Journal Articles, Essays, and Reviews
24. “Population Density and Newspaper Development: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate and the Demography of the Great Migration.” In A Full Measure of Freedom: The Black Press at 200, edited by Kim Gallon and E. James West. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026, (forthcoming).
23. “The Privilege of Bendicò: Dogs and Other Animals in Lampedusa’s and Visconti’s Il Gattopardo.” In Recent Environmental Approaches towards More-than-Human Humanities, edited by Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki (Routledge: forthcoming).
22. “Animals in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men and the Cohen Brothers’ Film Adaptation.” The Cormac McCarthy Journal (forthcoming).
21. “Loyalty to Suffering: Europe Central, Vollmann’s Telephonist, and the Absurd.” War, Literature & the Arts 37 (forthcoming).
20. “Nature Against Nature: Emerson’s First Book and the Diminishing of Animal Lives.” Ecokritike 2 (No. 2 2025): 175-190. GET IT HERE.
19. “Cricket, Colonialism, and Masculinity in V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel Street.” Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature 42 (Fall 2024/Winter 2025): 25-40. GET IT HERE.
18. “The Meaning of Animals in the First Farm Revolts: From Kostomarov’s Ukraine to Reymont’s Poland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory, and Culture 14 (2024): 361-380. GET IT HERE.
17. “The Crane, the Cat, and the Housefly: Animals and Meaning-Making in Dario Argento’s Animal Trilogy.” Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies 11 (No. 1 2023): 127-143. GET IT HERE.
16. “Surrealism and the Slaughterhouse: Art and Animals in Lotar’s La Villette and Franju’s Blood of the Beasts.” Photographies 16 (No. 3 2023): 359-390. GET IT HERE.
15. “A Nude Horse is a Rude Horse: The Role of Animals in the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals.” Animal Studies Journal 10 (No. 2 2021): 140-168. GET IT HERE.
14. “The Dodo and the Bear: Stanley Elkin’s Encounters with the Animal.” Nesir: Animal Studies in Literature 1 (Ekim 2021): 1-36. GET IT HERE.
13. “The Reluctant African: The Foreign Policy Journalism of Louis Lomax, 1960-1968,” Journalism History 45 (January 2020): 1-23. GET IT HERE.
12. “The Litter of Summers Past: The Moviegoer’s Philosophy of History,” Literature & History 27 (No. 1 2018): 62-80. GET IT HERE.
11. “Violently Amorous: The Jackson Advocate, the Atlanta Daily World, and the Limits of Syndication,” Journal of Mississippi History 76 (Fall/Winter 2014): 183-201. GET IT HERE.
10. “Editing a Paper in Hell: Davis Lee and the Exigencies of Smalltime Black Journalism,” American Journalism 33 (Spring 2016): 144-168. GET IT HERE.
9. “Rosemary’s Baby and Cold War Catholicism.” In Unruly Catholics: Faith, Heresy, and Politics in Cultural Studies (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013), 111-123. GET IT HERE.
8. “Making Ontological Lemonade from Life’s Larger Lemons: Woody Allen’s 1994 Films.” Co-authored with Brent Riffel. Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities 31 (Winter/Spring 2012): 34-42. GET IT HERE.
7. “The Man Plague: The Three Theologies of ‘It’s Raining Men’,” The Journal of Popular Culture 43 (October 2010): 926-941. GET IT HERE.
6. “Hurry Sundown: Otto Preminger, Baton Rouge, and Race, 1966-1967,” Film History: An International Journal 21 (No. 4 2010): 394-410. GET IT HERE.
5. “The Champion and the Corpse: Art and Identity in Richmond, 1950.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 117 (Spring 2009): 32-59. GET IT HERE.
4. “Scrabble Tiles Can Help Decipher the Devil’s Messages: From Baby-Killing Nuns to Baby-Wanting Witches in American Fiction and Culture.” Interactions 11 (Spring 2006): 1-9. GET IT HERE.
3. “The Anhedonic Among the Camellias: Woody Allen and Reflective Love.” Co-authored with Brent Riffel. Cinemascope 4 (January-April 2006): http://www.cinemascope.it/. GET IT HERE IN ENGLISH; GET IT HERE IN ITALIAN.
2. “Head-First Through the Hole in the Zero: Malevich’s Suprematism, Khlebnikov’s Futurism, and the Development of a Deconstructive Aesthetic, 1908-1919.” e-maj (Online Melbourne Art Journal) 1 (Fall 2005): GET IT HERE.
1. “Poor Dorothy: A Postmodern Historiography.” In Clio’s Quill 6 (2003-2004): 81-95. GET IT HERE.