William Glover specializes in early American literature and transatlantic literature of the long eighteenth century. He has a particular interest in non-fiction texts; his Ph.D. dissertation, “The Poetics of Colonial Accounting in Early America,” explored the paradoxical relationship between two seemingly opposed rhetorical strands in early American culture: on the one hand, a drive to quantify, measure, and systematize (especially in matters of land and resources); on the other, a deep aesthetic investment in the boundless, the ineffable, and the Edenic. His work has appeared in Early American Literature, The Wordsworth Circle, and a recent edited volume on early modern travel writing. He teaches classes in First-Year Writing and American Literature.