Review of Rob Harper, Unsettling the West
Journal: Middle West Review
Volume: 7:1 (November 2020) Pages 192-95
The Technique of Terror
Conference: Contemporary American literature, Institute of Italian/American Studies in Rome
Date: November 2020
An Appetite for Reality
Conference: Honors Convocation, At Emmitsburg, Maryland
Date: April 2020
James Smith’s Account: Re-thinking the Significance of the Captivity Narrative
Date: May 26, 2019
The Real Thing: Authenticity in Frank Bergon’s Fiction
Date: October 2, 2018
Homage to Robert Stone
Date: June 12, 2018
Thomas Berger’s Comedy of One-upmanship
Date: April 17, 2018
American Democracy on Trial: The Election of Donald Trump—an Overview
Date: June 8, 2017
Human, All Too Human: Thomas Berger’s Crazy in Berlin
Web: Journal of American Studies
Date: May 2, 2017
Ariadne in Kentucky: Erotic Power and Mythic Resonance in William Heath’s neo-noir novel Devil Dancer
Conference: International Academy of Law and Mental Health Conference, At Prague, Session: Women, Madness, and Creation
Date: July, 2017
Writing History and Historical Fiction
Symposium: The Power of Filmmaking and Political Storytelling, Catalonia’s National Day, Chevy Chase, Maryland
Date: September 11, 2016
“The forgotten art of gayety”: The Puritans and Merry Old England
Web: Hawthorne in Salem
Date: January 19, 2016
Hawthorne, Milton, Shakesapeare and the Art of Allegory
Date: November 21, 2015
“The Morgan Rhys Diary and the Treaty of Greenville”
Journal: Northwest Ohio History
Volume: 80, No. 2 (Spring 2013): 148-164
Reinhart in Love: Thomas Berger’s Comedy of One-upmanship
Journal: The Texas Review
Volume: 33:3-4 (Fall/Winter) Pages 92-102
Merry Old England and Hawthorne’s “The May-Pole of Merry Mount”
Journal: Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
Volume: 33:1 (Spring 2011) Pages: 41-71
Re-evaluating “The Fort-Wayne Manuscript”: William Wells and the Manners and Customs of the Miami Nation
Journal: Indiana Magazine of History
Volume: 106:2 (January 2010) Pages: 158-188
“The Dream of Undying Fame: Hawthorne’s Fanshawe”
Conference: Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, At Bowdoin College
Date: June 2008
Thomas Morton: From Merry Old England to New England
Journal: Journal of American Studies
Volume: 41:01 (March 2007) Pages: 135-168
“This Little Light of Mine”: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement and the Sixties
Date: January 2007
The Power of Passion: Hawthorne’s Tales of Thwarted Desire
Journal: The Cortland Review
Issue: 3 (May 1998)
“The Irreverent Imagination: Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter”
Conference: American Studies Lecture Series
Date: September 1995
“Melville and Marquesan Eroticism”
Journal: The Massachusetts Review
Volume: (Spring 1987) Pages: 43-65
Twain Tears and Flapdoodle: Sentimentality in Huckleberry Finn
Journal: The South Carolina Review
Volume: 19: 1 (Fall 1986) Pages: 60-79
I, Stingo, The Problem of Egotism in Sophie’s Choice
Journal: The Southern review
Volume: 20:3 (Summer 1984) Pages: 528-545
“Primitive Survivals and Second Skins: John Hawkes’s Second Skin”
Date: April 1982
An Interview with William Gass
Journal: Hudson River Anthology
Volume: Vol. VIII (April 1979) Pages: 7-14
Melville’s Search for the Primitive
Journal: Dialectical Anthropology
Volume: 3:4 (January 1978) Pages: 315-330
Paranoias and Parabolas
Journal: Amanuensis
Volume: (Spring 1973) Pages: 38-41