He is currently at work on "Zootopia: Nature and Politics in Late Victorian Fiction", a book-length project whose aim is to track the figure of the animal in late-Victorian fiction so as to determine the status of the natural in post-Darwinian British culture and to describe the symbolic uses to which the animal is put by the radical political movements emerging during this period. He is also engaged in the planning stages of "Foreign Agents," a comparative project that seeks to re-examine the notion of literary agency in a global context by foregrounding the role played by what Pierre Bourdieu called literature’s “consecrating agencies” (reviewers, publishers, academics, translators, etc.) in the legitimization of “world literature.” His book, The Novel as Event: Exploring the Importance of Language in the Victorian Novel was published in 2010 by Michigan University Press.