Refereed Journal Articles

“Cynthia Ozick’s Midrashic Imagination in Heir to the Glimmering World.” South Central Review, vol. 38, no.1, 2021, pp. 58-75.

“Beyond Solipsism: Narrative and Consciousness in Dorothy Richardson’s Deadlock.” The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945, vol. 11, no. 1, 2015.

Guest Edited Journal Issue

“Special Issue: “Levinas and Jewish Thought: Translating Hebrew into Greek.” Guest Editor, with Introduction. Co-edited with Dara Hill and Sandor Goodhart. Shofar, vol. 26, no. 4, 2008.

Book Chapters

“‘There are things that can’t be said’: Levinas and the Ethics of Representation in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room.” Levinas and Twentieth Century Literature. Ed. Donald Wehrs. University of Delaware Press, 2013.

“‘Useless Suffering’ in Jean Cocteau’s Le Sang d’un Poete, or: How Jean Cocteau avoids being caught up in his own film.” Comparative Cinema. Ed. Beate Allert. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.

Solicited Articles

“Letters from Zora Neale Hurston to Harry Hansen.” Making Modernism Digital Resources Exhibit, National Endowment for the Humanities & Newberry Library, 2018. Web.

 “Vita Sackville-West.” British Writers Supplement, Volume XXI. Ed. Jay Parini. Scribners, 2014.

“Kate Millett” and “Naomi Wolf” in Encyclopedia of the Culture Wars Ed. Roger Chapman. New York: E. Sparpe Press, 2009.

“Joseph Conrad; A Checklist of Recent Criticism.” Co-authored with Donald W. Rude. Joseph Conrad Today: Publication of the Joseph Conrad Society of America, vol. 28 no. 2, 2003, pp. 8-13.

Book Reviews

Review of Consciousness in Modernist Fiction by Violeta Sotirova, Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 62. no. 1, 2016, pp. 179-181.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS ________________________________________________

“The Bronze Bomber: Los Angeles Sentinel and the First African American Superheroes in the Golden Age of Comics.” South Central Modern Language Studies Association, 23-26 October 2019. Little Rock, Arkansas.

“Share Your Story: Invention & Workshopping Strategies.” Imanoli Writers Conference. Chickasaw Nation, Chickasaw Business & Conference Center, August 15, 2019. Ada, Oklahoma.

“Jay Jackson: The Chicago Defender’s Modernist Cartoonist.” South Central Modern Language Association, 11-14 October 2018. San Antonio, Texas.

“Chicago Style: Making Modernism in the Midwest.” Roundtable Participant. Modernist Studies Association, 8-10 November 2018. Columbus, Ohio.

“When Zora Came to Town: Following Zora Neale Hurston’s footsteps in 1934 Chicago.” College Language Association, April 4-7, 2018, Chicago, IL.

"'Time and Place Will Have Their Say': Experimental Narration in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road." South Central Modern Language Association, 3 November 2016, Sheradon Hotel, Dallas, TX.

“Experimenting in the Margins: Subjectivity in Virginia Woolf.” South Central Modern Language Association, 18 October 2014, Radisson Hotel, Austin, TX.

“Structures of Mystery and Memory in Contemporary Native American Literature.” Tenth Native American Symposium, Native Ground: Protecting and Preserving History, Culture, and Customs. 18 November 2013, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK.

“Biography Gone to the Dogs: Virginia Woolf’s Flush and Testing the Limits of Life Writing.” South Central Modern Language Association, 4 October 2013, Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, LA.

“‘All literature is to me me, that isn’t as bad as it sounds’: A Levinasian critique of Gertrude Stein’s Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.” North American Levinas Society Conference: Levinas and Interreligious Dialogue, 29 July 2013, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.

“Narrative and Consciousness: Levinasian Phenomenology and Modernist Life Writing.” North American Levinas Society Conference: Totality and Infinity at 50, 2 May 2013, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

“‘A Freewheeling Jumble’: The Multiple Uses and Connected Networks of African American Modernist Salons.” MSA 12: Modernist Studies Association, 12 November 2010, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada.

“Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, and Modernist Interiority.” North American Levinas Society Conference: Philosophy and its Others, 29 June 2009, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

“‘Useless Suffering’ in Jean Cocteau’s Le Sang d’un Poete.” North American Levinas Society Conference: Levinas and the Sacred, 31 August 2008, Seattle University. Seattle, WA.

“‘There are things that can’t be said’: Levinas and the Ethics of Representation in Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room.” North American Levinas Society Annual Meeting: Levinas and Community, 11 June 2007, Purdue University. West Lafayette, IN.

“Midrashic Writing: The Bear Boy and Bad Midrash in Cynthia Ozick’s Heir to the Glimmering World.” American Literature Association 2007 Jewish American & Holocaust Literature Symposium, 19 April 2007, Boca Raton, FL.

“‘In a manner impossible for the stage’: Reading as Spectatorship in Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author.” MSA 8: Modernist Studies Association, 20 October 2006, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK.

“Jacques Derrida ‘On Forgiveness’: Repentance, Coercion, and Reconciliation in Public Apology.” Mosaic Following Derrida: Legacies Conference, 5 October 2006, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada.

“Reading a Levinasian Critique of Representation in Cynthia Ozick’s Heir to the Glimmering World.” North American Levinas Society Inaugural Meeting: Levinas and the Political. Purdue University, 14 May 2006, West Lafayette, IN.

“I’d like to buy the world a Coke: The Politics of Pop and Globalization in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things.” 2004 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 8 April, 2004, San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio, TX.

“‘Experience the Experience’: The Intersection of Artwork and Poetic Tradition in Eavan Boland’s Outside History.” Thirty-Fifth Annual CEA Conference: Is There, Should There Be, a New Aestheticism? 1 April 2004, Richmond, VA.

“The City as Repressive State: Ideological and Repressive State Apparatuses in Manhattan Transfer.”  Building Bridges, Making Connections: Texas Tech University Graduate English Society Conference, 20 February 2004. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.

“‘You that way – we this way’: Portrayals of French, Spanish, and Russian Types in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost.” Building Bridges, Making Connections: Texas Tech University Graduate English Society Conference 21 February 2004. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.

“‘Art thou real, my ideal?’ The Personal Mythology of Gerty Macdowell in Ulysses.” Miami Joyce Conference: Traditions and Innovations, 30 January 2004, University of Miami, Miami, FL.