"Introduction to 'Poetics of Fact, Politics of Fact'" -- a "theories and methodologies" essay cluster co-edited with Chenxi Tang (Berkeley), PMLA 134.5 (2019): 1109-1114.

Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity , Columbia University Press, January 2013.

Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773-1892 . New York and London: Routledge, 2007; paperback 2009.

(ed.) Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War. New York: Modern Language Association, 2016.

Series Editor with Laura Doyle and Maria Cristina Fumagalli; Edinburgh Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures.

"Forms That Matter: The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book and the Invention of Life-Style Writing." Feminist Modernist Studies 5 (20), September 2022. 161-180.

"Bodies at War." The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body, ed. Travis Foster, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 73-86.

"Afterword," Animals and Animality in the Literary Field. Eds. Bruce Boehrer, Molly Hand, Brian Massumi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

"Species States: Animal Control in Phil Klay's Redeployment." Control Culture: Foucault and Deleuze after Discipline. Ed. Frida Beckmann. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.  

"Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery." American Periodicals. 26 (2), Fall 2016: 149-166.

"The Civil War's 'Empty Sleeve' and the Cultural Production of Disabled Americans." J 19: TheJournal of Nineteenth Century Americanists. 3 (1): Spring 2015. 41-65.

"Emily Dickinson's Animal Pedagogies." PMLA 124 (2), March 2009, 533-541.

"Margaret Fuller's American Translation." American Literature 76 (1), March 2004: 31-58.

Opinion Pieces in The New York Times, The Guardian, PBS Need to Know, Huffington Post.

(Ed.) Where is All My Relation: The Poetics of Dave the Potter (2018).

(Ed) Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels (2011).

Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative (2008).

"'I Knew Then Who I Was. I Was a Negro': Black Armed Defense in Walter White's A Man Called White." MELUS 49.1 (2024): 122-143.

"On U.S. Presidential Effigy." American Studies 63.1 (2024): 7-31.

"Depicting African American Life in Graphics and Visual Cultures."  In A History of African American Autobiography, ed., Joycelyn Moody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021: 327-343.

"Words, Wares, Names: Dave the Potter as American Archive." Anglia. Journal of English Philology / Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 138.3 (2020): 1-20.

"Anarchic Strains in the Comics of Ronald Wimberly and Keith Knight." SubStance: Special Issue on Comics and Anarchy 46.2 (2017): 110-128.

"Signifying Marks and The 'Not Counted' Inscriptions of Dave the Potter." Arizona Quarterly 72.4 (Winter 2016): 1-25.

"Digression, Slavery, and Failing to Return in The Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke." Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 39.4 (Fall 2016): 511-534.

"The Cartoonal Slave." In The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Culture, eds. Soyica Colbert, Robert Patterson, and Aida Hussen. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2016. 168-94.

"Slave Memory Without Words in Kyle Baker's Nat Turner." Callaloo 36.2 (2013): 279-297.

"The Concatenate Poetics of Slavery and the Articulate Material of Dave the Potter." African American Review 44.4 (2011): 607-18.

"Animal Subjects of the Graphic Novel." College Literature 38.3 (2011): 129-149. 

"Terrors of the Mirror and the Mise en Abyme of Graphic Novel Autobiography," College Literature 38:3 (2011) 21-44.

"'Heartfelt Thanks to Punch for the Picture': Frederick Douglass and the Transnational Jokework of Slave Caricature," American Literature 82:1 (2010) 57-90.

"Drawing on History in Recent African American Graphic Novels," MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 32:3 (2007) 175-200.

"Slave Cyborgs and the Black Infovirus: Ishmael Reed's Cybernetic Aesthetics," Modern Fiction Studies 49:2 (2003) 261-283.

"Picturing the Mother, Claiming Egypt: My Bondage and My Freedom as Auto(bio)ethnography." African American Review 35.3 (2001): 391-408.

Articles and Chapters

"On Impersonal and Personal Data." American Literature 97, no. 3 (2025): 467-490

"Beyond Computational Formalism or, Architecture Matters," Journal of Cultural Analytics 10, no. 3 (2025).

