Publications

Academic publications

"The Truth Will Set You Free: Erle Stanley Gardner and the Innocence Plot," Arizona Quarterly (2024)

"Stephen King, Incorporated: Genre Fiction and the Problem of Authorship," American Literary History (2021)

"'Our Sense of Purpose': Speculative Fiction and Systems Reading," NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction (November 2019)

"The New Right," American Literature in Transition, 1960-1970. ed. David Wyatt. (Cambridge UP, 2018)

"William Gaddis's Aesthetic Economy," Studies in American Fiction (2015)

Review essays

"The Power Brokers: American Literature Institutions after 1945," American Quarterly (June 2026)

Magazine writing

"Norma Rae and When Race Is Used to Weaken Unions," The Atlantic (2019)

"How Roseanne Handled the Culture Wars of Its Time," The Atlantic (2018)

"Cars 3 as a meditation on mentorship," The Atlantic (2017)

"How the 'Evil Corporation' Became a Pop-Culture Trope," The Atlantic (2016)

"The Blue-Collar King: An Interview with Stephen King," Los Angeles Review of Books (2015)