Articles and Book Chapters

“The Machine in the Garden State:  Jewish Environmentalism in American Pastoral,”
Cercles: Review Pluridiscipline du Monde Anglophone, Issue 33 (2014): 92-102.
On-line Journal.  

“The Pilot Against America: Stamps, Airmail, and History in The Plot Against America,” Philip Roth Studies, Vol. 9.2 (Fall 2013): 45-55.

“Making Learning Work: Three Strategies for Introducing Composition Theory to
Undergraduates,” co-authored with Angela Laflen and Joseph Zeppetello, Kansas English, Vol. 95.1 (2012): 108-128.

“’Again in the Museum Mood’: Remembering the Museum in Henry James’s The
Ambassadors,” in The Exhibit in the Text: The Museological Practices of Literature, edited by Caroline Patey and Laura Scuriatti, Peter Lang, (2009): 69-83.

“Cords of Memory: Charles Chesnutt Recites the History of Racial Injustice,” M/MLA, Vol. 41.2 (Fall 2008): 69-80.

Creative Nonfiction

“Reading in Rome,” The Mickle Street Review, Rutgers University-Camden, 37.1 (Summer 2001). On-line Journal.

“Numismatics,” Henry Street, Dalhousie University, 8.1 (1999): 79-83. Vol. 41.2 (Fall 2008): 69-80.

“’A spot so favorable’:  Immigrants and Commodities at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”  South Atlantic MLA (SAMLA) Annual Convention.  Birmingham, AL, 4 November 2018.

“Teaching in the Archive.” SUNY Council on Writing Conference.  SUNY Farmingdale, 20 October 2018.

“Customed Earth: The American Museum and the Movement of People and Things.”  Conference On Nearness, Order, and Things: Collecting and Material Culture 1400 to Today, sponsored by Northrop Frye Centre and Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada, 8 April 2016. 

“Urban Progress and Decay in William Dean Howells’s Late Nineteenth-Century Fiction.”  Northeast MLA (NEMLA) Annual Convention.  Hartford, CT, 18 March 2016.

“Edith Wharton’s ‘Bad Memory,’” MLA Convention, Boston, 5 January 2013.

“A Utopian Museum in William Dean Howells’s A Traveler From Altruria,” Society for  Utopian Studies Conference, Penn State University, 22 October 2011.

“The Place of Writing in the Online Literature Class,” Conference on “English in the Digital Age,” organized by the English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities, Bloomsburg University, 15 October 2011. 

“The Museum in the Post-War American Jewish Imagination: The Example of Alfred Kazin,” The New York Metro American Studies Association Summer Institute: Re-Visiting the Lower East Side, Hunter College, CUNY, 14-18 June 2010.

“William Dean Howells, American Literary Realism, and the Logic of Conservation,” The Green Nineteenth Century, Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, 27 March 2009.

“Stamp Collecting and History in The Plot Against America,” Panel on Philip Roth and the Visual Arts, American Literature Association, San Francisco, 24 May 2008.

“Imagining Realities: Teaching Composition Theory to Undergraduates,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, 3 April 2008.

“Edith Wharton’s Time-Blurred Substances:  Memory and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in The Age of Innocence,” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Chicago, 11 November 2006.

“’Again in the Museum Mood’:  Remembering the Museum in James’s The Ambassadors,” European Society for the Study of English Conference, University of London, 31 August 2006.