"Early Machine Learning and Artificial Animal Intelligences," Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 57, no. 1 (2024): 63-89.

"On the Confusion Matrix," Configurations 32, no. 4 (2024): 331-350.

"On Reading and Interpreting Black Box Deep Neural Networks," International Journal of Digital Humanities 5 (2023): 431–449.

"Objective Vision: Confusing the Subject of Computer Vision," Social Text 41, no. 3 (2023): 35-55.

"Memorization and Memory Devices in Early Machine Learning," Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture 4 (2023): 40-49.

"La governamentalità algoritmica nella pandemia da COVID-19," ["Algorithmic Governmentality and the COVID-19 Pandemic"] Ácoma: Rivista internazionale di Studi Nordamericani 22 (2022): 186-206.

Dobson, J.E and Sanders S., "Distant Approaches to the Printed Page," Digital Studies / Le champ numérique 12, no. 1 (2022): 1-28.

"Computation and Close Reading," Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 48, no. 3 (2021): 405-417.

"Vector Hermeneutics: On the Interpretation of Vector Space Models of Text," Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 37, no. 1 (2022): 81-93.

"Interpretable Outputs: Criteria for Machine Learning in the Humanities," DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly  15, no. 2 (2021).

"Narratives of the Later Lives of Frederick Douglass: Old-Age Autobiography Before Senescence" Common-place 17, no. 2 (2017).

"Knowing and Narration: Shirley Jackson and the Campus Novel." In Shirley Jackson: Influences and Confluences, edited by Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kröger, 123-141. New York: Routledge, 2016.

"Lucy Larcom and the Time of the Temporal Collapse." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 33, no. 1 (2016): 82-102.

"Can an Algorithm be Disturbed? Machine Learning, Intrinsic Criticism, and the Digital Humanities." College Literature 42, no.4 (2015): 543- 564. 

"Neighbors, Natural and Otherwise, in 'The Vox and the Wolf'." New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 89-114.

"Pearl: The Shadow of the Object, the Shape of the Law." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 26 (2004): 29-63. Reprinted in Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism Online. Thomas Gale, forthcoming.

"Naked Chaucer." In The Post-Historical Middle Ages, eds. Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico. Palgrave, 2009: 139-160.

"A Politics of Melancholia," co-authored with Klaus Mladek. In A Leftist Ontology, ed. Carsten Strathausen. University of Minnesota Press, 2009: 208-233.

"Henryson's Doubt: Neighbors and Negation in The Testament of Cresseid." Exemplaria 20.2 (2008): 165-196. Reprinted in Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates, eds. Holly Crocker and D. Vance Smith. Routledge, 2013. 

Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis, co-edited with Klaus Mladek. Duke University Press, 2017. 

"The Noise of Neighbors: An Essay on 'The Blacksmiths' and (Un)related Matters." Modern Philology 117.1 (August 2019): 1-23.

"Chaucerian Humor." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 41 (2019): 73-105.

"Response: Last Judgment on the Neighbor." Exemplaria 32.3 (2020): 269-281.

"Pulling Back from Politics: Second Nature and Oikonomia in the Franklin's Tale." Chaucer Review 56.3 (July 2021): 225-257.

"Guilt Historicism: Walter Benjamin's 'Capitalism as Religion,' Aura, and the Case of Chaucer's Pardoner." Exemplaria 34.2 (July 2022):103-129.

A Politics of Melancholia: From Plato to Arendt, coauthored with Klaus Mladek (Princeton University Press, 2024).

"Digital Sound, Thought," in Sound Thinking, Bloomsbury Academic, (forthcoming 2017).

"Touch in the Abstract," SubStance 40:3 (2011), iss. 126.

"Web 2.0 and the Ontology of the Digital," Digital Humanities Quarterly :http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/ (2012).

"The Logic of Digital Gaming" in Mechademia 6 . Frenchy Lunning (ed.), University of Minnesota Press (Winter 2011).

"Icon Icon," inflexions :http://www.inflexions.org (Fall 2010, Issue 4: Transversal Fields of Experience), http://www.inflexions.org. 12 pages.

