books
Senses of Style | Chicago: University of Chicago Press | 2018
Scenes of Instruction | Chicago: University of Chicago Press | 2007
short books
The Parkland Mysteries | with Joshua Kotin | Amsterdam: The Last Books | 2023
In Other Words: A Defense of Paraphrase | New York and Pittsburgh: Flugschriften | 2020
Take Care | Brooklyn: Cabinet Books | 2017
edited books
The Virtual Sentence | Brooklyn: Cabinet Books | 2024
Hamlet | edited with David Kastan | New York: Barnes and Noble | 2007
essays and articles
Better than Bad Words | The Spenser Review 54.1 | 2024
Hard Cases for a Handle Theory | Cabinet 68 | 2023
The Early Modern Book as Metaphor | The Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England | Edited by Adam Smyth | 533-552 | Oxford: Oxford University Press | 2023
The Root of Civil Conversation: Spenser with (and by) Himself. | Spenser Studies: A Renaissance Poetry Annual, Volume XXXVII: 557-67 | 2023
Metafiction and the Study of History: Makerly Knowledge in the Archive | With Graham Burnett, Catherine Hansen, and Justin E. H. Smith | Rethinking History | 2023
Remembering the Essay. | The Cambridge Companion to the Essay | Edited by Evan Kindley and Kara Wittman | 17-32 | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press | 2022
Style | The Oxford History of Poetry in English: Sixteenth-Century Poetry | 100-121 | Oxford: Oxford University Press | 2022
Poetry, Critique, Imitation | Poetic Critique | Edited by Michel Chaouli et al. | 45-55 | Berlin: De Gruyter | 2021
Work Song | In Ways of Hearing | Edited by Scott Burnham, Dorothea von Moltke, and Maria Seltzer | 25-31 | Princeton: Princeton University Press | 2021
The Truth of Diction | Tupelo Quarterly 20 | 2020
Shakespeare and the Problem of Style | The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Language | Edited by Lynne Magnusson and David Schalkwyk | 3-19 | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press | 2019
Leap Year | ELH 84.2: 361-376 | 2017
I Put a Light in the Milk | Cabinet 62: 74-79 | 2017
Besides Good and Evil | Studies in English Literature 51.1: 1-22 | 2017
Obstinate Spenser | Spenser Review 47.1 | 2017
Thing, Use, Style | October 155: 32 | 2016
J. H. Prynne, The Art of Poetry No. 101 | with Josh Kotin | Paris Review 218: 174-207 | 2016
Purcell’s Dido and the Fate of Mark Morris | Opera Quarterly 31.3: 186-189 | 2015
Disjunct Quatrains | The Chicago Review 58: 147-153 | 2014
Surrey’s Black Eye | Cabinet 53: 100-103 | 2014
Critique and Imitation | English Language Notes 51: 123-27 | 2013
Hardly They Heard | Shakespeare up Close: Reading Early Modern Texts | Edited by Russ McDonald, Nicholas Nace, and Travis Williams | 87-94 | New York: Bloomsbury | 2013
Panic’s Castle | Representations 120: 1-16 | 2012
Ordinariness | Curiosity and Method | 492-96 | New York: Cabinet Books | 2012
Locus Communis | Cabinet 45: 90-94 | 2012
Tom’s Hat | Cabinet 44: 70-71 | 2012
Spenser’s Metrics | The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser | Edited by Richard McCabe | 385-402 | Oxford: Oxford University Press | 2012
Thrasonical Huffe Snuffe | Cabinet 39: 90-96 | 2010
Styles of Disjunction | Southwest Review 92: 116-31 | 2010
Tudor Versification and the Rise of Iambic Pentameter | A Companion to Tudor Literature | Edited by Kent Cartwright | 364-380 | Chichester: Blackwell | 2010.
