19th-century American literature; literary theory; American cultural

• "Emerson in Italy," Acoma: An Italian Journal in American Literary Studies," S DiLoreto (ed.), (Spring 2006).
• "Re Marx on Theories of American Culture," REAL: A Journal in Europena American Studies, T Claviez and U Hasselstein (eds.), (Special Issue, Spring 2006).
• "Literary Extraterritoriality in the Planetary Literary System," Emerson Society Quarterly, (Winter 2006).
• "The Politics, Metapolitics and Postpolitics of The Scarlet Letter", boundary 2, (Fall 2005).
• Futures of American Studies, (2002).
• National Identities and Postnational Narratives, (1994).

Current Projects

• American Studies after the New Americanists
• The Bush Settlements: The State of the National Symbolic Order after 9/11
• The Dark Underside of the American Renaissance
• "Interpreting Wordsworth/Working through Trauma: Geoffrey Hartman and Romanticism"
• "Whitman's 'Song of Myself': Bordering on Mexico"
• "From Transnational to Global American Studies"