal of British Studies 59.1 (2020): 182-83
Book Review of Elizabeth Sauer et al., Emergent Nation: Early Modern British Literature in Transition, 1660-1714 (Cambridge University Press, 2019), in RES: The Review of English Studies 71.299 (April 2020): 387-99
Book Review of Stephen Bardle, The Literary Underground in the 1660s: Andrew Marvell, George Wither, Ralph Wallis, and the World of Restoration Satire and Pamphleteering (Oxford University Press, 2012), in Andrew Marvell Newsletter 5.1 (Summer 2013)
Book Review of Nigel Smith, Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon (Yale University Press, 2010), in Seventeenth Century News 70.1/2 (Spring/Summer 2012): 20-24
Book Review of Elaine McGirr, Heroic Mode and Political Crisis, 1660-1745 (University of Delaware Press, 2009), in Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture 36.1 (Spring 2012): 63-66