Presentations
MLA Convention:
- “There's No Text like Home: Poe, Hawthorne, and the Internalization of Quest Romance.”2012 Modern Language Association Convention. Washington State Convention Center. Seattle, WA. 7 January 2012.
- “‘If a Protest Falls in the Woods and There’s No One There To Hear It, Does It Make a Sound?’: Writing, Terrorism, and the Environmental Imaginary in A Friend of the Earth.” 2008 Modern Language Association Convention. Hilton San Francisco. San Francisco, CA. 29 December 2008.
- “‘Earth’s Holocaust’ and the End of History.” 2008 Modern Language Association Convention. Hilton San Francisco. San Francisco, CA. 28 December 2008.
- “’Are You Alive or Dead?’: Representative Men and the Marginality of the Author in ‘P’s Correspondence.’” 2005 Modern Language Association Convention. Marriott Wardman Park. Washington, DC. 29 December 2005.
- “’An Egyptian Skull at Our Banquet’: Hawthorne, Emerson, and the Idealist Convivium.”2004 Modern Language Association Convention. Philadelphia Marriott. Philadelphia, PA. 30 December 2004.
Other Venues:
- “All’s Fair in Love and War: Engendering Idealism in Howells’ ‘Editha.’” 2016 Annual Meeting of the Conference of College Teachers of English. Menger Hotel. San Antonio, TX. 4 March 2016
- “The Circuit of the Impious: Rhetoric and Nature in Inferno 16.” 71st Annual South Central MLA Conference. Radisson Hotel. Austin, TX. 18 October 2014.
- “Seeking in the Dark: Utopia and Dystopia in I Am Legend.” 2012 Annual Meeting of the Conference of College Teachers of English. Texas Wesleyan University School of Law. Fort Worth, TX. 2 March 2012.
- “‘Introduced Species’: Nature, Immigration, and Canonicity in The Tortilla Curtain.” 20th Annual American Literature Association Conference. Boston, MA. 22 May 2009.
- “‘Malicious Agencies’: Gender and Desire in T.C. Boyle’s ‘A Women’s Restaurant.’”
- 2004 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention. Hotel Roanoke and Convention Center. Roanoke, VA. 12 November 2004.
- “’As If They Were Dantesque Devils…’: Giordano Bruno’s Candelaio and the Ethics of Comedy.” South Central Renaissance Conference 2004. Radisson Hotel. Austin, TX. 2 April 2004.
- “Going Global in a Shrinking World: Authenticity and Identity in Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats.” The 29th Annual Meeting of the Southern Comparative Literature Association. Omni Austin Hotel Downtown. Austin, TX. 19 Sept. 2003.
Publications
Reprints
- ’Love Is As Much Its Demand, As Perception’: Hawthorne’s ‘Birth-mark’ and Emerson’s ‘Humanity of Science.’” Reprint. Short Story Criticism. Vol. 89. Ed. Larry Trudeau. Oklahoma City: Gale Research, 2006. 238-53.
- “Disabling Fictions: Race, History, and Ideology in Crane’s ‘The Monster.’” Reprint. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Vol. 148. Ed. Russell Whitaker. Oklahoma City: Thomson Gale, 2005. 182-92.
- “Aristotle on the Pinnacle: Paradise Regained and the Limits of Theory.” Reprint. John Milton: Bloom’s Modern Critical Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004. 261-73.
Other articles
- “‘What a Strange Genealogy!’: Candide and the Limits of Enlightenment Historiography.” CCTE Studies LXXI (2006): 36-45.
- “’Take the thing at its worst!’: Realism and the Construction of Masculinity in Howells’ The Shadow of a Dream.” CCTE Studies LXVIII (2003): 21-30.
- “’I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim’: History and Idealism in ‘A Virtuoso’s Collection.’” CCTE Studies LXVII (2002): 32-42.