BOOK (Forthcoming–Baker Academic, May 2024)

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“Forming Better Professionals and Leaders.” The Liberating Arts: Why We Need Liberal Arts Education. Eds. Jeffrey Bilbro, David Henreckson, and Jessica Hooten Wilson. Plough Publishing House, 2023. 144-155.

“Humanizing and Decolonizing Composition: John Mohawk’s ‘Western Peoples, Natural Peoples.’” Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition. Ed. Deborah H. Holdstein. Modern Language Association, 2023. 152-160.

 “Forming Christian Virtues through Sabbath Practices.” Editorial. International Journal of Christianity & Education 27.1 (2023): 3-5.

“Fleur’s Kinship, Pauline’s Whiteness: How Colonization Shapes Friendship in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks.” Navigating Women’s Friendships in American Literature and Culture. Eds. Kelly Reames and Kristi Branham. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 129-148.

“Doing Things ‘Regular’: Tom Sawyer’s Common Sense Philosophy.” The Mark Twain Journal 60.1 (2022): 46-70.

“Inverting the ‘gracelorn’ Father: Augustinian Notions of Evil and Goodness in Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and The Road.” Literature & Theology 36.1 (2022): 79-95.

“Courage for the End of the World: Cormac McCarthy and the Apocalyptic Writings of W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot.” Intégrité: A Journal of Faith and Learning 20.2 (2021): 54-70.

“Critiquing Society from a Distance: Solitude in Hawthorne’s and Thoreau’s Sabbath Writings.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 47.1 (2021): 84-100.

“‘Track the money!’: The Moral Consequences of Tom Sawyer in No Country for Old Men.” The Cormac McCarthy Journal 19.1 (2021): 2-20.

“‘Not a Question of Choice’: Freedom, Identity, and Place in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!” Local Culture: A Journal of the Front Porch Republic 3.1 (2021): 36-42.

“‘Language to Reach With’: Layli Long Soldier’s WHEREAS Connects Words to Reality.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 32.1-2 (2020): 52-74.

“Plagiarism as the Language of Ownership: Aligning Academic Liturgy with Christian Virtue.” Christian Scholar’s Review 49.2 (2020): 109-126.

“‘I’m a man of this time’: Categories of Sin and the Shadow of Dante in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.” Christianity & Literature 68.4 (2019): 539-558.

“Vocation is Something that Happens to You: Freedom, Education, and the American Literary Tradition.” Christian Faith and University Life: Stewards of the Academy. Eds. T. Laine Scales and Jennifer L. Howell. Cham, CH: Palgrave Macmillian, 2018. 31-49.

“Incorporating Theology and Philosophy of Science into the Physics Classroom,” with Emily Grace. International Journal of Christianity & Education 22.2 (2018): 142-156.

“Reformation Leads to Self-Reliance: The Protestantism of Transcendentalism.” Religions 8.30 (2017): 1-10.

“Self-Knowledge and Character Formation: Teaching to Students’ Weaknesses.” International Journal of Christianity & Education. 21.1 (2017): 39-54.

“Stories for ‘good young girls’: Louisa May Alcott, Gender, and Realism.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 45.3 (2016): 263-274.

“Doing, not Reading: Cormac McCarthy on the Virtues and Dangers of Literature.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 8.2 (2016): 40-49.

“Sentimentality and Grace: Marilynne Robinson and Nineteenth-Century Prodigal Son Narratives.” This Life, This World: New Essays on Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, Gilead, and Home. Ed. Jason W. Stevens. Leiden: Brill, 2015. 131-147.

“There is No Me Like My Statue: Life and Text in Zora Neale Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road.” Pacific Coast Philology 49.1 (2014): 99-111.

NOTES AND OTHER ARTICLES

“When the Church Library is Bad for You: The Rigidity of Evangelical Women’s Fiction.” Post45 Contemporaries. 12 Sept. 2022. Web.

“Ishiguro’s New Novel Contemplates the Relationship between Humans, Machines, and the Natural World.” Front Porch Republic. 17 Jan. 2022. Web.

“Sacajawea.” Women Who Changed the World: Their Lives, Challenges, and Accomplishments through History. Ed. Candice Goucher. ABC-CLIO, 2022. 1035-1040.

“Understanding Colonization through Word Studies: A Digital Project for the Literature Classroom.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 11.1 (2020): 1-4.

“Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears.” The Literary Encyclopedia: Indigenous Writing and Culture of North America. 30 May 2019. Web.

“Samson Occom.” The Literary Encyclopedia: Indigenous Writing and Culture of North America. 24 January 2019. Web.

“How Nineteenth-Century White American Women Writers Have Facilitated the Rise of Christian Feminism.” U.S. Studies Online.  14 Mar. 2015. Web.

“Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.” The Explicator 68.4 (2010): 239-241.

“‘Good Country People’ Unmasked: Hulga’s Journey to Salvation.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 39.4 (2009): 2-4.

