books (author)
~ Passing Resemblances: World Autobiography from Enheduanna to Knausgärd (forthcoming from Columbia University Press)
~ Words Abounding: Getting to Know and Use Your Linguistic Inheritance (forthcoming from Anthem Press)
~ Ashes: A History of Thought and Substance (forthcoming from Punctum Books)
~ Psychoanalysis and the University: Resistance and Renewal from Freud to the Present (Routledge Press, 2025)
~ American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)


books (editor)
~ Editor, American Poetry, Volume 1: First English Encounters to the Civil War, Volume 10 of the 14-volume Oxford History of Poetry in English (forthcoming from Oxford University Press)
~ Co-editor (with Brian Connolly), Situation Critical! Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies (Duke University Press, 2024) [read our co-authored "Introduction" here]
~ Editor (including "Introduction," notes, and other apparatuses), Specimen Days, by Walt Whitman (Oxford University Press, 2023)


 peer-reviewed essays
~ "Whistler's Mothers: Painters, Models, and Uncanny Arrangements," American Imago 82.1 (Spring 2025), 1-25
~ "Mark Twain, the Talking Cure, and Literary Form," American Literary History 35.3 (2023), 1183-1205
~ "Safe, But Not Too Safe: Scenes from an Epistolary Romance," Contemporary Psychoanalysis 58.2-3 (2022), 224-76
~ "In the Interest of History," History of the Present 12.1 (April 2022), 80-102.
~ "Everybody's Autotheory," Modern Language Quarterly 83.1 (March 2022), 81-116
~ “Specters of Translation: Jacques Derrida, Safaa Fathy, and Nom à la mer,” Oxford Literary Review 43.2  (December 2021), 209-48
~ "'Do You Love Me?' The Question of the Queer Child of Psychoanalysis," Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 21.3 (2016)
~ "The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley in Slavery’s Recollective Economies, 1773 to the Present," in Cecile Cottenet, ed., Race, Ethnicity, and Publishing in America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 210-230
~ "Irregulars," Contemporary Psychoanalysis 49.3 (2013), 410-419
~ "Clericus and the Lunatick," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 107.3 (2013), 367-76
~ "Slavery and Its Metrics," The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry, ed. Kerry Larson (Cambridge University Press, 2011), 94-112
~"Michael Lucas and the Pornography of Migration," Senses of Cinema (July 2010), online
~ "American Constitutional Elegy," The Oxford Handbook of the Elegy, ed. Karen Weisman (Oxford, 2010), 224-237
~ "Who Publishes an Early American Book?" Common-place 9.3 (April 2009)
~ "Stephen Crane's Refrain," ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 54 (2008), 33-53; rpt. in American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions, eds. Christopher Looby and Cindy Weinstein (Columbia University Press, 2012), 73-90
~ "Curbside Quarantine: A Scene of Interspecies Mediality," Postmodern Culture 22.2 (January 2012), online
 ~ "Dickinson and the Exception,"  A Companion to Emily Dickinson, eds. Mary Loeffelholz and Martha Nell Smith (Blackwell, 2008), 222-34
~ "Sex After Death: François Ozon's Libidinal Invasions," Screen 48.3 (2007), 313-26
~ "Dissociative Reading: Philip Bromberg and Emily Dickinson," Contemporary Psychoanalysis 43.4 (2007), 681-88
~ "Emma Lazarus and the Golem of Liberty," American Literary History 18.1 (2006), 1-28; expanded version in The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange, ed. Meredith McGill (Rutgers University Press, 2008), 97-122
~ "Audience Terminable and Interminable: Anne Gilchrist, Walt Whitman, and the Achievement of Disinhibited Reading," Victorian Poetry 43.2 (2005), 249-61
~ "The Man Who Was Used Up: Poetry, Particularity, and the Politics of Remembering George Washington," American Literature 75.2 (2003), 247-74
~ "Interiority and Artifact: Death and Self-Inscription in Thomas Smith's Self-Portrait," Early American Literature 37.1 (2002), 89-117