"Digital Ontology and Example" in Deleuze, Science, and the Force of the Virtual , University of Minnesota Press (Spring 2010). 169–202.

Sound Ideas: Music, Machines, and Experience, University of Minnesota Press (2005).

Horse In the Dark. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2012

Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Prize

Blue-tail Fly. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006

Poets & Writers Magazine Notable Debut

"Agamben's Grammar of the Secret Under the Sign of the Law," Law and Critique 20.3 (2009): 281-297. 

"'Faintly Struggling Things': Trauma, Testimony, and Inscrutable Life in Beckett's The Unnamable." Samuel Beckett: History, Memory, Archive. Ed. Séan Kennedy and Katherine Weiss. New York: Palgrave, 2009. 89-111.

"'Disdaining Bounds of Place and Time,' Staining Language with Furze and Burvine: John Clare's Nomadic Poetics." Blackwell Literature Compass 3.3 (2006): 376-387.

"Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel," Agamben's Philosophical Lineage.  Ed. Adam Kotsko and Carlo Salzani.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.  138-145.

"The Genuine Memoirs of Miss Faulkner" and "The Modern Atalantis; or the Devil in an Air Balloon" in The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. Ed. April London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025.

"Hegel," "Kojève," "History," "Common," and "Derrida," The Agamben Dictionary. Ed. Alex Murray and Jessica Whyte. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.

"James Williams," The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Franklin W. Knight. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

"The Stationers' Shakespeare" in Shakespeare's Stationers: New Essays in Cultural Bibliography ed. Marta Straznicky (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), 35-58

"Pamphlet Surplus: John Taylor and Subscription Publication," in Print, Manuscript, and Performance: The Changing Relations of the Media in Early Modern England , A Marotti and M Bristol (eds.), (2000).

"So Beloved that Men Use His Picture for Their Signs': Richard Tarlton and the Uses of Sixteenth-Century Celebrity," Shakespeare Studies , 23 (1995) 19-38.

"Wyatt's David," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 30 (1988): 320-344. Reprinted in Rethinking the Henrician Era, ed. Peter Herman (University of Illinois Press,1993).

"Thomas Deloney," Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature , (2006).

"Thomas Lodge," New Dictionary of National Biography , C Matthews (ed.), (2004).

Book:  Literal Figures: Puritan Allegory and the Reformation Crisis in Representation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995

Edition:  The John Milton Reading Room, an online study edition of Milton's complete poetry and selected prose, (https://milton.host.dartmouth.edu/reading_room/contents/text.shtml)

Edition: John Milton's Eikonoklastes (1650). An online study edition in The John Milton Reading Room with new annotations, hyperlinked resources and a new introduction. https://milton.host.dartmouth.edu/reading_room/eikonoklastes/text.shtml

Article: "Heroic Friendship in Dryden's Troilus and Cressida"   Studies in Philology 114 (2017): 197-221

Article: "Heroic Restorations: Dryden and Milton," in Milton Studies 59 (2018): 199-230.

Article: " Apprenticeship in Learning Design for Literature Courses "  in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education online at http://ahh.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1474022216635419v1.pdf?ijkey=eEpm0oT1AJwhekq&keytype=finite  February 2016

"What is English" in What is…? A Guided Tour of the Liberal Arts, Ed. Daniel Rockmore. Forthcoming from University Press of New England, 2017

Edition: John Milton. Latin epigrams from the Defense of the English People and the Second Defense. New English translations, introductions and annotations, 2015 (https://milton.host.dartmouth.edu/reading_room/epigrams/epigram_1/text…)

Edition: John Milton. The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth. A new edition with introduction and annotations, 2015. (https://milton.host.dartmouth.edu/reading_room/readie_and_easie_way/text.shtml)

Edition: A new annotated edition of John Milton's History of Britain https://milton.host.dartmouth.edu/reading_room/britain/text.shtml

"The Early Milton," an entry for the Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature,  Volume 2: 1558-1660, ed. Patrick Cheney and Philip Hardie. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, 641-55

Article:  "'How Human Life Began': Milton's Adam in Paradise Lost Book 9," in Sex Before Sex, edited by William Stockton, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2013, 263-90.

