Graduate Courses:
- Nineteenth-century American Women Writers: Gender, Sexuality, and the Literary Marketplace, Spring 2018
- The Poetry of Slavery, Spring 2017
- “Nineteenth-century English and American Poetry: New Tools, New Approaches,” co-taught with Meredith Martin (Princeton), Spring 2016
- “Literary New York: Poe, Whitman, Melville,” Fall 2014
- “Dissertation Writing Seminar,” Spring 2014
- “Nineteenth-Century Poetic Genres: A Transatlantic Approach,” Fall 2012
- “Literature and New Media,” Spring 2012
- Whitman, Dickinson, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry, with Mark Doty, Spring 2010
- Antebellum American Literature and Culture, Fall 2008
- Literary Properties, Fall 2005
- American Poetry and Poetics, 1650-1900, Spring 2005
- Print Cultures in the 19th and 20th Century United States, Fall 2002
- American Epic: The Long Poem in the Whitmanian Tradition, Fall 2001
- Transcendentalism and Reform, Fall 2000
- Troubled Nationalism: The Irish-American Atlantic, with Marjorie Howes, Spring 1998
- Introduction to Advanced Research, Spring 1998, Spring 2001
- The Literary Marketplace in the Antebellum United States, Fall 1997
- Nineteenth-Century American Poetry and Poetics, Spring 1997
Undergraduate Courses:
- Walt Whitman, Spring 2019
- Edgar Allan Poe, Spring 2018, Fall 2014
- Antebellum American Literature, Spring 2017
- Poetry and Poetic Theory: The Sonnet, Fall 2016
- Principles of Literary Study: Poetry, Fall 2016. Also, Fall 2011, Fall 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 1996
- What is a Book?, Spring 2015
- The Poetry of Slavery, Honors seminar, Fall 2013
- Nineteenth-Century American Poetry, Fall 2013, Spring 2002, Summer 1998, Spring 1997
- Introduction to American Literature, Fall 2012
- Blogging: Prehistory, Theory, Practice, Fall 2009
- Literary History as Media History, Spring 2009
- Transcendentalism and Reform, Spring 2003
- American Literature—Colonial Period to 1860, Spring 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2001, Fall 2000
- American Women Writers to 1900, Spring 2003, Spring 2001, Fall 1998
- Topics in Literary Theory: Authorship, Spring 2002, Fall 1998, Fall 1997
- Reforming America, Fall 1996