Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Defining and Teaching Close Reading as Disciplinary Method.” Pedagogy. Forthcoming. 

“Baseball as Form: Narrative and Temporality in The Cactus League.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2025): 1-16. 

“Novel Accents: Reading Realist Voices in The Bostonians.” The Henry James Review 44.2 (2023): 166-82. 

“Chase Berggrun’s R E D and Transfeminist Erasure: Uncovering a ‘Queer Tongue’ in Dracula.” Neo-Victorian Studies 14.1 (2021/22): 212-31. 

“Voicing an Epic for the Age in The Prelude and Aurora Leigh.” Victorian Poetry 57.2 (2019): 223-44.  

 “Human Agency in the Face of Telegraphic Determinism: Sentiment and Satire in Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It?” American Literary Realism. 51.3 (2019): 261-80.

“Transatlantic Elegies for Boyhood: First-Person Adventure Narratives After 1865.” The Lion and the Unicorn 41.1 (2017): 61-78. 

“Silence as Resistance in Pat Barker’s Regeneration and Assia Djebar’s Children of the New World.” Twentieth-Century Literature 62.4 (2016): 429-47. 

 “Representing the Integration of Baseball to a New Generation.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 41.4 (2016): 384-402.

“The Ethics of Risk in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South: The Role of Capital in an Industrial Romance.” Victorian Review 40.2 (2014): 55-71.

Book Reviews

Review of Sex, Celibacy, and Deviance: The Victorians and the Song of Songs by Duc Dau. Christianity & Literature. Forthcoming. 

“Floods, Fonts, and Waterways in Midwestern Poetry: A Review Essay.” MidAmerica 51 (2024): 109-118.

Review of Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader by Hannah Field. The Lion and the Unicorn 44.1 (2020): 114-16. 

Review of The Lyric in Victorian Memory: Poetic Remembering and Forgetting from Tennyson to Housman by Veronica Alfano. Victoriographies 9.2 (2019): 199-201. 

Review of Lecturing the Atlantic: Speech, Print, and an Anglo-American Commons 1830-1870 by Tom F. Wright. Literature and History 27.2 (2018): 221-23.

 Poems in Journals

“Manifesto for Deathright Citizenship”; “Mothery Is the Drowned Self: A Memoir”; and “Nine Years.” The Corpus Callosum (2024): 105-10. 

“The Beach That Came Back” and “After Ever After.” Plainsongs (2023): 22-23.

“Newborn.” Plainsongs (2022): 22.

"Researching Communication Technologies." Plainsongs (2021): 20.

“An Example of Fairy-Tale Logic.” aurora journal (2020): 7.

"The Mist Blower." Plainsongs (2020): 52.

"Ease." Plainsongs (2019): 81. 

“The First Man.” Long River Review (2016): 55.

“Trio.” Long River Review (2015): 28.

Digital Publications and Projects

“Too Many Courses, Too Few Friends: Thriving as First-Year Faculty in a New Environment.” Guest Column on New Faculty Transitions. Junior Prof: Confessions of an Assistant Professor Working Toward Tenure. 1 August 2019. 

“The Transatlantic Circulation of Narrative Form: The Case of William Godwin and Charles Brockden Brown.” Teaching Romanticism XX: Transatlantic Romanticism, Part 1. Ed. Daniel Cook and Christopher Stampone. Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840. 25 April 2017. 

“Skin and the Limits of Cross-Species Sympathy in The Jungle Books.” British Association for Victorian Studies Postgraduate Researcher Blog. 16 January 2017. 

“John Temple Papers: Tracing Poetic Revision in The Ridge”: an online exhibition to showcase multiple material instantiations of poems from the archives. 2016-18. 

 “Conference Report: Cosmopolitanism, Aestheticism, and Decadence, 1860-1920.” Co-authored with Katharina Herold. Journal of Victorian Culture Online. 24 July 2014. 

“Reading Serially: The Resurrection of a Victorian Reading Experience?” Journal of Victorian Culture Online. 21 June 2014.