"Habitual Knowledge: Theory and the Everyday in Enlightenment Britain." Book in progress.
Selected Publications
“The Limits of the Senses in Johnson’s Scotland.” Ed. Manushag N. Powell and Rivka Swenson. The Sensational Subject. Spec. issue of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 54.2 (2013): 279-94.
“’Seeing something that was doing in the World’: The Form of History in Colonel Jack.” Form and Formalism in the British Eighteenth-Century Novel. Ed. John Richetti. Spec. issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction 24.2 (2011-12): 227-46.
"Paper Castle, Paper Collection: Walpole’s Extra-Illustrated Strawberry Hill." Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill, ed. Michael Snodin. Yale University Press. 2009.
Literary Historicity: Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Stanford University Press. December 2008.
"Horace Walpole and the Objects of Literary History." ELH 75 (2008): 367-87.
"Quixotic Ethnography: Charlotte Lennox and the Dilemma of Cultural Observation." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 38.2 (Spring/Summer 2005): 193-213.
"The Historicity of Johnson’s Lexicographer." Representations 76 (Fall 2001): 61-87.
Awards and Fellowships
Walter Jackson Bate Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. 2013- 2014.
Postdoctoral Fellow. The Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University. 2005- 2006.