Innocence, Provocation, and Moral Injury: The Problem of Discrimination in Phil Klay’s Redeployment.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Just War Theory and Reading Contemporary American Warfare Special Issue. (Forthcoming)
“History, Hair, and Reimagining Racial Categories in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 54.2 (2013): 211–24. Print. Abstract
“‘Maps of the World in Its Becoming’: Post-Apocalyptic Naming in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.” Journal of Modern Literature 33.1 (2009): 57–74. Print. Reprinted in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (Bloom’s Guides). Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2011. 91–107. Print. Abstract
Selected Presentations
“A ‘Good’ War on Terrorism?: Phil Klay’s Redeployment and the Problem of Discrimination.” War, Literature, and the Arts. Conference, Colorado Springs, CO. September 2018.
“Vietnam All Over Again?: Reading Iraq War Fiction in the Shadow of Vietnam.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Louisville, KY. February 2018.
“It’s Just Not that Simple: Redeployment and the Just/Unjust Divide.” American Literature Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA, May 2017.