English Department Faculty

• Inceptions: Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form (Fordham University Press, 2021)
• Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission (University of Minnesota Press, 2015)
• Henry James and the Queerness of Style (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
• Innocence and Rapture: The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James and Nabokov (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

Articles

• “Unrequited Love,” in Love, Etc., ed. Rita Felski and Camilla Schwartz (under contract, University of Virginia  Press).
  
• “First Love,” in The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass, ed. Anna Fishzon and Emma Lieber (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 61-89.
• “Revision, Origin, and the Courage of Truth: Henry James’s New York Edition Prefaces,” in After Queer Studies: Literary Theory and Critical Interpretation, ed. E.L. McCallum and Tyler Bradway (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 102-21.
• "Extreme Style: Firbank, Faulkner, and Perspectives on Modern Traditions," in Mikko Tuhkanen, ed.,Leo Bersani: Queer Theory and Beyond (Buffalo: SUNY Press, 2014), 249-78.
• “The Beast’s Storied End,” The Henry James Review 33:1 (Winter 2012): 1–16.
• “‘My Spirit’s Posthumeity” and the Sleeper's Outflung Hand: Queer Transmission in Absalom, Absalom!,” in E.L. McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen, eds., Queer Times, Queer Becomings, (Buffalo: SUNY Press, 2011), 205-232.
• “The Consummation of the Swallow’s Wings: A Zoo Story,” The South Atlantic Quarterly 110: 3 (Summer 2011) [(“Digital Desire”) edited by Ellis Hanson] 715-43.
•  “Forgetting The Tempest,” in Madhavi Menon, ed.,  Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), 351-60.
•  “Second Thoughts: Queer Maud-Evelyn,” in Kimberly Reed and Anna Despotopoulou, eds., Henry James and the Supernatural (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 137-48.
• “Voyeurism and Annunciation in Almodóvar’s Talk To Her,” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 51: 4 (Fall 2009 [published 2010]): 521-57.
•  “Henry James.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Fiction.  Patrick O’Donnell, Justus Nieland, and David Madden, eds (Blackwell Publishers, 2010 (UK)/ 2011 [US]). 
•  “Children,” in David McWhirter, ed., Henry James in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 115-25.
• “Forms of Initiation: ‘The Tree of Knowledge,’” The Henry James Review 29:2 (Spring 2008), 118-131.
• “The Queer Atavisms of Hippolytus,” The Pater Newsletter 58 (Spring 2008): 13-22.
• “Belatedness and Style,” in Peter Rawlings, ed., Palgrave Advances in Henry James Studies (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 126-46.
• “‘The novel  is older, and so are the young’: On the Queerness  of Style,” The Henry James Review 27:2 (Spring 2006): 140-55.
• “‘The Author of “Beltraffio”’: The Exquisite Boy and Henry James’s Equivocal Aestheticism,” ELH 72:3 (Fall 2005): 747-67.
• “Autobiography and David Copperfield’s Temporalities of Loss,” Victorian Literature and Culture 33 (2005): 435-49.
• “Of Red Queens and Garden Clubs: The Manchurian Candidate, Cold War Paranoia, and the Historicity of the Homosexual,” Camera Obscura 58, vol. 20, no. 1 (2005): 148-83.
• “Narrating the Child’s Queerness in What Maisie Knew," in Steven Bruhm and Natasha Hurley, eds., Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children (U of Minnesota Press, 2004):81-106.
• “Erotic Bafflement and the Lesson of Oscar Wilde,” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture XXXV (Summer 2002 [published 2003]): 309-330.
• “Molestation 101: Child Abuse, Homophobia, and The Boys of St. Vincent,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 6:2 (2000), 195-248.  Winner of the Crompton-Noll Award.
• “‘I’m not the boy you want’: Sexuality, ‘Race,’ and Thwarted Revelation in James Baldwin’s Another Country,” African American Review 33:2 (Summer 1999), 261-81.
• “Devouring Creation: Sodomy, Cannibalism, and the Scene of Analysis in Suddenly, Last Summer,” Cinema Journal 38: 3 (Spring 1999), 27-49.
• [Reprinted: Matthew Tinkcom and Amy Villarejo, eds., Keyframes: Popular Cinema & Cultural Studies (Routledge, 2001).]
• “Narcissism and Queer Reading in Pale Fire,” Nabokov Studies 5 (1998-9),153-78.  

Reviews

• “Res Ipsa Loquitur.” Review of Valerie Rohy, Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) in Papers on Language and Literature 52, no 1 (Winter 2016): 91-102.
• Review of Whitney Davis, Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010). Victorian Studies 55, no. 4 (Summer 2013): 693-95.
• “Queer Intervals.” Review of Kathryn Bond Stockton, The Queer Child (Durham: Duke UP, 2009) in GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 17:2-3 (2011), 438-441. 
• Review of Douglas Mao, Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature 1860-1960 (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008), in Victorian Studies 51:4 (2010), 762-4.