- Department:
- English
- Campus:
- IU Bloomington
I am interested in British literature and culture in the long eighteenth century, with a special interest in literature and science, concentrating on the Restoration and early eigtheenth century. My last (Yahoo) book was on the figure of the Wild Man in eighteenth-century England; my current (Houyhnhnm) project focuses on the origins of the thoroughbred racehorse and what it means to invent an animal. Both projects allow me to explore nature/culture hybridity and the origins of modernity.