Research Interests

• American Fiction from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century: especially Herman Melville, H. P. Lovecraft, Cormac McCarthy, and Mark Z. Danielewski
• Modern American Poetry and Poetics: esp. Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, H.D., and Susan Howe
• American Music and Sound Studies 
• Modernism and Modernity  
• Popular Culture and Media Studies
• Literary and Cultural Theory
• Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities 
• Intersections of Aesthetics, Politics, and Philosophy: esp. Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Michel Foucault, and François Laruelle