Publications

Books

and Amy Von Lintel. Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West. Texas A&M University Press, 2022. Forthcoming in February.

Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood: The World and the Politics of Peace. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.

 

Edited Collections

and Andrew Reynolds, eds. Behind the Masks of Modernism: Global and Transnational Perspectives. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2016.

and Alex Hunt, eds. Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010.

 

Textbooks

and AJ McCormick and Rebecca Weir. Fundamentals of College Reading and Writing. Forthcoming 2022/23. Textbook designed for use Online Educational Resource use, free to students, and funded by Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board grant for use in Texas state schools, free to students, and particularly adapted for use in the non-credit-bearing course options.

 

Articles and Chapters

with Amy Von Lintel. “Abstract Expressionism in Amarillo, Texas: The Women: Tops in Art Exhibition in 1960.” Woman’s Art Journal (WAJ), Fall 2021 vol. 42, no. 2, 2021, pp. 12-22. Print.

with Andy Reynolds. “Reports from an Outpost of Modernist Studies.” Special Issue, Invited contribution on Peripheral Modernisms, eds. Vered K. Shemtov and Melih Levi. Dibur Literary Journal, no 9-10, 2021. Stanford University Open Access Movement.

“Construire l’intrigue des géographies raciales de la Renaissance de Harlem: Sables Mouvants de Nella Larsen comme littérature de frontière,” trans. Lucie Genay. Contre-cartographies dans les Amériques, XVIème-XXI-ème siècles, edited by Diane Bracco and Lucie Genay. Collection Espaces Humains: Pulim, 2021. Print.

“James Joyce’s Ulysses: Vampires, ‘Fake News,’ and the Approaching Global Environmental Hunger Crisis.” Green Matters: Ecocultural Functions of Literature, edited by Maria Loeschnigg and Melanie Braunecker, Nature, Culture & Literature Series, Brill 2019, pp. 109-28. Print.

“Spies in ‘The Sisters’: Allegorical Histories, the Irish Rebellion, and Joyce’s Modern Moment.” Joyce Studies Annual (JSA), no 8, 2019, pp. 195-234. Print.

“On T. S. Eliot’s ‘What is a Classic?’: The Role of Aesthetics in a Global Literary Tradition.” Objective Illumination: A Study of T.S. Eliot’s Criticism, Vol. 1 of 3, edited by Sarbojit Biswas and Saptarshi Mallick. Alfa Publications, 2018, pp. 97-110.

with Amy Von Lintel. “Expanding Abstract Expressionism: Elaine de Kooning, Action Painting, and the American West.” American Art, vol. 32, no. 2, 2018, pp. 52-79. Print.

“The Seductions of Capitalism: Singularity versus Community in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood.” Finite, Singular, Exposed: New Perspectives on Community and the Modernist Subject, edited by María J. López, Paula Martín Salván, and Gerardo Rodríguez Salas, Routledge, 2018, pp.181-98. Print.

“The Ties that Bind: Modernist Cultures and the Rise of Fascism.” Teaching Representations of the First World War, edited by Douglas Higbee and Debra Rae Cohen, MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series, MLA Press, 2017, pp. 169-76. Print.

with Andrew Reynolds.  “Introduction: Masks, Modernisms, and Global Modernities: The Crisis of History.” Behind the Masks of Modernism: Global and Transnational Perspectives, edited by Andrew Reynolds and Bonnie Roos, University Press of Florida, 2016, pp. 1-23. Print.

“Complicity: New Zealand’s Modernization and the Postcolonial Trickster in Keri Hulme’s The Bone People.” Behind the Masks of Modernism: Global and Transnational Perspectives, edited by Andrew Reynolds and Bonnie Roos, University Press of Florida, 2016, pp. 158-83. Print.

with Alex Hunt. “Systems and Secrecy: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Ghosh’s Calcutta Chromosome.” The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment, edited by Louise Westling, Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 184-97.

“Unlikely Heroes: Katharine Tynan’s The Story of Bawn, the Irish Famine, and the Sentimental Tradition.” Irish University Review, vol. 43, no. 2, 2013, pp. 327-43.

