I have published two books about Samuel Johnson and am general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock (the first two volumes appeared in 2016; the next two will appear in 2021) as well as volume editor of his penultimate novel, Crotchet Castle (1831). In 2017, Kathryn Sutherland and I published a newly edited and annotated text of Jane Austen’s Teenage Writings for the Oxford World’s Classics series. My next book, Jane Austen, Early and Late, will be published by Princeton University Press in 2021.
Other research interests include Pope, Swift, epic and mock-epic, Fielding, Hazlitt, Dickens, German literature (especially Kafka), prose style, fiction, and practical criticism.
- Undergraduate: Introduction to Literary Studies; seventeenth- to nineteenth-century period papers; various special authors and special topics.
- Graduate: MSt in English, 1700-1830.
