#  Publications 

 



##  Academic publications 

["The Truth Will Set You Free: Erle Stanley Gardner and the Innocence Plot," *Arizona Quarterly* (2024)](https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/947165)

["Stephen King, Incorporated: Genre Fiction and the Problem of Authorship," *American Literary History* (2021)](https://academic.oup.com/alh/article/33/2/271/6133116?guestAccessKey=e6429501-0089-4b78-9ca7-9e2cb097a2b3)

["'Our Sense of Purpose': Speculative Fiction and Systems Reading," *NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction* (November 2019)](/publications/our-sense-purpose-speculative-fiction-and-systems-reading-novel-forum)

["The New Right," *American Literature in Transition, 1960-1970*. ed. David Wyatt. (Cambridge UP, 2018)](/publications/new-right-american-literature-transition-1960-1970-ed-david-wyatt)

["William Gaddis's Aesthetic Economy," *Studies in American Fiction* (2015)](/publications/william-gaddiss-aesthetic-economy)



 

##  Review essays 

["The Power Brokers: American Literature Institutions after 1945," *American Quarterly* (June 2026)](https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/991749)



 

##  Magazine writing 

["*Norma Rae* and When Race Is Used to Weaken Unions," *The Atlantic* (2019)](/publications/norma-rae-and-when-race-used-weaken-unions)

["How *Roseanne* Handled the Culture Wars of Its Time," *The Atlantic* (2018)](/publications/how-roseanne-handled-culture-wars-its-time)

[*"Cars 3* as a meditation on mentorship," *The Atlantic* (2017)](/publications/cars-3-meditation-mentorship)

["How the 'Evil Corporation' Became a Pop-Culture Trope," *The Atlantic* (2016)](/publications/how-evil-corporation-became-pop-culture-trope-atlantic)

["The Blue-Collar King: An Interview with Stephen King," *Los Angeles Review of Books* (2015)](/publications/blue-collar-king-interview-stephen-king)