His research and teaching focus on poetry and poetics, modernism (especially American, British, Russian), nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, and literary theory. He is currently completing a book on the efficacy of utopian and quixotic literary projects, with chapters on Henry David Thoreau, Osip and Nadezhda Mandel’shtam, Anna Akhmatova, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, and J.H. Prynne. He is also beginning a second book, tentatively titled, Coteries and Manifestos, which examines the formation and dissolution of literary communities in the twentieth century. He received his PhD from the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago in 2011. From 2005 to 2008, he was editor of Chicago Review.