Editorial Positions and Publications

Editorial Positions:

Rodopi/Brill Dialogue Series, Editorial Board Member, 2011-2018

The goal of Dialogue is to expand the conversation devoted to literary authors, works, and forms. To that end, Dialogue publishes new and recent scholarship on literature that is eliciting critical debate. The series, in its twentieth volume, has covered such authors as John Steinbeck, Willa Cather, Alice Walker, Paul Bowles, Marilynne Robinson, and Sherwood Anderson. Future volumes may cover graphic novels, experimental non-fiction, and proletarian fiction. As a board member, I vetted proposals, acquired manuscripts, and helped to research and plan future series lines.

Boundary 2, Consulting Editor

For the international journal of theory and criticism, Boundary 2, I have reviewed manuscript submissions and prepared reader reports.

Books:

God-Fearing and Free: A Spiritual History of America’s Cold War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. 448 pp. [purchase] [preview]

Editor, New Essays on Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, Gilead, and Home. Dialogue 19 (Brill 2015). 304 pp. [preview ]

Ed., Protestantism on Screen: Religion, Politics, and Aesthetics in European & American Films (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Articles:

“Secularism,” American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930. Ed. Ichiro Takayoshi (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

“The Reckoning of Christianity,” American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940. Ed. Ichiro Takayoshi (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

“Religion,” American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960. Ed. Steven Belletto (Cambridge University Press, 2018).

“The Cul-de-Sac of Schmittian Political Theology: The Case of Paul Kahn’s Analysis of American Power,” Boundary 2. Aamir Mufti, ed. Special Issue: Antinomies of the Postsecular, Spring 2013.

“John Huston's Adaptation of Wise Blood and Hollywood's Response to the New South,” The Flannery O’Connor Review. 12 (2014): 99-117.

“Is sovereignty necessarily theological?” The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere. August 16, 2011. [link]

“Paul Kahn’s mis-prognosis of America’s social imaginary,” The Immanent Frame. August 22, 2011. [link]

“Introduction” and “Selected Bibliography,” Elmer Gantry: A New Edition. Signet Classics 2008. v-xxiii, 467-469.

“Should We Forget Reinhold Niebuhr?” Boundary 2. Summer 2007. 34(2): 135-148.

“Insurrection and Depression-era Politics in Selznick’s A Tale of Two Cities (1935)” Literature/Film Quarterly. July 2006, pp. 176-193. [link]

“Bear, Outlaw, and Storyteller: American Frontier Mythology and the Ethnic Subjectivity of N. Scott Momaday.” American Literature. 73:3 Fall 2001, pp. 599-631. Reprinted in Native American Writers. (New Edition) New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2010. Part of Harold Bloom’s Modern Critical Views series.

Reviews:

Stathis Gourgouris, Lessons in Secular Criticism (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013) for boundary 2. [link]

Kevin Schultz, Tri-faith America: How Catholics and Jews Held Postwar America to its Protestant Promise (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) for The American Historical Review.

Jonathan P. Herzog, The Spiritual-Industrial Complex: America’s Religious Battle against Communism in the Early Cold War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) for Journal of American History