- Acting Co-Executive Officer and Professor, English
Research Interests
- Victorian literature and culture
- history and theory of the novel
- print culture and history of the book
- modernist studies and twentieth-century literature
- postcolonial literature and theory
- South Asian studies
Education
- Ph.D., Rutgers University
Office Hours
By appointment
Selected Publications:
- Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere (Cornell UP, 2021)
- Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination: Visible City, Invisible World (Cambridge UP 2011)
- Teaching Literature: A Companion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002 (Edited and introduced with Ann Dean, University of Southern Maine)
- The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad. Guelph, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2009 (New critical edition)
- Special Issue of Victorian Literature and Culture 38: 2 (2010): “Victorian Cosmopolitanisms” (Edited and introduced with Jason Rudy, University of Maryland)
Office Hours
By appointment