Essays & Reviews

“B-Sides: Gloria Steinem’s The Beach Book.” Public Books. January 2025.

“The Sentimentality of Evil.” The New Inquiry. June 2024

“Teaching Moby-Dick in the Anthropocene.” Radical Teacher. Spring 2021.

“Young Americans Stuck in Adolescence? Maybe Adulthood is the Problem.” Cognoscenti. May 2017

“Pride and Prejudice and Transphobia.”Avidly. June 2016

Peer-reviewed Scholarship

Black and white photograph of an elderly man with white hair, wearing a suit jacket and waistcoat, seated on a wooden chair against a plain wall, with a red banner at the top displaying the acronym 'SAF' in white letters. The bottom has a red band with white text that reads 'Studies in American Fiction, Special Issue: Critical Approaches to Age in American Literature, Fall 2019, Volume 46, Issue 2.'
A page from The New England Quarterly journal titled 'Representing Oceanic New England' with authors Ross Barrett and Sari Edelstein, discussing the wreck of the schooner Ada K. Damon on Crane Beach, Massachusetts, in 1909 and its rediscovery.