Academic & Nonfiction

I’m associate professor of English at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My research interests include Romantic literature, literature and medicine, poetry and poetics, and speculative fiction. My monograph, The Poetics of Palliation: Romantic Literary Therapy, 1790–1850, appeared from Liverpool University Press in 2019.

Academic CV

Public nonfiction:

“9 Historical Novels by 20th-Century Queer Writers.” Electric Literature, September 2023.

“The Corrosive Sublime.” The Rambling. April, 2023.

“Steven Universe Future: Camp Redemption.” Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction. Ed. Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes, and Gerry Canavan. MIT Press. November 2022.

“Sensation and Immortality.” Blog post, coauthored with Kathleen Beres Rogers. Keats Letters Project (keatslettersproject.com). January 4, 2019.

Selected academic articles available online:

“Health Humanities and British Romanticism.” Literature Compass (3 September 2021)

“A Radical Causation: Coleridge’s Lyrics and Collective Guilt.” Romanticism 23.1 (2017)

“Steven Universe.” Review. Science Fiction Film and Television 9.3 (2016).

“‘In sickness not ignoble’: Soul-making and the Pains of Identity in the Hyperion Poems.” Studies in Romanticism 54.3 (2015)

“‘Soothing Thoughts’: Romantic Palliative Care and the Poetics of Relief.” European Romantic Review 23.3 (2012)

“‘A Variety of Tastes’: The Lancet in the Early-Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press.” The Bulletin of the History of Medicine 85.4 (2011)