PUBLICATIONS

BOOK:
This Side of Despair: Film and Culture during the Great Depression. Madison, N,J,: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, forthcoming.

ARTICLES, PAPERS, AND SHORT FICTION:
“The Arc of National Confidence and the Birth of Film Noir, 1929-1941,” Journal of American Studies, forthcoming.

“ Censorship, Audience, and the Differing Politics of The Shanghai Gesture as Play and Film,” paper delivered at the Florida State University conference, The Persistence of Form: Culture, History and the Aesthetic, January 29-February 1, 2004.

“ Short Eyes: Ethnic Identity in the Total Institution,” Gestos. No. 37 (April 2004).

“Stunt Reporting, Sob Sister Journalism, and Distrust of the Press in Films of the Great Depression,” 49th Parallel No. 12 (Spring 2004).

“The Feminine Image in Films of the Great Depression,” The Cambridge Quarterly Vol. XXXII, No. Two (2003).

“Imitation of Life: Corporate Order and Racial Identity in the Great Depression,” Journal X: A Journal in Culture and Criticism. Vol. 8, No. 1 (Autumn 2003). .

“The Politics of Inner City Identity in Do the Right Thing,” South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association. Vol. 20, Nos. 2-4 (Summer-Winter 2003).

“Against Tribalism: The Perils of Ethnic Identity in Mamet’s Homicid,e” CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History. Vol. 31, No. 3 (Spring 2002).

“Unforgiven: The Elusive Essence of Violence,” Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies. Vol. 27 (2002).

“The Emperor Jones: Naturalist Tragedy in Hemispheric Perspective,” New Readings in American Drama: Something’s Happening Here. Norma Jenckes, Editor. New York: Peter Lang, 2002. This is a “best-of” anthology of essays from the past ten years of the journal, American Drama, where this essay was first published. They were selected by the journal’s editors.

“Sissy finds Her Candy Missing,”(children’s poem) PKA’s Advocate. Vol. 11, No. 6 (December ‘97/January ’98).

“The Emperor Jones: Naturalist Tragedy in Hemispheric Perspective,” American Drama Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring 1997).

“The Logic of Anti-Capitalism in The Sound and the Fury,” The Faulkner Journal Vol. X, No. 1 (Fall 1994).

“Rewriting Poor White Myth in As I Lay Dying,” The Arkansas Quarterly Vol. 2, No. 4 (Autumn 1994).

“Horror and Ethnic Identity in Malamud’s ‘The Jewbird.’” Studies in Short Fiction Vol. 30, No. 3 (Spring/Summer 1993).

“Ashes,” (short story), Other Voices, Vol. 5, No. 17 (Fall 1992).

“Reconsidering Regionalism in Peter Taylor’s Fiction,” Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle (a.k.a. The Journal of the Short Story in English). (Autumn 1987).

“Brooksie,” (short story), The Dan River Anthology, 1991.

“The Dieter,” The Berkeley Fiction Review. No. 6 (1985-1986).

“Over the River, Through the Woods,” Undercurrent. No. 3. (Spring 1983).

"O Multitudinous Lonely!” Undercurrent, No. 2. (Spring 1982).