Education

Ph.D., English, University of Pennsylvania, 2023
MSt., English 1900-Present, University of Oxford, 2016
BA, English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, 2015

Areas of Specialization

Victorian Studies
Modernism
Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Gender and Sexuality Studies
World-Systems Theory

Recently Taught Courses

Genre Wars
Realism

Research Statement

I work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, with special interests in the history and theory of the novel, postcolonial literature and theory, and the British New Left. My first book project investigates the literary history of class antagonism and empire in modern Britain. Connecting problems of form and genre to debates about social history, I aspire to explain how various literary techniques register a set of realignments in the class structure of Britain—and in the vocabularies of manhood and brotherhood—in the Age of Empire.

Selected Publications

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

• “George Gissing Goes Out in Style: The Syntax of Class after 1890,” MLQ 84:3 (Sept. 2023): 323-346.
• “Affective Fictions: George Saunders and the Wonderful-Sounding Words of Neoliberalism,” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 59:2 (2018): 127-141

Selected Reviews

• George Ciccariello-Maher, Decolonizing Dialectics, Journal of American Studies 53:3 (Aug 2019)
• Review Essay on Ludovico Silva’s Marx’s Literary Style, Chicago Review, 67: 2/3/4 (2024): 349-353

Recent Presentations and Panels

• “The Country, The City, and The Suburb,” Panel Organizer w. Hannah LeClair, NeMLA, Mar. 2025
• “The Peculiarities of E. P. Thompson’s Verse,” MLA, Jan. 2024.
•  “James Robertson’s Hoggish Testament,” MLA, Jan. 2024.
•  “Baleful Dependencies: Reconstructing the Lancashire Cotton Famine in Jessie Fothergill’s Probation,” North American Victorian Studies Association, Nov. 2023.
•  “Ethel Carnie’s Working-Class Apostrophe,” British Women Writers Conference, May 2023.
•  “Unimaginable Communities: Cotton, Sympathy, and the Condition of Empire,” Work in Progress, University of Chicago, Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century Atlantic Cultures Group, Feb, 2022.
• “Untimely Formulations: George Gissing’s Belated Style,” Marxist Literary Group, Institute for Culture and Society, Jun. 2021.