SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Introduction to “Afterlives of Nineteenth-Century American Racism,” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 6:1, spring 2018.
“Romancing the Trace: Edward Hitchcock’s Speculative Ichnology,” in Tobias Menely and Jesse Oak Taylor, eds., Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times, Penn State University Press, 2017.
“Speaking Substances: Rock,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 12, 2016.
“Touching Seeing.” American Literary History 28:1, spring 2016.
“How the Earth Feels: Interview.” Transatlantica: Revue d’études américaines, special issue
on Deep Time, winter 2015.
“Has the Queer Ever Been Human?” (co-authored with Mel Y. Chen), introduction to “Queer Inhumanisms.” Special double issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, co-edited with Mel Y. Chen. Vol. 22 nos. 2-3, spring/summer 2015.
"The Inhuman Anthropocene." Avidly, March 22, 2015.
“Tracking Prehistory.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, forum on monstrosity, ed. John Modern, forthcoming spring 2015.
“Sacred Theories of Earth: Matters of Spirit in William and Elizabeth Denton’s The Soul of Things.” American Literature, special issue, “After the Post-Secular.” December 2014.
"Introduction: On Moving Ground," in Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies, co-edited with Ivy G. Wilson. NYU Press, 2014.
Social Text Periscope dossier on Cruel Optimism and conversation with author Lauren Berlant, 2013. http://www.socialtextjournal.org/periscope/cruel-optimism/
“Unrealized: The Queer Time of The Hermaphrodite,” in Gary Williams and Renée Bergland, eds., Philosophies of Sex: Essays on The Hermaphrodite (Ohio State University Press, 2012).
“Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come: Velvet Goldmine’s Queer Archive,” in E.L. McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen, eds., Queer Times, Queer Becomings (SUNY Press, 2011). Winner, Crompton-Noll Award, 2012.
“Geological Fantasies, Haunting Anachronies: Eros, Time, and History in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘The Amber Gods,’” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 55.3-4, Special Issue, “Come Again?” December 2009.
“Coming Around Again: The Queer Momentum of Far From Heaven,” GLQ 13.2-3 (Spring/Summer 2007), special issue on “Queer Temporalities,” ed. Elizabeth Freeman, pp. 249-72. Honorable mention, Crompton-Noll Award, 2007.
“Love’s Measures,” contribution to roundtable on Brokeback Mountain, ed. Scott Herring, GLQ 13.1 (Winter 2006).
“Melville’s Untimely History: ‘Benito Cereno’ as Counter-Monumental Narrative,” Arizona Quarterly 60.3 (Fall 2004).
“Passing Shadows: Melancholy Nationality and Black Publicity in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Of One Blood,” in David Eng and David Kazanjian, eds., Loss: The Psychic and Social Contexts of Melancholia (University of California Press, 2003).
“Invalid Relations: Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady,” The Henry James Review 23.2 (May 2002).
“'Perverse Nature': Edgar Huntly and the Novel's Reproductive Disorders,” American Literature 70.1 (March 1998).
“Romancing the Trace: Edward Hitchcock’s Speculative Ichnology,” in Tobias Menely and Jesse Oak Taylor, eds., Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times, Penn State University Press, 2017.
“Speaking Substances: Rock,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 12, 2016.
“Touching Seeing.” American Literary History 28:1, spring 2016.
“How the Earth Feels: Interview.” Transatlantica: Revue d’études américaines, special issue
on Deep Time, winter 2015.
“Has the Queer Ever Been Human?” (co-authored with Mel Y. Chen), introduction to “Queer Inhumanisms.” Special double issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, co-edited with Mel Y. Chen. Vol. 22 nos. 2-3, spring/summer 2015.
"The Inhuman Anthropocene." Avidly, March 22, 2015.
“Tracking Prehistory.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, forum on monstrosity, ed. John Modern, forthcoming spring 2015.
“Sacred Theories of Earth: Matters of Spirit in William and Elizabeth Denton’s The Soul of Things.” American Literature, special issue, “After the Post-Secular.” December 2014.
"Introduction: On Moving Ground," in Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies, co-edited with Ivy G. Wilson. NYU Press, 2014.
Social Text Periscope dossier on Cruel Optimism and conversation with author Lauren Berlant, 2013. http://www.socialtextjournal.org/periscope/cruel-optimism/
“Unrealized: The Queer Time of The Hermaphrodite,” in Gary Williams and Renée Bergland, eds., Philosophies of Sex: Essays on The Hermaphrodite (Ohio State University Press, 2012).
“Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come: Velvet Goldmine’s Queer Archive,” in E.L. McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen, eds., Queer Times, Queer Becomings (SUNY Press, 2011). Winner, Crompton-Noll Award, 2012.
“Geological Fantasies, Haunting Anachronies: Eros, Time, and History in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘The Amber Gods,’” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 55.3-4, Special Issue, “Come Again?” December 2009.
“Coming Around Again: The Queer Momentum of Far From Heaven,” GLQ 13.2-3 (Spring/Summer 2007), special issue on “Queer Temporalities,” ed. Elizabeth Freeman, pp. 249-72. Honorable mention, Crompton-Noll Award, 2007.
“Love’s Measures,” contribution to roundtable on Brokeback Mountain, ed. Scott Herring, GLQ 13.1 (Winter 2006).
“Melville’s Untimely History: ‘Benito Cereno’ as Counter-Monumental Narrative,” Arizona Quarterly 60.3 (Fall 2004).
“Passing Shadows: Melancholy Nationality and Black Publicity in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Of One Blood,” in David Eng and David Kazanjian, eds., Loss: The Psychic and Social Contexts of Melancholia (University of California Press, 2003).
“Invalid Relations: Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady,” The Henry James Review 23.2 (May 2002).
“'Perverse Nature': Edgar Huntly and the Novel's Reproductive Disorders,” American Literature 70.1 (March 1998).
