Biography
My teaching and research are guided by two central interests: the culture of translation, imitation, and rewriting that flourished in England during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; and the shifting significances of literary forms over time.
I teach Poetry and Poetics, Touchstones I: Early British Literature, Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Milton, Alexander Pope, Restoration Literature, and Georgic and Pastoral (Environmental Studies), and am always interested in advising senior theses and capstones, as well as in supporting student research associateships and summer research projects.
BOOK
Cultivating Peace: The Virgilian Georgic in English, 1650–1750 (Bucknell University
Press, 2019).
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“‘I Had Not the Honour to Be Born in England’: Armstrong, Wilkes, and The Muncher’s
and Guzler’s Diary,” Eighteenth-Century Life 49.1 (2025): 1–26.
“Anne Finch on the Patio: A Scholarly Eat and Greet,” Pedagogy Special Issue,
“Teaching the Works of Anne Finch, Part II,” ABO: Interactive Journal for
Women in the Arts, 1640–1830 14.1 (2024).
“Elizabeth Rivers and Christopher Smart: Eighteenth-Century Poetry Across Time and
Form.” In Literature and the Arts in an Age of Self-Scrutiny: Essays on the Long Eighteenth Century in Memory of James Anderson Winn, ed. Anna Battigelli (University of Delaware Press, 2023).
“‘Varieties too regular for chance’: John Evelyn, John Dryden, and their
contemporaries.” In A History of English Georgic Writing, ed. Paddy Bullard (Cambridge UP, 2022).
“Milton’s Unpeaceful Ode.” Philological Quarterly 98.4 (2019): 343–361.
“The Sword, the Scythe, and the ‘Arts of Peace’ in Dryden’s Georgics.” Translation and
Literature 23.1 (2014): 23–41.
“The Triplets of Granada: Dryden’s Heroic Versification.” Restoration: Studies in
English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 36.2 (2012): 41–57.
ESSAYS, REVIEWS, AND OTHER WRITING
Review essay, Reading Time in the Long Poem: Milton, Thomson and Wordsworth by
Tess Somervell (Edinburgh UP, 2022), and Writing the Poetry of Place in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Elizabeth Napier (Routledge, 2023), forthcoming in Eighteenth-Century Life.
The Cambridge Companion to the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, ed.
Jennifer Keith et al, 2 vols, Cambridge UP 2019 and 2021, ABO: Interactive
Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830 14.1 (2024).
Reports of Cases in the Court of Chancery in the Time of Queen Anne (1702–1714), ed.
W.H. Bryson (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Press, 2021), History: Reviews of New Books 52.1 (2024).
Futures of Enlightenment Poetry, by Dustin D. Stewart (Oxford University Press, 2020),
The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 55.1–2 (2022).
Besieged: Early Modern British Siege Literature, 1642–1722, by Sharon Alker and Holly
Faith Nelson (McGill-Queens UP, 2021), Journal of British Studies 61.2 (2022).
Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque, by
Cynthia Wall (Chicago, 2019), The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 54.1–2 (2021):
200–202.
“Drink less, exercise more and take in the air—sage advice on pandemic living from a
long-forgotten—and very long—18th-century poem,” The Conversation, 30 August 2021; reprinted in several U.S. newspapers via AP wire.
Commissioned interview with Paula Backscheider (Auburn University), Eighteenth
Century Studies 53.1 (2019): 13–19.
Charles I: King and Collector, by David Ekserdjian et. al (Exhibition Catalogue, Royal
Academy of Arts, London 2018), Interfaces 42 (2019).
Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne (Oxford, 2017), by Joseph
Hone, Eighteenth-Century Studies 52.1 (Fall 2018).
Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640-1816 (Palgrave, 2013), by Jane Darcy,
Romanticism 24.3 (October 2018).
Multilingual Subjects: On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long
Eighteenth Century (University of Pennsylvania, 2017), by Daniel DeWispelare, Studies in Romanticism 57.4 (Winter 2018).
“The Ode: To Praise and to Meditate.” Major Genres, Forms, and Media in British
Literature. Ed. Kirilka Stavreva. (Gale, 2017). Gale Researcher, 4000 words.