Arthurian Legend, Chaucer, Romanticism, Victorian Literature, and Linguistic Approaches to Literature.
Books
Cognition, Literature, and History, co-edited with Donald R. Wehrs (under review)
Journal Issues
Guest editor of a special double issue of Poetics Today on “Exchange Values: Poetics and Cognitive Science,” 32.3 and 32.4 (2011)
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“The Prelude as a Philosophical Poem,” Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth, ed. Richard Gravil and Daniel Robinson (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (in development).
“Time as Space in the Structure of (Literary) Experience: The Prelude,” Oxford Handbook for Cognitive Approaches to Literature, ed. Lisa Zunshine (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (in development)
“Romantic Reflections: Toward a Cultural History of Introspection in Mind Science,” in Cognition, Literature, and History, ed. Mark J. Bruhn and Donald R. Wehrs (in development).
“’The Suburbs of the Mind’: Wordsworth’s Cambridge and the City Within,” Romantic Cityscapes, ed. Jens Gurr and Frank Pointer (forthcoming).
“An Independent Mind? Wordsworth’s Dualism,” Grasmere 2011: Selected Papers from the Wordsworth Summer Conference, ed. Richard Gravil. Humanities E-Books, 2011. 46-59.
“Exchange Values: Poetics and Cognitive Science,” Poetics Today 32.3 (2011): 403-460.
“Harmonious Madness: The Poetics of Analogy at the Limits of Blending Theory,” Poetics Today 32.4 (2011): 619-662.
“Romanticism and the Cognitive Science of Imagination,” Studies in Romanticism 48.4 (2009): 543-564.
“Shelley’s Theory of Mind: From Radical Empiricism to Cognitive Romanticism,” Poetics Today 30.3 (2009): 373-422.
"Cognition and Representation in Wordsworth’s London,” Studies in Romanticism 45.2 (2006): 157-180.
“Place Deixis and the Schematics of Imagined Space: Milton to Keats,” Poetics Today 26.3 (2005): 387-432.
“Keats’s Wretched Taste,” in Romantic Voices, Romantic Poetics, ed. Christoph Bode and Katharina Rennhak. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2005. 151-166.
“Margaret Atwood’s Lucy Poem: The Postmodern Art of Otherness in ‘Death by Landscape,’” European Romantic Review 15.3 (2004): 449-461.
“Prodigious mixtures and confusions strange: The Self-Subverting Mixed Style of The Cenci,” Poetics Today 22.4 (2001): 713-763.
“Art, Anxiety, and Alchemy in the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale,” Chaucer Review 33.3 (1999): 287-315.
“Approaching Busyrane: Episodic Patterning in The Faerie Queene,” Studies in Philology 92.3 (1995): 275-290.
“A Home Where the Heart Is: Wordsworth’s Domestication of Coleridge’s Supernatural Poems,” The CEA Critic 56.3 (1994): 28-42.
Book Reviews
The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts, by Alan Richardson, Nineteenth-Century Literature 66.3 (2011): 383-386.
The ‘Lucy Poems’: A Case Study in Literary Knowledge, by Mark Jones, Henry Street 6.1 (1997): 89-93. (With Brent Raycroft)
The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism, by Anthony John Harding, Dalhousie Review 75.2 (1995): 280-285.
Coleridge: Historian of Ideas, by Charles De Paolo, Dalhousie Review 73 (1993): 116-18.
Papers, Panels & Seminars
“Wordsworthian Re-Imaginings: ‘Mental Spaces’ in The Prelude and Conceptual Blending Theory,” 2013 Convention of the Modern Language Association, Boston, January 4, 2013.
“The Cognitive Prospects of The Prelude,” Twentieth Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Neuchatel, Switzerland, August 17, 2012.
“The Poetics of Analogy at the Limits of Blending Theory,” Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language 11, University of British Columbia, May 18, 2012.
“’The Suburbs of the Mind’: Wordsworth’s Cambridge and the City Within,” 14th International Symposium of the German Society for English Romanticism, Duisburg-Essen University, October 7, 2011.
