He specializes in British literature of the “long” eighteenth century, roughly from 1660 to 1830. His first book, Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel (Virginia, 2014), examines the relationship between early modern utopian literature; geography, cartography, and travel writing; and the history of the English novel. His second book project is entitled “Aerial Prospects: Seeing from Above in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” In addition, Pearl has written articles and reviews published or forthcoming in Studies in English Literature, Eighteenth-Century Life, Studies in the Novel, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation, SHARP News (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing), and Digital Defoe, as well as the edited volume Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569-1750.