I teach and study American and African American literature, with a particular interest in the history of education, cultural administration, and print capitalism.
I've written about secret societies in Progressive Era literature, the history of college football, disgust as a literary and pedagogical feeling, and fictional scenes where characters are self-consciously not reading. My work has appeared in New Literary History, Novel, Modern Language Quarterly, Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, n+1 online, and McSweeney's online, and my first book, Schools of Fiction, was published in 2023 by Oxford University Press. I am currently writing a global history of the novella titled Notes on the Novella, under advanced contract with Princeton University Press. It's made up of thirty "notes" on thirty different novellas, from writers such as Boccaccio, Cervantes, de Zayas, Eliot, James, Larsen, Fuentes, Pynchon, Delany, Spark, Lispector, Morrison, and Ferrante.
American literature, African American literature, Nineteenth Century to the Present