“An Independent Mind? Wordsworth’s Dualism,” Nineteenth Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Park City, Utah, August 13, 2011.
“An Independent Mind? Wordsworth’s Dualism,” Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, August 2, 2011.
“Romantic Reflections: Toward a Cultural History of Introspection in Mind Science,” 2011 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, January 8, 2011.
“Shelley’s Theory of Mind,” Romantic Explorations, 13th International Symposium of the German Society for English Romanticism, University of Koblenz-Landau, October 9, 2009.
“Fictive Motion in Milton,” Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language 9, Case Western University, October 18, 2008
“Shelley’s Theory of Mind,” Theory of Mind and Literature Conference, Purdue University, November 1, 2007. Designer and Facilitator, “Teaching and Learning in the Jesuit Catholic Tradition: A Development Seminar for New Faculty,” Regis University, May 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012.
“Romanticism and the Cognitive Science of Imagination,” Literature and Cognitive Science Conference, University of Connecticut, April 7, 2006.
“Romanticism and the Cognitive Science of Imagination,” Faculty Lecture of the Year, Regis University, October 27, 2005.
“Challenges and Strategies for Integrated Teaching and Learning in the Humanities,” AACU Conference on Integrative Learning: Creating Opportunities to Connect, Denver, October 21, 2005.
“Cognitive Deviance and Romantic Imagination,” Thirteenth Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Montreal, August 15, 2005.
“’The absolute presence of reality’: Cognition and Representation in Wordsworth’s London,” Twelfth Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of English Romanticism, University of Colorado, September 12, 2004.
“’The absolute presence of reality’: Cognition and Representation in Wordsworth’s London,” Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, August 10, 2004.
“Integrated Humanities Teaching and Learning in the Core: An NEH Project at Regis University,” Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, January 11, 2004.
“Vocation and Trust: A Liberal Arts Perspective,” AAUP Speakers Series, Regis University, November 5, 2003.
“Place Deixis and the Pragmatics of Imagined Space,” a plenary address at the 10th International Conference of the Gesellschaft fur Englische Romantik e.V., Regensburg University, September 27, 2003.
“Place Deixis and the Pragmatics of Imagined Space,” Eleventh Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Fordham University, August 4, 2003.
“Keats’s Wretched Taste,” Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, August 7, 2002.
“Margaret Atwood’s Lucy Poem,” Wordsworth’s Second Selves, Lancaster University, July 24, 2002.
“Art and Transcendence: George Steiner’s Real Presences,” Rhodes Consultation Panel Discussion, St. Norbert College, April 12, 2002.
“Vocation and Trust: A Liberal Arts Perspective,” Keynote Address, 8th Annual Student Conference on Business and Economics, St. Norbert College, April 12, 2002.
“Lucy, Ligeia, and Mark Jones,” Midwestern Conference on Film, Language, and Literature, Northern Illinois University, April 5, 2002.
“Against Vulgarity: Wordsworth’s Revisions to The Prelude,” Wordsworth Summer Conference, Grasmere, July 30, 2001.
“Identity with an Open ‘I’: The Art of Otherness in Margaret Atwood’s ‘Death by Landscape’,” Storytelling in the Millenium, Baylor University, February 9, 2001.
“Shelley’s Drama of Decorum,” Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Dalhousie University, August 12, 1999.
Session Chair, “The Cenci Today” and “From Old World to New: Beatrice in History,” Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Dalhousie University, August 12-15, 1999.
Designer and Facilitator, “Rhodes at Regis: The Rhodes Consultations on the Future of the Church-Related College,” Regis University, September 1998-February 1999.
“Art, Anxiety, and Alchemy in The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale,” Thirty-Third International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 9, 1998; Noontime Forum, Regis University, February 12, 1998.
“What is the Difference Between Gynocentric and Phallocentric?,” Guest Lecture Series, Department of English, Dalhousie University, March 10, 1995; Noontime Forum, Regis University, November 7, 1996.
“Teaching the Unknown: Advice to Young Teachers, From One,” Dalhousie University Graduate Teaching Assistant Orientation, October 11, 1994.