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Associate Professor in English at University of Virginia.  ¶ Research in eighteenth-century literature and the digital humanities ¶ Fascinated by literary form, intellectual history, distant reading, and commonplace books ¶ Composed a dictionary of metaphors of mind that digests and analyzes examples collected in the database The Mind is a Metaphor (http://metaphorized.net) ¶ New projects are concerned with soliloquy, poetic diction, puzzles, and citation.