curriculum vitae

Professor of English | Princeton University | 2016-
Behrman Professor of the Humanities | Princeton University | 2016-2019
Associate Professor of English | Princeton University | 2007-2016
Assistant Professor of English | Princeton University | 2001-2007
Visiting Assistant Professor of English | Brandeis University | 2000-2001

Founding Director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM) | 2011-2015

Editor at Large | Cabinet magazine

PhD in English | Yale University | 2000
BA in English | Oxford University | 1993
BA in philosophy | Yale University | 1990

Visiting Fellow Commonership | Trinity College, Cambridge | Lent Term 2016
Guggenheim Fellowship | 2015-2016
MacDowell Colony Fellowship | Spring 2011
Sabbatical Fellowship | American Philosophical Society | 2010-11
Isabel MacCaffrey Prize of the International Spenser Society | for Scenes of Instruction | 2008
Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award | for Scenes of Instruction | 2008
Donald A. Stauffer Bicentennial Preceptorship | Princeton University | 2004-2007
Mellon/ACLS Fellowship for Junior Faculty | 2003-2004
External Faculty Fellowship | Stanford Humanities Center | 2003-2004
Short-Term Visiting Fellowship | Folger Shakespeare Library | June 2002
Pushcart Prize in Poetry | 2001
Isabel MacCaffrey Prize of the International Spenser Society | for Spenser and the Troubled Theaters | 2000
Junior Fellowship | Harvard University Society of Fellows | 1996-2000
Charlton Miner Lewis Graduate Fellowship | Yale University | 1993-1996
Rhodes Scholarship | Oxford University | 1991-1993