Selected Publications

• “Undisciplined Reading.” Commonplace 8.1 (October, 2007). http://www.common-place.org/vol-08/no-01/reading/
• “Book Arts and the Desire for Theory.” The Journal of Artists’ Books 22 (Fall 2007): 6-9.
• The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).
• “The Thick Style: Steady Sellers, Textual Aesthetics, and Early Modern Devotional Reading.” PMLA 121:1 (January 2006): 67-86.
• “The Study and Story of Books in Early America.” Essay-review of A History of the Book in America, Volume One: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 98:4 (2004): 522-30.
• “Book History, Sexy Knowledge, and the Challenge of the New Boredom.” American Literary History 16:4 (Winter, 2004): 688-706.
• "How is Cultural Studies Anyway?: Evidence, Discipline, and the Iconographical Impulse." Journal of the MMLA 34:3 (Fall, 2001): 54-69.
• "Cultural Studies, Materialist Bibliography and the New England Archive: Editing an Elegy from King Philip's War." Studies in the Literary Imagination 32: 1 (Spring, 1999): 81-89.
• "'BOSTON/SOB NOT': Elegiac Performance in Early New England and Materialist Studies of the Book," American Quarterly 50:2 (1998): 306-39.
• "Basketball, Rodney King, Simi Valley." Whiteness: A Critical Reader. Ed. Mike Hill, New York: New York UP, 1997. 102-116.
• Contributor, The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism. Ed. Joseph Childers and Gary Hentzi, New York: Columbia UP, 1995.
• "Funk Music as Genre: Black Aesthetics, Apocalyptic Thinking and Urban Protest in Post-1965 African-American Pop," Cultural Studies 8:3 (1994): 484-508.
• Book Review. Millennial Thought in America: Historical and Intellectual Contexts, 1630-1860. Early American Literature 39:1 (2004): 700-704).
• Book Review. The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter. William and Mary Quarterly 59 (April 2002): 500-03.
• Book Review. Giving Up the Ghost: Spirits, Ghosts, and Angels in Mainstream Comedy Films. Style 34 (2000):337-42.
• "Freedy in the Aftermath." PopMatters. April 10, 2002. http://www.popmatters.com/music/features/020410-freedy.html
• "Two Cheers for Jeff Tweedy." PopMatters. October 8, 2002. http://www.popmatters.com/music/features/021008-wilco.shtml

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