Professor
Teaching and Research Interests
- Eighteenth-century literature
- Intellectual history
- Aesthetics
- Composition pedagogy
Selected Publications
- Prince New Beginning Writing
- Philosophical Dialogue in the English Enlightenment (1996)
- “Editing Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks,” Essays in Criticism 54 (2004)
- “Mauvais Genres,” New Literary History 34 (2003)
- “Heidegger’s Turn to Poetry and the Paradox of Overcoming,” Fulcrum 2 (2003)
- “The Eighteenth-Century Beauty Contest,” Modern Language Quarterly 55 (1994)
- “Literacy and Genre,” College English 51 (1989)
- Mimetic Virtue: On Shaftesbury’s Moral Sense (2010)
Work in Progress
- A history of rhetoric during the eighteenth century; essays on the novel, and composition pedagogy
Honors, Grants, and Awards
Selected Works
