new writing on psychology, personhood, & illness
“Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart,” forthcoming in American Literature, June 2024.
“The Disordered Ordinary,” in American Literary History, Fall 2023.
“Gaslighting in 1880,” on Avidly: a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books, December 20, 2022.
“Reading Wharton with Pain: On Rest, Practices, and Care,” Literature & Medicine 40.2, Fall 2022.
“Advanced Pain Studies,” review of Lisa Olstein, Pain Studies, on Avidly: a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books, July 2, 2020.
“A New Chapter in the Story of Trauma: Narratives of Bodily Healing from 1860s America,” American Literature 91.4, December 2019.
“Newland Archer’s Doubled Consciousness: Wharton, Psychology, and Narrational Form,” Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays, Bloomsbury 2019.
“Henry James’s Black Dresses: Mourning without Grief,” Nineteenth-Century Literature 72.4, March 2018.
Related essays:
Another piece on James demonstrates how his odd use of a phrase, “hang fire,” amalgamates characters with material objects.
An essay on belief in Henry James’s short story “Maud-Evelyn” appeared in American Impersonal: Essays with Sharon Cameron.
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writing on testimony & human rights
My book Quiet Testimony: A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature was published by Fordham University Press in the fall of 2013.
Related essays:
On what it means for Melville to write a story, Benito Cereno, about muteness.
On Emerson’s refusal to be explicit in his anti-slavery politics.
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