Selected Articles

“Cosmopolitan Reading in the Classroom: Local and Global” (with Deborah Lindsay Williams), ADE Bulletin 156: 52-66 [PDF]

“The Dynamics of Residual and Emergent in the American Novel after 1940” (with Deborah Lindsay Williams) [PDF]

“Green Day’s American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording (2010)” [PDF]

“Star Wars and the Technophobic Imagination,” Journal of American Studies [PDF]

“Star Wars, Star Trek, and Other Sites of Technocultural Anxiety,” Journal of American Studies 34.2 (2002): 219-238. [PDF]

“Baseball and the Cultural Logic of American Individualism,” Prospects [PDF]

“Comparative American Studies: Hybridity and Beyond,” American Literary History  [PDF]

“Overshadowed New York,” American Literary History (with Bryan Waterman) [PDF]

“Emersonian Strategies: Negative Liberty, Self-Reliance, and Democratic Individuality,” Nineteenth-Century Literature 48.4 (March 1994): 440-79. [PDF]

“Emergent Ethnic Literatures: Native American, Hispanic, Asian American” [PDF]

“Representing Emergent Literatures,” American Literary History 15.1 (2003): 61-69. [PDF]

“Two Questions about Moby-Dick” [PDF]

“The Violence of Hybridity in Silko and Alexie,” Journal of American Studies of Turkey 6 (1997) : 3-9. [PDF]