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The Place of Literature: Ben Jonson and the Politics of Land in Early Modern England: book on Ben Jonson's country house poems in relation to national, local, and family identity, 1580-1615 (in progress).
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"Erich Auerbach's Philological Analysis of European Literary History and the Inter-War Cultural Politics of Pauline Theology" (article in progress).
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Authorizing Words: Speech, Writing, and Print in the English Renaissance, Cornell University Press, 1989.
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"Re-organizing the Encyclopedia: Vices and Ramus on Medieval Aristotelianism," in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Vol III: Renaissance to Late Seventeenth Century. Ed. Glyn P. Norton, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
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"George Herbert's Hieroglyphic Poems and the Materiality of Language: A New Approach to Renaissance Hieroglyphics." ELH, 50 (1983), 245-60.