Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature. Articles on Swift, Addison, Rousseau, and Habermas. Currently working on three projects: a study of the aesthetics and politics of force in Shaftesbury, Addison, Dubos, Hume, and Rousseau; a study of publishing as literary speculation in Swift and Defoe; and co-edited volume on Politics and the Passions from Bacon and Descartes to Kant and Hegel. Research and teaching interests: eighteenth-century English and French literature; eighteenth-century aesthetic, moral, and political philosophy; print culture; poststructuralist theory.