Professor
Publications
Books
 | Old Canaan in a New World: The Hebraic Indian Theory, NYU Press, 2020 |
 | Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon (editor, Oxford University Press, 2019) |
 | Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). |
Articles
| “Indeliberate Democracy: The Politics of Religious Conversion in Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive.” | Early American Literature 51.1 (2016): 71-100 |
| “Open Canons: Sacred History and American History in The Book of Mormon.” | J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 1.2 (Fall 2013), 339-61 |
| “The Secularization Narrative and Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” | A Companion to American Literature, Robert S. Levine and Caroline Levander, eds. (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2011), 61-76 |
| “Whitman, Lincoln and the Union of Men,” with Valerie Rohy | ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 55.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2009), 237-67 |
| “Birth of a Protestant Nation: Catholic Canadians, Religious Pluralism, and National Unity in the Early U.S. Republic.” | Early American Literature 41.1 (March 2006), 29-57 |
Areas of Expertise and/or Research
Early American literature
Education
- Ph.D. Rice University, 2006
Contact
Email:
Office Location:
329 Old Mill
Office Hours:
By Appointment Only
Courses Taught
- Literature of Colonial Encounter
- The Early U.S. Novel
- 19th Century American Poetry
- Innocence Abroad: Mark Twain's America
- Critical Approaches to Literature