nONFICTION Writing

Essays

Contributor, Teaching PALS: Pedagogy and American Literature Studies.

  • “Weird Things Nick Carraway Says” (March 2022)

  • ”Teaching the Literature of Witchcraft” (October 2021)

  • “Pandemic Distance High School” (August 2020)

  • “Texting Thomas Paine: Connecting 18th-Century Politics and 21st-Century Students” (October 2019)

  • ”Teaching the Crucible in the Post-Truth Era” (May 2019)

  • ”Teaching The Crucible in the Age of Trump” (April 2019)

  • ”Dear College Professor: On the (Un)Ethical Use of Technology” (October 2018)

  • ”Dear College Professor: On Your Incoming Students” (May 2018)

Journal Articles

“Apess’ Eulogy and the Politics of Native Visualcy.” Early American Literature. 52.3 (2017) 651-77.

"Hawthorne’s Empire: Sculpture and the Indigenous in The Marble Faun.” Studies in American Fiction. 43.2 (2016) 161-183.

"Monstrosity and the Majority: Defamiliarizing Race in the University Classroom.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. 16.2 (2016) 353-367.

Book Chapters

“Redness and the Contest of Anglo-American Empires.” In Community without Consent: New Perspectives on the Stamp Act. Edited by Zach Hutchins. Dartmouth College/University of New England Press, 2016.

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Last of the Tribes, Hiram Powers, Marble, 1872, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC.

Doctoral Dissertation: “Printing Indians and the Imperial Contest in America”

I wrote and submitted this dissertation to support my candidacy for a Doctorate in English from the University of Delaware in 2016. The project builds on recent innovations in empires studies to argue that between King Philip’s War (1676) and the conclusion of the U.S. Civil War (1864), the visual and the textual representation of Native Americans in print culture worked in dialogue with one another to shape imperial identities among the diverse peoples of North America. I suggest that rather than forming through the commonly accepted colonizer/colonized model that theorizes the figure of the Indian as pure other, imperial identities in North America emerged through image-text patterns of triangulation that located Native Americans between empires.

Director: Edward Larkin.