He works on twentieth-century literature in English and on literary theory, especially sociological approaches to literature. He is the author of Fictions of Autonomy: Modernism from Wilde to de Man (Oxford, 2013), as well as articles in Contemporary Literature and ELH. His work in quantitative methods has focused on the history of the disciplines; it has appeared in NLH and Signs @ 40. He is working on a book about genre fiction, provisionally titled “Wastes of Time: Genre and the Literary Field since 1890.”