McGill University Department of English
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Arts Building
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5 CANADA
B.A. (Toronto); Ph.D. (Yale); Molson Professor of English Language and Literature
Renaissance European literature, classical literature; the gothic novel; cannibalism.
- Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching
- SSHRC Research Grants
- SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship
Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid (2012).
The Rise of the Gothic Novel (1995).
From Communion to Cannibalism: An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation (1990).
“Satanic Envy and Classical Emulation” in Their Maker’s Image: New Essays on John Milton. Ed. Louis Schwarz and Mary Fenton, Susquehanna UP, 2011: 46-62.
“New Spins on Old Rotas: Virgil, Ovid, Milton,” in Classical Literary Careers and their Reception. Ed Helen Moore and Philip Hardie: Cambridge UP, 2010: 179-96.
"Satan and the Wrath of Juno." English Literary History 75: 2008:653-71.
"Heroic Contradictions: Samson and the Death of Turnus." Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 50.2: 2008: 201-34.
"Changing Ovid." In Metamorphosis: The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Ed. Alison Keith and Stephen Rupp. (2007): 267-83.
"'One Immortality': The Shaping of the Shelleys in The Last
Man" European Romantic Review 16.5 (2005): 563-88.
"'Thy perfect image viewing': Poetic Creation and Ovid's Narcissus in Paradise Lost." Studies in Philology 102.3 (summer 2005): 307-39.
"Eve and Flora" (Paradise Lost 5.15-16). Milton Quarterly 38:1 (2004): 1-17.
"Writing on Water," ELR 29.2 (1999): 282-305.
"The Function of Cannibalism at the Present Time," in Cannibalism and the Colonial World (1998): 238-60.
"Vampiric Arts: Bram Stoker's Defence of Poetry," in Bram Stoker: History, Psychoanalysis and the Gothic (1998): 47-61.
"Dr. Frankenstein Meets Dr. Freud," American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative (1998): 40-57.
"On Cannibals and Critics: An Exploration of James de Mille's Strange Manuscript," Mosaic 30.1 (1997).
"Comus's Wood of Allusion," University of Toronto Quarterly 61.3 (1992): 316-33.
The reception of the classics, especially Virgil and Ovid, in the Renaissance.
Essays forthcoming in volumes including The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English; The Blackwell Handbook to the Reception of Ovid; The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost.