Staff profile

• My disciplinary home ground is in the literatures and cultures of the period loosely covered by "Restoration and Eighteenth-Century", with a wide variety of methodologies. I'm interested in book history and manuscript studies, digital humanities, and critical theory. My first book, "Literary Authority: an Eighteenth-Century Genealogy" (Stanford UP, 2023), look at literary cultures with opposing reactions to the Revolution of 1688 and argued that Alexander Pope in particular found in them sets of rhetorical and metaphorical structures ready-made to confer literary authority; I closed by showing how Samuel Johnson's key engagement was with the figure of Pope as literary exemplum.