Books:
Scare
Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women as a Form of
Social Protest, 1849-1931. Fall
2008 Fordham University Press, fall 2008.
The
Rocky Horror Picture Show. Wallflower
Press “Cultographies” series. November 2007.
Approaches to Teaching Poe’s Prose and Poetry.
Co-edited with Anthony Magistrale. Modern Language Association
of America. Forthcoming 2008.
Taking South Park Seriously
Edited collection. Forthcoming SUNY Press, 2008.
Spectral America: Phantoms and the American Imagination.
Edited collection. University of Wisconsin Press.
Nothing That Is: Millennial Cinema and the Blair Witch
Controversies.
Co-Edited with Sarah Higley. Wayne State University Press, 2004.
The Pedagogical Wallpaper: Teaching Charlotte Perkins Gilman's
"The Yellow Wall-paper."
Edited Collection. Peter Lang Publishers, Inc., 2003
Guest Editor
College Literature
edition on "Cultural Violence," 26.1 (Winter 1999): 1-7.
Book Chapters
“Queer Specters of Rose Terry Cooke
and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.” Death Becomes Her.
Eds. Elizabeth Dill and Sheri Weinstein. Cambridge Scholars
Press. Forthcoming 2008.
“Female
Authored Gothic Tales in the Nineteenth-Century Popular Press.”
Popular Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the
Literary Marketplace. Ed. Earl Yarington. Cambridge
Scholars Press. Forthcoming December 2007.
“Maybe It Shouldn’t Be a Party:
Kids, Keds, and Death in Stephen King’s Stand By Me and
Pet Sematary.” Forthcoming in
Anthony Magistrale’s Reading the Films of Stephen King.
Palgrave 2008.
“Profaning
the Sacred: Gothic Iconography and Subcultural Resistance.”
Forthcoming in Image--Music--Text: Discovering Album
Aesthetics. Eds. Øyvind Vågnes & Asbjørn Grønstad.
Forthcoming 2008.
“Goth/Fetish.” Goth: Undead Subculture. Eds. Michael
Bibby and Lauren Goodlad. Duke UP, 2007. 375-97.
“The
Disappointed Bridge.” Ulysses: Contemporary Critical Essays.
Ed. Rainer Emig. New York: Palgrave, 2004. 61-80.
“Mars
Attacks! Wells, Welles, and Radio Panic or: The Story of the
Century.” Ordinary Reactions to
Extraordinary Events.
Ed. Ray Browne. Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Press,
2001. 210-21.
“Freaks
in Space: ‘Extraterrestrialism’ and ‘Deep-Space
Multiculturalism’,” Freakery: Cultural
Spectacles of the Extraordinary
Body. Rosemarie Garland
Thomson, Ed. N.Y.: New York University Press, 1996. 327-37.
Journal Articles:
“Queer Haunting Spaces: Madeline
Yale Wynne’s ‘The Little Room’ and
Elia Wilkinson Peattie’s ‘The
House That Was Not.’” American Literature
79.3 (Sept. 2007): 501-26.
“The Crowd Within: Poe’s Impossible
Aloneness.” The Edgar Allan Poe Review VII.2 (Fall
2006): 50-64.
"Ten
Minutes for Seven Letters: Spectrality and the Ethics of Memory
in Toni Morrison’s Beloved,"
Arizona Quarterly
61.3 (Autumn 2005): 129-52.
"'Respond Now!' E-mail, Telepathy,
and a Pedagogy of Patience."
Pedagogy:
Critical Approaches to Teaching
Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture
4.3 (Fall 2004): 364-84.
"Poe's Impossible Aloneness"
(Abstract). The Edgar Allan
Poe Review V.2 (Fall 2004): 60.
"Doing Justice to Bartleby,"
American Transcendental
Quarterly. 17.1 (March 2003): 23-42.
"'In Possession of
the Letter': Kate Chopin's 'Her Letters',"
Studies in American Fiction
30:1 (Spring 2002): 45-62.
"Circumcising
Dracula: The Vampire as Anti-Semitic Trope,"
The Journal for The Fantastic
in the Arts 12.1 (2001): 90-102.
"ZombieTV,"
Post-Identity 2.2
(Fall 1999): 5-21.
"Introduction:
Cultural Violences," College
Literature 26.1 (Winter 1999): 1-7.
"Virus Culture,"
Studies in Popular Culture
20.1 (October 1997): 83-97.
"This is Not
Foucault's Head," Post
Identity I.1 (Fall 1997): 178-89.
"The Disappointed
Bridge" (on Joyce’s Ulysses)
The Journal for the
Fantastic in the Arts 8.3 (1997): 347-69.
"Freaks en el
Espacio," Trans. Eufemio Bildarrain.
Revista de Occidente
No. 201 (February 1998): 69- 87.
"13
Ways of Looking at Donna Haraway."
CEAMAGazine Volume
7, No. 1 (Fall 1994): 31-44.