Scholarship

Journal Articles and Chapters

“The Literature of Acquiescence: Capitalism and the Trouble with Picture Books.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly. Forthcoming.

“Preparedness: Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard Wood, and Rookie Rhymes.” A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War. Ed. Mark Van Wienen and Tim Dayton. Cambridge University Press (2021): 192-204.

“Black Lives Matter at Five: Limits and Possibilities.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 43.8 (2020): 1358-1383.

“An (Anti)Neoliberal Christmas.” The Journal of Popular Culture 51.2 (2018): 302-316.

• Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Ph.D. Student Essay Award.

“Fetishism and Form: Advertising and Ironic Distance in Don DeLillo’s White Noise.” The European Journal of American Studies 13.2 (2018): 1-13.

“The Great War and Upper-Class Masculinity: Poetry from the Plattsburg Training Camp Movement, 1913-1920.” Studies in American Culture 40.1 (2017): 9-31.

“Between Labor and Capital: The Labor of American Bodybuilding.” The Journal of American Culture 39.4 (2016): 413-425.

Reference Entries

“Fight Club.” Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context. Ed. Linda   De Roche. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2021: 381-384.

“Duke Nukem: The Transgressive American Male.” The 100 Greatest Video Game Characters.  Ed. Robert Mejia, Jaime Banks, and Aubrie Adams. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017: 53-55.

Reviews

Frase, Peter. Four Futures: Life After Capitalism. New York: Verso, 2016. Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice 24 (2020): online.

Hochschild, Arlie Russell. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. New York: The New Press, 2016. Journal of American Studies 54.3 (2020): 390.

Clover, Joshua. Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings. London: Verso, 2016. The Journal for the Study of Radicalism 13.1 (2019): 188-190.

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016. American Studies 56.3/4 (2018): 114-115.

Sunkara, Bhaskar and Phil Wrigglesworth. The ABC’s of Socialism. London: Verso, 2016. Radical Teacher 111 (2018): 126-127.

Giroux, Henry A. America at War with Itself. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2016. Science and Society 82.3 (2018): 458-461.

Merrifield, Andy. Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination. London: Pluto Press, 2011. Journal of Labor and Society 18.1 (2015): 164-166.