School of Writing, Literature, and Film

Eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature and culture; literary and critical theory; globalization; post-humanism and Speculative Realism

Selected Publications:

Monographs:

• Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory (Routledge, 2020)
• Romantic Realities: Speculative Realism and British Romanticism (Edinburgh University Press, 2016)
• Romantic Globalism: British Literature and Modern World Order, 1750-1830 (Ohio State University Press, 2014)
• Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory (Bloomsbury, 2013)
• Feeling British: Sympathy and National Identity in Scottish and English Writing, 1707-1832 (Bucknell University Press, 2007)

Editions and Edited Collections:

• The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett, 2^nd ed. (W.W. Norton, 2015)
• Global Romanticism: Origins, Orientations, Engagements (Bucknell University Press, 2015)
• Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830: From Local to Global, co-edited with Juliet Shields (Ashgate, 2013)
• Approaches to Teaching Scott’s Waverley Novels (MLA, 2010)

I am currently writing a chapter on "Romanticism and Globalization" for the forthcoming Cambridge History of European Romanticism (ed. Patrick Vincent), as well as planning future work on utopian/ dystopian formations and the role of contingency in literature and theory.