Professor of English
Research Areas: British Romanticism; detective and crime fiction; history of science; socioeconomic and gift theory
Selected Publications:
Lyrical Empiricism, on crime fiction and dramatic monologue (forthcoming)
Editor of Studies in Romanticism
Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013)
With Lee Horsley, eds. A Companion to Crime Fiction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
Detective Fiction (Polity, 2005)
For a detailed academic bio and CV, please see Professor Rzepka’s Department Profile.