Interests
British and Global Anglophone Literature
Contemporary Art and Writing
Modernism and its Legacies
Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the State
Poetry and Poetics
Critical Theory
Recent Classes
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Fall 2007
Engl 543: Contemporary British Fiction & Transnational Method
Engl 396: English Avant-Gardes
Spring 2007 (Cornell University)
SHUM 420: Culture, Sovereignty, the State
Spring 2006
Engl 543: Modernism & the Idea of the Vernacular
Engl 242: After Modernism: Poetry in Britain Since 1922
Fall 2005
Engl 442: British Writing Since 1930
Engl 201: Critical Approaches to Literature
Spring 2005
Engl 461: Empire and Postcolony in British Fiction, 1901-93
Engl 199: American Poetry & Experimental Language
Fall 2004
Engl 442: Late Britain
Engl 242: Legacies of the Transatlantic Avant-Garde
Recent and Forthcoming Publications
"Shrinking Empire: Regionalism in English Fiction," forthcoming in R. Caserio, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the 20th Century English Novel (Cambridge U. P., 2008).
"Nationalist Internationalism: A Diptych in Modernism and Revolution," forthcoming in JML 31/1 (January 2008)
"All The Downtown Tories: The British Memorial Garden, September 11, and English Grief," in G. MacPhee & P. Poddar, eds., Empire and After (Berghahn Books, 2007). 183-201.
"Tradition and the Postcolonial Talent: T. S. Eliot vs. E. K. Brathwaite," in E. Daumer & S. Bagchee, eds., The International Reception of T. S. Eliot (Continuum, Spring 2007). 5-24.
"Visible Poet: T.S. Eliot and Modernist Studies," American Literary History 19/1 (Winter, 2006): 174-89 [link via Project Muse]
"An Interview with David Peace," Special issue on "Immigrant Fictions: Contemporary Literature in an Age of Globalization," Contemporary Literature 47/4 (Winter 2006): 546-68. [Muse]
"The Cartographic Uncanny," Layla Curtis (Locus+ 2006): 43-47
"The Measure of All That Has Been Lost: Christopher Hitchens, George Orwell, and the Price of Political Relevance" Postmodern Culture 13/3 (July 2003) [Muse]
"Solvent Abuse: Irvine Welsh and Scotland" Postmodern Culture 12/2 (December 2002) [Muse]
Book Projects
Nations of Nothing But Poetry: Modernism, Vernacular Discourse, and the State (completion 2007)
Ed. with Jim Hansen, Contemporary Literature and the State, a Special Issue of Contemporary Literature 49/4 (Winter 2008)
Late Britain: Millennial Narratives (completion ca. 2010-11)
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