Publications
BOOK PUBLICATION
Neodomestic American Fiction. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2010.
REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
“Radical Homemaking in Contemporary American Environmental Fiction.” Accepted. 25 manuscript pages.
“Renovating The American Woman’s Home: American Domesticity in Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” Legacy. 25.1 (2008): 105-127.
“The Neodomestic American Novel: The Politics of Home in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. 24.1 (Spring 2005): 105-127. Reprint. Critical Insights: Barbara Kingsolver. Ed. Thomas Austenfeld. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2010: 216-245. Reprint. Contemporary Literary Criticism. 346 (CLC-346). Ed. Jeff Hunter. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2014.
“Desiring Natures: The American Adrenaline Narrative.” Genre. 35.2 (Summer 2002): 355-82. Reprint. Contemporary Literary Criticism. 248 (CLC-248). Ed. Jeff Hunter. Detroit: Thomson Gale, March 2008.
ESSAYS IN BOOK COLLECTIONS
“Profitable Sentiments: HBO’s The Wire and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The Sentimental Mode: Essays in Literature, Film and Television. Eds. Jennifer A. Williamson and Jennifer Larson. McFarland Publishers, 2014: 151-174.
“Imagined Geographies.” Seeds of Change: Critical Essays on Barbara Kingsolver. Ed. Priscilla V. Leder. University of Tennessee Press, 2010: 175-198. Reprint. Contemporary Literary Criticism. 342. Ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2013.
“This is Not a Chick Book! Anxious Male Domesticity and Gender Troubled Corrections.” Pimps, Wimps, Studs, Thugs and Gentlemen: Essays on Media Images of Masculinity. Ed. Elwood Watson. Jefferson: McFarland Publishers, 2009: 216-241.
WORK IN PROGRESS
“The American Adrenaline Narrative.” Book-length project that identifies a distinct genre of travel and environmental literature. Advance contract. Complete manuscript due 9/15/2018.
“Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women’s Literature: Thresholds in Women’s Writing.” Editor and Introduction author. With section co-editors, Kristin Allukian, Rickie-Ann Legleitner and Leslie Allison. Under contract.
