MONOGRAPHS:
Dialectics of the Big Bang and the Absolute Existence of the Multiverse. University of Alberta Press. 332 pages. Forthcoming in 2024. Look at the book
Narratives of African American Women’s Literary Pragmatism and Creative Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 274 pages. Look at the book
Henry James and the Philosophy of Literary Pragmatism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 261 pages. Look at the book
NOVELS:
Year of the Puffin. Atmosphere Press. 2023. 307 pages. Look at the book; IBR Review; SLA Review; Goodreads Reviews
Bákn. Self-published via Amazon kindle, 2020. 467 pages. Look at the book
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS:
“Following Schrödinger’s Cat into Many Worlds: Quantum Physics and William Sleator’s The Last Universe.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 48, no. 3, 2021, pp. 483-99. Read
“Death and Recognition in William Sleator’s The Duplicate and G. W. F. Hegel’s Parable of Lordship and Bondage.” Children’s Literature, vol. 49, 2021, pp. 114-38. Read
“Annie and Mammy: An Intersectional Reading of Stephen King’s Misery.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 54, no. 2, 2021, pp. 257-75. Read
“Pragmatist Individuals and the Nineteenth-Century American West in Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose and John Williams’s Butcher’s Crossing.” Western American Literature, vol. 55, no. 4, 2021, pp. 323-50. Read
“Breaking into the Foam: Peter Sloterdijk’s Philosophy of Dwelling and Richard Stark’s Parker Novels.” Crime Fiction Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2021, pp. 48-62. Read
“The Narratives and Metaphor of the Balloonverse: A Literary Reading of the Big Bang Theory.” Journal of Literature and Science, vol. 13, no. 2, 2020, pp. 38-51. Read
“American Literary Naturalism and its Descendants.” Studies in American Naturalism, vol. 15, no. 1, 2020, pp. vii-xiv. Read
“Naturalism and Intersectionality in Peter Benchley’s Jaws.” Studies in American Naturalism, vol. 15, no. 1, 2020, pp. 92-110. Read
“Martin Heidegger and the Being and Time of Black Holes.” Philosophy and Cosmology, vol. 25, 2020, pp. 20-31. Read
“Male Friendships and Betrayal in the Fiction of Graham Greene.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 62, no. 4, 2020, pp. 415-36. Read
“Death and the Search for Heideggerian Authenticity in No Country for Old Men.” The Cormac McCarthy Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 2020, pp. 37-55. Read
“Gilded Creatures Straining and Dying: Performances of Blondness and Feminine Ethereality in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry.” Milli Mála: Journal of Language and Culture, vol. 11, 2019, pp. 86-110. Read
“Peircean Firstness and the Poetics of Doubt: Charles Peirce’s Philosophy of Subjectivity and Emily Dickinson’s ‘These Tested Our Horizon -.'” Non/Cognate Approaches: Relation & Representation, edited by Ivan Mladenov and Aleksandar Feodorov, BASP, 2019, pp. 47-66.
“‘It Takes Its Shape from de Shore It Meets’: Creative Democracy and the Pragmatic Experience of Love in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.” MELUS, vol. 43, no. 1, 2018, pp. 159-82. Read
“The Dialectic of Love and the Motif of Fruit in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.” Textual Practice, vol. 31, no. 1, 2017, pp. 99-115. Read
“Breaking Down Creative Democracy: A Pragmatist Reading of Race and Gender in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand.” English Studies in Canada, vol. 42, no. 3/4, 2016, pp. 135-57. Read
“‘The Deliberate Introduction of Beauty and Pleasure’: Femininity and Black Feminist Pragmatism in Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Plum Bun.” African American Review, vol. 49, no. 3, 2016, pp. 227-40. Read
“‘He Wished That He Could Be an Idea in Their Minds’: Legal Pragmatism and the Construction of White Subjectivity in Richard Wright’s Native Son.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 57, no. 3, 2015, pp. 325-42. Read
“Constructing Masks of Hypermasculinity: The Depiction of Rampage School Shootings in Contemporary American Novels.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 47, no. 1, 2015, pp. 99-115. Read
“Making the Milk into a Milkshake: Adapting Upton Sinclair’s Oil! into P. T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood.” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 1, 2015, pp. 34-45. Read
“Far From Home and Near to Harm: Mazes, Rhizomes, and Illusory Domestic Spaces in Richard Stark’s Parker Novels.” Clues: A Journal of Detection, vol. 33, no. 1, 2015, pp. 30-39. Read
“‘Our Habit Saves You’: Peircean Subjectivity in ‘The Beast in the Jungle.'” The Henry James Review, vol. 34, no. 1, 2013, pp. 47-63. Read
“One Crime, Two Pragmatisms: The Philosophical Context of Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.” Studies in American Naturalism, vol. 8, no. 2, 2013, pp. 214-35. Read
“Hegemonic Masculine Narratives and Football Injuries in Three American Novels.” Aethlon: Journal of Sport Literature, vol. 28, no. 1, 2011, pp. 75-94.
“Desire, Death, and Women in the Master-Slave Dialectic: A Comparative Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Henry James’s The Golden Bowl.” Philosophy and Literature, vol. 35, no. 2, 2011, pp. 233-50. Read
“The Ideal Athlete: John Wayne in Infinite Jest.” Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays, edited by David Hering, SMGP, 2010, pp. 75-88.
FICTION:
“Eye Bean Rear Product.” Loose Canon, vol. 3, 2014.
“The Cheese Machine.” Fiddlehead, vol. 250, 2012, pp. 93-98.
“The Right Way to Do It.” Scrivener Creative Review, vol. 36, 2011, pp. 32-40.
“Matisse of Montreal.” Janus Head, vol. 12, no. 1, 2011, pp. 261-82. Read