"Why Coriolanus Snow Can't Tell His Own Story: Point of View in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes." Interpreting the Hunger Games Prequels: A New Generation. Ed. Thomas Paradis. McFarland, forthcoming. 
"The Ickabog as Concordance for the Rowling Catastrophe." In Potions, Powers, and Prejudice: Reassessing Harry Potter. Ed. Jason D. Phillips, Jordan Ruud, and Nicki Stancil. Litwin Books, forthcoming. 
"The Ickabog, Monsters and Monstrosity." In The Ivory Tower, Harry Potter, and Beyond." Ed. Lana A. Whited. University of Missouri Press, 2024. 
"Here Be Dragons and Phoenixes: A Thematic Direction for the Fantastic Beasts Series." Potterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter. Ed. Kathryn N. McDaniel and Emily Strand. McFarland, 2023. pp. 49-66. 
"Appalachian Fairy Tales." Review of Appalachian Fairy Tales ed. by Stacey Sivinski and illustrated by Jamie Sivinski, Appalachian Journal, Spring/Summer 2023, pp. 295-98. 
"Coming of Age in the Opioid Era: Demon Copperfield." Review of Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Appalachian Journal, Fall/Winter 2023, pp. 128-33. 
with Sharon E. Stein, “Arts in the Laboratory: An Inquiry-Based Multidisciplinary Approach to Honor Education,” The Synergistic Classroom: Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Small College Setting, Ed. Corey Campion and Aaron Angello. Rutgers U P, 2020. 
"Saving Ourselves: A Conversation with Beth Macy," Appalachian Journal, vol. 27, nos. 1-2, Fall-Winter 2020, pp. 38-53. 
(editor) "Saving Ourselves: A Symposiuim on the Opioid Epidemic," Appalachian Journal, vol. 27, nos. 1-2, Fall-Winter 2020, pp. 54-79. 
“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Greaser: The Outsiders as Künstlerroman,” Critical Insights: The Outsiders, ed. M. Katherine Grimes. Hackensack, NJ: Grey House, 2018. 
"Dystopian Copycat or YA Lit on Fire? The Critical Reception of The Hunger Games Novels," Critical Insights: The Hunger Games, Hackensack, NJ: Grey House, 2016. pp. 50-75. 
“From Sorcerer’s Stone to Deathly Hallows: The Failed Quest for Immortality in the Harry Potter Series.”  In Critical Insights: The Harry Potter Series. Edited by Lana A. Whited and M. Katherine Grimes. Hackensack, NJ: Grey House, 2015. 306-25. 
“A Survey of the Critical Reception of the Harry Potter Series.”  In Critical Insights: The Harry Potter Series. Edited by Lana A. Whited and M. Katherine Grimes. Hackensack, NJ: Grey House, 2015.  49-81. 
“Coal Miner’s Daughter as Reality Show Contestant: A Review of The Hunger Games on Film.”  Journal of Appalachian Studies.  18.1-2 (2012): 326-31. 
“From Hogwarts Academy to the Hero’s Journey.”Teaching with Harry Potter: Essays on Classroom Wizardry from Elementary School to College.  Ed Valerie Estelle Frankel.  Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2013.  4-20. 
“The Ballad of Tom Dooley by Sharyn McCrumb.” Review.  Appalachian Journal.   40.1-2 (2013):  125-27. 
Frankel, Valerie Estelle.  “Lana Whited: Headmistress and Creator of Hogwarts Academy.” Interview. In Harry Potter: Still Recruiting.  Zossima, 2012. 
“True Crime Stories.”  Masterplots:  Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction.  Ed. Carl Rollyson.  Salem Press, 2008.  5 vols. 
Review of Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell.  By Sharon Hatfield.  Appalachian Journal 33 (2006): 354-58 
“Blue Ridge Institute and Museum."  Encyclopedia of Appalachia.  Ed. Jean Haskell Speer and Rudy Abramson.  Knoxville:  U of Tennessee P, 2006. 
“1492, 1942, 1992:  The Theme of Race in the Harry Potter Series.”  Through the Looking Glass 10.1 (2006).  http://www.the-looking-glass.net/rabbit/v10i1/alice5.html  Previously presented at conferences of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association and the Popular Culture Association of America/Popular Culture Association of the South. 
Review of Ghost Riders by Sharon McCrumb.  Appalachian Journal  31.3-4 (2004):  416-18. 
"'Based on a True Story':  Using The Ballad of Frankie Silver to Teach the Conventions of Narrative." From a Race of Storytellers:  The Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb.  Ed. Kimberley M. Holloway.  Mercer U P, 2003:  33-50.  Available on AppLit:  Resources for Teaching Appalachian Literature for Children and Young Adults. Ed. Tina Hanlon. www.ferrum.edu/thanlon/applit.htm 
“Naturalism’s Middle Ages: The Nonfiction Homicide Novel 1930-1960.” In Twisted from the Ordinary:  Essays on American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Mary Papke.  Knoxville:  U of Tennessee P, 2003.  Also presented at the 1999 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference.  Atlanta.   	 
“McGonagall’s Prophecy Fulfilled:  The Harry Potter Critical Library.”  The Lion and Unicorn  27.3 (2003):  416-25. 
“What Would Harry Do?  J. K. Rowling and Lawrence Kohlberg’s Theories of Moral Development.”  In The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter. U of Missouri, 2002. 182-208. 
Review of Songcatcher by Sharyn McCrumb.  Appalachian Journal.  30 (Spring 2002). 
Review of A Tree Accurst:  Bobby McMillan and Stories of Frankie Silver by Daniel Patterson.  Appalachian Journal.  Spring 2001:  394-97. 
 with Tina Hanlon.  “Ferrum Performers Keep Jack Tales Alive.”  alca-lines:  Journal of The Assembly on the Literature and Culture of Appalachia.  NCTE  5.1 (1997):  20-23. 
 “Suicide in Beth Henley’s Crimes of the Heart and Marsha Norman’s ‘night, Mother.”  The Southern Quarterly.  36.1 (Fall 1997):  65-74. 
The Iron Blade:  A Handbook for Staff Members.  Ferrum College, 1996.  
"An American Tragedy " (annotated bibliography)  Masterplots:  Twentieth Anniversary Revised Second Edition.  1996. 
"Torch Song Trilogy" (summary and critical analysis).  Masterplots:  Twentieth Anniversary Revised Second Edition.  1996.