He is currently finishing a manuscript on romantic Poetic Fiat, which focuses on “let there be” and “let be” modes of utterance in romantic poetry and its philosophical traditions. His essays on Wordsworth and “useless fiat,” and on Percy Shelley and “Obi,” have appeared in Literary Imagination and Studies in Romanticism respectively; an article on William Godwin’s Caleb Williams and the persistence of “Things as They Are” is forthcoming, also in SiR. A new project of unknown scope hopes to connect Jane Austen’s early novels with J.L. Austin’s writings.