Books
The Written World: Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France. Northwestern University Press, 2018. (Click for more information.)
Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French Writing. University of Delaware Press, 2004. (Awarded the 2005 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies by the MLA: The Modern Language Association of America)
Representative articles
“Clouds, Style, and Poetic Generation in Descartes's Météores (1637)." Romance Quarterly 68, 3 (2021): 144-59.
“Posthumanist Asyndeton: Critique and Judgment in Early Modern Object Studies.” Exemplaria. Medieval, Early Modern, Theory 32, no. 2 (2020): 167-75.
"Of Lost Islands: Affect and the New in Montaigne." Montaigne Studies 30, 1-2 (March 2018): 55-68.
“Lucretius, Space, and Poetic Invention in Molière’s L’Ecole des femmes and La Critique de l'Ecole des femmes.” Le nouveau Moliériste (January 2017): 3-25.
“Orphée en devenir: image et invention dans les Fables de La Fontaine.” Littératures classiques 82 (2013): 187-200.
“Tautou’s Face.” PMLA 126, no. 4 (October 2011): 1042-60.
Recent Courses
FR 103: Introduction to French Cinema
FR 225: French Film Noir
MCL 503: Film Theory
FR 609: Barthes, Theory, and the Seventeenth Century
FR 609: Poésie et poiesis à l'âge baroque