Monographs
Cardiac Realism: The Affective Life of the Modern Novel. Oxford UP, under contract. Estimated publication in 2027.
Troubling Late Modernism: Ethics, Feeling, and the Novel Form. Oxford UP, 2022.
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Journal Special Issue
“Affective Forms of the Modernist Novel.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 47, no. 3, 2024.
Journal Articles
“Free Indirect Style in the English Novel: Literary History and Critical Pleasure.” PMLA, forthcoming.
“Thomas Hardy’s Betraying Heart: Realism and Bodily Affect.” ELH: English Literary History, vol. 91, no. 4, 2024. pp. 1083–1109.
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Introduction to “Affective Forms of the Modernist Novel” special issue. Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 47, no. 3, 2024. pp. 1–4.
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“Elizabeth Bowen’s Equivocal Modernism.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 47, no. 3, 2024: pp. 23–40.
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“Sensation Fiction, Sexual Health, and Medical Prose: John Milner Fothergill and the Late Victorian Novel.” Literature and Medicine, vol. 40, no. 2, 2022: pp. 419–27.
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“Reading for Attention: The Good Soldier in the Method Wars.” Essays in Criticism, vol. 72, no. 4, 2022: pp. 419–27.
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“‘Who in This World Knows Anything of Any Other Heart?’: Ford Madox Ford and the New Cardiology.” Modernist Cultures, vol. 17, no. 2, 2022: pp. 246–66.
— Winner of the 2021 British Association of Modernist Studies (BAMS) Essay Prize
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“Reading Ishiguro Today: Suspicion and Form.” Ishiguro After the Nobel. Ed. Chris Holmes and Kelly M. Rich. Special issue of MFS: Modern Fiction Studies vol. 67, no. 1, 2021: pp. 67-88.
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“Close Reading, Epistemology, and Affect: Nabokov After Rorty.” Philosophy and Literature, vol. 44, no. 2, 2020: pp. 323-49.
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“Reading Against Polemic: Disciplinary Histories, Critical Futures.” The Cambridge Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 2, 2020: pp. 103-23.
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“‘The mental rimmed the sensuous’: Nabokov and the Singularity of Literary Experience.” Textual Practice, vol. 33, no. 4, 2019: pp. 605-21.
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“‘The unbounded power of eloquence’: Banville, Conrad, and Metamodernism.” Modernism’s Contemporary Affects. Ed. David James. Special issue of Modernism/modernity (Print Plus), vol. 3, no. 3, 2018.
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“Contemporary Realism, Postmodernism, and Bodily Feeling: Ian McGuire’s The North Water.” English: Journal of the English Association, vol. 67, no. 256, 2018: pp. 1-22.
— Winner of the 2017 English Essay Prize
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Book Chapters
“Woolf and the Heart.” Virginia Woolf and the Health Humanities. Ed. Imola Nagy-Seres and Arthur Rose. Edinburgh UP, forthcoming.
“The Novel.” John Banville in Context. Ed. Bryan Radley and Nicholas Taylor-Collins. Cambridge UP, forthcoming.
“Modernism.” Elizabeth Bowen in Context. Ed. Allan Hepburn. Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2026.
“Ishiguro and Genre Fiction.” The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro. Ed. Andrew Bennett. Cambridge UP, 2023. 138-151.
“Reading by Example: Disciplinary History for a Polemical Age.” The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century. Ed. Derek Attridge, Anirudh Sridhar, and Mir Ali Hosseini. Palgrave, 2021. 91-111.
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“‘To have that on the imagination!’: Beckett and the Subjectivities of Literary Fiction.” New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject: Finite, Singular, Exposed. Ed. Gerardo Rodríguez Salas and Paula Martín Salván. Routledge, 2018. 231-246.
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Academic Reviews
Review of Nabokov in Context (Cambridge UP, 2018), ed. David Bethea and Siggy Frank. Journal of American Studies, vol. 54, no. 2, 2020: pp. E27.
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Review of Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures (Harvard UP, 2018), by Timothy Aubry. The Review of English Studies, vol. 70, no. 295, 2019: pp. 592-593.
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“Extremely Slow and Incredibly Close: How to Read Modern American Novels.” Review of Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels (Bloomsbury, 2017), by Lee Clark Mitchell. Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 42, no. 1, 2018.
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Review of Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History (Harvard UP, 2017), by Joseph North. English: Journal of the English Association, vol. 67, no. 257, 2018: pp. 195-197.
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