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“How to Pose in Gothic Architecture." For all selfie takers on vacation, a history of the buildings' elements and how to make the most of them. Enchanted Living, the Gothic Issue, Winter 2022. Print and online.

 

"Gargantuan Appetites.” Rabelais, Gargantua, Pantagruel, and so much food. Enchanted Living Abundance issue, Winter 2021. Print and online.

 

“Know Your Romantic Man.” A light look at love with members of the Romantic Movement. Enchanted Living, Winter 2020. Print and online.

“Dollhouse Artisans Restore Health One Tiny Room at a Time.” Folks, November 27, 2020.

“A Mermaid Saved My Brain.” Folks, 9 September 2020.

“A Celebration of the Modern Mermaid.” Enchanted Living, Spring 2020. Print and online.

 

"Instead of Setting a Goal, Try a Writing Dare." Guest post on JaneFriedman.com, writing and editing blog. 9 April 2020.

“Four Reasons to Spend Time with ‘Bad’ Books.” Guest post on Jane Friedman’s writing and editing blog. 3 March 2020.

“Rejection over Someone Else’s Mayonnaise. Submittable Creative. 1 November 2019.

“The Robo-Caller’s Lonesome Wife; or, Women Who Don’t Love Shoes That Much.”  Broad Street online. June 10, 2018.
 

“My Life in Pantyhose” reprint in anthology From Pantyhose to Spandex: Writers on the Job Redux. Eds. Walter Cummins and Thomas E. Kennedy. Anthology. Serving House Press, Fall 2017.
 

“Eager Magic: Half, by the Lake, Seven-Day, Or Not?” Rain Taxi, spring 2017: 29-33. Review-essay.
 

“My Life in Pantyhose.” Writers on the Job, November 2016.

“Watch Mattel Market Their Dream Girl—and a Gun for the Boys.” Broad Street online, fall 2016.

“Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s Games of Childhood.” Rain Taxi 20.3 (fall 2015): 48-49. Review-essay.
 

“Making Friends with Midge: Your BFF and Barbie’s.” Broad Street, 1.1, summer 2013. Female friendship in America as articulated through doll play with Barbie’s oft-forgotten goofy best friend.

Pushcart Prize Special mention, volume XXXIX (2014).
 

“On Being Archived: Control + Alt + Delete.” Essay on loss of memory after concussions. Hayden’s Ferry Review blog, Contributor Spotlight, July 18, 2012.
 

Selections from writerly journals, notes, etc., published in special Archives issue. Hayden’s Ferry
Review, summer 2012.
 

“Same Place, Same Time: Coincidence and What Was Meant to Be.” Essay/how-to solicited by Bulletin and Writers Ask, side publications of literary journal Glimmer Train. May 2010.
 

“On Lolita.” VA Books! Center for the Book. April 2007. 

 

Scholarly Articles
 

“Hot with Rapture and Cold with Fear”: Grotesque, Sublime, and Postmodern Transformations
in Patrick Süskind’s Perfume.” In Thomas Fahy, ed. Horror and Philosophy. U of Kentucky P, 2010. 179-198.

“Narrative Ergonomics and Feminine Space in The Sopranos.” In Thomas Fahy, ed. Considering David Chase. Jefferson, NC: MacFarland Publishers, 2007. 107-130.

“Clean Porn: The Visual Aesthetics of Hygiene, Hot Sex, and Hair Removal.” In Mardia Bishop and Ann Hall, eds. Pop(Porn): The Proliferation of Pornography in Popular Culture. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Publishers, 2007. 137-154.

“A Heart Caves In: The Dangerous Aesthetics of American Beauty.” In Thomas Fahy, ed. Considering Alan Ball: Essays on Sexuality, Death, and America in the Television and Film Writings. Jefferson, NC: MacFarland Publishers, 2006. 45-69.

“Caught in the Wrong Story: Psychoanalytic Narrative Structure in Tender Is the Night.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 47.1 (spring 2005): 75-99.

“In Plain View and the Dark Unknown: Narratives of the Feminine Body in Malice.”
In Considering Aaron Sorkin: Essays on the Politics, Poetics, and Sleight of Hand in
the Films and Television Series. Ed. Thomas Fahy. Jefferson, NC: MacFarland Publishers, 2005. 37-60.

“Expression in a Diffuse Landscape: Contexts for Jeanette Winterson’s Lyricism.” Style 38.1 (spring
2004): 16-37.

“Wounds, Ruptures, and Sudden Space in the Fiction of Georges Bataille.” French Forum, January
2000: 75-96.

“Infectious Excitement: Disease, Desire, and Communicability in Niels Lyhne and Ved Vejen.”
Scandinavian Studies 71.2 (summer 1999): 167-190. Reprinted in Nineteenth-Century
Literature Criticism, Gale Publications, 2011.

“Marianne Wiggins, John Dollar, and the Eight Daughters of Chaos." Critique 40.2 (winter 1999): 99-
118.
 

“Reason for Violence: Staging the Editorial Masque.” Centennial Review 32.1 (winter 1995): 19-39.
 

“'You Got tuh Go There tuh Know There': Claiming Location and Language in Multicultural American
Women's Novels.” Arkansas Review 3.1 (spring 1994): 28-46.

 

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