Academic Appointments
Willamette University
Mark and Melody Teppola Presidential Distinguished Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of English, January 2026—
University of California, Berkeley
Lecturer, Departments of English and Comparative Literature, 2022—2025
Mount Tamalpais College (Prison University Project)
Instructor, 2021-2023
Education
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, English Literature, 2021
Thesis: “Feeling History: Poetry and the Rise of the Human Sciences”
Committee: Mary Favret (chair); Jared Hickman, Christopher Cannon
M.A., Claremont Graduate University, English, 2013
B.A., University of Arizona, English and Creative Writing, 2010
Publications
Monograph
The Historical Poem: On the Lives and Afterlives of Romantic Literary Criticism (Stanford University Press, 2026)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Children of Allegory: Interpretation and Colonial Rule in Early British India,” Modern Philology 123.2 (November 2025): 178-199.
“The Romance of Criticism,” New Literary History 52.1 (Winter 2021): 1-26
“Proust, Sartre, and the Idea of Love,” Philosophy and Literature 37.2 (2013): 389-404
Works in Progress
“Settler Hermeneutics,” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. Special issue, “Land as Method” (Forthcoming).
“Reading Polly with Stan Douglas (or, Photography as Literary Criticism)”
Modern Archaism: Media and the Performance of History
Book Reviews and Other Essays
“Derek Jarman’s Archaism,” Los Angeles Review of Books (forthcoming).
Review, New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life (Fordham University Press, 2024) by Christopher Rovee. Review19 (2025, online).
Review, Modernist Fiction and Vagueness (Cambridge University Press, 2014), by Megan Quigley. Modern Language Notes 130.5 (2015): 1255-1258.
Fellowships and Awards
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, Research Fellowship, 2019-2020
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 2019
Dean’s Teaching Prize, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 2021 (declined)
Gilman Fellowship for Graduate Study, Johns Hopkins University, 2017-2018
Owen Fellowship for Graduate Study, Johns Hopkins University, 2013-2017
Sensorium of Reading Faculty Seminar, Coordinator, Johns Hopkins University, 2018-2021
Tudor and Stuart Lecture Series, Coordinator, Johns Hopkins University, 2016-2017
Teaching
University of California, Berkeley
Race, Gender, Enlightenment, English 100, Spring 2025
Inventing Romanticism, English 190, Fall 2024
Genres of Empire, English 100, Fall 2024
Archaism in Literature and Philosophy, English 100, Spring 2024
Romanticism and the British New Left, English 100, Fall 2023
Uneven Enlightenment, English 90, Spring 2023
Romanticism and the World at War, English Reading and Composition (R&C), Spring 2023
Romance as Colonial History, English 100, Fall 2022
Genres of Empire, Comparative Literature R&C, Spring 2022
Mount Tamalpais College (Prison University Project)
Poetry, Politics, and Society, Fall 2021
What is Poetry? Summer 2021
Johns Hopkins University
Literature in the Age of Revolution, 1780-1830, Spring 2021, English Dept. (400 Level)
The Scientific Imagination: Literature & Science in the Age of Romanticism, Fall 2019, English Dept., Cross-Listed with History of Science and Medicine (400 Level)
How to Read Poetry, Summer 2020, AGHI Public Humanities “Blast Course” Program (Public)
Romanticism, the Strange, and the Otherworldly, Spring 2018, Expository Writing Program (EWP)
Romanticism, the Strange, and the Otherworldly, EWP (100/200 Level)
James Joyce’s Dubliners, Spring 2017, EWP (100/200 Level)
James Joyce’s Dubliners, Fall 2016, EWP (100/200 Level)
American Literature to 1865, Teaching Assistant to Prof. Jared Hickman, Fall 2020
British Literature I: Chaucer to Pope, Teaching Assistant to Prof. Drew Daniel, Spring 2016
The Novel and Globalization, Teaching Assistant to Prof. Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Fall 2015
Conferences and Lectures
“Settler Hermeneutics.” American Society for the Study of the Eighteenth Century, Virtual, April 2025.
“The Grounds of Literary History.” American Society for the Study of the Eighteenth Century, Montreal, April 2024.
“Invisible Worlds: India and European Criticism circa 1800.” New Eyes on the 18th Century XII, Mahindra Center, Harvard University, March 2022.
“Allegories of India: Romantic Historicism and the Critical Present.” Modern Language Association Conference, January 2022.
“Allegory and Orientalism in British India.” American Comparative Literature Association, Virtual Conference, April 2021.
“Settler Colonialism as Eschatological Condition of Meaning-Making.” Moderator. Scripture and Literature in the Nineteenth Century United States. The Johns Hopkins University, March 2020.
“Toward New Theories and History of Romance.” Co-Organizer with J. Hickman. American Comparative Literature Association, Georgetown University, March 2019
“Indigenous Loss: Perspectivism and the Poetics of Romance.” American Comparative Literature Association, Georgetown University, March 2019
“Romanticism in Perspective.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Brown University, August 2018
“Modern Variations on Hölderlinian Themes.” Panel Organizer, Moderator. Harmonisch Entgegengesetzt: Hölderlin’s Philosophy of Nature. The Johns Hopkins University, March 2017
“Feeling Modern: History, Realism, and Politics in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room.” American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, March 2016
“Decolonizing Literature: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea.”
Johns Hopkins University, Invited Lecture for “The Novel and Globalization” (Prof. Jeanne-Marie Jackson), October 2015
“Sartre, Fanon, and the Literature of ‘Commitment.’”
Harvey Mudd College, Invited Lecture for “Third Cinema” (Prof. Isabelle Balsiero), December 2012
“What is Decolonization? Literature and Film in 1960s Africa.”
Harvey Mudd College, Invited Lecture for “Third Cinema” (Prof. Isabelle Balsiero), October 2012
“The War Poets and David Jones’s In Parenthesis.”
City University of New York, Graduate Center. In-Trans Graduate Conference, November 2012