Books | Popular Writing | Book Chapters | Academic Articles | Talks
Co-authored Book | Back to top
What Universities Owe Democracy
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
Popular Writing (selected) | Back to top
“‘Quit Lit’ Then and Now,” Inside Higher Ed, April 4, 2018
Reprinted in Leaving the Grove: A Quit Lit Reader
“In Praise of Unfinished Novels,” The Millions, February 21, 2018
“How Wonder Woman and the Last Jedi could make our politics worse,” The Washington Post, December 29, 2017
“Bernie Sanders, American Universalist,” RealClearReligion, June 16, 2017
“I fell hard for the Book of Mormon but did not convert,” Deseret News, May 30, 2017
“The Book of Mormon Gets the Literary Treatment,” ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera, May 23, 2017
Chapters in Edited Volumes | Back to top
“Inspired Embarassments: On Rough Drafts”
Driven to Write: 45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries of their Craft
Edited by Ellen Pinsky and Michael Slevin
Routledge, 2025
“Quit Lit Then and Now”
Leaving the Grove: A Quit Lit Reader
Edited by Christopher Flanagan and Glenn Wright
Syracuse University Press, 2022
“Get Out of My Head: Experiencing Cultural Paranoia in Jordan Peele’s Get Out”
The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter
Edited by Beverly J. Stoute and Michael Slevin
Routledge, 2022
“Nephite Secularization; or, Picking and Choosing in the Book of Mormon”
Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon
Edited by Elizabeth Fenton and Jared Hickman
Oxford University Press, 2019
“Invisible Man and the Mysteries of Reconstruction”
Critical Insights: Invisible Man
Edited by Robert C. Evans
Salem Press, 2018
“Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting . . . and the Implicit Morality of Form”
The New Territory: Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Marc Conner and Lucas Morel
University Press of Mississippi, 2016
Articles and Reviews | Back to top
Review of Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon by William L. Davis, Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 32 (2023): 186-193
Review of If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right by Christopher Douglas and The Production of American Religious Freedom by Finbarr Curtis, American Literature 91.3 (2019): 669–671
“The Exodus of Martin Delany,” American Literary History 29.3 (2017): 449–73
“Fragile Belief: Lydia Maria Child’s Hobomok and the Scene of American Secularity,” American Literature 86.4 (2014): 655–82
Review of Ralph Ellison and Kenneth Burke: At the Roots of the Racial Divide by Bryan Crable, Resources for American Literary Study 36 (2013): 363–66
“The Shadows of Reconstruction: Marriage and Reunion in Herman Melville’s ‘The Scout Toward Aldie,’” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 14.1 (2012): 9–23
Invited Talks | Back to top
“A Solemn Parody: The Book of Mormon in American Literary Studies,” Scripture and Literature in the Nineteenth-Century United States: An Interdisciplinary Symposium. Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore, MD. March 2020.
“An Archive of Intentionality: Notes Toward a Theory of Ellison’s Notes.” (Re)reading Ralph Ellison Symposium. Goethe University. Frankfurt, Germany. July 2019.
“Get Out of My Head: Cultural Paranoia in Jordan Peele’s Get Out.” American Psychoanalytic Association Annual Meeting. New York, NY. February 2019.
“Suspense & Crisis: An Anatomy of the Unfinished Novel.” Ralph Ellison Symposium. Library of Congress. Washington, DC. June 2016.
“Ralph Ellison and the Work of the Unfinished.” Ralph Ellison Centennial Symposium. Lewis & Clark College. Portland, OR. February 2015.
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