His book These Days of Large Things: The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930 addresses the U.S. obsession with bigness and its relation to changing conceptions of the body at the turn of the twentieth century. He is currently working on two book-length projects exploring evolving notions of class in U.S. culture. He has published essays and reviews in Genders, American Literature, American Quarterly, Western American Literature, Critical Inquiry, Victorian Review, Canadian Review of American Studies, and other journals. He is currently co-editor of Ariel: A Review of International English Literature.