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Literature and culture of the English Renaissance; historical subject formation; the politics of Reformation and early modern nationalism; Petrarchan lyric; Elizabethan and Stuart drama; contemporary American poetry; creative writing.

History and theory of performance

Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin, 2007); Waterborne (Houghton Mifflin, 2002; Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry (University of Michigan, 2001); The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (Houghton Mifflin, 1996); The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic (Cambridge University Press, 1995); Fire in the Conservatory (Dragon Gate Press, 1982); Essays in ELH, Criticism, Prose Studies, Milton Studies, The Kenyon Review and numerous anthologies; poems, reviews, review-essays in Poetry, The Atlantic, Partisan Review, Grand Street, Parnassus, Ploughshares, New England Review, The Yale Review, The Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Triquarterly.