• Romanticism
• Theory, psychoanalysis
• Romantic and modern poetry
• Women's literature
• Eighteenth-and nineteenth-century novel

• Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in The Romantic Tradition (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).
• Romanticism, ed. C. Chase. Longmans Critical Readers (London: Longman, 1992).
• "Anecdotes for Fathers: The Scene of Interpretation in Freud and Wordsworth," in Textual Analysis: Some Readers Reading, ed. Mary Ann Caws (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1986), 182-206.
• "`Transference' as Trope and Persuasion," in Discourse in Psychoanalysis and Literature, ed. Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan. (London: Methuen, 1987), 211-32.
• "The Witty Butcher's Wife: Freud, Lacan, and the Conversion of the Resistance to Theory," MLN 102:3 (December 1987), 989-1013.
• "Trappings of an Education," Responses: On Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism, ed. W. Hamacher, N. Hertz and T. Keenan (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989), 44-79.
• "Desire and Identification in Lacan and Kristeva," in Feminism and Psychoanalysis, ed. Richard Feldstein and Judith Roof (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989), 65-84.
• "Monument and Inscription: Wordsworth's `Rude Embryo' and the Remaining of History," in Romantic Revolutions, ed. K. Johnston et al. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990), 50-77.
• "Translating Romanticism: Literary Theory as the Criticism of Aesthetics in the Work of Paul de Man," Textual Practice 4:3 (1990), 349-75.
• "Translating the Transference: Psychoanalysis and the Construction of History," Telling Facts: History and Narration in Psychoanalysis, ed. Humphrey Morris and Joseph H. Smith (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), 103-126. German translation in Memoria: Vergessen und Erinnern (Poetik und Hermeneutik volume XV), ed. Anselm Haverkamp (Munich: Fink Verlag, 1993), 197-219.
• "Paul de Man," Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory, ed. M. Groden et al. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
• "Reading Epitaphs," in Deconstruction is/in America, ed. Anselm Haverkamp (New York: New York University Press, 1994).
• "Literary Theory as the Criticism of Aesthetics: De Man, Blanchot, and Romantic Allegories of Cognition," in Critical Encounters, ed. Cathy Caruth and Deborah Esch (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995).
• "Metaphor and Knot (Philosophy’s Problem)," Meaning, Frame and Metaphor, ed. Michael Burke and Joyce Goggin (Amsterdam: ASCA Press, 2002)
• "Double-Take. Reading de Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes." in Legacies of Paul de Man, ed. Marc Redfield. Romantic Circles Praxis (College Park, Md.: University of Maryland Press, 2005).

University Service:

• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Literature, 2001-03.
• Undergraduate Admissions, 1997-99, 2000-03.
• Graduate Teaching Review and Clark Awards, 1995.
• University Admissons and Financial aid Committee, 1994-96.
• Graduate Admissions Committee, 1993-94, 1996-97.
• Hull Fund Committee, 1992-95, Chair 1994-95.
• Director of Graduate Studies, English (Graduate Field Representative), 1988-90.
• Appointments Committee, 1985-86, 1994-95, 2002-03.
• Faculty Council of Representatives, 1984-88.
• Chair, Honors Committee, 1981-84.
• Graduate Policy and Curriculum Committee, 1980-81, 1988-90.

• Co-Editor, Special Issues of Diacritics.

"Cherchez la femme" (Feminist issue) 12:2 (Summer 1982)
"Wordsworth and the Production of Poetry," 17:4 (Winter, 1987)
two issues on Walter Benjamin, in 1992 and 1993

• Editor, special issue of Diacritics on Paul de Man, 20:3, Fall 1990
• Executive Committee, MLA Division on Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century, 1985-90.
• Member, Delegate Assembly, Modern Language Association, 1984-87.
• Editorial Board, Diacritics, 1981-2000.