Publications
Books (peer-reviewed)
Mobility and Modernity: Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination (Ohio State University Press, 2017).
[Reviewed in:
The Americas (2019);
Nineteenth-Century Literature (2019);
Journal of British Studies (2018);
Victorian Studies (2019);
American Literary History (2019)].
Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2005).
[Reviewed in:
Hispanic American Historical Review (2006);
Dissidences: Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism (2006);
Americas (2006);
Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies (2006);
American Literature (2006);
Studies in English Literature (2006);
Journal of Trans-Atlantic Studies (2006);
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (2006);
Victorian Studies (2006);
Journal of British Studies (2006);
Review of English Studies (2006);
Material Culture (2006);
Clio (2006);
Victorian Literature and Culture (2015; review of prominent work in the field)].
[Chapter 4 translated in
Yaxkin 35.1 (2009): 217-270, journal of the Instituto Hondureño de Antropología e Historia, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.]
Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
“Wide Angle: Muybridge, the Americas, and Trans-indigenous Representation,”
Victorian Literature and Culture 49.1 (2021):1-18.
“Imperial Logistics: Trollope and the Question of Central America,” in
New Essays on Anthony Trollope, ed. Frederick Van Dam,
et al. (Oxford University Press, 2018), 288-300.
“Victorian Literature and Latin America,” in
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literatures, ed. Dino Franco Felluga
et al. (2015) Blackwell Reference Online. 25 September 2015.
“’Affairs of State’: Mobilities, Communication, and Race in Trollope’s
The West Indies and the Spanish Main,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 37.1 (2015): 1-20.
“The Work of Archaeology: The Maudslays in Late Nineteenth-century Guatemala,” in
Entangled Knowledges: Scientific Discourses and Cultural Difference, ed. Klaus Hock and Gesa Mackenthun (Münster: Waxmann, 2012), 229-246.
“Mexico, Independence, and Trans-Atlantic Exchange, 1822-24,” in
BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History, ed. Dino Franco Felluga, extension of
Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. Web. [accessed 9/20/2012].
“William Bullock (1780–1844): British Museum Curator and Showman in Mexico,” in
The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500-1850, ed. Karen Racine and Beatriz G. Mamigonian (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010): 223-35
.
“Behind the Gallery Doors,”
Publications of the Modern Language Association, 125.1 (2010): 129-133.
“Frederick Catherwood,”
Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
“On Exhibit: Mexico in 1824,” in
Remapping the Humanities, ed. Heidi Gottfried
et al. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2008), 161-72.
“Agencies of the Letter: The British Museum, the Foreign Office, and the Ruins of Central America,”
Victorian Studies 46.2 (2004): 285-96.
“Exhibiting Degeneracy: The Aztec Children and the Ruins of Race,”
Victorian Review 29.2 (2003): 40-63.
“Annihilating the Distance: Panoramas and the Conquest of Mexico
, 1822-1848,”
Genre: Forms of Discourse 35.1 (2002): 25-54.
“Cold Print: Professing Authorship in Trollope’s
An Autobiography,”
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 25.4 (2002): 569-593.
Book Chapters and Short Academic Pieces
“Plutarch’s
Lives,” in
Classical Literature and Its Times, ed. Joyce Moss (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006), 301-12.
“Andrea Camilleri’s
Excursion to Tindari,” in
World Literature and Its Times 7: Italian Literature and Its Times, ed. Joyce Moss (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005), 151-159.
“Richard Francis Burton and Henry Morton Stanley,” in
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature,” ed. David Scott Kastan,
et al., 5 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
“Anthropology and Ethnology,” in
The Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era, ed. James Eli Adams
et al., 4 vols. (Danbury, CT: Grolier Academic Press, 2004).
“Victor Martinez’s
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida,” in
Literature and its Times: Supplement, ed. Joyce Moss, 2 vols. (Farmington Hills: Gale, 2002), 2:367-77.
“Richard Rodriguez’s
Days of Obligation: An Argument with my Mexican Father,” in
Latin American Literature and its Times, ed. Joyce Moss (Farmington Hills: Gale, 1999), 85-94.
