Northern Illinois University
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Professional Interests

I have published in various formats on the history and theory of literary study, including essays, reviews, bibliographies, translations and entries in reference works. I also have strong interests in philosophy (especially the philosophy of language) and in classics (especially the history of the classical tradition). As a generalist by vocation, after a few drinks I will admit that my central interest is in literature as a whole.

Selected Publications

• “Shklovsky and Narrative Theory.” Viktor Shklovsky’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy. Ed. Slav Gratchev and Howard Mancing. Lexington Books, 2019. 65-78. 

• Co-editor (with Michelle Zerba). Norton Critical Edition of the Poetics of Aristotle. Norton, 2018. 

• “Russian Formalism.” The Blackwell Companion to Literary Theory. Ed. David H. Richter. Wiley, 2018. 37-47. 

• Coeditor (with Kenneth Womack), special issue of Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 19.2 (2017): Cultivating Humanity: The Literary and Moral Thought of Martha Nussbaum. 

• “Ideology in Light of the Theory of Meaning.” Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions. Ed. Sanja Bahun and Dušan Radunovic. Ashgate P, 2012. 59-74. 

• "The Future of Literary Study: An Experiment in Guesswork." Modern Literature Quarterly 72.1 (2011): 1-18.