Article:  "Teaching Paradise Lost with an Online Edition" in Approaches to Teaching Paradise Lost, 2nd ed. Ed. Peter Herman. New York: Modern Language Association Press, 2012, 189-91.

Article:  Vicki V. May, Thomas H. Luxon, Kathy Weaver, Rachel Esselstein, and Cynthia Char. "Development of Case Stories by Interviewing Students about their Critical Moments in Science, Math, and Engineering Classes." Numeracy:  Advancing Education in Quantitative Literacy: The Electronic Journal of the National Numeracy Network 1.1 (2008) (http://services.bepress.com/numeracy/)

Article:  With Thomas Cormen and others, "Sources and Citation at Dartmouth College: why learning to cite sources is an essential part of your education." Online at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/sources/sources-citation.html

Article:  "One Soul vs. One Flesh: Friendship, Marriage, and the Puritan Self" in Trauma and Transformation: The Political Progress of John Bunyan, ed. Vera Camden. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007

Article:  "Milton and the Web" in Laura Lunger Knoppers & Gregory M. Colon Semenza, eds. Milton and Popular Culture.  New York: Macmillan Palgrave, 2006

Article:  "Humanist Marriage and the Comedy of Errors." Renaissance and Reformation 37 ed. Elizabeth Sauer and Jennifer Anderson (2001, pub. 2003): 45-65

Article: "Milton's 'Wedded Love': Not About Sex (as we know it)." Milton Studies 40, edited by Albert C. Labriola.  Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002, 38-60 (http://lion.chadwyck.com/searchFulltext.do?id=R01676192&divLevel=0&area…)

A new annotated edition of John Milton's The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth. https://milton.host.dartmouth.edu/reading_room/readie_and_easie_way/tex…, 2016

"What is English" in What is…? What are the Arts and Sciences (a guide for the curious), ed. Daniel Rockmore. Hanover NH: University Press of New England, 2017

Article:  "A Second Daniel: The Jew and the "True Jew" in The Merchant of Venice." Early Modern Literary Studies 4.3 (January, 1999): 1-31 (http://purl.oclc.org/emls/04-3/luxoshak.html)

Article: "Rough Trade: Milton as Ajax in the Place of Punishment."  Prose Studies: Literature, History, Theory 19 (1996): 282-91

Article: "'Other men's words' and Bunyan's 'New-birth,'" Texas Studies in Language and Literature 36 (1994): 260-89

Article: "'Not I but Christ': Puritan Allegories of the Self," ELH 60 (1993): 899-937

Article: "'Sentence' and 'Solaas': Particular Grief in The Knight's Tale." Chaucer Review 22 (1988): 13-35

Article: Calvin and Bunyan on Word and Image: Is There a Text in Interpreter's House?" English Literary Renaissance 18 (1988): 438-459

Article: "The Pilgrim's Passive Progress: Luther and Bunyan on Talking and Doing, Word and Way." ELH 53 (1986): 73-98

Article: "Queering as Critical Practice in Reading Paradise Lost" in Queer Milton edited David Orvis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 45-63

Christos Tsiolkas and the Fiction of Critique: Politics, Obscenity, Celebrity (London: Anthem Press, 2015)

Marcus Clarke's Bohemia: Literature and Modernity in Colonial Melbourne (Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press, 2004).

Cultural Politics in the 1790s: Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere (London: Macmillan Press, 1999).

Subtopia (Melbourne: Vulgar Press, 2005). Turkish Translation (Istanbul: Versus Kitap, 2006).

The White Body of Evening (Sydney: HarperCollins Australia, 2002, 2003). Japanese Translation (Tokyo: Kokushokankokai, 2009).

"Melancholy and the Masses: Siegfried Kracauer and the Media Concept," Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 43.1 (Winter 2021): 150-170.

"Sprechkunst and the Spell of the Commodity: Klaus Kinski on Tour," German Studies Review, 43.3 (October 2020): 517-535.

