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• Ph.D. Vanderbilt University
• M.A. University of York (UK)
• B.A. University of Chicago

• Hemispheric American literature from 1492 to 1917;
• trans-Atlantic literary exchanges;
• and literature concerning the early US-South.

• ENGL11aPZ: American Literature to 1865
• ENGL013PZ: Science Fiction and 19th-Century America
• ENGL141PZ: Love & Violence in Early America
• ENGL162PZ: Freedom of (and from) Religion in Early American Literature
• ENGL175PZ: Gothic America
• FS044PZ: College Campus Culture in Literature

• Romancing Oppression [under revision at the request of an academic press]
• De-Canonizing the Canon [in preparation]

“Anti-Abolitionism, US-Southern Writers, & the ‘Negatively Capable’ Poet John Keats,” in ELH 92.1 (2025) 119-46. (NOTE: Available in special Open Access Issue, ; Nominated for 1921 Essay Prize, INCSA annual prizes)

“Wealth and Exchange in Early American Literature, 1516-1775,” in Money in American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2025), 25-43.

“Virginia Before Jefferson—Spotlight: William Byrd II,” in The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South (2022), 258-260.

“Nobody’s Gold: Fictionality in Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana (1596),” in EAL 56.3 (2021): 699-731. (Note: Journal editors’ nominee, 1921 Prize for Best Essay in American Literature, 2021).

“N�𱹾�������’s The Isle of Pines (1668) & Defoe’s The True-Born Englishman (1700/01),” Restoration 43.1 (2019): 9-34.

“Absalom, Absalom!” in Literary Geography: an Encyclopedia of Real & Imagined Place Settings (ABC-Clio, 2019), 1-4. (NOTE: Collection 1^st place winner in reference category for Eric Hoffer Award, 2020; Collection named finalist for Evvy Awards by Colorado Independent Publishers association, 2020)

“Thomas Jefferson’s Anglo-Saxon Genesis: A Romance,” Modern Philology 114.3 (2017): 680-701. (Note: Journal editors’ nominee, James Clifford L. Prize for outstanding scholarship in 18th-century literature, 2017).

“Thomas Jefferson’s Ossianic Romance,” Studies in 18th-Century Culture 45 (2016): 19-35.

“William Hazlitt, Liber Amoris, & the Imagination” European Romantic Review 25.6 (2014): 743-56.

“Crafts, Jacobs, and the Functions of British Fiction in African-American Slave Narratives,” ALA Symposium; Santa Fe, NM; October 16-18, 2025

“Wheatley Peters’ ‘To the University of Cambridge,’ & (De-)Sentimentalized Bodies.” online ASECS; March 29, 2025

“How Black African Slavery in the English Caribbean Shapes the Restoration Era in Behn’s Oroonoko,” MLA meeting, New Orleans; January 11, 2025

“T��� Francophobic Face of Poe,” ALA meeting, Chicago, IL; May 23, 2024

“Teaching Jacobs & Child Together,” pedagogy roundtable paper, ALA meeting, Chicago, IL; May 23, 2024

“Trans-Sectionalism, Anti-Abolitionism, and The Western Messenger (1835-1841)’s Relocation from Cincinnati to Louisville,” Interdisciplinary 19th-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH; March 24, 2024

“Old Deb and Claiming Groundlessness in Brown’s Edgar Huntly,” ALA Symposium; Sant Fe, NM; Oct. 27, 2023

“Early American Literature, Money, and Chaotic Value,” SEA Biennial Meeting; College Park, MD; June 10, 2023

“T��� Reconquista, Colonel Jack, & Colonial Romance,” MLA annual conference; San Francisco, CA; January 7, 2023

“Fictionality and Finance,” roundtable presentation, MLA annual conference; San Francisco, CA; January 6, 2023

“Medievalism, Reactionary Intellectualism, and Racial-Capitalist Violence,” Conference on Race and American Medievalism in the US South and Beyond; Tuscaloosa, AL; September 8-10, 2022

“Junk Pedagogies, Insular Radicalism, & America’s Racist Canon,” SAMLA virtual conference; Nov. 4, 2021

“British Romanticism, White Southern Poetry, & the Evil of Banality,” ICR virtual conference; October 14, 2021

“Autopoiesis, Slavery, White Privilege, & the Law in the New Republic,” virtual ASECS; April 9, 2021

“Phillis Wheatley Peters, Thomas Jefferson, & Religious Freedom,” virtual SEA Biennial Meeting; March 7, 2021

“Phillis Wheatley, Trauma, Self-Care, and Social Distance,” virtual SEASECS; February 25, 2021

“Indigenizing Columbia and White Masculinity in the US Long C19,” seminar paper, virtual C19; Oct. 25, 2020

“Tear Down our False Idols: De-Canonizing the Canon,” roundtable presentation, virtual C19; October 23, 2020

“‘Enlightened’ Patriarchy & Maternal Erasure in Royall Tyler’s The Contrast,” ISECS; Edinburgh, UK; July 14, 2019

“How the New Critics Invented John Keats,” Louisville Conference; Louisville, KY; February 21, 2019

“T��� Rise of Fictionality in Ralegh’s Discovery of Guiana.” SCMLA Annual Meeting; San Antonio, TX; Oct. 12, 2018

“T��� Declaration of Independence as Utopia,” SEA Biennial Meeting; Tulsa, OK; March 2, 2017

“Hemispheric America & Paul Muldoon’s Madoc,” Louisville Conference; Louisville, KY; February 19, 2016

“Anti-Colonial Christianity in Robert Southey’s Madoc,” SCMLA Annual Meeting; Nashville, KY; October 15, 2015

“The Isle of Pines and Bastard Utopias,” ASECS; Los Angeles, CA; March 20, 2015

“Poe and the Romance Genre,” International Poe Conference; New York City, NY; February 27, 2015

“Thomas Jefferson and James Macpherson,” ASECS, Williamsburg; March 21, 2014

“Reform, Reformation, and Re-formation in Defoe,” SEASECS Annual Meeting; Knoxville, TN; February 27, 2014

“Thomas Jefferson’s Saxon Genesis,” SEA Biennial Meeting; Savannah, GA; March 2, 2013

“T��� 18th-Century South in Faulkner,” ASECS Annual Meeting; San Antonio, TX; March 22, 2012

“Teresia Constantia Phillips’ Memoir and Fictionality,” SCSECS Annual Meeting; Asheville, NC; February 25, 2012

“Transatlantic Studies,” seminar position paper, NAVSA; Nashville TN; November 5, 2011

“Daniel Defoe & Racial Englishness,” 2nd Biennial Defoe Conference (Worcester, UK) July 16, 2011;

“Daniel Defoe & Racial Englishness,” Bloodwork Conference (College Park, MD); May 6, 2011

“Transatlantic Whiteness in Poe’s Southern Gothic,” NEASECS Annual Meeting; Buffalo, NY; October 23, 2010

“Hazlitt’s Imagination and the State,” First-year PhD Student Symposium, Vanderbilt University; April 3, 2009

“Georg Forster & South Pacific Colonialism,” CECS Postgraduate Forum, University of York (UK); May 13, 2008