Education:

• Ph.D., Program in Literature,  Duke University, 1992
• B.A., History and Literature, Harvard College, 1982

Teaching:

• Assistant Professor, Department of English, Ohio University, 1998 -
• Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Virginia, 1992- 1998
• Graduate Instructor, Comparative Area Studies Department, Duke University, 1991-92
• Graduate Instructor, Literature Department, Duke University, 1990
• Teacher of English, French, and Latin, The Maret School, Washington, D.C.,  1982-87

Fellowships and Awards

• Sesquicentennial Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1995-1996
• Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, 1992-1993
•  Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 1988-1992
• Laurence Holland Memorial Scholarship, Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, 1987

Publications & Presentations

Books & Articles

• Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671: Allegories of Desire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• “Spenser and English National Identity:  The View from the View,” Spenser Studies 14 (Forthcoming).
•  “Overcoming History: Topicality in Denham's Cooper's Hill,” Renaissance Papers (1991).

Reviews

• Review of Lynn A. Parks, Capitalism in Early American Literature, in American Literature 70 (1998).
•  Review of  Jeffrey H. Richards,  Theater Enough: American Culture and the Metaphor of the World Stage, 1607-1789,  in American Literature (1993).
•  Review of Collin Calloway, Dawnland Encounters: Indians and Europeans in Northern New England, in Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography  (1991).

Papers:

• “Allegory and Ambivalence:  The Protestant Poetics of Jean de Léry,” A Special Session, Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, December 1998.
•  “Fear and Love: Text and Image in Early Virginia,” Panel arranged by the Division of American Literature Before 1800, Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, December 1997.
•  “The Culture of ‘Pure Christianitie’: John Eliot's Predicament,” A Special Session, Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C., December 1996.
•  “The Culture of Language:  Roger Williams’s A Key into the Language of America,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, University of Pittsburgh,  Pittsburgh, PA, September 1996.
•  “‘Civility for their bodies, Christianity for their soules’: The Emergence of a Protestant Colonial Ideology,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY,  November 1994.
•  “The Accidental Colonialist: Robinson Crusoe,”  Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, October 1993.
•  “‘To Purge or to Pamper?’  Spenser, Hakluyt, and the Spanish,”Panel arranged by the Spenser Society, Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, December 1993.
•  “Overcoming History: Topicality in Denham's Cooper's Hill,” Southeastern Renaissance Conference, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, April 1991.
•  “Witchcraft and Sexology,” Session Chair, Panel arranged by the Division of American Literature Before 1800,  Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago. 1990
•  “Culture and Literacy: Questions of Power and Pedagogy,” Fourteenth Annual Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, February1989.

Talks:

• “Reading Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland,” University of Virginia GESA Lecture Series, November 1993
•  “The Early American Novel: Theory and Practice,” University of Virginia, Department of History, March 1994, 1995, & 1997.