Alongside the poems: three decades of work on early and nineteenth-century American literature and culture, with articles in American Literature, Early American Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, boundary2, and elsewhere.
Cambridge University Press · 1998 · paperback 2009
How early American culture looked south — to the Incas and the Aztecs — to imagine what kind of empire the United States might become, read through Freneau, Barlow, Prescott, Melville, and Whitman.
Stanford University Press · 2006
A cultural history built on the premise that insurance is a writing business. Franklin, Wheatley, Webster, Melville, and Emerson, each caught between loss and the assurances written against it.
NYU Press · 2016 · co-edited with Monica J. Casper
A collection of essays from writers, activists, and scholars across disciplines on how trauma is studied, lived, narrated, and remade.