My research interests include Romantic-period British literature and textual studies, which is concerned with the production, transmission, and reception of texts of all kinds in multiple media, including digital media. My publications have included books such as The Satiric Eye, (ed., 2003), a collection of essays on Romantic-period satire, and Against Technology (2006), about the historical Luddite movement (1812-17) and how, almost 200 years later, the term “Luddite” has come to mean someone who is simply “against technology.”

My recent book,The Meaning of Video Games (2008), takes a textual-studies approach to games and game-related media, including Myst and LOST, Katamari Damacy and Otaku culture, Halo and I Love Bees, Façade, the Star Trek holodeck, and theatrical improv, NIntendo’s Wii platform, and Will Wright’s Spore. In an essay for the January 2009 PMLA, I explore the connections between Second Life, video games, and textuality. For more on my research, see my curriculum vitae.