I teach and study American and African American literature, with a particular interest in the history of education, cultural administration, and print capitalism.
I've written about secret societies in Progressive Era literature, the history of college football, disgust as a literary and pedagogical feeling, and fictional scenes where characters are self-consciously not reading. My work has appeared in New Literary History, Novel, Modern Language Quarterly, Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, n+1 online, and McSweeney's online, and I have a book, Schools of Fiction, from Oxford University Press. I am currently writing a global history of the novella that spans seven(ish) centuries.
American literature, African American literature, Nineteenth Century to the Present
