“Seeds of Discontent: The Expanding Satiric Range of Melville’s Transatlantic Diptychs,”
Leviathan – A Journal of Melville Studies 8.2 (June 2006).
“The Laughing Doves of 1812,” PMLA 124.5 (October 2009).
“Absurdistan,” “The Russian Debutante’s Handbook,” and “Gary Shteyngart,”
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Fiction (New York: Facts on File, 2010).
Conferences
“The Imperial Geography of U.S. Satire,” Modern Language Association Convention,
Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century American Literature Division Panel on
“Pacific Imaginations” (December 2008).
Dickens Universe Summer Institute, University of California Santa Cruz (July 2008).
“Black, White, and Read(ex) All Over: Digital Research in American Periodicals,”
American Literature Association Conference (May 2008).
“Warportunities,” American Comparative Literature Association Conference (April 2008).
“Seeing the Elephant/Riding the Mule: Anti-War Satire in the United States and Mexico,”
Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference (April 2008).
“A H.O.T. Approach to the Cold War Canon,” Modern Language Association Convention,
19th-Century American Literature Division Panel (December 2007).
“More Than He Could Chew?: James Russell Lowell and the Laughing Doves of 1847,”
Boston Athenaeum Works in Progress Series (December 2007).
“The American Laughing Dove: A Field Guide,” Huntington Library Brown Bag Series
(August 2007).
“Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones: The Exhaustion of the Violence Metaphor,”
University of California Irvine Comparative Literature Department Graduate
Student Conference (April 2007).
“I Follow the Hawk: From Swift to Borat,” Louisiana State University Graduate Student
Association Conference (February 2007).
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