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Professor and Chair of English, University of Iowa

My teaching and research focus on early modern book history, poetry, and drama, including Milton and Shakespeare. After leaving Oxford, where I attended on a Rhodes Scholarship, I became a writer for Time magazine, and I also continue to write for popular publications such as Slate, The Week, and The London Review of Books, while teaching classes in creative nonfiction and the essay. My most recent book is "Networking Print in Shakespeare's England (Stanford, 2021).

Experience

  • –present
    Professor and Chair of English, University of Iowa

Education

  • 2009 
    UC Berkeley, English