Academic Publications
Selected Entries on William Guthrie, The Mother: or, The Happy Distress (1759); Helena Wells, The Step-Mother: A Domestic Tale, From Real Life (1798); and, Miss H---, The Profligate Mother; Or, The Fatal Cabinet (1810) , in The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820, eds. April London, Cambridge UP (forthcoming). Print.
"Big Mother: Images of Breastfeeding in Popular Culture and Literature," in Cultural Representations of Breastfeeding, ed. Ann Marie Short, Demeter Press, 2018. Print.
“’Let them know that men did this’: Medusa, Rape, and Narrative Silence in Cultural Mythology,” Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film. Eds. Julie Chapell and Mallory Young. NY: Palgrave Press, 2017. Print.
"The Original Nasty Woman," The Atlantic--Culture, November 2016. Web. http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/11/the-original-nasty-woman-of-classical-myth/506591/. Web.
“The Female Jailor in Clarissa,” Gender Forum, Summer 2016. http://www.genderforum.org/issues/gender-and-captivity/the-female-jailor-and-female-rivalry-in-samuel-richardsons-clarissa/. Web.
“Teaching Female Icons in Popular Culture,” Women Versed in Myth: Essays on Modern Poets, Eds. Colleen S Harris-Keith and Valerie Estelle Frankel (Editors). Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co, 2016. https://www.amazon.com/Women-Versed-Myth-Essays-Modern/dp/0786471921. Print.
“’my scribbling foes;”: Literary Rivalries Between Eighteenth-Century Women Writers,” Looking for the Enemy: The Eternal Internal Gender Wars of Our Sisters, Eds. Monica Ferrell and Julian Williams, KH Publishing, 2015. Print.
“’Deadly Snares’: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers and the Trope of Female Rivalry,” SLI: Studies in the Literary Imagination 47. 2 (2014) [special edition of Cambridge Scholars Publications, Ed. Kristine Jennings]. Print.
“Looking into the Mirror, Writing the Self: 18th Century Women Poets Write about Maternity, “Disjointed Perspectives on Motherhood/ Pedagogies of the Reversed Maternal Image, Ed. Catalina Flores, Lexington Books, 2014.
“The Epistemology of the Gaze: A Re-Vision,” review of The Language of the Eyes: Science, Sexuality, and Female Vision in English Literature and Culture, 1690-1920, in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 50.4 (2010). Web.
“Battlestar Galactica and the Limits of the Utopian Impulse.” Cylons in America. Eds. Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2008. (co-authored with Carl Silvio). Print.
“Fashion and Beauty in the Middle East and North Africa.” World Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Middle East and North Africa. Ed. Lynn Bartholome. Greenwood Press, 2007. Print.
“How Women Really Are: Disturbing Parallels between Reality Television and 18th Century Fiction.” How Real is Reality Television? Ed. David Escoffery. MacFarland Press, 2006. Print.
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Textual Bodies and the Rhetoric of Gender in 19th Century Critical Discourse.” Thirdspace 4.1 (2004). Web.