Publications
Books
Co-editor, with Stephen Shapiro:
Essays
. American Gothic Studies. 1.1 (July 2025).
. Horror Studies. 15.1 (2024).
With Stephen Shapiro, ‘American Horror: Genre and History’. Introduction to The Cambridge Companion to American Horror. Cambridge Univereity Press, 2022.
‘Antiquity/Modernity: An Issue of Puck Magazine, 1889'. . Ed. Edward Sugden (EUP, 2022).
'Roma Redux: The Analogical Nineteenth Century'. Ed. Christopher Castiglia and Susan Gillman (Penn Press, 2022).
The Oxford Handbook of American Realism. Ed. Keith Newlin (OUP, 2019).
. The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing, ed. Celeste-Marie Bernier, Matthew Pethers, and Judie Newman (EUP, 2016): 682-95.
. Studies in American Fiction, 42.1 (Spring 2015).
Modernism/modernity, 21.1 (2014): 107-123.
‘Huck and Hank go to the Circus: Mark Twain Under Barnum’s Big Top.’ European Journal of American Culture, 29.3 (2011): 217-228.
Journal of American Studies, 44.4 (November 2010): 691-708.
Nineteenth-Century Literature, 65.2 (September 2010): 192-213.
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 47.1 (Fall 2005): 57-72.
Selected other writing
Times Literary Supplement (31 Oct 2025). You can hear me talk about this on the.
. Times Literary Supplement (1 Nov 2024).
Roundtable contributor, Journal of American Studies. 55.3 (July 2021).
Review of Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini. Los Angeles Review of Books (Oct 2015).
. The Conversation, 15 July 2015.
Convenor and contributor, . With Bridget Bennett, Rachel Bowlby, Andrew Lawson, Graham Thompson, and Fredric Jameson. (Journal of American Studies, Nov 2014).