Books & Introductions

Scars to Prove It: The Civil War Soldier and American Fiction. The Kent State University Press, 2009.
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[Civil War Talk Radio interview]

Introduction to The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce. The Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading Series, 2007. [view book ]

Rebel Yell: A Cultural History. Under contract with the University of Alabama Press.

Articles

"Gender and Moral Immaturity in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None," The CEA Critic 73.1 (Fall 2010): 51-63.

"Neglected Testimony: The Warren Commission Report and the Writing of State-Sponsored Prose," Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture 40:3 (2008): 40-56.

"Presidential Wounds: The JFK Assassination and the White Male Body," Men and Masculinities 10:5 (August 2008): 557-582.

"'It Reads Like a Novel': The 9/11 Commission Report and the American Reading Public," Journal of American Studies 41 (December 2007): 533-556.

"Mary Johnston: An Introduction," Meridian 10 (Fall/Winter 2002): 41-62. [Introduced the previously unpublished Johnston short story "Broomsedge House."]

"'Oh, God, What a Pity!': The Irish Brigade at Fredericksburg and the Creation of Myth," Civil War History 47 (September 2001): 193-221.

Reviews

Review of The Battle of the Crater by Newt Gingrich and William Forstchen. Civil War Monitor, Jan. 25, 2012. [Read]

Review of War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914 by Cynthia Wachtell. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 108.3 (2010): 285-87.

Review of Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America's Culture of Death by Mark S. Schantz. ABP Journal, Fall 2008. [Read]

Review of Two Brothers: One North, One South by David H. Jones. 1861-1865.org, Dec. 8, 2008 [Read]

Review of Eyewitness to the Civil War: The Complete History from Secession to Reconstruction by Stephen G. Hyslop. ABP Journal, Fall 2007. [Read]

Review of The Death of a Confederate Colonel: Civil War Stories and a Novella by Pat Carr. Civil War Literature, 1861-1865.org, Sept. 4, 2007. [Read]

Review of The Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce: A Comprehensive Edition.  Edited by S. T. Joshi, Lawrence I. Berkove, and David E. Schultz. ABP Journal, Fall 2006. [Read]

Book reviews for the Virginia Quarterly Review,
2002 - 2003.

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Papers & Presentations

"With Blood and Ink: How Veterans Shaped the Course of Civil War Literature." Invited Speaker. Otis K. Rice Memorial Lecture Series. WVU Institute of Technology. Montgomery, West Virginia: September 29, 2011.

"Voice of the South: The Rebel Yell in Literature." Panel: "Voices of the South, the Ecocritic and the Scientist." College English Association Conference. San Antonio, Texas: March 26, 2010.

"The Red Badge of Courage and an Inclusive Civil War Literature." Invited speaker. Wilmington Civil War Round Table. Wilmington, Delaware: February 3, 2010.

“And Then There Were None: Gender and Race in Agatha Christie’s Most Famous Novel.”  Panel: “Clearing Up Mysteries.” 2009 Behrend Gender Conference.  Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.  Erie, Pennsylvania: February 13, 2009.

"What Earl Warren Knew About Gender: The Warren Commission Report and 'Deviant' Sexuality." Panel: "The State Looks at Sexuality." Behrend Gender Conference: "Gender - Power - Desire." Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. Erie, Pennsylvania: April 5, 2008.

"9/11, JFK, and the Reception of State-Sponsored Prose." Panel: "Technical Communication, Technology, and Culture." College English Association Conference. St. Louis, Missouri: March 29, 2008.

"Literary Fortunes? Web Writers and Google AdSense." Panel: "Teaching Strategies for the New Millennial Business Writing Classroom." MLA Annual Convention. Chicago, Illinois: December 28, 2007.

"Empathy and Empire in Kipling's 'The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes.'" Panel: "Borges and Two Brits." College English Association Conference. New Orleans, Louisiana: April 12, 2007.

"Bierce on the Web: Creating The Ambrose Bierce Project." Panel: "American Literature after 1865." 2006 Penn State Fall English Conference.  Penn State Altoona. Altoona, Pennsylvania: September 22, 2006.

"Mapping Literature: Cartographic Textuality and the Geographical Imagination in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!" With Bart Welling. Panel: "Literature and the Cartographic Imagination in America."
New England American Studies Association Conference. Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the American Antiquarian Society. Worcester, Massachusetts: September 24, 2005.

"'It Reads Like a Novel': The 9/11 Commission Report and the American Reading Public." Invited speaker, HSS Colloquium. Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. Erie, Pennsylvania: April 21, 2005.

"To Have and to Harm: The Short Story Genre and the Reputation of Ambrose Bierce." Panel: "The American Short Story: Past Glories, Future Prospects." College English Association Conference. Indianapolis, Indiana:
April 1, 2005.

"De-forming the President: Memory and Participation in the Writing Classroom." Invited speaker. George Washington University. Washington, D.C.: February 17, 2004.

"Beyond Gods and Generals: Race and Reenactment in Crane's The Red Badge of Courage." Panel: "Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Civil War." 2003 SAMLA Convention. Atlanta, Georgia:
November 15, 2003.

Moderator, "Making Good: The Ethics of Ethical Agendas." Works of Culture, Cultures of Work: The University of Virginia English Department Graduate Conference. University of Virginia. Charlottesville, Virginia: April 13, 2002.

"Mulholland, Myth, and Marye's Heights: Remembering the Irish Brigade at Fredericksburg." Panel: "Union Failures on Virginian Soil, 1862." Virginia's Civil War and its Aftermath: The Douglas Southall Freeman and Southern Intellectual History Conferences. University of Richmond. Richmond, Virginia: February 23, 2002.

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