He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on Milton, eighteenth-century criticism, and Interregnum and Restoration texts. His current project reexamines the early reception of Paradise Lost and its role in developing literary and textual criticsm. Recent publications include: “Bentley’s Annotated 1674 Edition of Paradise Lost: Hidden Method and Peculiar Madness” (RES, February 2013), “Francis Gregory and the Defense of the King’s Book” (PBSA, March 2012), and “Revising Obsession in Shakespeare’s Sonnets 153 and 154,” (forthcoming in Studies in Philology).