BOOK REVIEWS

Richard Hughes Gibson and James Edward Beitler III, Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2020) International Journal of Christianity & Education 27.1 (2023): 90-91.

Elizabeth Newman, Divine Abundance: Leisure, The Basis of Academic Culture (Eugene: Cascade Books, 2018) International Journal of Christianity & Education 27.1 (2023): 104-105.

Patrick O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) The Cormac McCarthy Journal 21.1 (2023): 93-96.

Jenifer B. Elmore, ed., Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Redwood: A Tale (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 39.1 (2022): 115-117.

Petra Mundik, A Bloody and Barbarous God: The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy (University of New Mexico Press, 2021) Christianity & Literature 71.3 (2022): 454-458.

Andrew Cunning, Marilynne Robinson, Theologian of the Ordinary (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) Christianity & Literature 71.2 (2022): 268-272.

Todd C. Ream, Jerry Pattengale, and Christopher J. Devers, eds. The State of the Evangelical Mind: Reflections on the Past, Prospects for the Future (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2018). International Journal of Christianity & Education 25.3 (2021): 353-354.

Paul J. Griffiths, Regret: A Theology (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021). Christianity & Literature 70.2 (2021): 176-179.

Perry L. Glanzer and Nathan F. Alleman, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Teaching (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019). International Journal of Christianity & Education 25.1 (2021): 127-128.

Alan Jacobs, The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Intégrité: A Journal of Faith and Learning 19.2 (2020): 63-67.

Cheri L. Pierson and Will Bankston, eds. Thinking Theologically about Language Teaching: Christian Perspectives on an Educational Calling (Carlisle, UK: Langham Global Library, 2017). International Journal of Christianity & Education 22.2 (2018): 157-158.

Matthew L. Potts, Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament: Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). Christianity & Literature 66.3 (2017): 559-562.

Rod Dreher, How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History’s Greatest Poem (New York: Regan Arts, 2015). Integrite: A Journal of Faith and Learning 15.1 (2016): 105-107.

Kristin LeMay, I Told My Soul to Sing: Finding God with Emily Dickinson (Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2013). Christianity & Literature 63.2 (2014): 301-304.

Heather Walton, ed. Literature and Theology: New Interdisciplinary Spaces (Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2011): Christian Scholar’s Review 43.3 (2014): 294-297.

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Dreaming Spiritual Insight in Cormac McCarthy’s Stella Maris.” American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 2023.

“Between Dreams and Reality: Representations of American Exceptionalism in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy.” Southwest Popular/ American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 2022.

“Wendell Berry’s The Unsettling of America Disavows Settler Colonialism.” Christian Scholars’ Conference, Nashville, TN, June 2021.

“Evil and its Opposite in Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark and The Road.” Southwest Popular/ American Culture Association, Online, Feb. 2021.

“Consequences of Tom Sawyer: Greed and Optimism in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 2020.

“Theological Practices for Teaching Literature: Forming Students’ Character through the Practices of Docility, Hospitality, and Sabbath.” Baylor Institute for Faith and Learning Conference, Waco, TX, Oct. 2019.

“Benjamin Franklin’s Reading of the Virtue Tradition.” Association of Core Texts and Courses Conference, Santa Fe, NM, Apr. 2019.

“Sovereignty, Language, and the Poetic Form in Layli Long Soldier’s WHEREAS.” Native American Literature Symposium, Prior Lake, MN, Mar. 2019.

“‘Freer Breath than our Native Air’: Authority and Imitation in Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun.” International Poe and Hawthorne Conference, Kyoto, Japan, June 2018.

“Liturgies and Language of Plagiarism in the Religious Academy.” Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, Oct. 2017.

“Religious Crossings: How the Protestant Reformation Guided Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Literary Career.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference, Bordeaux, France, July 2017.

“Virtue, Happiness, and Freedom: Moral Society in Hannah Webster Foster’s Novels.” Society of Early Americanists Conference, Tulsa, OK, Mar. 2017.

“Teaching the Protestant Reformation through American Literature: John Milton as Inspiration for the Transcendentalists.” Teaching the Christian Intellectual Tradition Conference, Birmingham, AL, Oct. 2016.

“Hawthorne, the Enlightenment, and Curiosity.” 21st Summer Meeting of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, Stowe, VT, June 2016.

“Three Ways of Sinning in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.” American Literature Association Symposium, San Antonio, TX, Feb. 2016.

“‘I certainly didn’t choose to be the kind of girl I was’: Freedom and Identity in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!”  Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 2015.

“Teaching Composition: Purgation and Self-Knowledge.” Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, Oct. 2015.

“God and the Republic, Calvinism and Womanhood in Sedgwick’s A New-England Tale.” American Literature Association Symposium, San Antonio, TX, Feb. 2015.

“Augustine’s Restlessness and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Intellectual Villains.” Teaching the Christian Intellectual Tradition Conference, Birmingham, AL, Oct. 2014.