Writing

Current Projects

Book Chapter: “Reflections on a Revolt: Mapping the Wellesley Mission from the Founding to the Present,” in The Radical Project of Feminist Education: 150 Years at Wellesley (Forthcoming from MIT Press, 2026).

Book: We the People: Reflections on the Promise and Imperilment of Higher Education in America

Books

Children of the Raven and the Whale: Visions and Revisions in American Literature (University of Virginia Press, 2019)

Domesticity and Design in American Women’s Lives and Literature: Stowe, Alcott, Cather, and Wharton Writing Home (Routledge, 2011)

Articles & Book Chapters

“The Case for Care: A Review of The Caring University: Reimagining the Higher Education Workplace after the Great Resignation.” Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. 23 July 2025.

“A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand:” The Need for A United Front in the Attacks on Higher Education” Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. 30 May 2025.

“In Defense of the Classroom.” New York Daily News. 14 May 2020.

“Modernism Delayed, Not Denied: Wharton, Hemingway, and Scribner’s Magazine.” Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism. Ed. Lisa Tyler. Louisiana State University Press, 2018.

“Shut Not Your Doors to Me, Proud Libraries!”: The Repatriation of Edith Wharton’s Library.” From Page to Place: American Literary Tourism and the Afterlives of Authors. Ed. Hilary Iris Lowe and Jennifer Harris. University of Massachusetts Press, 2017.

“New York Unearthed: 9/11, Let the Great World Spin, and the Archaeology of Grief.” The City Since 9/11: Literature, Film, Culture. Ed. Keith Wilhite. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015.

“Not Even New York Was Enough to Lighten Her Mood:” Teaching St. Herbert—A Tale in Brooklyn. COMMON-PLACE 15.2 (Winter 2015).

“A Moveable Self: Edith Wharton’s Library and Its Return to The Mount.” The Edith Wharton Review 30.2: (Fall 2014): 1-16.

“A Walker in the City: Lee’s Native Speaker, Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn, and Whitman’s Cartographic Legacy.” Studies in American Culture 36.1 (October 2013): 29-54.

“Taking Up Thoreau’s Pencil: A Luddite Explores Uses of Technology in the American Literature Classroom.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice. Summer 2011 (4:4): 77-82.

“Mens Sana in Corpore Sano: Implementing and Evaluating Writing Across the Curriculum Strategies in Physical Education.” The Physical Educator. Winter 2009(4): 170-179.

“Chintz Goes to War: Edith Wharton’s Revised Designs for Home and Homefront.” The Edith Wharton Review 23.2 (Spring 2007): 8-13.

“The Other American Kitchen: Alternative Domesticity in 1950s Politics, Design, and Fiction.” Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture. 3.2 (Fall 2004).