Books
“Reading Is Theft: Literature and the Culture of Property.” Manuscript in progress.
Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2018).
Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form after the Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Articles
“Reading between Freedom and Necessity.” Critical Inquiry 48.3 (Spring 2022): 499-521. PDF
“The Law of Form and the Form of the Law.” Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition, vol. 1: 1770-1828. Ed. William Huntting Howell and Greta LaFleur. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. PDF
“Ethics of Reading.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Gen. Ed. John Frow. Ed. Mark Byron, Pelagia Goulimari, Sean Pryor, and Julie Rak. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. PDF
“You Have To Read First.” American Literary History 29.1 (Spring 2017): 142-155. PDF
“An Imperial Syllabus.” History and Theory 55 (May 2016): 302-313. PDF
“Subterranean Gratification: Reading after the Picaro.” Critical Inquiry 42.1 (Autumn 2015): 97-123. PDF
“History with a Capital H.” Radical History Review 118 (Winter 2014): 197-203. PDF
“The Self-Made Son: Social Competition and the Vanishing Mother in Franklin’s Autobiography.” ELH 80.2 (Summer 2013): 519-542. PDF
“The Romance of Real Politics.” American Quarterly 64.4 (December 2012): 795-798. PDF
“The Liquid Life: Money and the Circulation of Success after Franklin.” Journal of Cultural Economy 4.3 (August 2011): 315-328. Reprinted in Brad Pasanek and Simone Polillo, eds., Beyond Liquidity: The Metaphor of Money in Financial Crisis (Routledge, 2013).
Single-Title Book Reviews
“Objective Eventfulness.” Review of Yoon Sun Lee, The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist Novels (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 57.1 (May 2024).
Other Publications
“Infinite Use of Finite Means.” Against the Current 200 (May-June 2019): 38-39, 44.
“Panther Power, Dual Power?” Forthcoming in Against the Current.