Distinguished Professor of English and American Literatur (University at Albany).
Areas of Specialization: Colonial and Early-National American Intellectual and Literary History, emphasizing Puritan Poetics and Homiletics; New England Transcendentalism, emphasizing Emerson and Thoreau; Pedagogy; Theory and Practice of Documentary and Textual Editing
Selected Publications: Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Documentary Volume. Editor (with Joel Myerson). Dictionary of Literary Biography No. 351. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman for Gale, 2010; Creating Waldens: An East-West Conversation on the American Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: Boston Research Center for the 21st Century, 2009. With Daisaku Ikeda and Joel Myerson; Hawthorne in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by His Family, Friends, and Associates. Editor (with Jillmarie Murphy). Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2007; The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography<7i> in Letters. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. With Joel Myerson;Nature’s Panorama: Thoreau on the Seasons.Editor. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. With a Foreword by Robert D. Richardson, Jr. and original engravings by Barry Moser.