 
commissioned and public-facing essays
~ "Feeling for the Inanimate," Tamarind: A Literary Magazine 8 (June 2025), 40-47
~ "Helping to Rejuvenate Psychoanalysis with a Blog from the Undergraduate Classroom," New Associations 44 (Autumn 2024), 6
~ “Richard Nisbett's Map of the World,” in Steven S. Powers, ed., The Design His Own [Works of Art and Americana, gallery catalog] (Winter 2021), 48-51, on-line
~ "Life on the Delaware; or, Comings and Goings in the Riparian Zone," Politics/Letters, 1 April 2021, online
~ "A Solitary Executioner Clownfrog Wants You To Know She Exists," The Journal of Wild Culture, 17 May 2020, online
~ "Lives with Line Breaks," Historical Poetics [blog], 28 January 2020, online
~ "Introduction" and guest editor, "New Sitings and Soundings for Transnational Poetics," J19: The Journal for 19th-Century Americanists 1.1 (2013), 179-213
~ "Genre" and "Lament," The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th edition, eds. Roland Greene and Stephen Cushman (Princeton, 2012), 551-554; 781-782
~ "Introduction," James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers (Signet Classics, 2007)


translations
~ "Paul Celan and Ukraine," Politics/Letters, 7 June 2022, online
~ Introduction and translator, Safaa Fathy and Jacques Derrida, "Contre-jour," PMLA 131.2 (2016), 540-550
~ Co-translator (with Noura Wedell and Paul Grant), Jean Louis Schefer, The Ordinary Man of Cinema [L'Homme ordinaire du cinéma] (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016)


reviews and review essays

~ review of Sarah Wilson, DIG: Notes on Field and Family, Float Photo Magazine (9 June 2025), online
~ review of Emily O. Wittman, Translation and Modernism: The Art of Co-Creation, Modernism/Modernity 31.4 (2025), 779-81
~ review of Torrance York, Semaphore, Float Photo Magazine (3 February 2025), online
~ review of Maxime Riché, Paradise, Float Photo Magazine (16 December 2024), online
~ review of Joseph Crawford, Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry: 1825-1855, Victorian Studies 53.3 (2021), 437-40
~ "Becky Suss's Haunts" [exhibit review], Icaphila.org, 23 November 2015, online
~ review of The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture by Lara Langer Cohen, Nineteenth-Century Literature 67.3 (2012), 410-13
~"La Haine," Slant (May 2012)
~"Beauty and the Beast," Slant (July 2011)
~ "Death's Histories," Early American Literature 39.1 (2004), 137-45
~ review of A Body To Die For by Grant Michaels (1990)

~ review of Boys Like Us by Peter McGehee (1991)

~ review of Coyote by Peter Gadol (1990)

~ review of Cures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey by Martin Duberman (1991)

~ review of Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1991)

~ review of Inventing AIDS by Cindy Patton (1991)

~ review of Men on Men 3: Best New Gay Fiction edited by George Stambolian (1990)

~ review of Realms of Strife: The Memoirs of Juan Goytisolo (1990)

~ review of Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant by Philip Hoare (1991

 
poems and aphorisms
~ "Mollusketotenlied" and "Reading in Bed," Evergreen Review (forthcoming, Spring/Summer 2025)
~ "No Whiter Birds," "Corpse Dogs," "New Horse," and "Like Soldiers Trying to Exit a Dream," Pennine Platform 96 (November 2024), print, 7-10 ["New Horse" is recited by John Duffy and discussed by Duffy and Julia Deakin as part of Love the Words podcast #292, 18 March 2025 (from 30:21 to 48:50)]
~ "Museum, Late Afternoon," Freshwater Literary Review, May 2024, print, 27
~ "Looking Out," Hooghly Review, April 2024, online
~ "Home Work," The Wild Word, February 2024, online
~"Presentation Copy," Politics/Letters, 24 January 2024, online