Book
Teaching Shakespeare beyond the Major, ed with Emma Atwood. Under contract with Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. (85,000 words).
Refereed Journal Articles
“Trump and Children’s Literature.” Forthcoming in Children’s Literature 51 (2023)
“Beyond The Snowy Day: The Politics of Ezra Jack Keats’s Seven Peter Books.” Children’s Literature Association 47.1 (2022): 64-82.
“‘the boy that I gave Falstaff’: The Page Boy and Early Modern Manhood in 2 Henry IV and Henry V.” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 30 (2017): 147-64.
“The Binding of Isaac: Jewish and Christian Appropriations of the Akedah (Genesis 22) in Contemporary Picture Books.” Children’s Literature 45 (2017): 138-63.
“Unraveling the ‘Desdemona Thing’ in Tennessee Williams.” The Tennessee Williams Annual Review 15 (2016): 147-63.
“‘No one queens it like himself’: Performing Unconventional Boyhood in Historical Shakespearean Fiction.” Children’s Literature in Education 47.1 (2016): 50-65.
“The Snowy Day in the Civil Rights Era: Peter’s Political Innocence and Unpublished Letters from Langston Hughes, Ellen Tarry, Grace Nail Johnson, and Charlemae Hill Rollins.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 39.3 (2014): 359-84.
“Jonson, Shakespeare, and the ‘little eyases’ Who Wrote Hamlet.” Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association 27 (2010): 139-60.
“Beyond The Snowy Day: The Politics of Ezra Jack Keats’s Seven Peter Books.” Children’s Literature Association 47.1 (2022): 64-82.
“‘the boy that I gave Falstaff’: The Page Boy and Early Modern Manhood in 2 Henry IV and Henry V.” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 30 (2017): 147-64.
“The Binding of Isaac: Jewish and Christian Appropriations of the Akedah (Genesis 22) in Contemporary Picture Books.” Children’s Literature 45 (2017): 138-63.
“Unraveling the ‘Desdemona Thing’ in Tennessee Williams.” The Tennessee Williams Annual Review 15 (2016): 147-63.
“‘No one queens it like himself’: Performing Unconventional Boyhood in Historical Shakespearean Fiction.” Children’s Literature in Education 47.1 (2016): 50-65.
“The Snowy Day in the Civil Rights Era: Peter’s Political Innocence and Unpublished Letters from Langston Hughes, Ellen Tarry, Grace Nail Johnson, and Charlemae Hill Rollins.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 39.3 (2014): 359-84.
- Winner of the International Children’s Literature Association Graduate Essay Award (2014).
“Jonson, Shakespeare, and the ‘little eyases’ Who Wrote Hamlet.” Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association 27 (2010): 139-60.
Book Chapters
“Introduction: Teaching Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century” (co-authored with Emma Atwood). Teaching Shakespeare beyond the Major, eds M. Tyler Sasser and Emma Atwood. Forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
“Traumatic Boyhoods in Adaptations of Shakespeare.” Shakespeare, Youth, and Trauma. Eds. Jennifer Flaherty and Deborah Uman. Forthcoming with Arden Shakespeare in 2022. (invited)
“The Bard of Boys’ Life: Shakespeare and the Construction of American Boyhood.” Shakespeare and Geek Culture. Eds. Peter Holland and A.J. Hartley. London: Arden, 2020. 205-25.
“Moth and the Pedagogical Ideal in Love’s Labour’s Lost.” Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture. Eds. Jennifer Higginbotham and Mark Johnston. New York: Palgrave, 2018. 153-69.
“Hamlet and Contemporary Boys Fiction.” Shakespeare and Millennial Fiction. Ed. A. J. Hartley. New York: Cambridge UP, 2017. 81-100.
“Traumatic Boyhoods in Adaptations of Shakespeare.” Shakespeare, Youth, and Trauma. Eds. Jennifer Flaherty and Deborah Uman. Forthcoming with Arden Shakespeare in 2022. (invited)
“The Bard of Boys’ Life: Shakespeare and the Construction of American Boyhood.” Shakespeare and Geek Culture. Eds. Peter Holland and A.J. Hartley. London: Arden, 2020. 205-25.
