"Commitment." Introduction to special essay cluster, "Commitment," coedited with Molly Clark Hillard. Victorian Literature and Culture 48.2 (2020): 391-405.
“Any Material Way.” In “Essays in Honor of Elaine Freedgood,” Carolyn Betensky and Mary Mullen, eds. Victorian Literature and Culture 47.3 (Fall 2019): 663-670.
“Signatures of the Carboniferous: The Literary Forms of Coal.” Co-authored with Philip Steer. In Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire. New York: Fordham UP, 2019: 63-84. [Note: the linked PDF also includes the Introduction to Ecological Form, also cowritten with Philip Steer.]
“Empire.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature. Dino F. Felluga, Pamela K. Gilbert, and Linda K. Hughes, eds. London: Blackwell, 2015.
“What is a Network (and Who is Andrew Lang)?” RaVoN: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net 64 (2013, pub. date spring 2014). Special issue, “The Andrew Lang Effect: Network, Discipline, Method.” Edited by Nathan K. Hensley and Molly Clark Hillard. 5,000 words.
“Mister Trollope, Lady Credit, and the Way We Live Now.” In The Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope’s Novels: New Readings for the Twenty-First Century. Regenia Gagnier, Margaret Markwick, and Deborah Morse, eds. London: Ashgate, 2009: 147-160.
Review Essays
“Figures of Reading.” On Garrett Stewart’s Novel Violence: A Narratography of Victorian Fiction. Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 54.2 (Spring 2012): 329-342.
“Punishing Disciplines.” On Amanda Anderson and Joseph Valente, eds., Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle. minnesota review 58-60 (2003): 311-316.
Review of Liberal Epic: The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill (Virginia UP, 2009). By Edward Adams. Victorian Studies 55.4 (2013): 746-749.
Review of Romances of Free Trade: British Literature, Laissez-Faire, and the Global Nineteenth Century (Oxford, 2011). By Ayse Celikkol. Nineteenth-Century Literature 67.1 (June 2012): 118-122.
“Media Wars.” Review of War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Wartime. By Mary Favret. NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 45.1 (Spring 2012): 129-132.