Articles

Selected articles

 

• "The Displacement of Place in 'American History' and American History: Poems and Places from the Middle Passage and the Trail of Tears to the Birmingham Bombing." Symposium: Poems and Places. Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, forthcoming.

• "Modernist Literary Studies and the Aesthetics  American Indian Literatures." Modernism/Modernity Print Plus, 2021. (Online, open access.)

• "The Multiplicity of Early American Indian Poetry." Cambridge History of Native American Literature. Ed. Melanie Benson Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 131-148.

• "How to Make a Queer: The Erotics of Begging, or, Down and Out in the Great Depression." American Literature 91.1 (March 2019): 91-119.

• "A Poetics of the Great Depression: Style and Aesthetics in Tom Kromer’s Waiting for Nothing." Studies in American Fiction 45.2 (Fall 2018): 235-257.

• "Braided Relations: Toward a History of Nineteenth-Century American Indian Women's Poetry." A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry. Ed. Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 313-28.

• "American Indian Poetry at the Dawn of Modernism." The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. Ed. Cary Nelson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 71-95.

• "American Indian Poetry in the Nineteenth Century." The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. Ed. Kerry Larson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 36-53.

• "Another Indian Looking Back: A Review Essay on Recent American Indian Poetry." Studies in American Indian Literature 22.2 (Summer 2010).

• "Contemporary Anticolonialist Reading and the Collaborative Writing of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft." Before Yesterday: The Long History of Native American Writing. Ed. Simone Pellerin. Bordeaux, France: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2009. 47-52.

• "The Hum of Routine: Issues for the Study of Early American Indian Print Culture: A Response to Phillip H. Round." American Literary History 19.2 (2007): 290-96.

• "Reply to Marjorie Perloff's 'Janus-Faced Blockbuster.'" symploke 9.1-2 (2001).

• "Red Slippers and Cottonmouth Moccasins: White Anxieties in Faulkner's Indian Stories." Faulkner Journal 18.1-2 (2002-2003), pp. 81-100. Revised and reprinted from Etudes Faulkneriennes II. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2000, pp. 71-82.

• "'Where you want to go now ': Recharting the Scene Shifts in the First Section of The Sound and the Fury." The Faulkner Journal 14.2 (1999): 3-20.

• "Who Shot the Sheriff: Storytelling, Indian Identity, and the Marketplace of Masculinity in D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded." Modern Fiction Studies 43 (1997): 898-932. (See revised version in The Invention of Native American Literature.)

• "Text, Lines, and Videotape: The Ideology of Genre and the Transcription of Traditional Native American Oral Narrative as Poetry." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 53 (1997): 141-69. (See revised version in The Invention of Native American Literature.)

• "Sanctuary and Bad Taste." Etudes Faulkneriennes I. Rennes, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 1996, pp. 63-69.

• "Sex and Gender, Feminine and Masculine: Faulkner and the Polymorphous Exchange of Cultural Binaries." Faulkner and Gender: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1994, ed. Ann J. Abadie and Donald M. Kartiganer. University, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1996, pp. 73-96.

• "The Other Coldfields: Gender, Commerce, and the Exchange of Bodies in Absalom, Absalom!" Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Sutpen Family.  Ed. Arthur F. Kinney. New York: G. K. Hall, 1996, pp. 239-48.

• "'Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces': Teaching the First Section of The Sound and the Fury." Approaches to Teaching Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury." Ed. Stephen Hahn and Arthur F. Kinney. New York: Modern Language Association, 1996, pp. 27-37.

• "To Be There, No Authority to Anything: Ontological Desire and Cultural and Poetic Authority in the Poetry of Ray A. Young Bear." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 50 (1994): 89-115. (See revised version in The Invention of Native American Literature.)

• "Material Choices: American Fictions, the Classroom, and the Post-Canon."  American Literary History 5 (1993): 89-110. (See revised version in The Invention of Native American Literature.)

• "Poetry and Pedagogy: A Memory of Michael Harper Teaching."  Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters 12 (1990): 810-12.

• "The Chronology and Genealogy of Absalom, Absalom!: The Authority of Fiction and the Fiction of Authority." Studies in American Fiction 14 (1986): 191-98.  Reprinted in Critical Essays on William Faulkner: The Sutpen Family.  Ed. Arthur F. Kinney. New York: G. K. Hall, 1996, pp. 252-58.