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~"Nocturne,"
Raven Review, Winter 2024, online~ Ashes: A History of Thought and Substance (forthcoming, Punctum Books) ~ Psychoanalysis and the University (forthcoming, Routledge Press) ~ Co-editor (with Brian Connolly), Situation Critical! Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies (forthcoming in 2024, Duke University Press) ~ Editor (including "Introduction," notes, and other apparatuses), Specimen Days, by Walt Whitman, Oxford University Press (2023) ~ American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) peer-reviewed essays ~ "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 ~ “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 Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry: 1825-1855 by Joseph Crawford (2021) ~ "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 ~ "Museum, Late Afternoon," Freshwater Literary Review, forthcoming, May 2024 ~ "Looking Out," Hooghly Review, April 2024, online ~ "Home Work," The Wild Word, February 2024, online ~"Presentation Copy," Politics/Letters, 24 January 2024, online ~ "Fire Island Sestina," Stone Poetry Quarterly, November 2023, online ~ "Neurodiversion," Stone of Madness 22, 15 July 2023, online ~ "Road Umbrage," Politics/Letters, 19 May 2022, online ~ “25 Aphorisms,” Grand (Winter 2022) ~ “43 Aphorisms,” Philosophical Salon, 26 April 2021, online ~ "Where You Still Need a Dashboard Radio," Politics/Letters, on-line, 7 March 2021 ~ "New Season," Brittle Star 47 (December 2020), 76 ~ "Driving By," Politics/Letters, 23 November 2020, online |