Honors Coordinator in English
Co-Director, Honors Major in History and Literature
Education
- PhD, Yale University
- MPhil, University of Oxford
- BA, Harvard University
Research Interests
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Transatlantic Studies
- African American Literature and the Black Atlantic
- Utopian Literary Studies
Publications
Books
- The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies, ed. with Clare Elliott. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
- Atlantic Citizens: Nineteenth-Century American Writers At Work in the World. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
Edited Volumes
- “Boston and the New Atlantic World.” Ed. with Joel Pace. Special issue of Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations 15.1 (2011).
Recent Articles & Book Chapters
- “Emerson’s Transatlantic Networks.” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Mark Long and Sean Ross Meehan, Modern Language Association, 2018, pp. 169-174.
- “Oratory.” Walt Whitman in Context, edited by Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp. 98-107.
- “Crosscurrents of Black Utopianism: Martin R. Delany’s and Frederick Douglass’s Countercultural Atlantic.” The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies, edited by Leslie Elizabeth Eckel and Clare Frances Elliott, Edinburgh University Press, 2016, pp. 131-145.
- "Radical Innocence: Margaret Fuller's Utopian Rome." Transatlantica (2015).
- "Oceanic Mirrors: Atlantic Literature and the Global Chaosmos." Atlantic Studies 11.1 (2014): 128-144.
- "Gender." Ralph Waldo Emerson in Context. Ed. Wesley T. Mott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 188-195.
- "'The test of salt water': New Models for Transatlantic Studies." Co-authored with Joel Pace. Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations 15.1 (2011): 3-16.
- "Longfellow's Dantean Imagination and the Volume of the World." Dante Studies 128 (2010): 149-161.
- "Reading with Wonder: Encounters with Moby-Dick." Common-place 10.2 (2010).
Manuscripts in Preparation
- Dwelling in Possibility: Atlantic Utopias and Countercultures (monograph).
- The Collected Writings of Margaret Fuller, edited with Sonia Di Loreto and Andrew Taylor, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming (8-volume scholarly edition).
- “Emerson, Reluctant Feminist.” The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Christopher Hanlon, Oxford University Press, forthcoming (book chapter).
Film
- Margaret Fuller: Transatlantic Revolutionary. Directed by Jonathan Schwartz, performances by Megan Marshall, Charles Capper, Leslie Eckel, and Katie Kornacki, Risorgimento Productions, 2021.

Contact Me
- 617-994-6436
- [email protected]
- 73 Tremont St., Rm. 8052
Office Hours
- Schedule an Appointment
Tuesday 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Thursday 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Friday 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. by appointment.
Courses Taught
- ENG 155: Young Adult Literature
- ENG 156: Immigrant Stories
- ENG 216: World Literature in English
- ENG 217: American Literature I: Origins to 1865
- ENG 218: American Literature II: 1865 to Present
- ENG 301: Literary Criticism Seminar
- ENG 352: Global American Literature
- ENG 354: Hawthorne, Melville, and Stowe
- ENG 356: Whitman and Dickinson
- ENG 388: Utopias and Dystopias
- ENG 510: Independent Study in English
- ENG H526: American Writers Abroad (Honors Seminar)
- ENG H555: Senior Honors Thesis
- SF 1148: Brave New Worlds
- WGS 111: Women, History, and Culture
- WRI 101: First-Year Writing I
- WRI 102: First-Year Writing II
- WRI H103: Advanced First-Year Writing