His research focuses on the literary and cultural milieu of nineteenth-century British protest movements and the interplay between politics, periodical culture, and the novel. He is the author of An Underground History of Early Victorian Fiction: Chartism, Radical Print Culture, and the Social Problem Novel (Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2017-18), which suggests that underground newspapers affiliated with radical movements fostered an experimental literary culture which stretched the contours of well-known Victorian genres including the Bildungsroman, melodrama, and social-problem fiction. A new research project focuses on anti-imperialism in nineteenth-century British radicalism. At the Center for the Humanities, he will be working on the role of theater in working-class political movements of the Victorian era.