My research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary and intellectual history, with comparative interests in poetics, fin-de-siècle literature, the aestheticist movement, early phenomenology, hermeneutics, and the history of psychology. My essays on Walter Pater and Gerard Manley Hopkins appear in ELH and New Literary History, where I received the Ralph Cohen Prize for 2019. Forthcoming works include an edited anthology, Mind and Embodiment in Late Victorian Literature (Edinburgh University Press, coedited with Marion Thain) and a chapter on close reading, attention, and the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Additional research interests include twentieth-century Hungarian poetry and fiction, critical theory and the neo-Kantian movement, and literary critiques of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Starting in Fall 2022, I will be an Assistant Professor of English at Bilkent University.

Updated CV

Mind and Embodiment in Late Victorian Literature, coeditor with Marion Thain, Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming).

“‘The Keener Touch’: Walter Pater and the Hermeneutic Scene of Contact.” ELH 89, no. 1 (Spring 2022), 185-213.

“The Grammar of Instress: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Philosophers of Mind.” New Literary History 50, no. 3 (Summer 2020): 501-522. Winner of Ralph Cohen Prize.

“Can the Vampire Speak? Dracula as Discourse on Cultural Extinction.” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 56, no. 2 (2013): 231-245.

Translations from Miklós Radnóti. Metamorphoses: A Journal of Literary Translation 11, no. 2 (2013): 120-123.