He received his PhD in English at the University of Michigan and has taught at Kansas State University. He has published an essay on Alice Meynell’s writings about motherhood in the collection Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Public and Interpersonal Discourse (SUNY Press, 2010), as well as other essays in such journals as Nineteenth-Century Prose, Victorian Poetry, Shofar, The Journal of Victorian Culture (forthcoming in 2011), and in the book collection Antiquity Recovered: The Legacy of Pompeii and Herculaneum (Getty Museum, 2007).