I am an Assistant Professor of Literature at Bard College. Prior to this, I was Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University. My work is principally about 19th-century British literature, intellectual history, and the history of science, and I maintain broad interests in British literature from the 18th century through the early 20th. I'm also interested in the literature of South Africa (and transnational Anglophone writing more generally), especially with respect to issues in animal ethics and the ecological humanities. 

Recently, I co-organized Logic and Literary Form, a two-day interdisciplinary conference that took place at the University of California, Berkeley (details here). Essays from this conference have been commissioned for a special issue of Poetics Today (2020), to be edited and introduced by Jeffrey Blevins and myself.