Refereed Journal Articles

• “The Generative Dissensus of Reading the Feminist Novel, 1995-2020: A Computational Analysis of Interpretive Communities.” With Anna Mukamal. Journal of Cultural Analytics, vol. 11, 2021, pp. 31–73.
• “Diagnosing Desire: Mental Health and Modern American Literature, 1890-1955.” American Literary History, vol. 33, no. 3, 2021, pp. 601–19.
• “Modernism & Diagnosis.” With Heather A. Love. Modernism/modernity, vol. 6, cycle 2, 2021.
• “Character Defects: The Racialized Addict and Nella Larsen’s Passing.” Modernism/modernity, vol. 26, no. 4, 2019, pp. 727–52.  
• First author, “Sentimental Avatars: Gender Identification and Vehicles of Selfhood in Popular Media from Nineteenth-Century Novels to Modern Video Games.” With Rabindra A. Ratan, Joseph Fordham, Megan Knittel, and Oskar Milik. Games and Culture, 2019.
• “Unaffected: Marilynne Robinson’s Postmodern Sentimentalism.” Irish Journal of American Studies, vol. 6, 2017.
• “Ambivalence and Irony: Gendered Forms in Interwar America.” Arizona Quarterly, vol. 71, no. 4, 2015, 23–52.
• “Feeling Hard-Boiled: Modern Sentimentalism and Frances Newman’s The Hard-Boiled Virgin.” American Literary History, vol. 26, no. 4, 2014, pp. 693–715.
• “Resonant Silence: Love, Desire, and Intimacy in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus.” GRAMMA, vol. 17, 2009, 129–44.
• “Critical Thinking and Reading.” Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, vol. 51, no. 4, 2007, pp. 300–02.

Book Chapters

• “Passing Bodies.” With Octavio R. González. Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature, edited by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, under contract with Cambridge University Press.
• “Species of Sentiment.” Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition, vol. IV, edited by Lindsay Reckson, Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• “Recounting the Literary History of Modern Women Writers: Teaching Quantitative Methods to Undergraduates.” Teaching Modernist Women Writers in English, edited by Janine Utell, MLA Options for Teaching Series, 2021.
• “Sentimental Satire in Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” The Sentimental Mode: Essays in Literature, Film and Television, edited by Jennifer A. Williamson, Jennifer Larson, and Ashley Reed, McFarland, 2014, pp. 36–55.

Book Reviews

• “Who Are We?: Feminist Ambivalence in Contemporary Literary Criticism.” Review of Selling Women’s History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture by Emily Westkaemper, Historicizing Post-Discourses: Postfeminism and Postracialism in United States Culture by Tanya Ann Kennedy, and Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and Digital Humanities edited by Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont. American Literary History, vol. 32, no. 1, 2020, pp. 190–200.
• Review of The Modernist Corpse by Erin E. Edwards. American Literary History Online Review, series XVI, 2018.
• Review of Enchanted Objects: Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction by Allan Hepburn. Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 60, no. 2, 2014, pp. 408–10.

Other Writing

• “Frances Newman.” Women in American History: An Encyclopedia, edited by Hasia Diner, Facts on File, forthcoming.
• “Notes on Passing.” With Octavio R. González. Avidly, 9 January 2022.
• “The Character of Literary Criticism.” With Octavio R. González. ASAP/J Thinking With Essay Cluster, 27 September 2021.
• “The Art of Care: Susannah Cahalan on Madness, Diagnosis, and COVID-19.” With Susannah Cahalan and Victoria Papa. Public Books, 30 July 2020.
• “What Literature Can Teach Us About Living With Illness.” OUPblog, 16 June 2020.
• “An Author Explains Process.” Menlo College Magazine, Summer 2020, p. 24.
• “Strong Character, Weak Theory.” Modernism/modernity’s Forums, vol. 4, cycle 2, 2019.
• “The Quantified Self.” Modernism/modernity’s In These Times, vol. 3, cycle 2, 2018.

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