Peer Reviewed Articles:
“[In]toxic[ating] Bodies: Spirits and Spectral Biopolitics in The House of the Seven Gables.” European Journal of American Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 2023.
“Collecting and Collected: Native American Subjectivity and Transatlantic Transactions in The Female American.” Early American Literature, vol. 54, no. 1, 2019, 37-67.
Book Project:
Brewing Sedition: The Insurgent Objects of Drinking in Early America focuses on the roles of marginalized persons in building a revolutionary print and material culture from the tavern—a culture that challenged both ecclesiastical and civil social orders. The central contention of Brewing Sedition is that built environments of social drinking in Early America were cultural institutions in their own right. Taverns, ordinaries, inns, breweries, plantations, and even ships all presented opportunities for interaction and creativity among different groups and classes of people. Along with the intermingling of persons, sites of social drinking blended the public and private spheres—despite the best efforts of legislators, reformers, magistrates, and the wealthy to heavily regulate the activities which might have been taking place behind closed doors. These spaces, in being uniquely situated to host a diversity of persons, things, and events (often simultaneously), allowed for the development of print and material cultures that reflected the concerns and interests of those on the margins. Thus, sites of social drinking make room for insurgent print and object networks to then criticize and challenge those in power, whether civil, ecclesiastical, or economical.
Works in Progress:
“A Questionable Quarantine: Poverty, Disease, and the Biopolitcal Landscapes of The Sot-Weed Factor.”
Recent and Upcoming Conference Presentations:
“An Experimental Discipline: Punishing Poverty Across the Atlantic in Bartholomew Fair and The Sot-Weed Factor,” Experiencing Modernity; Modernity of Experimentation, Joint Congress of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies & the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Ottawa, Oct. 2022.
“Life Among the Drunkards: Satire and Sedition in Early American Travel Writing,” What is Travel Writing?, Sponsored Panel of the Society for the Study of American Travel Writing, 31st Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, Chicago, IL, May 2022.
“A Madeira-Smuggler’s Guide to Incensing the Public to Riot,” 32nd Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, Boston, MA, July 2021.