Directory

Faculty Research

• Twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture
• Southern fiction
• Literary representations of race and social class
• Modernism and modernity

Books

• Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Book Chapters

• “Picturing the Tacky: Poor White Southerners in Gilded Age Periodicals.” In The Tacky South, edited by Katharine A. Burnett and Monica Carol Miller, 21-36.  Louisiana State University Press, 2022.
• “Chick Lit and Southern Studies.” In Teaching Tainted Lit: Popular American Fiction in Today’s Classroom, edited by Janet G. Casey, 91-103.  University of Iowa Press, 2015.

Journal Articles

• “Untranslatable Creole: Language Suppression, Racial Segregation, and Louisiana Local Color Fiction.” American Quarterly 73, no. 3 (September 2021): 619-638.
• “Transnational American Studies’ Female Trouble.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 47, no. 1 (January/February 2018): 1-20.
• “Writing Against Normativity: Samuel R. Delany’s Textual Times Square.” African American Review 48, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 345-358.
• “Documenting Hunger: Famineways in Contemporary Southern Women’s Writing.” Southern Literary Journal 47, no. 2 (Spring 2015): 1-19.
• “Finding Life in the Meshes: Patsy Yaeger’s Legacies.” Mississippi Quarterly 67, no. 1 (Winter 2014): 11-13.
• “‘She Wants It Told’: Rosa Coldfield’s Narrative Clout in Absalom, Absalom!” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 25, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 242-258.
• “Goophering Jim Crow: Charles Chesnutt’s 1890s America.” American Literary Realism 46, no. 1 (Fall 2013): 12-26.
• “The First Fruits of Literary Rebellion: Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The Crop.’” Journal of the Short Story in English 60 (Spring 2013): 73-81.
• “William Faulkner’s Rural Modernism.” Mississippi Quarterly 61, no. 3 (Summer 2008): 461-75.