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  • August 2026: A new issue of Marvell Studies has just appeared. It contains articles by Gina Filo, on the link between racial anxiety and defense of the natural environment in “The Mower Against Gardens”; by Julianne Werlin, on the anniversary poem genre, Donne’s Anniversaries, and “The First Anniversary”; and by Martin Dzelainis on the Thomas Blood epigrams and their allusions to Juvenal.  The issue also includes a review of Michelle Dowd and Lara Dodd’s Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Future of Literary History (by Chloe Brooke).
  • 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.
  • 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.