EDUCATION:
BA: Boston College, 1974; PhD: Cornell, 1980.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
"Distant Genius: Johnson and the Art of Milton's Life"; "Johnson and the 'Duty' of Reading Paradise Lost"; "The Contexts and Motives of Johnson's Life of Milton"; "Teaching Johnson's Critical Writing"; "Prayer, Poetry and Paradise Lost." Editing Johnson's Life of Milton for The Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson.

PRIMARY FIELDS OF INTEREST:
Eighteenth-Century British Literature.

OTHER INTERESTS:
History of the Novel, Contemporary Fiction and Poetry, Modern Poetry, Romanticism.

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