Directory

Publications

Books

• Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021.
• New Collected Poems of Marianne Moore. London: Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017.  Co-winner of the Modern Language Association Prize for Best Scholarly Edition, 2019.
• Adversity & Grace: Marianne Moore 1936-1941. Victoria: ELS Editions, 2012.
• A-Quiver with Significance: Marianne Moore 1932-1936. Victoria: ELS Editions, 2008.

Articles

• “‘Pigeons’ and the Future of Moore Criticism.” Twentieth Century Literature 63.4, (December 2017): 385-404.
• “A Variety of Hero: Marianne Moore’s Romance.” Co-authored with Luke Carson. Journal of Modern Literature 34.4 (Summer 2011): 64-183.
• “Difficult Ground: Poetic Renunciation in Marianne Moore’s ‘Walking-Sticks and Paperweights and Watermarks’.” Co-authored with Luke Carson. Twentieth-Century Literature 56.3 (Fall 2010): 341-70.
• “Pragmatist Poetics in Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore.” The Wallace Stevens Journal 31.2 (Fall 2007): 148-70.
• “Relentless Accuracy and a Capacity for Fact: Authorship in Marianne Moore and Gertrude Stein.” A Right Good Salvo of Barks: Essays on Marianne Moore. Ed. Cristanne Miller, et al. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2005.
• “‘Parts Nicely Opposed’: Lorine Niedecker’s Emerging Reputation.” Western Humanities Review 59.1 (Spring 2005): 144-63.
• “Elizabeth Bishop’s Calling.” Twentieth Century Literature 48.2 (Summer 2002): 1–33. Winner of the 2002 Andrew Kappel Award for Literary Crticism.
• “How to Have a Conversation With Gertrude Stein: An Essay in Four Steps.” Connotations 10:2-3 (2000–2001): 124-46.
• “Morals, Manners, and ‘Marriage’: Marianne Moore’s Art of Conversation.” Twentieth Century Literature 45:4 (1999): 488-510.
• “Teasing the Lion: What Elizabeth Bishop Knows.” Harvard Review 16 (1999): 61-70.

Special Issues

• Special Issue of Twentieth Century Literature: “Marianne Moore.” Co-edited with Fiona Green. 63.4 (December 2017).
• “Learning to Read.” Special issue of Genre (45.1, Spring 2012) co-edited with Luke Carson.

Interviews

• “An Interview with James Merrill.” Ploughshares 21.4 (1995-6):190-195.
• “The Dynamics of Poise,” Interview with A.R. Ammons. The Bookpress (November 1993): 1.
• “Being and Nothingness of Poetry,” Interview with Mark Strand. The Bookpress (December 1992): 1.

Reviews

• In TLS, Twentieth Century Literature, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Harvard Review, Genre, and The Journal.