Scholarly Writing
"More than a Slogan: Or, how we built a Social Justice Program that made our campus more Just", Radical Teacher, 2020
Reading as Collective Action: Texts as Tactics, University of Iowa Press, 2017
*Listen to me talking about the book on the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast March 2018
*Or, if you prefer, listen to me on the New Books in Critical Theory podcast February 2018
Can the Working Class Novel Exist Today? Maybe., Race & Class January-March 2017
Poetry, Recognition, and Redistribution: The September 11 Chronocanon, American Literature March 2015
A Habermasian Literary Criticism, New Literary History , Spring 2012
Teaching (is not) Activism, Radical Teacher , Fall 2012


Journalism
Community Colleges After Michael Brown | Diverse: Issues in Higher Education | February 2015
Silver Linings? | Inside Higher Ed | November 2011
Why a straight Minnesota couple will be wed in Canada | Minneapolis Star Tribune | May 2008
U-Hell | Legal Affairs | September|October 2005
Self-Adhesive Salvation | Legal Affairs | March|April 2005
M.A. Students as Pledges | The Chronicle of Higher Education | April 2005

Reviews
Existentialism is a Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre | Rain Taxi | Winter 2007/2008
Lyric Poetry: The Pain and the Pleasure of Words by Mutlu Konuk Blasing | Wilson Quarterly | Spring 2007
Dante in Love: The World's Greatest Poem and How It Made History by Harriet Rubin | Wilson Quarterly | Summer 2004
Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake by Carol Loeb Shloss | VQR | Summer 2004
Love by Toni Morrison | VQR | Spring 2004
Long for This World by Michael Byers | VQR | Winter 2004
How to Be Alone: Essays by Jonathan Franzen | Meridian | Spring/Summer 2003
In Cold Fear: The Catcher in the Rye, Censorship Controversies and Postwar American Character by Pamela Hunt Steinle | Boston Review | December 2002/January 2003




And if that's not enough, check out my CV or visit me on academia.edu


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