Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
“Lunacy and Liberation: Black Crime, Disability, and the Production and Eradication of the Early National Enemy—The Dying Confession of Pomp (1795).” Forthcoming in Early American Literature, special issue on disability. Spring 2017. (11,000 words)
“The Black Atlantic Revisited, The Body Reconsidered: On Lingering, Liminality, Lies, and Disability.” American Literary History, winter 2012. (5000 words)
“On Mercy and Monsters: Law, Faith, and the Value of Vulnerability.” Law, Culture, and the Humanities. April 2011 (5000 words)
“Interracial Sexual Abuse and Legal Subjectivity in Antebellum Law and Literature” American Literature, Special Issue on Antebellum Literature, March 2009 (11,000 words)
“Internalized Racism: Physiology and Abjection in Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field,” Canadian Literature, Summer 2007 (7000 words)
Book Reviews
Review of Witches, Wife Beaters and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America, Cornell UP, 2011 for Reviews in American History. Fall 2013. (Solicited, 2000 words)
Review of Women and Slavery: The Modern Atlantic (Ohio UP, 2007), Eds. Gwyn Campbell Suzanne Miers, and Joseph Calder Miller for University of Toronto Quarterly. June 2010. (Solicited, 500 words)
Review of Kerry Larson’s Imagining Equality in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge UP, January 2009) for NBOL-19: An Online Review of New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth Century. Ed. James Heffernan. September 2009 (Solicited, 1500 words)