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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.

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