Scholarly Essays

  • “Composition, Consult, Curation: Designing a Textshop for Experimental Humanities,” with Félix Burgos,
    Exquisite Corpse: Art-Based Writing Practices in the Academy, Ed. Kate Hanzalik and Nathalie Virgintino. Parlor Press, 2019.

  • “The Projector Finds a Hobby.” Textshop Experiments (Winter 2018).

  • “The Periodical Disruption: The Essay as Minor Method.” Commanding Words: Essays on the Discursive Constructions, Manifestations, and Subversions of Authority, Ed. Lynda Chouiten. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

  • “Betwixt and Between: The Child in M. Night Shyamalan Films.” Kidding Around: The Child in Film and Media, Ed. Alexander N. Howe and Wynn Yarbrough. Bloomsbury, 2014.

  • “It’s All about Meme: The Insatiable Ego of the Colbert Bump,” in The Stewart/Colbert Effect: Essays on the Real Impacts of Fake News, Ed.  Amarnath Amarasingam (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011), 164-180.

  • “Legacy and Dave Chappelle,” in The Comedy of Dave Chappelle: Critical Essays, ed. K. A. Wisniewski (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009), 184-193.

  • “Crossing the Line: Using Comedy to Discuss Culture in the Classroom,” with Andrea Cumbo, in From Hip Hop to Hyperlinks: Practical Approaches for Teaching Culture in the Composition Classroom, ed. Joanna Paul (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), 112-135.

  • “Finding the Future Female:  Science Fiction and Future Noir in Blade Runner,” Genre: Film, Ideology, and Culture 25 (2006): 223-238.

ENCYCLOPEDIA / Textbook ENTRIES

  • “The Whiskey Rebellion and Jay’s Treaty,” The American Yawp: A Free and Online, Collaboratively Built American History Textbook.  Ed. Joseph Locke and Ben Wright.  2015. Web.  http://www.americanyawp.com/.

  • “Kevin Costner,” in Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, Ed. Philip C. DiMare (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011), 612-614.

ESSAYS, COMMENTARIES, & CREATIVE NON-FICTION

  • “Every Season’s Greetings: The Importance of ‘Green’ Spaces for the Older Adult,” The Upside to Aging: Caregiving with Dignity 22 January 2019: n. pag. https://theupsidetoaging.com/.

  • “A Taste of Peppermint,” R.kv.r.y. Quarterly Literary Journal 12.4 (Fall 2015): n. pag. http://rkvryquarterly.com/.

  • “Comment to Chappelle?: The Return of Dave Chappelle and the Future of Comedy,” The Artifice 30 June 2014: n.pag. http://the-artifice.com/return-of-dave-chappelle/.

  • “In/Operable: Watching Lady Macbeth,” Fuse 4.2 (2006): 18-27.

  • “ECO-ECHO:  The Same Old Problems with Nature,” Court Jester 2.1 (2005): 3-7.

REVIEWS

  • Rev. of Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War, by Michael David Cohen. Civil War History 61.2 (June 2015): 179-181.

  • Rev. of  Rain Taxi: Review of Books 19.1 (Spring 2014), Small Press Review 46.7-8 (2014): 18-19.

  • Rev. of Film Poems, by Redell Olsen. Small Press Review 46.7-8 (2014): 6.

  • Rev. of Teaching History in the Digital Age, by T. Mills Kelly. HASTAC: Digital History Book Review of the Month, n. pag.  http://www.hastac.org/blogs/kwisniew/2013/12/31/digital-history-book-review-month-5-t-mills-kelly-teaching-history-digital

  • Rev. of Networked: The New Social Operating System, by Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman. Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, Special Issue: Bumper Reviews Issue 10 (Fall 2013): n. pag. www.hyperrhiz.net/hyperrhiz10

  • Rev. of Shaping the Body Politic: Art and Political Formation in Early America, edited by Maurie D. McInnis and Louis P. Nelson. Southern Historian 34 (2013): 64-66.  

  • Rev. of But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise, by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram. Small Press Review 45.1-2 (2013): 9.

  • Rev. of William Parks: The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century, by A. Franklin Parks. The Maryland Historical Magazine 107.3 (Fall 2012):  366-368.

  • Rev. of Lucky, by Jesse Brown, and Wearing Heels in the Rust Belt, by Karen J. Weyant. Small Press Review 44.7-8 (2012): 4.

  • Rev. of Seeing Through Music: Gender and Modernism in Classic Hollywood Film Scores, by Peter Franklin. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media (Theme: Sound, Voice, Music) 3 (Summer 2012): n.pag.  http://www.alphavillejournal.com/.

  • Rev. of The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems, edited by Theresa Malphrus Welford. Small Press Review 44.1-2 (2012): 5.

  • Rev. of the vanishings & other poems, by Elizabeth Myhr.  Raintaxi: Review of Books 16.4 (Winter 2011/2012): 29.

  • Rev. of M’Culloch v. Maryland: Securing a Nation, by Mark Killenbeck, and Aggressive Nationalism: McCulloch v. Maryland and the Foundation of Federal Authority in the Young Republic, by Richard Ellis. Maryland Historical Magazine 105.1 (Spring 2010): 75-77.

  • Rev. of Poetry 194.2 (2009). Small Press Review 41.11-12 (2009): 17.

  • Rev. of Noah Webster, Websterisms, edited by Arthur Schulman. Journal of the Early Republic 29.4 (Winter 2009): 744-745. 

  • Rev. of INRI, by Raul Zurita (trans. William Rowe), and Been and Gone: Poems of Julian Kornhauser, Julian Kornhauser (trans. Piotr Florczyk). Small Press Review 41.9-10 (2009): 6.

  • Rev. of Chop Shop, by Stephanie Taylor. Small Press Review 39.11-12 (2007): 12.

  • Rev. of Research Quarterly of the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors 40.1 (2007). Small Press Review 39.7-8 (2007): 17.

  • Rev. of The Sentinel 29.2 (2007). Small Press Review 39.7-8 (2007): 22.

  • Rev. of Words and Pictures Magazine 5 (2007). Small Press Review 39.7-8 (2007): 22.

  • Rev. of How to Write, Publish & Sell Your Own How-to Book, by John T. Reed. Small Press Review 38.1-2 (2006): 8.

  • Rev. of Countdown to Chaos, by Franklyn A. Johnson. Small Press Review 37.11-12 (2005): 9.

  • Rev. of  Big Muddy 5.1 (2005). Small Press Review 37:7-8 (2005): 18.

  • Rev. of Fish Piss 2.4 (2005). Small Press Review 37:1-2 (2005): 22.

  • Rev. of Threepenny Review 98 (Summer 2004). Small Press Review 36:11-12 (2004): 17.

  • Rev. of Vine of the Soul, by Richard Evans Schultes. Small Press Review 36:9-10 (2004): 8.

  • Rev. of The Pocket Book: A Novella and Nineteen Short Fictions, by Gerald Locklin. Small Press Review 36:5-6 (2004): 7.