Public

• “Scholars Have Lost the Plot!”, forthcoming from Public Books.
• “The Scholar Always Reads Twice”, forthcoming from The New Rambler (pre-print available here)
• The Modernists We Keep Quoting, The Modernist Review, Mar 2024
• It’s Time for Academe to Take Podcasting Seriously (with Humanities Podcast Network co-founders), Inside Higher Ed, Sep 2021
• On the Art of the Plot Twist, CrimeReads, Jan 2021
• Clue or Red Herring? How Clue Shreds the Detective Rulebook, LA Review of Books Blog, Jan 2021
• Book Forum on Elaine Auyoung’s When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind (with Katarzyna Bartoszynska and Carolyn Dever), V21: Victorian Studies for the 21st Century, Oct 2019
• Imperfect Readers, The Oxonian Review, Oct 2018

Academic

Published

• The Quotations We Value, Modern Language Quarterly, Jan 2025
• What We Can(‘t) Know Before We Read: Towards a Theory of the Pre-Reading Environment, Book History, Volume 27, Issue 2, Fall 2024
  • Related podcast episode: the Hopkins Press Podcast with Rahne Alexander

Forthcoming

• “What We Quote: Disciplinary History and the Textual Atmospheres of Middlemarch” (with Sierra Eckert), Victorian Studies, forthcoming Summer 2025 (pre-print available here)

In progress

• Plot Twist! Reading, Narrative and the Craft of Surprise
  • Academic monograph
• Palgrave Handbook of Humanities Podcasting (co-edited with Kimberly Adams, Saronik Bosu and Beth Kramer)
  • Edited collection, under contract Feb 2024
  • Short chapters from 85 contributors, plus 20-episode podcast series, forthcoming 2026