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  • January 2026: Lyric Temporalities, a collection of essays co-edited with Kimberly Johnson, has just appeared from the University of Toronto Press. Its contributors show that lyric as a genre, form, and mode neither simply opposes itself to the temporal unfolding of narrative, nor stands in for presentness and its heightened emotional sensation.
  • December 2025: Marvell Studies 10.1 has just been published. It contains articles by Hyunyoung Cho and Christopher D’Addario on fen drainage, local agricultural improvement, and Upon Appleton House. It also includes a review of Matthew Augustine and Steven Zwicker’s The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature (by Andrea Walkden).
  • September 2025: My essay on Menahem Golan’s The Apple and Paradise Lost—“Adapting Similes: Metalepsis and Narrative in The Apple and Paradise Lost“—has just appeared in a special issue of Milton Studies, on media and adaptation. It argues that both epic similes and musical numbers challenge narrative immersion as a primary or desirable feature of aesthetic experience.
  • September 2025: My essay on Donne’s poetry and prose—“Metaphor, Resurrection, and the Body in John Donne’s Poetry and Prose”—has just appeared in a special issue of Literature and Theology, on materiality and literary form. It shows how Donne’s metaphors deny the apparentness of the material body and encourage readers to consider the universe as a synchronic system without hierarchy.