Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Romantic and Victorian Literature
Areas of Interest
- Romanticism
- Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
- Cultural History and Contemporary Theory
- Jewish Studies
Selected Publications
Singing in a Foreign Land: Anglo-Jewish Poetry 1812-1847 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
Imageless Truths: Shelley’s Poetic Fictions (University of Pennsylvania Press).
Editor, The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy (Oxford University Press, 2011).
“Memory and the Exigencies of Literary Form: Anthony Hecht’s ‘The Book of Yolek.’” Studies in American Jewish Literature. 42.1 (2023): 55-69.
"Shelley and Lyric," in The Cambridge Companion to Percy Bysshe Shelley (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
“Anglo-Jewish Romantic Poetry,” in The Blackwell Companion to British Romantic Poetry (Oxford: Blackwell, 2011)
“Mourning, Translation, Pastoral: Hyman Hurwitz and Literary Authority,” in A Convergence of Cultures (Ashgate, 2011).
"“Anglo-Jewish Culture and the Condition of England: the Poetry of Marion and Celia Moss.” BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. 2013. Web.
Articles concerning such issues as Michael Chabon and narrative form (in The Yale Review), Romanticism and legal discourse (in European Romantic Review), the canon debates (in Salmagundi), contemporary poetry and Romantic epic (in Modern Language Quarterly), Amy Clampitt and Keats (in Criticism), William Collins and elegy (in Style), Amy Levy and poetic forms (in Criticism); Charlotte Smith (in The Wordsworth Circle), and various others.
Current Research
Romanticism and Memory.