Research Interests

  • R. L. Stevenson
  • Empirical study of metaphor
  • The history and theory of comedy
  • Narrative theory
  • Literary leitmotif


Work in Progress

  • A critical edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s New Arabian Nights, to be published as a volume in The New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
  • "Classical English Comedy and Cringe". Research article for a section "Comedy and Its Borders" in Connotations.