- Professor, English
- Professor, Comparative Literature
- Professor, Global Early Modern Studies
Research Interests
- Early modern literature and history
- Elizabethan/Jacobean print culture and the emergence of authorship
- Renaissance language theory
- 17th-century religious lyric
- early modern trans-Atlanticism
- history of criticism
Education
- Ph.D., Columbia University
Selected Publications:
- The Place of Literature: Ben Jonson and the Politics of Land in Early Modern England: book on Ben Jonson's country house poems in relation to national, local, and family identity, 1580-1615 (in progress).
- "Erich Auerbach's Philological Analysis of European Literary History and the Inter-War Cultural Politics of Pauline Theology" (article in progress).
- Authorizing Words: Speech, Writing, and Print in the English Renaissance, Cornell University Press, 1989.
- "Re-organizing the Encyclopedia: Vices and Ramus on Medieval Aristotelianism," in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Vol III: Renaissance to Late Seventeenth Century. Ed. Glyn P. Norton, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
- "George Herbert's Hieroglyphic Poems and the Materiality of Language: A New Approach to Renaissance Hieroglyphics." ELH, 50 (1983), 245-60.