My principal fields are American poetry, postcolonial studies, and literary theory. I am the author of Mastery’s End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry (University of Georgia Press) and of many articles on American and Latin American literature. My poetry has appeared in the in the American Poetry Review, the Atlantic, the Yale Review, PN Review, Western Humanities Review, and other periodicals. I am also the English translator of Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s novels The African Shore (Yale University Press) and Chaos, a Fable (Amazon Crossing), and editor or co-editor of several anthologies, including the five-volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry (Greenwood), The News from Poems: Essays on the New American Poetry of Engagement (University of Michigan Press), The New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st Century Anthology (McFarland) and the Companion to American Poetry (Wiley-Blackwell).