“Moth and the Pedagogical Ideal in Love’s Labour’s Lost.” Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture. Eds. Jennifer Higginbotham and Mark Johnston. New York: Palgrave, 2018. 153-69.
“Hamlet and Contemporary Boys Fiction.” Shakespeare and Millennial Fiction. Ed. A. J. Hartley. New York: Cambridge UP, 2017. 81-100.
Short Pieces
“Henry V” (academic advisor; co-authored with Michael J. Hartwell and Darien Cavanaugh). Shakespearean Criticism Series 191, ed. Rebecca Parks, 1-2. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2020.
“Frances Hodgson Burnett” (academic advisor; co-authored with Jelena Krstovic). Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 375, ed. Jonathan Vereecke, 1-3. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2019.
“Coffy” (110-12), “Dear White People” (140-42), “The Defiant Ones” (143-44), “Intolerance” (291-96), and “The Wild Bunch” (640-42). Encyclopedia of Racism in American Cinema. Ed. Salvador Murguia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
“William Taylor Adams (Oliver Optic).” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Novelists of the American Civil War 378, ed. George Parker Anderson, 45-54. Farmignton Hills, MI: Gale, 2016.
“Interview with Drew Reeves as King Edward III.” The Shakespeare Newsletter 62.1 (2012): 19-22 (double column).
“Frances Hodgson Burnett” (academic advisor; co-authored with Jelena Krstovic). Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism 375, ed. Jonathan Vereecke, 1-3. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2019.
“Coffy” (110-12), “Dear White People” (140-42), “The Defiant Ones” (143-44), “Intolerance” (291-96), and “The Wild Bunch” (640-42). Encyclopedia of Racism in American Cinema. Ed. Salvador Murguia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
“William Taylor Adams (Oliver Optic).” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Novelists of the American Civil War 378, ed. George Parker Anderson, 45-54. Farmignton Hills, MI: Gale, 2016.
“Interview with Drew Reeves as King Edward III.” The Shakespeare Newsletter 62.1 (2012): 19-22 (double column).
Theatre and Film Reviews
"King John at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2022." forthcoming in the Shakespeare Bulletin (2023).
“The Comedy of Errors, Pericles, and Cymbeline at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, 2021.” Shakespeare Bulletin 40.2 (2022): 296-99.
“The Tragedy of Macbeth (Dir. Coen 2021).” The Shakespeare Newsletter 70.2 (2021). n.p.
“The Taming of the Shrew at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, 2014.” Shakespeare Bulletin 32.4 (2014): 748-51.
“The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, 2012.” Theatre Journal 65.2 (2013): 281-83.
“Edward III and Two Noble Kinsmen by the Atlanta Shakespeare Company, 2010.” Shakespeare Bulletin 29.4 (2011): 666-72.
“The Comedy of Errors, Pericles, and Cymbeline at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, 2021.” Shakespeare Bulletin 40.2 (2022): 296-99.
“The Tragedy of Macbeth (Dir. Coen 2021).” The Shakespeare Newsletter 70.2 (2021). n.p.
“The Taming of the Shrew at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, 2014.” Shakespeare Bulletin 32.4 (2014): 748-51.
“The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, 2012.” Theatre Journal 65.2 (2013): 281-83.
“Edward III and Two Noble Kinsmen by the Atlanta Shakespeare Company, 2010.” Shakespeare Bulletin 29.4 (2011): 666-72.
Book Reviews
Contemporary Hollywood Animation: Style Storytelling, Culture and Ideology Since the 1990s. By Noel Brown. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 47.1 (2022): 121-24.
There’s a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak. By Jonathan Cott. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 44.1 (2019): 117-19.
Fictions of Integration: American Children’s Literature and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education. By Naomi Lesley. Children’s Literature 46 (2018): 223-27.
Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation. By Gregory Maguire. Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Work. By Justin G. Schiller, Dennis M. V. David, and Leonard S. Marcus. Studies in American Jewish Literature. 36.2 (2017): 233-37
Shakespeare and the Medieval World. By Helen Cooper. Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 48.2 (2016): 163-66.
Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks. By Katharine Capshaw. International Research Society for Children’s Literature (2016): Online Reviews Database.
The World of the Child in the Hebrew Bible. By Naomi Steinberg. Christianity & Literature 65.2 (2016): 268-72.
Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England, c. 1400-1600. By Merridee L. Bailey. Social History 40.1 (2015): n.p.
Slavery in American Children’s Literature, 1790-2010. By Paula T. Connolly. 38.5 (2015): 1191-94.
Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance. Edited by Kathryn M. Moncrief and Kathryn R. McPherson. Renaissance Studies 29.2 (2015): 328-30.
Adapting Canonical Texts in Children’s Literature. Edited by Anja Müller. Shakespeare for Young People: Productions, Versions, and Adaptations. By Abigail Rokison. Children’s Literature 42 (2014): 316-24.
The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Sisters: Gender, Transgression, Adolescence. By Jennifer Higginbotham. The Sixteenth Century Journal 44.4 (2013): 1128-29.
Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood. Edited by Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh; The Child in British Literature. Edited by Adrienne E. Gavin. Children’s Literature 41 (2013): 287-95.
Textual Transformations in Children’s Literature: Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations. Edited by Benjamin Lefebvre. The Lion and the Unicorn 37.3 (2013): 358-60.
Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre. By Edel Lamb. Early Modern Literary Studies 16.2 (2012): n.p.
History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children’s Literature. By Jackie C. Horne. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 37.1 (2012): 237-40.
Shakespeare / Adaptation / Modern Drama. Edited by Randall Martin and Katherine Scheil. The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal 31 (2012): 177-80.
Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England. By Joanna Picciotto. Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 36.2 (2012): 61-63.
History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children’s Literature. By Jackie C. Horne. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 37.1 (2012): 237-40.
There’s a Mystery There: The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak. By Jonathan Cott. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 44.1 (2019): 117-19.
Fictions of Integration: American Children’s Literature and the Legacies of Brown v. Board of Education. By Naomi Lesley. Children’s Literature 46 (2018): 223-27.
Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation. By Gregory Maguire. Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Work. By Justin G. Schiller, Dennis M. V. David, and Leonard S. Marcus. Studies in American Jewish Literature. 36.2 (2017): 233-37
Shakespeare and the Medieval World. By Helen Cooper. Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 48.2 (2016): 163-66.
Civil Rights Childhood: Picturing Liberation in African American Photobooks. By Katharine Capshaw. International Research Society for Children’s Literature (2016): Online Reviews Database.
The World of the Child in the Hebrew Bible. By Naomi Steinberg. Christianity & Literature 65.2 (2016): 268-72.
Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England, c. 1400-1600. By Merridee L. Bailey. Social History 40.1 (2015): n.p.
Slavery in American Children’s Literature, 1790-2010. By Paula T. Connolly. 38.5 (2015): 1191-94.
Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance. Edited by Kathryn M. Moncrief and Kathryn R. McPherson. Renaissance Studies 29.2 (2015): 328-30.
Adapting Canonical Texts in Children’s Literature. Edited by Anja Müller. Shakespeare for Young People: Productions, Versions, and Adaptations. By Abigail Rokison. Children’s Literature 42 (2014): 316-24.
The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Sisters: Gender, Transgression, Adolescence. By Jennifer Higginbotham. The Sixteenth Century Journal 44.4 (2013): 1128-29.
Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood. Edited by Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh; The Child in British Literature. Edited by Adrienne E. Gavin. Children’s Literature 41 (2013): 287-95.
Textual Transformations in Children’s Literature: Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations. Edited by Benjamin Lefebvre. The Lion and the Unicorn 37.3 (2013): 358-60.
Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre. By Edel Lamb. Early Modern Literary Studies 16.2 (2012): n.p.
History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children’s Literature. By Jackie C. Horne. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 37.1 (2012): 237-40.
Shakespeare / Adaptation / Modern Drama. Edited by Randall Martin and Katherine Scheil. The Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal 31 (2012): 177-80.
Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England. By Joanna Picciotto. Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700 36.2 (2012): 61-63.
History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children’s Literature. By Jackie C. Horne. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 37.1 (2012): 237-40.