Current research includes a book-length study of the emergence of the English and French literary publics in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, in comparison with other historical formations of literary culture.
Another substantial research project is a study of the fate of nationalism in the twenty-first century, including case studies of Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Education
BA Yale University, 1983
PhD Johns Hopkins University, 1993
Research and teaching interests
Renaissance literature
Shakespeare
History of the literary public in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Nationalism and the development of national literatures
Literary biography and life writing
Fairy and folk tales; the history of fantasy
Texas cultural history
Grants / Research projects
