Books
How to Read a Diary: Critical Contexts and Interpretive Strategies for 21st-Century Readers. Routledge, 2019. [Routledge] [Amazon].
Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870, Ashgate Publishers, 2011. [Amazon]
Essays (Selected)
“Digitized Diary Archives.” The Diary: The Epic of Everyday Life, edited by Batsheva Ben-Amos and Dan Ben-Amos. Indiana University Press. Forthcoming, 2020.
“Dickinson and the Diary.” The New Dickinson Studies. Ed. Michelle Kohler. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
“’The Impudent Fellow Came in Swareing’: Constructing and Defending Quaker Community in Elizabeth Drinker’s Diary,”New Critical Studies on Quaker Women: 1650-1800, eds. Michele Lise Tarter and Catie Gill. Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 146-163.
“Bingo Pedagogy: Team-Based Learning and the Literature Survey.” Teaching the Literature Survey, eds. James M. Lang, Gwynn Dujardin, and John Staunton; Teaching and Learning in Higher Education series, West Virginia University Press, 2017, pp. 49-67.
“Reading Digitized Diaries: Privacy and the Digital Life Writing Archive.” A/B: Autobiography Studies, vol. 33, no.1 (Winter 2017), pp. 1-18.
“Minding the Gaps in Serial Diary Fiction: The Case of ‘Susy L—’s Diary’.” American Periodicals, vol. 27, no.2 (Fall 2017), pp. 125-139.
“Windows on Writing: Susanna Rowson and the Scene of Female Authorship.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 49, no. 2 (Summer 2017), pp. 149-169.
“The Friendship Elegy.” A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry. Eds. Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides. Cambridge UP, 2016, pp. 106-120.
“Rowson’s Poetics: Dialog, Discord, and Debate in Miscellaneous Poems.” Studies in American Fiction, vol. 38, no. 1-2 (Spring & Fall 2011), pp. 115-138.
“Understanding the Fear and Love of Death in Three Premature Burial Stories: ‘Premature Burial,’ ‘Morella,’ and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher.’” MLA Approaches to Teaching Poe’s Prose and Poetry. Eds. Jeffrey A. Weinstock and Anthony Magistrale. New York: Modern Language Association, 2009, pp. 69-75.
“What is the Grass?: The Roots of Walt Whitman’s Cemetery Meditation.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 25.3 (Winter 2008): 89-107.
“Illegitimate Children and Bastard Sequels: The Case of Susanna Rowson’s Lucy Temple.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 24.1 (2007): 1-23.
“The Imperfect Dead: Mourning Women in Eighteenth-Century Oratory and Fiction.” Early American Literature 39.3 (December 2004): 487-509.
“Mourning, Masculinity, and the Drama of the American Revolution.” American Drama 13.1 (Winter 2004): 31- 45.
“Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and the Primetime ‘Outing’ of Walt Whitman.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 17.1-2 (Summer/Fall 1999): 69-76.
Updated July 9, 2019
