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Welcome to my website! I’m happy to have this chance to say a bit about my scholarship and teaching. At the moment, I’m particularly interested in three things: the [US Civil War and Reconstruction](/pages/civil-war-and-reconstruction); [trans-Atlantic literary relations](/pages/trans-atlantic-literary-studies); and [the novel. ](/the%20novel)

I'm also pleased to announce that two of the students who took my seminar on book reviewing have published reviews at *Public Books*. Take a look at Tess McNulty's "[Chick Lit Meets the Avant-Garde](http://www.publicbooks.org/fiction/chick-lit-meets-the-avant-garde)," and Cecelia Mancuso's "[Speculative Pulp Fiction](http://www.publicbooks.org/briefs/speculative-pulp-fiction)." Both are really great!