Biography

Teaching and Research Interests
Twentieth-Century American, Lyric Poetry, Recent Canadian poetry, the values of Marianne Moore.

Degrees
B.A. (Duke), Ph.D. (Harvard)

Publications:

Ashbery’s Forms of Attention (University of Alabama Press)
Co-editor, The Anthology of Rap (Yale UP)
Co-editor, Close Reading: The Reader (Duke UP)

Recent essays
“The Ironic Style of Sacvan Bercovitch,” in The Turn Around Religion in America (Ashgate)
“Melvillean Provocation and the Critical Art of Devotion,” in Melville and Aesthetics (Palgrave)
“The Trick’s Sick Songs,” in Frank Lentricchia: Essays on His Works (Guernica)

Articles and poems in Africana, American Literary History, Cambridge History of American Literature, Explosive, Harvard Review, The Lights Are Out, South Atlantic Quarterly, and University of Toronto Quarterly.