As a scholar in Comparative Literature, I pursue interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies. Currently I am completing a book on meter and music in Victorian poetry, entitled Voice Inverse, and doing research on the reception of classical meters for presentation at the Sather Lectures at UC Berkeley in 2025.

In my research, I often collaborate with other scholars. Over the years I have written together with Virginia Jackson (UC Irvine) on topics related to lyric theory and comparative poetics. Together with Americanists and Victorianists from various institutions, we are founding members of the Nineteenth Century Historical Poetics Group, which meets twice a year to discuss readings in Anglophone poetry and poetics from the long nineteenth century.

I am also founding member of Contexts for Classics (CfC). an interdepartmental faculty consortium housed at the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities. Founded in 2001 as one of the first American initiatives in Classical reception studies, CfC is affiliated with the Classical Reception Studies Network.

At the University of Michigan I have been involved in collaborative work related to critical translation studies, including research, teaching, program building, and community outreach. I am working together with a team of U-M colleagues to co-ordinate a two-year Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series on Translation in the Multilingual Midwest, including a series of events on Translation for the Community, and the launch of a public-facing site: translatingmichigan.org