Campus
- Scarborough (UTSC)
Fields of Study
- American Literature
- Poetry and Poetics
- Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature
Areas of Interest
- Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
Biography
Publications
All the People Are Pregnant (Icehouse/Goose Lane)
Ashbery’s Forms of Attention (University of Alabama Press)
He We Her/I Am White (Spuyten Duyvil)
Start to Figure: Fugitive Essays, Selected Reviews (Palimpsest Press)
Co-editor, The Anthology of Rap (Yale UP)
Co-editor, Close Reading: The Reader (Duke UP)
Recent essays
“It comes down to / so little: Ashbery, Matthíasdóttir, and Minimal Afterlives,” Post45, online
“Compared to What: Past and Future Paths in Rap Poetics,” in Companion to American Poetry (Wiley-Blackwell)
“Amelia Curran: ‘I Am the Song,’” World Literature Today 92.5
“He Covers the Waterfront: The Music of Duane Andrews,” Music & Literature, online
“Hollywood’s Radio Edit,” Los Angeles Review of Books, online
“Melvillean Provocation and the Critical Art of Devotion,” in Melville and Aesthetics (Palgrave)
Articles, poems, reviews
in Africana, American Literary History, Dusie, Explosive, Harvard Review, LA Review of Books, The Lights Are Out, Music & Literature, New York Times Book Review, Post45, South Atlantic Quarterly, University of Toronto Quarterly, World Literature Today.
Current Research
I am currently co-editing (with Kelly Baron) a collection of new essays on approaches to (and examples of) the intersection of music and literature. And I am writing a critical biography of Anita Loos.