Late Modernism: Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)
“‘I Have No Past Life at All’: William Burroughs, Autobiography, and the Cold War National Security State” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 22, no. 4 (2020): 360-91.
“‘The Strike’ Reborn: Ayn Rand, Revolutionary Literature, and the Postwar American Novel” Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 19, no. 2 (December 2019): 138-69.
“‘An Unusual and Peculiar Relationship’: Lesbianism and the American Cold War National Security State” Journal of the History of Sexuality 28, no. 2 (May 2019): 235-62.
“Removing the Mask of Sanity: McCarthyism and the Psychiatric-Confessional Foundations of the Cold War National Security State” Journal of American Studies 52, no. 4 (November 2018): 1066-1094.
“Proto-Postmodernism,” in American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960, ed. Steven Belletto (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
“Constructing a Plan for Survival: Scientology as Cold War Psychology,” Religion and American Culture 27, no. 2 (Summer 2017): 159-190.
“Barnett Newman and the Anarchist Sublime” Anarchist Studies 25, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 8-31.
“Understanding the POW Experience: Stress Research and the Implementation of the 1955 U.S. Armed Forces Code of Conduct,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 51, no. 2 (Spring 2015): 141-163.
“Participatory Art as Participatory Democracy: The American Avant-Garde in the 1950s and 1960s,” in A New Insurgency: The Port Huron Statement and Its Times, eds. Howard Brick and Gregory Parker (Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2015): 202-18.
“The Cold War Culture of Containment Revisited,” American Literary History 26, no. 3 (September 2014): 616-626.
“‘Mad to Talk, Mad to Be Saved’: Jack Kerouac, Soviet Psychology, and the Cold War Confessional Self,” Studies in American Fiction 40, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 27-52.
“Cold War Confessions and the Trauma of McCarthyism: Alfred Hitchcock’s I Confess and The Wrong Man,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 29, no. 2 (March 2012): 129-146.
“‘We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes’: Alfred Hitchcock, American Psychoanalysis, and the Construction of the Cold War Psychopath,” Canadian Review of American Studies 40, no. 2 (July 2010): 133-162.
“Witnessing Whittaker Chambers: Communism, McCarthyism, and the Confessional Self,” Intellectual History Review 18, no. 2 (July 2008): 243-258.
“‘With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility’: Cold War Culture and the Birth of Marvel Comics,” Journal of Popular Culture 40, no. 6 (December 2007): 953-978.
“‘Hypnotizzy’ in the Cold War: The American Fascination with Hypnotism in the 1950s,” Journal of American Culture 29, no. 2 (June 2006): 154-169. Received the Carl Bode award from the American Culture Association.
“Imagining Murderous Mothers: Male Spectatorship and the American Slasher Film,” Studies in the Humanities 33, no. 1 (June 2006): 101-123.
“‘I’m Not His Father’: Lionel Trilling, Allen Ginsberg, and the Contours of Literary Modernism,” College Literature 31, no. 2 (Spring 2004): 22-52.
“Toward a Theory of Rhetoric: Ralph Ellison, Kenneth Burke, and the Problem of Modernism,” Twentieth-Century Literature 48, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 191-214.
“Of Mystics and Lighthouse Keepers: The Moral Visions of William James and Josiah Royce,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 19, no. 1 (January 2002): 87-108.