Areas of Specialization and Interest:
     Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
     Poetry, Poetics
     Representations of Death
     History of Literary Criticism

Publications:
 Editor, Ritual, Routine, and Regime: Repetition in Early Modern British
     and European Cultures (U of Toronto Press, 2006).

 Co-editor, Historical Boundaries, Narrative Forms: Essays on British Literature in the
      Long Eighteenth Century in Honor of Everett Zimmerman (U of Delaware Press, 2007).

 Editor, Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British Religion,
     Texts, Cultures (in preparation, 2008).

Contributing editor, Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 3rd ed.,
     Vol. 3: 1700-1800, Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2008).

Education:
     Ph.D., English Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994
     M.A., English Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1989
     B.A., Classical Languages, University of California, Berkeley, 1978