He has published essays on imperial military memoirs, James Boswell’s melancholy, and Robinson Crusoe’s firearms. His first book, Political Magic: British Fictions of Savagery and Sovereignty, 1650-1750 (Fordham 2014) examines the role that the concept of savagery played in this period’s fictional reimagining of political categories. His current research interests include environmental writing in the long eighteenth century, narratives of the British empire, and early modern political theory.