Dr. Decker joined the English Department of UNLV in 2004. He previously taught at Boston University and was Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. His interests include British poetry from the 16th century to the twentieth, especially Victorian poetry, the history of literary criticism and poetics, textual criticism, the history of the book, and Shakespeare. He has published articles on allusion, literary influence, and the history of reading; and an edition of Edward FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1997). He is currently at work on a book manuscript entitled Shakespeare and Victorian Poetry. His teaching at UNLV includes courses on Victorian poetry (undergraduate and graduate) and British non-fiction prose from the Romantics to the fin de siècle as well as introductory courses on poetry and British literature.