"Kinski Speaks Villon: Literary Media and the Poète Maudit, 1952-1962," Modernism/modernity Print Plus 3.3 (https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0072) (October 2018).

"Biopolitics and the Potentia of Literature," in Russell West-Pavlov ed., Literature and the Global South (Cambridge University Press, 2018): 134-144.

"Walter Benjamin's Sex Work: Prostitution and the State of Exception," Textual Practice vol. 28, no.1 (February 2014): 99-120.

"Ruins, Refuse and the Politics of Allegory in The Old Curiosity Shop," Nineteenth-Century Literature vol. 66, no. 2 (September 2011): 179-194.

"'In the Cage': Henry James's London", Publications in American Studies, University of Naples (2008).

“Geographies of Paradise ,” CR: The New Centennial Review , 3:1 (Spring 2003) 197-223.

“Travel in James’s The Ambassadors ,” Arizona Quarterly , 59 (2003).

“Revisions of Whiteness: Racialization, Capitalism, and Aesthetics in Stoker’s Dracula ,” Novel: A Forum on Fiction , 36:1, (Fall 2002) 42-60.

Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison , (1999).

Public and Private: Gender, Class, and the British Novel 1764-1878 , (1997).

Public and Private: Gender, Class, and the British Novel (1764-1878). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

"Spacing and Placing Experience in Toni Morrison's Sula." Modern Fiction Studies (1996)

"William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Experience in Passing." South Atlantic Quarterly 90 (1991): 579-632.

Heroic Commitment in Richardson, Eliot, and James. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.

"Satire in the Black Americas: Transnational Problematizations in Chappelle's Show and Ity and Fancy Cat." Contemporary African American Satire. Eds. James J. Donahue and Derek Maus. (Summer 2015, University Press of Mississippi).

"In Her Own Image: Literary and Visual Representations of Selfhood in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John." Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, 12.1 (Spring 2014)

Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon, New Caribbean Studies Series, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

"Through the Caribbean Sea and Other Waters: Loretta Collins Klobah's The Twelve Foot Neon Woman Enters a Woman Poet's World." Small Axe Salon, 4. (September 2012).

"Violent Liaisons: Historical Crossings and the Negotiation of Sex and Sexuality in The Book of Night Women and The True History of Paradise." Small Axe, 38. (July 2012).

"Traveling Humour Reimagined: The Comedic Unhinging of the Western Gaze in Caribbean Postcards." Caribbean Quarterly, 58.2-3. (June-September 2012).

"Synaesthesia and the Refracted Ethnographic Gaze in Nellie Rosario's Song of the Water Saints." Publication of the Afro-Latin American Research Association, 15 (October 2011), 108-120.

"Slackness and a Mento Aesthetic: Louise Bennett's Trickster Poetics and Jamaican Women's Exploration of Sexuality." Editor Ifeoma Nwankwo. Journal of West Indian Literature, 18.1. (November 2009).

“The Après-Coup: President Trump’s Counter-Transference of Power,”Amerikastudien / American Studiesvolume 66, no. 1, 2021, Common Grounds? American Democracy after Trump, eds.Cedric Essi, Heike Paul, and Boris Vormann.

Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies, co-edited with Winfried Fluck and John Carlos Rowe in Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies 2011

"Donald Trump’s Settler-Colonist State: A New Era of Illiberal Hegemony?” Trump’s America: Political Culture and National Identity,ed. Liam Kennedy (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2020).

“Returning from the Unending Korean War: Toni Morrison’s Home,” Neocolonial Fictions in the Global Cold War, ed. Joseph Keith and Steven Belletto (Iowa City:University of Iowa Press, 2019).

“The Uncanny Re-Worlding of the Post-9/11 American Novel, Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland;Or, The Cultural Fantasy Work of Neoliberalism,” Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature ed,Liam Kennedy and Stephen Shapiro (Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2019).

Introduction: Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies ed. Winfried Fluck, John Carlos Rowe, Donald Pease, Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies 2011

 “F.O. Matthiessen: Heir to American Jouissance,” Inheritance in Psychoanalysis,eds. Joel Goldbach and James A Godley, pp. 196-216  (SUNY Press: Albany, 2018).

