Meyer teaches English and American literature and modern intellectual history at Washington University in St. Louis, where he specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry, literature, and science. He is the author of Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science. His current book project, Robust Empiricisms: Jamesian Modernism between the Disciplines, 1878 to the Present, examines a cross-disciplinary tradition that derives from psychologist and philosopher William James and mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and reaches from speculative philosophy to science studies, evolutionary developmental biology to literary criticism, and neurophysiology to poetry and fiction. Meyer is also working on a study of poet Jay Wright, whose cross-disciplinary inquiries fit squarely within the Jamesian modernist tradition.