Areas
Late 18th- and 20th-Century British and American Literature, Late Renaissance, History of Literary Theory and Criticism, Modern and Edwardian Literatures 

Major Publications

Ed., Northrop Frye on Modern Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2004)

Ed., Canon vs. Culture: Reflections on the Current Debate (Routledge, 2000)

The Making of the Modern Canon (Athlone 1991) 

contribution, vol. 4 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (ed. C. Rawson and H B Nisbet, Cambridge, 1997) 

studies of Raymond Williams and Frank Kermode (Missouri 1987, 1988] 

Current Research

A Study of Eliot & the formation of literary opinion in the early twentieth century and the lives of Wyndham Lewis

Courses Taught
Cultural Criticism, Classic to Modern 
History of Literary Criticism courses (e.g., Culture and Society in 20th-century America, Book History) 
Modern Fiction courses (e.g., Exiles in Modern Literature, From Book to Film, Twentieth-century Literatures in English, and also Modernist Fiction) 
Shakespeare 
Jacobean Drama 
English Survey from Wordsworth to Beckett