My research interests are interdisciplinary, transatlantic, and cover nineteenth and twentieth-century literature with a strong interest in theology and the visual arts. I am currently writing a book about William Blake and America, in which I argue that Blake’s major revival in twentieth-century American counterculture was rooted in his nineteenth-century appeal to a peculiarly American Romanticism. When such diverse twentieth-century luminaries as Hart Crane, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Duncan and Saul Bellow revived, elevated and battled him, they read him alongside Whitman and Emerson, and they continued to make Blake relevant to contemporary questions of American political, literary and religious identity. This book explores Blake's presence in nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and culture in relation to the image of America found in Blake's own work.