Academic Journal Articles
- “A Documentary History of the University of Virginia’s First Library,” co-authored with Neal D. Curtis and Samuel V. Lemley, Studies in Bibliography 61 (2025): 127-66, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sib.2025.a954086.
- “With Hands Outstretched: Louisa May Alcott and Frances Harper on the Relationship of Work and Care,” in “Louisa May Alcott’s Work at 150,” special forum, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 41, no. 2 (2024): 261-68, https://doi.org/10.1353/leg.2024.a959237.
- “‘Adapted to the Soldier’s Pocket’: Military Discipline, Religious Publishing and the Power of Print Format during the U.S. Civil War,” Book History 27, no. 1 (2024): 79-107, https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2024.a929574.
- “Historical Shelfmarks as Sources for Institutional Provenance Research: Reconstructing the University of Virginia’s First Library,” co-authored with Neal D. Curtis and Samuel V. Lemley, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 118, no. 1 (2024): 79-101, https://doi.org/10.1086/728989.
- “Colonial Relations in Miniature: Affective Networks, Race, and the Portrait in Victor Séjour’s ‘Le Mulâtre,'” American Literature 93, no. 2 (2021): 167-94, https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9003540. Awarded the 2021 Norman Foerster Prize by American Literature.
- “Companion,” New Literary History 50, no. 3 (2019): 487-91, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/740087.
- “Revolutions of Taste: Mon Odyssée and the Aesthetic Inheritance of Saint-Domingue,” American Literary History 31, no. 1 (2019): 1-23, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/715621.
Academic Review Essays & Reviews
- Review of D. Berton Emerson, American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures (University of North Carolina Press, 2024), The Journal of the Early Republic 45, no. 3 (2025): 500-03, https://doi.org/10.1353/jer.2025.a969350.
- Review of Gordon Fraser, Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 118, no. 2 (2024): 302-05, https://doi.org/10.1086/730468.
- Review of Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature, ed. Chloe Wigston Smith and Beth Fowkes Tobin (Cambridge University Press, 2022), H-Material-Culture (August 2023).
- “Strategic Imitations,” College Literature 50, no. 1 (2023): 146-53, https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2023.0006. Review of Claudia Stokes, Old Style: Unoriginality and its Uses in Nineteenth-Century US Literature and Jennifer Putzi, Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry.
Magazine & Online Writing
- “Bibles for Everyone: Why Oklahoma’s plan to put a copy of the Good Book in every classroom matters,” Slate, August 7, 2024, https://slate.com/life/2024/08/oklahoma-classroom-bible-plan-legal.html.
- “Subterranean Worlds and Liberatory Futures,” Public Books, March 2024, https://www.publicbooks.org/subterranean-worlds-and-liberatory-futures/.
- “Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Media Theorist,” Commonplace: the journal of early American life, December 2021, http://commonplace.online/article/frances-ellen-watkins-harper-media-theorist/.
- “Plantation Gothic: The first published short story by an African American author and its Louisiana roots,” 64 Parishes, the magazine of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (Summer 2021), https://64parishes.org/plantation-gothic.
- “A Radical Pocket Book: A miniature Emancipation Proclamation helped to recruit Black soldiers during the Civil War,” History Today 71, no. 4 (April 2021), https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/radical-pocket-book.
Audio
- Interview, “Formatted to Infiltrate,” Microform, the podcast of the Research Training Group “The Literary and Epistemic History of Small Forms,” June 2024, https://www.kleine-formen.de/interview-with-madeline-zehnder/.
- Special guest, “Small Objects,” Season 2, Episode 5 of The Object of History, the podcast of the Massachusetts Historical Society, March 2023, https://www.masshist.org/podcast/season-2-episode-5-small-objects.