BA cum laude -  Yale University 1992.  

PhD - Cambridge University 1999. 

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 poetry from the 16th century to the twentieth, especially Victorian poetry; the history of literary criticism, poetics, and prosody; textual criticism, bibliography, and the history of the book; Shakespeare; and Henry James. He has published an edition of Edward FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1997; paperback 2008) and articles on allusion, literary influence, the history of reading, and Shakespeare in the nineteenth century. His teaching at UNLV includes undergraduate and graduate courses on Victorian poetry, Romanticism, British nineteenth-century non-fiction prose, Henry James, and bibliography and research methods.  He also teaches an introductory course on poetry intended primarily for non-majors.