Book Manuscript (in progress) 

“Awful Nearness: A Literary and Cultural History of Rape, 1740-1900.” Supported by a 2021-22 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.

Read my dissertation, on which my book is based.

Edited Collection (in progress)

“Theorizing the New Rape Studies: Humanist Interventions,” co-edited collection (with Dr. Doreen Thierauf and Dr. Michael Dango). Confirmed contributors include Seo-Young Chu, Carissa Harris, Kathleen Lubey, Stephanie Hershinow, Marlene Tromp, and ‘Ilaheva Tua’one. Under advance contract with SUNY Press.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“Rape.” Co-authored with Doreen Thierauf. Forthcoming for Victorian Literature and Culture, Special Issue: “Keywords Redux.”

“Rereading Rape in the Critical Canon: Adjudicative Criticism and the Capacious Conception of Rape.” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 32.2 (May 2021).

“‘Never Punch Down’: Or, How We Disagree (Online) Now,” PMLA 135.4 (October 2020).

“Tom Became What He Ought to Be: Mansfield Park as Homosocial Bildungsroman.” Studies in the Novel 51.4 (December 2019).

Book Chapters

“Hideous Men: David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews in Hindsight,” Routledge Companion to Masculinity in American Literature and Culture, edited by Lydia R. Cooper. (November 2021).

“Casaubon’s ‘Highly Esteemed...Fable of Cupid and Psyche’; or, Can We Take Myth Seriously in Middlemarch?” Critical Insights: George Eliot, edited by Katie Peel. Salem Press, 2016, pp. 228-243.

Essays

“Love Under These Circumstances,” The Rambling (February 2021).

Image Description: “Rippowam” by John Currin.