Articles and Essays

“The Confederacy and Other Southern Fictions.” In The Cambridge Companion to Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Eds. Kathleen Diffley and Coleman Hutchison. Cambridge UP, 2022.

“A Calculated Fiction: Antebellum Plantation Romances.” In A History of the Literature of the U.S. South. Ed. Harilaos Stecopoilos. Cambridge UP, 2021.

“The Methodical Drinker: Alcohol, Economics, and Regional Identity in Early Virginian Literature.” In Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South. Eds, Conor Picken & Matthew Dischinger. LSU Press, 2020.

“Mold on the Cornbread: The Spore Paradigm of Southern Studies.” In “The Changing Profession – Adjust Your Maps: Manifestos from, for, and about United States Southern Studies.” PMLA. 131.1 (2016): 162-6.

“The Proslavery Social Problem Novel: Maria J. McIntosh’s Narrative of Reform in the Antebellum South.” College Literature. 42.4 (2015): 619-647.

 “Moving Toward a ‘No South’: George Washington Cable’s Global Vision in The Grandissimes.” Southern Literary Journal. 45. 1 (2012): 21-38.

 "Lafcadio Hearn's Traveling Regionalism." The Global South Journal. 3. 2 (2009): 64-82.

Reviews

“Review of Leaving the South: Border Crossing Narratives and the Remaking of Southern Identity.” American Literary History Online Review, Series XXI. (Fall 2020)

“Review of Pirates and Devils: William Gilmore Simms’s Unfinished Postbellum Novels.” The William Gilmore Simms Review. (Spring 2017)

Encyclopedia entries

In The Encyclopedia of African American Business: Updated and Revised Edition. 2nd Edition. Ed. Jessie Carney Smith. Greenwood P, 2017.

• “Free Black Entrepreneurs.”

•  “Hip-hop Consumerism.”

•  “Vince Cullers.”