I’m an academic and public-humanities educator with expertise in English and American literature. I’m committed to offering quality education without pretension or elitism. My own journey into poetry began as a self-taught public reader and high-school student. The study of literature led me from my hometown community college to Harvard University, where I defended my dissertation in October 2024.
At Bucknell and Harvard universities, my teaching has covered rhetoric, public speaking, and critical writing; Shakespeare’s drama and lyric poetry; the Oxford fantasists (C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, etc.); aspects of the Bible and English literature; British literature 800 to the present; American literature from 1630 to the present; and lyric poetry from Sappho to Taylor Swift—including Greek, Roman, Italian, German, Chinese, Russian, and some African poetry in translation. My teaching has been recognized with several certificates of distinction by the Harvard College Office of Undergraduate Education.
As an academic, I specialize in Romantic-era poetry, and my published writings have appeared in The Coleridge Bulletin, North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies, The Journal of Scottish Studies, and The Wordsworth Circle. I have presented my research at conferences hosted by Oxford and Cambridge universities, the University of Bristol, the University of Aberdeen, Cornell University, Columbia University, and elsewhere.
As a scholar interested in public-facing education, I founded the Antrim Literature Project, an online public humanities platform where graduate students teach and host free, public lectures. My short-form literary content can be found on my YouTube channel, CloseReadingPoetry. You can support my work and attend live courses with me on Patreon.