Research Interests: Poetry and poetics, ancient, medieval and modern; textual scholarship; the Indigenous Americas, pre-colonial and post-colonial; colonialism and the cultures of decolonization; textual scholarship; the Cold War; the Beats, New American poetry, and African-American culture in local and international contexts; literatures and cultures of the Middle East and the Balkans; medieval studies; translation.
Specialization: African American Literature and Literary Theory|Literature after 1945|Medieval Literature|Poetics and Aesthetic Theory|Postcolonial, Transnational, and Global Literature and Theory