Graduate Courses: 

• Nineteenth-century American Women Writers:  Gender, Sexuality, and the Literary Marketplace, Spring 2018
  • Syllabus
• The Poetry of Slavery, Spring 2017
  • Syllabus
• “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 
  • Syllabus
• “Dissertation Writing Seminar,” Spring 2014
• “Nineteenth-Century Poetic Genres:  A Transatlantic Approach,” Fall 2012
  • Syllabus
• “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 19^th and 20^th 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
  • Syllabus
• Edgar Allan Poe, Spring 2018, Fall 2014
  • Syllabus
• Antebellum American Literature, Spring 2017
  • Syllabus
• Poetry and Poetic Theory:  The Sonnet, Fall 2016
  • Syllabus
• Principles of Literary Study: Poetry, Fall 2016.  Also, Fall 2011, Fall 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 1996
  • Fall 2016 Syllabus
• What is a Book?, Spring 2015
  • Syllabus
• 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