Recent Articles

Book Chapters (refereed)

“Book-Time in Charles Lamb and Washington Irving.” Romanticism and Time: Literary Temporalities. Edited by Sophie Laniel-Musitelli and Céline Sabiron. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2021. 145-62.

Journal Articles (refereed)

“Without the Power to Die: Dickinson’s Longevity.” English Literary History 89.2 (2022): 437-62.

“Living Too Long: Republican Time in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Novels.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 77.1 (2022): 29-55.

“Rip Van Winkle’s Coat: Inheriting the American Republic.” Textes et Contextes 17.1 (2022).

“If Bird or Devil: Meta-Plagiarism in ‘The Raven.’” The Edgar Allan Poe Review 19.1 (2018): 88-103.

“Trouble in Paradise: The Picturesque Fictions of Irving and His Successors.” ESQ 62.1 (2016): 1-37.

Book Reviews

“Review of Adulthood and Other Fictions, by Sari Edelstein.” In the Journal of American Studies 55.4 (2021): 976-77.

“Review of Someone Somewhere, by Dana Mills.” In The Bull Calf Review 5.2 (2015), McGill University.

“Review Siege 13, by Tamas Dobozy.” In The Bull Calf Review. 4.2 (2014), McGill University.

“Review of Conflict, by Christine McNair.” In The Bull Calf Review 3.3 (2014), McGill University.

Public Writing

“The World According to Margaret Atwood.” [Stanford TechingWriting] December 15, 2022

“The Birth of Immortality.” [Forthcoming in the Los Angeles Review of Books.]

Magnificent Wreck: Samuel Taylor Coleridge at 250. [Forthcoming in Public Books.]

“What’s The Crown Without a Living Queen Elizabeth II?” Literary Hub. November 7, 2022.

“What’s the Point of a Prequel When We All Know Things End Badly?” Literary Hub. September 30, 2022.

“Edgar Allen Poe Needs a Friend.” Lapham’s Quarterly. September 7, 2021.

“Why Should We Read Unfinished Novels?” Literary Hub. January 22 2021.

“Emily Dickinson is the unlikely hero of our time.” The Conversation. August 26 2020.

[Adapted and republished by Actively Learn as test material for 12th-grade students]

https://teachingwriting.stanford.edu/news/world-according-margaret-atwood

Podcasts

Contributor. “Stuffed: Taxidermy in the History of America.” Backstory. November 23 2018. https://www.backstoryradio.org/shows/stuffed/

Blogs

Contributor. “Finding Bleak House in Martin Chuzzlewit.” Dickens Society Blog. April 24 2017. https://dickenssociety.org/archives/1599