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Ph.D., English and American Language and Literature, Harvard University, 2004
M.Phil, English Literature, 1997, University of Oxford
Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture
American Studies
History of Science
Philosophical Pragmatism
Literary Modernism
Underwriting the Accident: Narratives of American Chance, 1871-1935, a study of the relationship between American literature and the popularization of new thinking about probability, accident, and chance.
"William Dean Howells and the Insurance of the Real," American Literary History (Spring, 2006).
