Areas of Expertise:
- poetry and poetics, including ecopoetics
- early modern English literature and history, history of ideas
- Emily Dickinson and her contexts
- cognitive literary studies
My research and teaching focus on poetry and poetics, early modern culture, literature and the natural world, history of ideas, and the intersections of these fields with cognitive science.
I have published articles on Shakespeare, Spenser, Daniel, Mary Sidney Herbert and Milton, exploring ways poems not only represent thought, memory, anticipation, anxiety, knowledge and pleasure but also provoke or intervene in these (in the brains/bodies of readers and writers).
My recent research centers on Emily Dickinson’s experiments with Shakespeare, and her experiments environmentally situating the human.
My current research engages poetry and poetics, literary history, ecocritism and cognitive literary studies.
