Welcome to my professional website. I am Distinguished Research Associate Professor of English at Auburn University Montgomery, where I teach courses in British literature, ecocriticism, affect theory, climate fiction, and the environmental humanities. I hail from Ohio, where I received my PhD from The Ohio State University (that definite article is important), and I taught at Ohio State and Wittenberg University before joining AUM in 2013. I'm author of Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750–1884 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and Amorous Aesthetics: Intellectual Love in Romantic Poetry and Poetics, 1788–1853 (Liverpool University Press, 2019); editor of The Anthropocene: Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities (Routledge, 2021) and Romanticism and Affect Studies (Romantic Circles Praxis Series, 2018); co-editor (with Lisa Ottum) of Wordsworth and the Green Romantics: Affect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century (University of New Hampshire Press, 2016); and co-editor (with Allison Hamilton) of a critical edition of William Delisle Hay's The Doom of the Great City (COVE, 2022). I have published dozens of journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia articles, and book reviews on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, art, and science, and I'm a particularly huge fan of William Wordsworth and Jeff VanderMeer. In addition to my love of literature, I have a deep passion for food and cooking: I regularly teach courses on food and culture, I've eaten my way across much of the United States and Western Europe, and I once came in fourth place at a burger-eating competition.
My current book project is a critical anthology of popular British industrial writing (in-progress). The anthology also highlights relatively unknown texts and authors, and it contains a good deal of original archival research. This project is being funded by a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society and several research grants from Auburn University at Montgomery.
My current book project is a critical anthology of popular British industrial writing (in-progress). The anthology also highlights relatively unknown texts and authors, and it contains a good deal of original archival research. This project is being funded by a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society and several research grants from Auburn University at Montgomery.