Books

• What We Are in Literature and Art (manuscript in preparation)

Articles and Book Chapters

• “Storied Thoughts: Wittgenstein and the Reaches of Fiction,” in Wittgenstein and Literary Studies, ed. Robert Chodat and John Gibson, Cambridge Studies in Literature and Philosophy (Cambridge UP, 2023), 126-145.

• “Romanticism and the Everyday,” Literature Compass 19.11 (2022), 1-10

• “Thinking with Austen: Literature, Philosophy, and Anne Elliot’s Inner World,” in Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Persuasion, ed. Marcia Folsom and John Wiltshire (Modern Language Association, 2021), 129-134.

• “Interiority and Expression in Dickinson’s Lyrics,” in The Poetry of Emily Dickinson: Philosophical Perspectives, ed. Elisabeth Camp, Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature (Oxford UP, 2021), 59-82. PDF

• “Form and Feeling in Photography,” a response to Walter Been Michaels, nonsite.org, No. 32 (2020). You can read my article at nonsite.org.

• “The Aesthetics of Absorption,” in Michael Fried and Philosophy: Modernism, Intention, and Theatricality, ed. Mathew Abbott (New York: Routledge, 2018), 171-188. PDF

• “Keats’s Voice.” Studies in Romanticism. Special Issue: “Reading Keats, Thinking Politics.” 50.2 (2011): 333–348. PDF

• “Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday.” nonsite.org. Special Issue: “No Quarrels: Literature and Philosophy Today.” No. 3 (2011). You can read my article at nonsite.org.

• “Kant with Michael Fried: Feeling, Absorption, and Interiority in the Critique of Judgment.” Symploke. Special issue: “Emotions.” 18.1-2 (2010): 15–30.

• “Keats and the Impersonal Craft of Writing.” In Romanticism and the Object, ed. Larry Peer (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 117–135.

• “Rereading Nietzsche in Theory: Aesthetics and the Movement of Genealogy in the Early Work.” International Studies in Philosophy 37.1 (2005): 65–80. 

Public Writing

• “Emily Dickinson and the creative ‘solitude of space,’” Psyche.co, March 2022, https://psyche.co/ideas/emily-dickinson-and-the-creativity-of-a-solitude-of-space

  — Reprinted as “Emily Dickinson and the Space Within,” in The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition, 11th ed., ed. Thomas Cooley (W. W. Norton, forthcoming 2024)

  —Reprinted as “Emily Dickinson and the Space Within,” in Back to the Lake: A Reader and Guide for Writers, 5th ed., ed. Thomas Cooley (W. W. Norton, forthcoming 2024)

• “How Should Literature Mean? A Conversation about Art and Ambiguity,” Aesthetics for Birds, February 2023, https://aestheticsforbirds.com/2023/02/03/how-should-literature-mean-a-conversation-about-art-and-ambiguity/

Book Reviews

• Review of The Aesthetic Commonplace: Wordsworth, Eliot, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Every Day, by Nancy Yousef. The Wordsworth Circle 54.4 (Fall 2023): 506-511

• Review of The History of Missed Opportunities: British Romanticism and the Emergence of the Everyday, by William Galperin. Studies in Romanticism 57.2 (Summer 2018): 325-29. PDF

• Review of The Philosophy of Autobiography, ed. Christopher Cowley. Prose Studies: History, Theory, Criticism 38.2 (Oct 2016): 200-203.

• Review of Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy, by Robert Pippin. Symplokē 19.1 (2011): 400–401.