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Teaching and Research Interests: Victorian poetry, nineteenth-century British literature and culture, theory and history of the novel, narrative, history of science and technology.
Selected Publications: “Hardy's Stargazers and the Astronomy of Other Minds.” Victorian Studies, Vol. 51: No. 1. Autumn 2008; “Hardy's Cliffhanger and Narrative Time.” English Language Notes. 46.1 (Spring/Summer 2008). “‘The Globe we groan in’: Astronomical Distance and Stellar Decay in In Memoriam.” Victorian Poetry. Special Issue on Science and Victorian Poetry. 41 (2003).
Work in Progress:  The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century British Literature.
Honors/Grants/Awards: John Clive Teaching Prize (2007); Harvard Society of Fellows Junior Fellowship (2004-2007); Bowdoin Prize (2004); Walter L. Arnstein Prize (2004); Certificates of Distinction in Teaching (2001, 2002, 2006); Packard Fellowship (2002); Merit Fellowship (2001); Arthur Lehman Scholarship (2001); Ralph Paine Memorial Prize (1993); Edward Thompkins McLaughlin Scholarship (1992).