Interests: Twentieth-century American literature and culture; visual art; social theory. Selected Works: Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form (forthcoming from Princeton University Press in 2015); “Pynchon’s Malta,” Post45: Peer Reviewed. “Melville in the Asylum: Literature, Sociology, Reading,” American Literary History 26.2 (2014): 234–261; “Supermarket Sociology,” New Literary History 41.2 (Spring 2010): 301–327.