Research

Monographs:

Milton’s Ireland: Royalism, Republicanism and the Question of Pluralism. (Cambridge UP, November 2024).

Milton’s Late Poems: Forms of Modernity (Cambridge UP, 2022).

The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English Literary Criticism (Stanford UP, 2008).

From the Temple to the Castle: An Architectural History of English Literature, 1660-1760 (UP of Virginia, 1999).

Textbook:

“Restoration and Eighteenth Century,” English Literature in Context, Paul Poplawski, ed. (New York: Cambridge UP, 2008; revised, second edition, 2017), 211-305.

Anthologies:

Blackwell Encyclopedia of British Literature, 1660-1789. Associate editor. Jack Lynch and Gary Day, General Editors. 3 vols. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2015).

Debating the Canon: A Reader, from Addison to Nafisi. (New York: Palgrave, 2005).

The Kitchen Turns Twenty: A Retrospective Anthology. (New York: The Kitchen, 1992).

Articles:

“From Ireland to Barbados: architecture of extraction in British colonies.” In Architecture and Extraction in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850. Luis Gordo Palaez and Paul O’Neill, eds. (Routledge, 2024), 91-105.

“Periodizing in Context: The Case of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.” Studying English Literature in Context. (Cambridge University Press, 2022), 151-166.

“Literacy: A Literary History.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Oxford University Press. Article published March 2020. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1029.

“‘A Secular Bird Ages’: Samson Agonistes and Modernity.” Milton’s Modernities, ed. Feisel G. Mohamed and Patrick Fadely. (Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2017), 259-277.

“Milton, Modernity, and Periodization of Politics.” Modern Language Quarterly. September 2017. (78.3), 301-319.

“Transplanting English Plantations in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko.” Global South. Special issue on “Plantation Modernity.” 10.2. (Fall 2016), 11-26.

“‘Behold this Creature’s form and State’: Katherine Philips prefiguring the Ascendancy in Ireland.” Women’s Writing. 24.3. (2017), 298-312. Reprinted in Katherine Philips: Form, Reception, and Literary Contexts, Marie-Louise Coolahan and Gillian Wright, eds. (Routledge, 2018).

“Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Atlantic Archipelago.” Shakespeare, the Journal of the British Shakespeare Association. 12.4. 364-374.

“Palladianism and the Villa Ideal in the New World: The Perils of Classical Purity.” Building the British Atlantic World, Daniel Maudlin, ed. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2016), 269-289. Winner of the 2016 Allen G. Noble prize from the International Society for Landscape, Place, and Materials Culture.

“Journalism,” in Samuel Johnson in Context, Jack Lynch, ed. (New York: Cambridge UP, 2011), 216-224.

“Toward an Archaeology of the First Amendment’s Free Speech Protection,” in Freedom of Speech: The History of an Idea, Elizabeth Powers, ed. (Bucknell UP, 2011), 179-202.

“Literature and the Post-Secular: Paradise Lost?,” Religion and Literature, 41.3 (Autumn 2009), 98-105. Invited contribution to special forum on “Locating the Postsecular.”

“‘Charity,’ Social Control, and the History of English Literary Criticism,” Print and Power in France and England from 1500 to 1800, David Adams and Adrian Armstrong, eds. (London: Ashgate Press, 2006), 53-68.

“Re-reading Reading in Eighteenth-Century Literary Criticism,” College Literature. 31.3 (Summer 2004), 157-178.

“Eve’s Otherness and the New Ethical Criticism.” New Literary History. 32.2 (Spring, 2001), 327-345.

“Derrida’s ‘Nostalgeria’: A Post-Colonial Reading of ‘Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences’,” Postmodern Culture. (January 1999); online.

–. Reprinted in Historicizing Theory, ed. Peter Herman. (Albany: SUNY Press, 2003), 99-112.

“‘Approach and read the stone’: Toward an Archaeology of Gray’s Elegy.” The Age of Johnson. 9 (1999), 295-321.

“Toward a Rhetoric of Architecture,” Legacy and Aspirations: Considering the Future of Architectural Education. Proceedings of the 87^th Annual Meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. (1999), 357-359.

“Sexuality and Consumer Culture in Early Eighteenth-Century England: ‘Mutual Love from Pole to Pole’ in Lillo’s London Merchant.” Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theater Research. 2nd ser. 13.1 (Summer 1998), 25-40.

“‘Affectedly Unaffected’: Eighteenth-Century Architectural Follies and Walpole’s Castle of Otranto.” Bucknell Review. 41.2 (1998), 86-99.

“Robinson Crusoe and the South Sea Trade: 1710-1720,” in Money: Lure, Lore, and Literature. Ed. John DiGaetani. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994), 209-215.

Interviews and Invited Essays:

“Comedy is the Great Consolation: An Interview with Kevin Barry.” South Carolina Review. (51.1) Fall 2018. 110-118.

“Blowback,” Volo: Mensile Indipendente, 2.5 (September 2001), 6-7.

“Wasting the land: Homelessness, Modernity, and America.” Plurimondi: An International Forum for Research and Debate on Human Settlements. (Bilingual Italian-English journal). 3 (January-June, 2000), 47-54.