Embedded Files
Articles
Articles
“Literary Gatekeeping in Midwestern Classrooms: Book Challenges, Early Reading Instruction, and Reading in Context.” Midwestern Miscellany LII (Spring-Fall 2024). Guest Editor, John Rohrkemper. 109–138.
"Unraveling the Yarn at the Center of Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'The Lost Ghost.'" The Explicator 82.2 (2024). 72–76.
“There’s No Place Like Home: Midwestern Intertextual Play and Spiritual Renewal in The Great Gatsby.” Midwestern Miscellany XLV (Fall 2017). Guest Editor, Ross Tangedal. 45–55.
“Publishing from Flyover Country: The Rejection of Heartland Iconography by Contemporary Midwestern Literary Magazines.” Midwestern Miscellany XLV (Spring 2017). Guest Editor, Andy Oler. 52–69.
“‘Here Comes the Show Boat!’: Show Boat and the Case for Regionalism.” Cinema Journal 56.1 (Nov. 2016). 63–87.
“Living in the Holes with Badgers: Nostalgia, Children’s Literature, and O Pioneers!” Willa Cather Newsletter and Review 57.3 (Winter/Spring 2015). 17–22.
“The Moving Was Over and Done’: The Professor’s House and Middle America.” MidAmerica XL (2013). 29–38.
“‘He Who Walks Behind the Rows’: Agricultural Horror Films and the American Farm Crisis of the 1980s.” MidAmerica XXXIX (2012). 82–99.
Book Chapters
Book Chapters
“Introduction" (with others). Carolyn Renfrew, The Shining Road. Hastings, Nebraska: Hastings College Press, 2022. vii–lv.
"Introduction" (with Wesley R. Bishop) and "Notes on Editing." Aaron Belford Thompson, Priscilla Jane Thompson, and Clara Ann Thompson, The Rossmoyne Renaissance. Hastings, NE: Hastings College Press, 2021. vii-lxxviii.
“Introduction.” Belle K. Maniates, Amarilly of Clothes Line Alley. Hastings, NE: Hastings College Press, 2017. vii–xix.
“Introduction.” Belle K. Maniates, Our Next-Door Neighbors. Hastings, NE: Hastings College Press, 2015. vii–xxii.
“Davy Crockett and Aunt Jemima in Disneyland: An Introduction to Visual Culture.” How We See: Hastings College’s Introduction to the Liberal Arts, 2015–2016. Hastings, NE: Hastings College Press, 2015. 15–37.
“Pollyanna: Intersectionalities of the Child, the Region, and the Nation.” Eleanor Hodgman Porter’s Pollyanna at 100, Ed. Roxanne Harde and Lydia Kokkola. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014. 172–88.
“For Those Non-Midwestern, Midwestern Writers: Toni Morrison, Richard Powers, and the Midwest Topos.” Midwestern Literature. Ed. Ron Primeau. Ipswich, MA: Salem, 2014. 45–58.
Reviews
Reviews
Cathryn Halverson, Faraway Women and the Atlantic Monthly. American Periodicals 33.1 (2023). 84–86.
Jason Stacy, Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town. Annals of Iowa 81.3 (Summer 2022). 291–93.
Austen Barron Bailly, ed., American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood. Middle West Review 3.2 (Spring 2017). 124–27.
“Judy Garland and MGM’s Nostalgic Midwestern Home.” Middle West Review 4.1 (Fall 2017). 209–29.
Miscellaneous Essays
Miscellaneous Essays
“The Humanities Model Is in Trouble—Let’s Rethink It.” Middle West Review 10.2 (Spring 2024). 143–49.
“The Wrath of Achilles.” The Gold Room (blog), May 14, 2023.
“Teaching in McCormick, Part 1: The Classrooms.” The Gold Room (blog), April 24, 2020.
“The Rime of the American Mariner: Image Comics’ Manifest Destiny.” The Gold Room (blog), April 7, 2020.
Edited Series
Edited Series
(with Jon K. Lauck) Rediscovering the American Midwest. Hastings, Nebraska: Hastings College Press, 2016–present.
The Making of the Midwest: Essays on the Formation of Midwestern Identity, 1787-1900. Ed. Jon K. Lauck. 2020.
Pieces of the Heartland: Representing Early-Twentieth-Century Midwestern Places. Ed. Andy Oler. 2018.
The American Midwest in a Scattering Time: How Modernism Met Midwestern Culture. Ed. Sara Kosiba. 2018.
The Midwestern Moment: The Forgotten World of Early-Twentieth-Century Midwestern Regionalism. Ed. Jon K. Lauck. 2017.
Edited Books
Edited Books
Answering the Siren’s Call. Hastings, Nebraska: Hastings College Press, 2016. [Limited edition for INT 101 Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar, Spring 2017]
(with Phoebe Bronstein) Everybody Eats: A Casebook for Writers. Introduction by James Crosswhite. Eugene, OR: University of Oregon Composition Program, 2010.
The Culture of Science: A Casebook for Writers. Introduction by James Crosswhite. Eugene, OR: University of Oregon Composition Program, 2008.
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