Articles

“‘Vast Impropriety’: Tragedy, Camp Negation, and the double entendre in Henry James,” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 51.2, forthcoming (Summer 2018) 

“Modernist Genre Decadence: From H.G. Wells to William S. Burroughs” (Affirmations: of the modern 5.1)

“Muriel Spark’s Camp Metafiction (Contemporary Literature 58.1)

“‘If not by reality’s yardstick’: Narrative Unreliability, Retrospection, and Myth in Mary Caponegro,” in La squisita interruzione: saggi, note e appunti sulla prosa lirica di Mary Caponegro (I Quaderni di Zeta, Udine), 2017

“The Dandified Dick: Hardboiled Noir and the Wildean Epigram” (ELH 81.4)

“Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and Decadent Style” (Literature Compass 11/6)

Reviews, Occasional Essays, Public Writing

“Exodus: Vaera,” Jewish Currents (April 30, 2020)

“A Tale of Two Plagiarists” (The Chronicle Review, October 2019)

“Philip Roth and the Fantasies of Authorship” (Post45, April 2019)

Review essay on Matthew Wilkens’s Revolution: The Event in Postwar Fiction (Amerikastudien)

“The University Is Not A Technology” (with Sam Fallon) (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

“Allegory and Dislocation”: On Twin Peaks: The Return (Post45)

“Genre Mistuned”: On Twin Peaks: The Return (Post45)

Review essay on Rita Felski’s The Limits of Critique and Lee Konstantinou’s Cool Characters (Amerikastudien) (PDF) 

“Masochism’s Gem-Like Flames” (review of Claire Jarvis’s Exquisite Masochism, LARB)

“Matthew Barney’s ‘Excrementitious’ Transcendentalism: On River of Fundament” (LARB)

“Fascism in us all” (review of Andew Pepper’s Unwilling Executioner, TLS)

“The Elenic Question” (with Merve Emre, LARB)

“Camp Von Trier: On Nymphomaniac vol. 1″ (LARB)

“Minority Rapport” (Review of Michael Szalay’s Hip Figures, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas)