She received her BA from Smith College and her MA and PhD from the University of Michigan. She is the project director and managing editor of the Princeton Prosody Archive and was coeditor of a special issue of Victorian Poetry and editor of a special issue of the Hopkins Quarterly. Her essays have appeared in books such as Decadent Poetics and Modernism and Nostalgia and journals such as Modernism and Modernity and Victorian Studies. The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860–1930 is also the recipient of the Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism from the Robert Penn Warren Center.