Publications

MONOGRAPH

School­house Gothic: Haunted Hall­ways and Preda­tory Ped­a­gogues in Late Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tury Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture and Schol­ar­ship. New Cas­tle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cam­bridge Schol­ars Pub­lish­ing, 2008.

• reviewed by Charles Crow, Gothic Stud­ies, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2013, pp. 112–114

ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS

(forth­com­ing) “‘Cryin’ Like a Woman ‘Cause I’m Mad Like A Man’: Chrissie Hynde, Gen­der, and Roman­tic Irony,” Rock and Roman­ti­cism: The Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal Edi­tion, Ed. James Rovira, Pal­grave MacMil­lan

“New Orleans as Gothic Cap­i­tal,” Pal­grave Hand­book of the South­ern Gothic, Eds. Susan Castillo and Charles Crow. Lon­don: Pal­grave MacMil­lan, 2016.

“Joyce Carol Oates Revis­its the School­house Gothic,” Amer­i­can Gothic Cul­ture, Eds. Jason Haslam and Joel Faflak. Edin­burgh: Edin­burgh Uni­ver­sity Press, 2016.

“Cre­ation Anx­i­ety in Gothic Metafic­tion: The Dark Half and Lunar Park.” Com­pan­ion to Amer­i­can Gothic. Ed. Charles Crow. Hobo­ken, NJ: Wiley-Black­well, 2013.

“‘Gigan­tic Para­dox, Too … Mon­strous for Solu­tion’: Night­mar­ish Democ­racy and the School­house Gothic in ‘William Wil­son’ and The Secret His­tory.” Com­pan­ion to Amer­i­can Gothic. Ed. Charles Crow. Hobo­ken, NJ: Wiley-Black­well, 2013.

“Zom­bies in the Class­room: Edu­ca­tion as Con­sump­tion in Two Nov­els by Joyce Carol Oates.” Zom­bies in the Acad­emy: Liv­ing Death in Higher Edu­ca­tion. Eds. Andrew Whe­lan, Chris Moore and Ruth Walker. Bris­tol: Intel­lect Press UK, 2013.

“‘This is what passes for free will’: Chuck Palahniuk’s Post­mod­ern Gothic.” Read­ing Chuck Palah­niuk: Amer­i­can Mon­sters and Lit­er­ary May­hem. Eds. Cyn­thia Kuhn and Lance Rubin. New York: Rout­ledge, 2009.

“‘Try­ing To Tell ‘The Truth’: Metafic­tion and His­to­ri­o­graphic Metafic­tion in The X-Files,” The X-Files and Lit­er­a­ture: Unweav­ing the Story, Unrav­el­ing the Lie to Find the Truth. Ed. Sharon Yang. New Cas­tle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cam­bridge Schol­ars Pub­lish­ing, 2007.

“‘Ter­rors of the Night’: Sal­va­tion, Gen­der, and the Gothic in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It On the Moun­tain.” MAWA Review: Mid-Atlantic Writ­ers Asso­ci­a­tion Review. 19:1 (June 2004)

• reprinted in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It On The Moun­tain: His­tor­i­cal and Crit­i­cal Essays. Ed. Carol Hen­der­son. New York: Peter Lang Pub­lish­ing Group, 2006.

“‘Scream­ing While School was in Ses­sion’: The Con­struc­tion of Mon­stros­ity in Stephen King’s School­house Gothic,” The Gothic Other: Racial and Social Con­struc­tions in the Lit­er­ary Imag­i­na­tion. E Ruth Ano­lik and Dou­glas Howard. Jef­fer­son, NC: McFar­land & Com­pany, Inc., 2004

• reprinted in Stephen King: Bloom’s Mod­ern Crit­i­cal Views. Ed. Harold Bloom. 2nd ed. New York: Chelsea House Pub­li­ca­tions, 2006.