Essays and Reviews

Essays

“‘Nobody Was Ever Lonesome’: The Lyric Vision of John Ashbery’s ‘Litany’” in Criticism 65, no. 2 (2023): 121–145.

“Brief, Undeniable: Lyric Address in Mark Strand” in Arizona Quarterly 79, no. 3 (2023): 101–126.

“Screened Anxieties: Affect and Temporality in The Birth of a Nation in Modernist Cultures 14, no. 2 (2019): 129–150.

“Nothing Human is Foreign: Polyphony and Recognition in the Poetry of Robert Hayden” in College Literature 43, no. 3 (2016): 481–508.

“Mystical Kingdoms: The Post-Romantic Self in Early Ashbery” in Texas Studies in Literature and Language 57, no. 1 (2015): 1–30.

“Affect and Diaspora: Unfashionable Hope in Melvin B. Tolson’s Libretto for the Republic of Liberia in Research in African Literatures 45, no. 3 (2014): 110–129.

“Between the Is and the Is Not: Northrop Frye, Adaptation, and the Romantic Imagination” in English Studies in Canada 37, no. 2 (2011): 67–86.

Book Chapters

“Hope in Literature” in The Oxford Compendium of Hope, edited by Steven van den Heuvel and Anthony Scioli, 879–894. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025.

“Looking Beneath the Surface: Self and Genre in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland in The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel, edited by Tim Lanzendörfer, 237–253. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016.

Book Reviews

“Review of Big Windows [poems], by Lauren Moseley” in New Orleans Review, October 21, 2019.

“Review of Fictions of Autonomy: Modernism from Wilde to de Man, by Andrew Goldstone” in Modernist Cultures 9, no. 2 (2014): 304–6.

“Review of Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature, by Jennifer K. Ladino” in Modern Language Studies 43, no. 2 (2014): 72–76.