“Gramsci/Agamben: Re-Configurations of American Literary Studies” RSA Journal, RSA Journal 26/2015 special issue American Studies and Italian Theory, edited by Mena Mitrano, August, 2017, pp. 110-115.

"From the Camp to the Commons: Biopolitical Alter-Geographies in Douglass and Melville,” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, Volume 72, Number 3, Autumn 2016.

“The Transnational/Diaspora Complex,” American Studies as Transnational Practice:Turning Towards the Trans-Pacific, eds. Yuan Shu and Donald Pease (Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2015). 

Futures of American Studies, (Duke University Press, 2002)

National Identities and Postnational Narratives, (Duke University Press, 1994)

New Americanists: Revisionist Interventions into the Canon, (Duke University Press, 1994)

Cultures of U.S. Imperialism, (Duke University Press, 1992) with Amy Kaplan

Editor and introduction: New Essays on the Rise of Silas Lapham, (Cambridge, 1991)

Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context, (University of Wisconsin, 1987)

The American Renaissance Reconsidered: Selected Papers of the English Institute, 1982-1983, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985) with Walter Benn Michaels.

New American Exceptionalism(University of Minnesota Press, 2009)—Nominated for the James Russell Lowell Prize at MLA

"Milton and the Literary Workhouse." Milton Studies, vol. 63 no. 2 (2021).

"Time in The Tempest: Shakespeare, The Mock-Tempest, and Early Modern Carceral Labor." Shakespeare Studies, Issue 49 (2021).

"Reading Utopia in the Reformation of Punishment." Renaissance Quarterly, 72.4, Winter 2019-2020.

"Marvell's double negatives: Oliver Cromwell and 'An Horatian Ode.'" English Literary History, 85.3, Fall 2018.

"Invisible Shakespeare." (Review essay). The Los Angeles Review of Books Online, 2016.

"Reading Puritan Masculinity through Trans Theory." Gender in American Literature and Culture. Eds. Jean M. Lutes and Jennifer Travis. Cambridge University Press, 2021: 66-81.

"Radical Unlearning: What Emily Dickinson Teaches US about Teaching." Bulletin of The Emily Dickinson International Society, vol. 32, 2 (NovDec 2020): 12-15.

Op-Eds

"Friendship as Civic Democratic Practice" LA Review of Books April 2017
"Who Doesn't Love a Wall?" LA Review of Books, July 2017

"Recovering the Native Origins of Dartmouth College through The Occom Circle." Dartmouth and the World: Religion and Political Economy circa 1769. Edited by Henry C. Clark. Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2022: 153-71.

Essays

"Hemispheric Horror, Neofeudal Empire, and the International Women's Strike," American Quarterly 74.3 (September 2022): 641-663.

"Reparative Reading and the Drug Wars' Queer Children" differences 33.1 (May 2022): 60-91. 

"Feminist Conspiracies, Security Aunties, and Other Surveillance State Fictions." Review of International American Studies 15.1 (Spring/Summer 2022): 51-68.

"Writing Refugee Crisis in the Age of Amazon: Lost Children Archive's Reenactment Play." Genre 54.1 (April 2021): 43-66.

"Infrastructural-Innovation Realism in An Age of Collapse." (with M Geidel) American Literary History 33.1 (Spring 2021): 103-132.

"'Sympathy with the Swamp: Reading Hurston in the Trumpocene," The Scholar & Feminist Online 16.2 (2020).

"Horror and the Arts of Feminist Assembly," Contemporaries at Post-45. April 2019.

"Trayvon Martin, Topdog/Underdog, and the Tragedy Trap. American Literary History (2017). 

"Loving in the Iraq War Years." College Literature 43.1 (Winter 2016): 121-144.

"The Queer Optimism of Jessie Tarbox Beals's Greenwich Village Postcards." Photography and Culture 7.3 (November 2014): 285-302.

"The Reparative Politics of Central America Solidarity Movement Culture." American Quarterly 66.3 (September 2014): 767-790.