Shakespeare’s Reading | with Sean Keilen | The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare | Edited by Margreta de Grazia and Stanley Wells | 15-30 | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press | 2010
Verdigris | Cabinet 35: 16-18 | 2009
Roll Playing | Cabinet 34: 46-52 | 2009
Harry Berger’s Intellectual Community | A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr and the Arts of Interpretation | Edited by David L. Miller and Nina Levine | 264-72 | York: Fordham U. P. | 2009
Reading Wyatt for the Style | Modern Philology 105: 65-86 | 2007
The Method of Spenser’s Stanza | Spenser Studies 19: 17-25 | 2004
Shakespeare and the New Aestheticism | Literary Imagination 5: 95-103 | 2003
When to Stop Reading The Faerie Queene | Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same: New Essays on Poetry and Poetics, Renaissance to Modern | Edited by Jennifer Lewin | 35-54 | New Haven: Beinecke Library | 2002
Spenser’s Sense of Poetic Justice | Raritan 21: 127-40 | 2001
Spenser and the Troubled Theaters | English Literary Renaissance 29: 179-200 | 2000
Just Let Me Say This about Just Let Me Say This about That | Literary Imagination 1: 273-84 | 1999
shorter writing
Sylva Verborum | Asad Raza | Root Sequence, Mother Tongue | Edited by Olivia Fairweather | London: Koenig Books | 2019
The Ostoyascope | Anna Ostoya | Warsaw: Zachęta—Narodowa Galeria Sztuki | 2018
Rape, Jokes, Consent (on Vanessa Place) | Studies in Gender and Sexuality 18: 274-276 | 2018
Life Sentence | Paris Review Daily | 2017
Accent Elimination | Curiouser: Nina Katchadourian | Edited by Veronica Roberts | 64-65 | Austin: University of Texas Press | 2017
The Things of Whenever | Prac Crit | 2015
Psychoanalytic Night at Hooters | Triple Canopy | 2015
In Memoriam: John Hollander | Paris Review Daily | 2013
Bend Sinister | The American Reader | 2013
The Book of Ephraim | At Length | 2012
Sessions of Sweet Thought | Convolution 1 | 2011
encyclopedia articles
Spenser, Edmund | The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature | Edited by Alan Stewart and Garrett Sullivan | Chichester: Wiley Blackwell | 2012
The Spenserian Stanza | Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics | Edited by Roland Greene | 1350-1351 | Princeton: Princeton University Press | 2011
Style | Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics | Edited by Roland Greene | 1369-1370 | Princeton: Princeton University Press | 2011
reviews
Review of Craig Dworkin, Dictionary Poetics | Critical Inquiry | 8.4.2021
Review of Anne Carson, Norma Jeanne Baker of Troy | Public Books | 2.25.2020
Review of Richard Danson Brown, The Art of the Faerie Queene | Spenser Review 43.9.6 | 2019
Review of Andrew Escobedo, ed., Edmund Spenser in Context | Renaissance Quarterly 72: 394-396 | 2019
Review of Maren-Sofie Røstvig, Ars Aeterna and Other Essays on Literary Structure | Renaissance Quarterly 70: 802-803 | 2017
Review of Lucy Munro, Archaic Style in English Literature 1590-1674 | Renaissance Quarterly 68: 384-86 | 2015
Review of David Wilson-Okamura, Spenser’s International Style | Modern Philology 112: 228-230 | 2015
Review of Nandini Das, Renaissance Romance: The Transformation of English Prose Fiction; Garrett Sullivan, Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment: Vitality from Spenser to Milton; Tiffany Jo Werth, The Fabulous Dark Cloister: Romance in England after the Reformation | The Spenser Review 44 | 2014
Review of Rayna Kalas, Frame, Glass, Verse | Renaissance Quarterly 61: 668-669 | 2008
Review of Paul Cefalu, Moral Identity in Early Modern English Literature | Modern Philology 104.4: 574-578 | 2007
Review of Judith H. Anderson, Translating Investments| Renaissance Quarterly 59.2: 630-631 | 2006
Review of Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, E. E. Cummings | The Chicago Tribune | Jan. 9 2005
Review of Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World | The Chicago Tribune | Sept. 26 2004
Review of David Kirby, What Is a Book | The Chicago Tribune | July 6 2003
Review of Dennis Kezar, Guilty Creatures | The Spenser Review 33.2: 14-17 | 2002
Review of Brad Leithauser, Darlington’s Fall | The Chicago Tribune, March 31 | 2002
Review of Stanley Fish, How Milton Works | The Chicago Tribune | Oct. 21 2001
Review of Catherine Gimelli Martin, Ruins of Allegory | The Spenser Newsletter 30.2: 9-11 | 1999