My research focuses on Romanticism and late-enlightenment literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on poetry and poetics. I am especially interested theories of the earth, ranging from theological discourse in the Restoration to the then-emergent science of geology during the Romantic era, as well as in the notion of "environment" as conceived through aesthetics and philosophy of mind over the long eighteenth century. I have written most recently on William Blake and John Clare, and am researching the Scottish poet James Thomson. That said, my interests range widely, vectoring into seventeenth-century natural philosophy (especially Bacon and Locke) and nineteenth-century evolutionary thought, as well as critical theory. I am also a poet, and read widely in twentieth and twenty-first century poetry.
Selected Publications
Books and Chapbooks
Winter, Glossolalia. (Image-text pamphlet.) London: Black Spring Press Group, 2022.
The Milk Hours. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2019. Selected by Henri Cole for the 2018 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize.
Chthonic. Missoula, MT: CutBank Books, 2015. Winner of 2014 CutBank Chapbook Prize.
Articles
“Blake’s Debt: Artisanship and the Future of Labor.” Literature Compass 19.3-4 (2022): 1-15.
"Soot Moth: Biston Betularia and the Victorian End of Nature." (co-written with Nathan K. Hensley.) BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History. 2018. Web.
Poems (Selected)
"Into the Green" and "The Problem of the Real," Bennington Review, Issue 10, Spring 2023.
"Echo of Origin," Poem-a-Day, Academy of American Poets, November 2022.
"The Delusion of Being Absolute," Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Spring 2021. (Winner of 2020 Winter Poetry Contest. Republished at Poets.org.)
"Nin," PEN Poetry Series, December 2019.
“Catalogue Beginning with a Line by Plato,” Western Humanities Review, 2018.
“At Assateague,” “End,” and “Le Moribond,” Missouri Review, Fall 2018.
“Metamorphoses,” Boston Review, March 2018.
“Poem for the Nation, 2016,” Poetry Northwest, Spring 2018.
“History (n.),” The Kenyon Review, Sept./Oct. 2016. (Reprinted in Best American Poetry 2017.)
“Klee’s Painting,” West Branch, Spring 2016.