"'Times When Greater Disciplines Are Born': The Zora Neale Hurston Revival and the Neoliberal Transformation of the Caribbean." American Literature 86.1 (March 2014): 117-145.

"Finding Haiti, Finding History in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God." Modernism/modernity 19.4 (November 2012): 755-774.

ESSAYS

"Loss and Dispossession in American Writing of the Great Depression," Money in American Literature, ed. Paul Crosthwaite (Cambridge University Press, in press)

"Settler Colonialism, Racial Capitalism, and 'Indigenous' Modernity," Jim Crow Modernism, ed. Robert Jackson (Oxford University Press, in preparation)

"Indigenous Modernism," Cambridge Companion to American Modernism, ed. Mark Whalan (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

"Indigeneity: Posthumanist Fantasy and Weird Reality," Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Animal, ed. Derek Ryan (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

"Locating Race," in Race in American Literature and Culture, ed. John Richard Ernest (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

"Indigenous Interruptions in the Anthropocene," PMLA Guest Column (Jan. 2021)

"Southern Literature and the Anthropocene/Capitalocene," in Insiders, Outsiders: New Directions in the Intellectual History of the American South, eds. Sarah E. Gardner and Steven M. Stowe (University of North Carolina Press, 2021)

"Karen Russell: A South without Borders," in 21st Century Southern Writers, eds. Jean W. Cash and Richard Gaughran (University Press of Mississippi, 2021)

"Fictions of the Native South," in The Cambridge History of the Literature of the U.S. South, ed. Harilaos Stecopoulos (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

"Orange is the New Red," Forum on Tommy Orange, PMLA (May 2020)

"The Afterlives of the Archive," Foreword to Indigenous Archives in the Digital Age (University Press of New England, 2019)

"Why Native Southern Literatures Matter," with Eric Gary Anderson, Introduction to Special Issue of Native South, ed. Melanie Benson Taylor and Eric Gary Anderson, volume 12 (2019)

 "Letting the Other Story Go: The Native South in and beyond the Anthropocene," with Eric Gary Anderson, Special Issue of Native South, ed. Melanie Benson Taylor and Eric Gary Anderson, volume 12 (2019)

"Katherine Anne Porter's Familiar Countries," American Literary History (Summer 2019)

"Doom and Deliverance: Faulkner's Dialectical Indian," Faulkner and the Native South (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series), (Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 2019)

"The Landscape of Disaster: Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, and the Soundings of Indigenous Silence," with Eric Gary Anderson, TSLL (Texas Studies in Language and Literature), Special Issue on "Modernism and Native America," 59.3 (Fall 2017)

"Introduction: Coming Home," I Am Where I Come From: Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories, eds. Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, and Melanie Benson Taylor (Cornell University Press, 2016)

"In Deep," South: A Scholarly Journal vol. xlviii (Fall 2015), 68-73

"Surviving the Economic Apocalypse: Capitalism, Consumption, and the Indian Imaginary in Karen Russell's Swamplandia!," Navigating Souths: Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region, eds. Michele Coffey and Jodi Skipper (forthcoming, University of Georgia Press, 2016)

 "Modernism [modernity; backwardness]" in Critical Terms for Southern Studies, eds. Scott Romine and Jennifer Greeson (University of Georgia Press, 2016)

"Faulkner's Doom: Capitalism, Colonialism, and All the Southern Dead," Undead Souths, eds. Eric Gary Anderson et al (Louisiana State University Press, 2015)

"Faulkner and the New Southern Studies," The New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner, ed. John T. Matthews (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

"Being the Emergency: Response to Hortense Spillers' 'States of Emergency,'" The Power of Writing, eds. Christiane Donahue and Kelly Blewett (University Press of New England, 2015)

"A Killing Greed: Capitalism, Casinos, and the Fetish of Culture in Contemporary Native American Literature," Created Unequal: Class and the Making of American Literature, eds. Andrew Lawson and Stephen Shapiro (Routledge, 2014)

"The Economics of Eating: Native Recipes for Survival in Contemporary Southeastern Indian Literature," Southern Foodways and Southern Literature, eds. David A. Davis and Tara Powell (University Press of Mississippi, 2014)

