I am Professor of English at Boston College, where I teach and write about poetry and poetics. I am the author most recently of the scholarly monograph Unheard Melodies: Apophatic Poetics and Literary Reading (Fordham University Press, forthcoming) and the poetry book Cycle of Dreams (punctum books, 2024). Both books juxtapose fourteenth- and twenty-first-century poetries. As a textual editor, I produced critical editions of three Middle English dream visions: the A version of William Langland’s Piers Plowman (University of Exeter Press, 2025), Geoffrey Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess (for the forthcoming Cambridge Chaucer project), and Death and Life (in preparation for Medieval Institute Publications). I edit the Yearbook of Langland Studies with Alastair Bennett and Katharine Breen. My writing on literature, politics, and higher education appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Atlantic, Vox, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. After five years directing graduate programs in English at Boston College, I now direct the undergraduate Honors program. Among the courses I regularly teach are “Chaucer and Gower,” “Game of Thrones: Medieval English Political Poetry,” “Studies in Poetry,” and “Introduction to Creative Writing.” I live in Brookline, Massachusetts with my wife and our two children.