Essays

“A Figure of Speech and a Speechless Figure: Determinations of Identity in George Sand’s Indiana and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth.” Papers on Language and Literature, vol. 58, no. 3, Summer 2024, pp. 303-37.

“‘Lyell’s Hypothesis Again’: Kenneth Rexroth’s Diction of Stone.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, vol. 36, no. 3, 2022, pp. 415-17. doi: 10.1080/0895769X.2021.2024426.

“‘For ever England’: The Figurative Colonization of Flanders.” Media, War & Conflict, vol. 15, no. 1, 2022, pp. 46-60. doi: 10.1177/1750635220902486.

“‘De dónde viene?’ and ‘A dónde va?’: Patterns of Derivation and Destination in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, vol. 34, no. 4, 2021, pp. 346-51. doi: 10.1080/0895769X.2020.1728515.

“Will Ladislaw’s Contextualization: The Function of Epigraphs in George Eliot’s Middlemarch.” JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory, vol. 51, no. 2, Summer 2021, pp. 129-53.

“Learning to Be a Failure: Tropes of Transformation in James Wright’s The Branch Will Not Break.” Renascence, vol. 73, no. 2, Spring 2021, pp. 101-15.

“A Tale of Two Balls: A Note on Henry James’s Flaubertian Education.” Literary Imagination (Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers; Oxford University Press), vol. 22, no. 2, 2020, pp. 165-71. https://doi.org/10.1093/litimag/imaa009.