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British Literature and Culture, 1640 to 1800; cognitive studies; material culture; museum studies; historical aesthetics.

Colonial and Antebellum American Literature; food studies; history of medicine and science; historical drama and performance theory; game theory; Herman Melville.

"Gothic Historiography," _The Gothic World_ (Routledge 2013); "The Imaginary: A User's Guide," forthcoming; "Global Storming," forthcoming; "Pale Fire and Johnson's Cat: The Anecdote in Polite Conversation," Criticism, 2011; "The Rape of the Lock and the Origins of Game Theory," Connotations 2011; "Visiting Strawberry Hill: Horace Walpole's Gothic Historiography," Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2009; "Locke's Pineapple and the History of Taste," Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation, 2008; "The Temporality of Allegory: Herman Melville's 'The Lightning-Rod Man,'" Arizona Quarterly, 2006.