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About Me

I am Associate Head of the Department of English and Professor of English and Science, Technology, and Society at Penn State University. I work primarily in modernist studies, and my research interests include modernist periodicals, science studies of the modernist period, nineteenth- and twentieth-century occultism, avant-garde theory, public sphere theory, and print culture. I was a founder and currently serve on the executive board of the Modernist Studies Association, and I am the editor of the multidisciplinary series Refiguring Modernism: Arts, Literatures, Sciences published by the Penn State University Press. Along with Sean Latham of the University of Tulsa, I am co-editor of the newly founded Journal of Modern Periodical Studies. For details of my career, please see my cv.

On a personal note, I am also a proud father of two wonderful children, an avid hiker, an amateur astronomer, and a guitarist. .

My first book, The Public Face of Modernism, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2001.

Take a look at the University of Wisconsin Press's facsimile of Tambour, a fascinating little magazine edited by Harold J. Salemson in Paris (1929-1930).

My book, Modern Alchemy: Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory, was published by Oxford University Press in 2007.