My scholarship focuses on gender, sexuality, race, and class in U.S. film and literature. I have a particular interest in horror film, film noir, midcentury women’s crime fiction, and adaptation studies. I also have published widely on Edith Wharton in journals and edited collections. See below for peer- and editor-reviewed scholarship.
In Progress
“Shirley Jackson’s Transtextual Universe: The Lottery.” The Oxford Handbook to Shirley Jackson. Ed. Emily Banks and Kristopher Woofter, Oxford UP.
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding: A Digital Edition. Supported by the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers.
Peer- & Editor-Reviewed Articles In Print
With Teresa Ramoni, “‘Their Voices Ring in My Ears’: Laura, the Fugue, and Adaptation.” Adaptation (Oxford) 14.1, March 2021, pp. 136-156.
Invited Essay. “Edith Wharton's Prose Spectacle in the Age of Cinema.” Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays, Ed. Arielle Zibrak, Bloomsbury, 2020, pp. 39-58.
Invited Essay. “Spiritual Practitioners, Storytelling Markets, and the Economics of Consolation in Edith Wharton's Postwar Fiction.” The Edith Wharton Review, 34.1, 2018, pp. 13-32.
“Shaping Modern Bodies: Edith Wharton on Weight, Dieting, and Visual Media.” Rpt. in Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, Norton Critical Edition, vol. 2, Ed. Elizabeth Ammons, 2018, pp. 389-401.
“Seeing Edith Wharton’s Ghosts: The Alternative Gaze on Page and Screen.” Journal of Narrative Theory 47.1, Winter 2017, pp. 26-55.
Invited Essay. “Orientalism, Modernism, and Gender in Edith Wharton’s Late Novels.” Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism. Ed. Meredith Goldsmith and Emily Orlando. University Press of Florida, 2016, pp. 226-249.
“Domestic Desires: Memento’s Postmodern Noir Fantasy.” The Cinema of Christopher Nolan. Ed. Jacqueline Furby and Stuart Joy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015, pp. 74-84.
“Shaping Modern Bodies: Edith Wharton on Dieting, Weight, and Visual Media.” MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 60.4, Winter 2014, pp. 711-739.
“María Cristina Mena, Transnationalism, and Mass Media: Untold Stories in the Archive.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 30.2, December 2013, pp. 331-354.
Introduction and Edition of “My Protocol for Our Sister Americas” (1943) by María Cristina Chambers (née Mena). Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 30.2, December 2013, pp. 355-360.
“Imperialism and Race.” Edith Wharton in Context. Ed. Laura Rattray. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012, pp. 251-261.
“Staged Bodies: Passing, Performance, and Masquerade in Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars.” MELUS 37.4, Winter 2012, pp. 69-81.
“Framing the Body: Imperialism and Visual Discourse in María Cristina Mena’s Short Fiction.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 26.1, 2009, pp. 92-118.
“Decolonizing Pedagogy: Teaching Louise Erdrich’s The Bingo Palace.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 19.1, 2007, pp. 91-116.