EDUCATION

2003 Ph.D., English, The Graduate Center                                                                          of the City University of New York (CUNY) 
1996 M.A., American Studies, Columbia University                                                     1990 B.A., Connecticut College

FACULTY POSITIONS

Professor, English Department, New York City College of Technology (CUNY),
      2003-present 
Visiting Lecturer, University of Gutenberg, Mainz, Germany, Spring 2018

BOOKS

 Revolutionary Ink: New York Printers and the Promise of Democracy,                               1693-1804. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026.                            Brooklyn Tides: The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough. Bielefeld: Transcript,                2018. Co-authored with Benjamin H. Shepard.
Reading the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. Kent State: Kent State                        University Press, 2011.

ARTICLES

“Re-Mapping the Canon: Early American Newspaper Printers                                              and Their Transnational Routes,” in Periodicals in Focus, Leiden: Brill, 2022.
“The Literary Magazine in Gilded Age New York.”In The Routledge Companion                 to the Literary Magazine. New York: Routledge, 2021.
“Lessons from the ‘City of Print.” American Literary Realism. Winter 2021 (53:2). 
          Co-authored with Kelley Kreitz and Ayendy Bonafacio.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

McLean Fellow, Library Company of Philadelphia. Summer 2024. 
Director, “City of Print: New York and the Periodical Press” Summer Institute. National Endowment for the Humanities. 
      New York City College of Technology.  June 2015 and June 2020