Areas of Specialty:

• American Literature
• Critical Race Theory
• Economics and Literature

Book:
• America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism and the Written Word. The University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Selected Articles:
• "Family Money: Race and Economic Rights in Antebellum US Law and Fiction." American Literary History 21 (2009): 211-38.
• "Property and Selfhood in Herman Melville's Pierre." Nineteenth-Century Literature 61 (2006)
• "The Market in Male Bodies: Henry James’s The American and Late-Nineteenth-Century Boxing." The Henry James Review 25 (2004).
• "Martin Delany’s Blake and the Transnational Politics of Property." American Literary History 15 (2003).
• "Modeling, Diagramming, and Early Twentieth-Century Histories of Invention and Entrepreneurship: Henry Ford, Sherwood Anderson, Samuel Insull." Cambridge Journal of American Studies 36 (2002).
• "The 1886 Chicago Haymarket Bombing and the Rhetoric of Terrorism in America." Yale Journal of Criticism 15 (2002).
• "‘This Firm of Men-Killers’: Jack London and the Business of Terrorism." Modern Fiction Studies 45 (1999).
• "Race and the Protocol of American Citizenship in William Dean Howells’ An Imperative Duty." American Literary Realism 30 (1998).
• "‘Mr. Nobody from Nowhere’: Rudolph Valentino, Jay Gatsby, and the End of the American Race." Genre 29 (1996).