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

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)