“The Unwritten Narrative of Modernism and Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood.” Communal Modernisms: Twentieth-Century Literary and Cultural Texts in the College Classroom, edited by Emily M. Hinnov, Laurel Harris and Lauren M. Rosenblum, Palgrave Press, 2013, pp. 159-75.

“Cowboys and Indians: James Joyce’s ‘An Encounter’ and the Failed Heroics of a Young Ireland.” Joyce Studies Annual (JSA), no 1, 2012, pp. 174-207.

“De-Gendering the Mind: On Teaching Ngugi’s Petals of Blood.” Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ngugi wa Thiong’o, edited by Oliver Lovesey, MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series, MLA Press, 2012, pp. 181-88.

“Frank Reaugh in the Tradition of European Impressionist Painting.” Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, vol. 82, no. 1, 2010, pp. 1-13.

“Rewriting Eden in Walcott’s Omeros: A Sea Change of Stories in Visible Silence.” Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives, edited by Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt, University of Virginia Press, 2010, pp. 229-50.

with Alex Hunt. “Ecological Nationalisms and Postcolonial Greens: Narratives of Survival, Sustainability and Justice.” Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives, edited by Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt, University of Virginia Press, 2010, pp. 1-13.

“The Location of Immigration: Itinerant Communities and Cultural Hybridity in Annie Proulx’s Accordion Crimes.” Annie Proulx and the Geographical Imagination, edited by Alex Hunt, Lexington Press, 2007, pp. 41-53.

“The Joyce of Eating in Ulysses: Feast, Famine, and the Humble Potato.” Hungry Words: Representations of the Famine in the Irish Canon, edited by George Cusack and Sarah Goss, Irish Academic Press, 2006, pp. 159-96.

“Anselm Kiefer and the Art of Allusion: Dialectics of the Early Margarete and Sulamith Paintings.” Comparative Literature (CL), vol. 58, no. 1, 2006, pp. 24-43.

“Oskar Kokoschka’s Sex Toy: The Women and the Doll Who Conceived the Artist.” Modernism/Modernity, vol. 12, no. 2, 2005, pp. 291-309.

“Rehistoricizing the Conflicted Figure of Woman in Ngugi’s Petals of Blood.” Research in African Literatures (RAL), vol. 33, no. 2, 2002, pp. 154-70.

“James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ and Bret Harte’s Gabriel Conroy: The Nature of the Feast.” Yale Journal of Criticism (YJC), vol. 15, no. 1, 2002, pp. 99-126. Reprinted in Short Story Criticism, vol. 64, edited by Janet Witalec, Gale, 2003, pp. 266-80.

“Brassaï’s Minotaure Nudes: Woman, Homosexuality and the Involuntary Nation.” Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art, vol. 2, 2001, pp. 114-35.

“Refining the Artist into Existence: Pygmalion’s Statue, Stephen’s Villanelle and the Venus of Praxiteles.” Compara­tive Literature Studies (CLS), vol. 38, no. 2, 2001, pp. 95-117. Reprinted in Critical Insights: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by Albert Wachtel, Salem Press, Inc., 2011, pp. 307-34.

 

Reviews and encyclopedia entries

“Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination: Forster, Woolf, and Auden, by Kelly Sultzbach.” Interdisciplinary Studies for Literature and the Environment (ISLE), vol. 24, no. 4 2018, pp. 835-35.

“Djuna Barnes.” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Gen. Ed. Stephen Ross. New York: Routledge, 2016. Web.

“Jessica Burstein’s Cold Modernisms: Literature, Fashion, Art.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 62, no. 1, 2016, pp. 182-85.

“George Cusack’s The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama: W. B. Yeats, August Gregory and J. M. Synge.” Irish University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 40, no. 2, 2010, pp. 238-42.

“Alistair Cormack’s Yeats and Joyce: Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition. James Joyce Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 2 2009, pp. 396-99.

“A Review of R. S. Sugirtharajah’s Recent Works: The Bible and the Third World: Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters and Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation.” Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL), vol. 122, no. 4, 2003, pp. 745-51.

“On R. S. Sugirtharajah’s Postcolonial Criticism and Biblical Interpretation.” Review of Biblical Literature (RBL), 5 July 2003. Web.