• Regions: Atlantic World; Holy Roman Empire
• Times: 18th to 19th centuries
• Themes: Environmental Humanities; German Literature; History of Linguistic Thought; History of Science; Philosophy; Poetry and Poetics  

Research and teaching interests include eighteenth- to twentieth-century German literature; poetics and the history of the lyric; the German philosophical tradition from Kant to Heidegger; moments of cross-pollination between the history of science and the history of philology; and transatlantic literary history. Early Modern interests include Aby Warburg's account of the Reformation-era Flugblatt. He also serves as the German Studies Director for the Society for German Idealism & Romanticism (SGIR).