Articles & Book Chapters
“Reading Fans Reading: The Beginner’s Guide to Fan Theories and Videogame Interpretations.” Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell About, With, and Around Videogames (forthcoming, LSU Press).
“Strange Mechanics: Animals, Affects, and Environmental Allegories in Video Games.” Unserious Ecocriticism: Humor, Wit, Play, and Environmental Destruction in North American Contemporary Art & Visual Culture (forthcoming, Amherst College Press)
“The Play of Perception: Flatness and the Movement of Comics.” Unfurling Unflattening: Tracing Pedagogical Possibilities within Higher Education (forthcoming, MIT Press).
“Ready Player Action: Teaching Close Reading and Critical Play in a Ludic Century.” Teaching Games and Game Studies in the Literature Classroom. Ed. Tison Pugh and Lynn Ramey (Bloomsbury, 2022).
“Archival Play: The Magic Circle of Fragments, Finding Aids, and Curious George.” Pedagogy 21.3 (2021): 455-479.“Realism and Recording: Remixing Literary and Media History.” American Literary Realism 53.3 (2021): 198-204.
“William Dean Howells, Thing Theory, and the Hazards of Speculative Realism.” Arizona Quarterly 75.1 (2019): 85-109.
“Starting from the Archives: Digital Humanities Partnerships, Projects, and Pedagogies.” Co-authored with Jennifer Brannock and Joyce Inman. In Digital Humanities, Libraries, and Partnerships: A Critical Examination of Labor, Networks, and Community. Ed. Robin Kear and Kate Joranson. Chandos Publishing, 2018.
“Gilman’s Paperwork: Authorship, Accounting, and Archival Memory.” American Literary History 29.2 (2017): 307-330.
“Breaking the News: Telegraphy and Yellow Journalism in the Spanish-American War.” American Periodicals 26.2 (2016): 130-148.
“<A> and <B>: Marks, Maps, Media, and the Materiality of Ambrose Bierce’s Style.” American Literature 85.4 (2013): 629-660.
‘“Reading Connectedly’: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the Index, and Her Librarian-Father.” American Literary Realism 45.3 (2013): 210-228.
“Mr. Wilson’s War: Peace, Neutrality, and Entangling Alliances in Hemingway’s In Our Time.” The Hemingway Review 31.2 (2012): 6-26.
Invited Lectures
“Archival Spirits: Reviving the Humanities in the College Classroom.” Awards Reception, The University of Southern Mississippi, Nov. 2017.
“Authors, Archives, and Finding Aids: A Media-Archaeological Point of View.” The Digital Antiquarian, American Antiquarian Society, May 2015.
“Markup Twain: The Remarkable Adventures of 19th Century Authorship.” Newberry Library, Newberry Colloquium, Chicago, IL, Sept. 2014.
Conference Presentations
“Pages, Platforms, Passages: The Interactive Affordances of Early American Literature.” 50th Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, Louisville (Virtual), Feb. 2023.
“Re-Dressing Dreiser: The Speculative Histories of Software Arts and Design.” Modern Language Association, Toronto (Virtual), Jan. 2021.
“Teaching the Art of Video Games.” Modern Language Association, Toronto (Virtual), Jan. 2021.
“Playing for the Plot: Pattern, Interpretation, and Environmental Storytelling in Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA (Virtual), Nov. 2020
“Ecological Empathy: Models of Nonhuman Agency in Contemporary Video Games.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, March 2020.
“The Invention of Mark Twain.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2019.
“Archival Discovery: Remediating the Early American Survey Course.” Society of Early Americanists Conference, Eugene, OR, Feb. 2019.
“Teaching Early American Literature in High School.” Society of Early Americanists Conference, Eugene, OR, Feb. 2019.
“Paper Wars: Railroads, Telegraphy, and the Body Corporate, 1861/1896.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2017.
“Geometry, Perspective, and the Children’s Picture Book.” Children’s Literature Association, Tampa, FL, June 2017.
“Dreiser Weaving: Patterns, Designs, and Female Labor.” American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA, May 2016.
“Sewing Patterns.” Modern Language Association, “Deep Time of the Nineteenth Century: A Literary Archaeology of Media and Objects,” Vancouver, Jan. 2015.
“Gilman’s Paperwork.” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Chapel Hill, NC, Mar. 2014.
“Divided Attention: Editorial Markup in the New Media of 19th Century Newspapers.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2013.
“War Graphs: Periodical Correspondents and Media Crossfire in the Spanish-American War.” American Literature Association, New Orleans, LA, Oct. 2013.
“Property Wars: Ambrose Bierce, William Randolph Hearst, and the Art of Editing.” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Berkeley, CA, Apr. 2012.
“Paper Wars: Topography and Typography in Ambrose Bierce’s Civil War Records.” Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 2011.
“Periodical Publics: Reconstructing Community, Communication, and the Commonplace.” The Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Conference, U. of Minnesota, Oct. 2010.
“Framing the Facts: The Sociology of Reading in Richard Wright’s Native Son.” Craft, Critique, and Culture Conference, University of Iowa, Apr. 2010
“Founding the Polis: Technological and Periodical Networks in the Public Work of W.D. Howells.” Identities and Technoculture Conference, University of Iowa, Apr. 2009.
“Reconstructing the Peace In Our Time: Hemingway, Wilson, and the Interpretation of History.” Symposium on the Arts, Humanities, and Social Science, Purdue University, Apr. 2009.
‘“All are Hosts and Guests’: Equality, Fraternity, and Empire in William Dean Howells’s Utopian Hospitality.” Craft, Critique, and Culture, University of Iowa, Apr. 2009.
“Dwelling in the City: The Periodical as Techne in William Dean Howells’s A Hazard of New Fortunes.” Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, Feb. 2009.
Campus Talks & Interviews
“Gaming the Humanities.” Digital Lagniappe: Conference in Digital Humanities, USM, April 2021.
“Archives & Book History.” Series on Archives & Digital Humanities, USM, Nov. 2016.
“Archival Research.” English Graduation Organization, USM, Nov. 2016.
“Digital Archives.” WUSM Today Radio Show, USM, Oct. 2016.
“Archives and Digital Humanities 101.” Series on Archives & Digital Humanities, USM, Sept. 2016.
“Mark Twain on the Mississippi River.” Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, June 2016.
“Archival Curiosity: Teaching and Learning with Special Collections.” Curious George Goes to the Archive, USM, Apr. 2016.
“Curious George Goes to the Archive.” WUSM Today Radio Show, Apr. 2016.
“Authors, Archives, and American Literature.” College of Arts and Letters, USM, Apr. 2016.
“Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal.” Pre-Performance Talk, USM, Mar. 2015.
“Authorship, Publishing, and Technology.” Newberry Seminar in the Humanities, Sept. 2014.
“19th Century American Literature in the High School Classroom.” Literature Study for Teachers, USM, Sept. 2014, 2015, and 2016.
“Multimodal Assignments.” Pedagogy Forum, USM, Nov. 2014.
“Managing Course Websites: An Introduction to WordPress and the Logistics of Online Learning.” Rewiring the Classroom Symposium, The University of Iowa, Feb. 2013.