Scholarly
“The Resurgence of Myth in a Post-Rhizomatic Theory of Adaptation: Macbeth, East of Eden, and the Devouring Mother.” Literature and Film Quarterly. (Forthcoming).
“A Naturalist Accounting: A Financial Approach to Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men Alongside Theodore Dreiser’s The Financier. Cormac McCarthy Journal, vol. 23, is. 1, 2025. 66-79.
“The Fall of Zagreus in Apocalypse Now: Coppola’s Critique of the Nietzschean Übermensch.” Literature and Film Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 1, 2025.
“Steinbeck Laughing: Travels with Charley as American Picaresque.” Steinbeck’s Uneasy America: Rereading Travels with Charley, edited by Barbara Heavilin and Susan Shillinglaw. University of Alabama Press, 2024.
“Beyond Melodrama: A Jungian reevaluation of Steinbeck’s East of Eden.” The Steinbeck Review, vol. 19 no. 1, 2022. 33-46.
Reviews
“A Review of Forbearance by Cameron Brooks.” New Verse Review. (May 2025)
“Review of Meet Me at the Lighthouse by Dana Gioia.” New Verse Review (September 2024).
“Combating Injustice: The Naturalism of Frank Norris, Jack London, and John Steinbeck” by Jon Falsarella Dawson, The Steinbeck Review, vol. 20, no. 2, 2023. 293-297.
Popular (Selected)
“Teaching Like a Prize Fighter.” Front Porch Republic. (May 2025)
“Pelicans and Pirates: A Trip to Topsail, North Carolina.” Rova Magazine, no. 44, Dec./Jan. 2024-2025,
pp. 86-89.
“‘The Sensation of Seeing’: How T.S. Eliot Defamiliarizes the Christmas Story.” Front Porch Republic (January 2025)
“The Keeneland Races: A Symbol of Fine Traditions.” Warkitchen (Decemeber 2024).
“Heaping Old Bones: The Rough Aesthetic of Robinson Jeffers.” New Verse Review (July 2024).
“A Golden Light: A Literary Pilgrimage to Red Cloud, Nebraska.” Warkitchen (July 2024).
“Fly Fishing and Henry Bugbee.” Front Porch Republic (Oct. 2023).