Writing

Academic Writing

“The Underground Railroad (2016): Colson Whitehead.” The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics. Edited by Bryan M. Santin. (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

“Introduction.” The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics. Edited by Bryan M. Santin. (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

“Is or Are: The ‘United States’ in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture” (first author; co-authored with Daniel Murphy and Matthew Wilkens), American Quarterly 68.1 (March 2016)

“Kurt Gerstein and the Tragic Parable of ‘Clean Hands’: The Imaginative Role of Fiction in the Moral Calculus of William T. Vollmann” in William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion. Eds. Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes. (University of Delaware Press, 2015)

Book Reviews

“Review Essay: Whence Came the Modern American Right?” The Review of Politics 85.3 (Summer 2023)

Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction, by Richard Jean So (Columbia University Press, 2020). Resources for American Literary Studies 44.1-2 (October 2022)

When Sorrow Comes: The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter, by Melissa M. Matthes (Harvard University Press, 2021). The Review of Politics 84.3 (Summer 2022)

Understanding William T. Vollman, by Işıl Özcan (The University of South Carolina Press, 2019). Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 9.1 (Spring 2021)

Thomas Pynchon in Context, edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Orbit: A Journal of American Literature 8.1 (Spring 2020)

If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right, by Christopher Douglas (Cornell University Press, 2016). Religion & Literature 49.1 (Spring 2017)

Public Writing

“Toni Morrison on Black Christian Conservatism.” Included in cluster entitled: “W(h)ither the Christian Right?” Post45 Contemporaries. September 2022.

“This Side of Paradise.” Short 2019 essay on the approaching centennial publication (1920) of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise. Concordia Book Review. April 2019.