Essays

“Men with Queer Nerves”: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine, The Public Domain Review, 2026

The White Fraud: White Elephants, Siam, and Comparative Racialization, Journal of American Studies, 2023

Jumbo’s Ghost: Elephants and Machines in Motion, The Public Domain Review, 2022

It’s Not About Whales: Moby-Dick and Disinformation, English Studies in Canada, 2021

William Wells Brown, Wildcat Banker, The Public Domain Review, 2021

‘Act Two for America’: Narcissism, Money, and the Death of American Literature in Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story, Canadian Review of American Studies, 2018

Race and the White Elephant War of 1884, The Public Domain Review, 2017

George Washington at the Siamese Court, The Public Domain Review, 2016

Transpacific Interpretations, Canadian Review of American Studies, 2015

Gresham’s Law, Property, and Race in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses, Canadian Review of American Studies, 2012 (Ernest Redekop Prize honourable mention)

‘This Alarming Generosity’: White Elephants and the Logic of the Gift, American Literature, 2011