"Unsettling Accounts: The Violent Economies of the Ledger," Multiple Narratives in Plains Indian Ledger Art: Essays on the Mark Lansburgh Collection, ed. Colin Calloway (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012)

"The Indian in the American Literary Imagination," The Hovey Murals at Dartmouth College: Culture and Contexts, ed. Brian Kennedy (University Press of New England, 2011)

"The Native Screen: American Indians in Contemporary Southern Film," American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary, eds. Kathryn McKee and Deborah Barker (University of Georgia Press, 2011)

"The Fetish of Surplus Value; or, What the Ledgers Say," Global Faulkner (Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series) , A Trefzer and A Abadie (eds.), (2008)

"Indian Givers: Reterritorializing the South in Contemporary Native American Literature," Mississippi Quarterly , 60:1 (2007).

"Southern and Western Native Americans in Barry Hannah's Fiction," Perspectives on Barry Hannah , M Bone (ed.), (2006).

"'Carrying Our People's Bones': Louis Owens, South by Southwest," Pembroke Magazine , 38 (2006) 43-54.

 SELECTED REVIEWS

Review of Jay Watson, Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985 (University of Georgia Press, 2012) [for Modern Fiction Studies 60:4 (Winter 2014)]

Review of Steven C. Hahn, The Life and Times of Mary Musgrove (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012) [for Women's Review of Books, Wellesley College (Sept./Oct. 2013)]

Review of Geary Hobson, Janet McAdams, and Kathryn Walkiewicz, eds., The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal  (University of Oklahoma Press, 2010) [for American Indian Quarterly 36.1 (Winter 2012) 105-7]

Review of Lisa Brooks, The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) [for Wicazo Sa Review 25.2 (Fall 2010) 144-46]

Review of Adam Gussow, Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York (University of Tennessee Press, 2007) and Barbara Ladd, Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty (Louisiana State University Press, 2007) [for American Literature 80:2 (June 2008) 409-11]

Review of Fred Hobson, ed., South to the Future: An American Region in the Twenty-First Century (University of Georgia Press, 2002) [for Mississippi Quarterly 56:3 (Summer 2003) 439]      

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS/ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES/BRIEF COMMENTS

"The Lies We Live," South Writ Large: Stories, Arts, and Ideas from the Global South (Winter 2014) southwritlarge.com

"Rocket Man: The Rise of the Native South (Verse One)," Society for the Study of Southern Literature Newsletter vol. 46, issue 2 (November 2012)

"At What Cost?" The Chronicle Review in The Chronicle of Higher Education vol. 56, issue 15 (November 2009)

"Native American Novel," "Native American Reservation," and "Womanism,"The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature, Greenwood Press (2005)"Concluding Roundtable: Postcolonial Theory, the U.S. South, and New World Studies," Mississippi Quarterly 57:1 (Winter 2003-04) 171-94

Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

Gertrude Stein, Modernism, and the Problem of "Genius." Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000.

"The American Red Cross and the Making of Ernest Hemingway," South Central Review 39:1 (Spring, 2022): 20-38

"The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein," Humanities, The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities 33:2 (March-April 2012).

"Thinking Globally? The Idea, Ideology, and Limits of Cosmopolitanism," Remate de Males (Brazil), and ABC (Romania) (February 2011).


"'And Then One Day There Was A War': Gertrude Stein, Children's Literature, and World War II," Children's Literature Association Quarterly 32:4 (November, 2007): 340-53.


"The Great Gatsby and the Obscene Word," College Literature 32.4 (Fall 2005): 125-44.


"Gertrude Stein and Zionism," Modern Fiction Studies 51: 2 (Summer 2005): 437-55.


"Lost in Translation: Stein's Vichy Collaboration," Modernism/modernity 11:4 (November 2004), 651-668.


"Gertrude Stein, Automatic Writing and the Mechanics of Genius," Forum for Modern Language Studies , 37:2 (2001) 1-9.

"The Nervous Origins of the American Western," American Literature 70:2 (June 1998): 293-316.