Title
Professor of English and American Literature
English and American Literature
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Expertise
Poetry. Renaissance. Theory.
Degrees
Cornell University, Ph.D.
Cornell University, M.A.
Yale University, B.A.
Awards and Honors
Lerman-Neubauer Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring (2003)
National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship (1992 - 1993)
Marver & Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (1989 - 1990)
Michael L. Walzer Award for Excellence in Teaching (1988 - 1989)
Martin Sampson Teaching Award, Cornell University (1984)
Henry Strong Prize for best essay on American Literature, Yale (1978)
Courses Taught
| COML | 190b | Fictional Thinking |
| ENG | 11a | Introduction to Literary Method |
| ENG | 21a | Adolescent Literature from Grimm to Voldemort |
| ENG | 27b | Classic Hollywood Cinema |
| ENG | 33a | Shakespeare |
| ENG | 125a | Romanticism I: Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge |
| ENG | 125b | Romanticism II: Byron, Shelley, and Keats |
| ENG | 133a | Advanced Shakespeare |
| ENG | 147a | Film Noir |
| ENG | 165b | Victorian Poetry and Its Readers |
| ENG | 173a | Spenser and Milton |
| ENG | 177a | Hitchcock's Movies |
| ENG | 180a | The Modern American Short Story |
| ENG | 213a | Milton |
| FILM | 100a | Introduction to the Moving Image |
| HUM | 10a | The Western Canon |
| PHIL | 182a | Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations |
| USEM | 73a | Thinking about Infinity |
Scholarship