Books

• Mechanical Failure: Modernism, Technology, & the Mediation of History (Oxford University Press, 2027)

• Zora Neale Hurston: Beyond the Horizon (under contract with Polity’s Black Lives series)

Select Articles & Essays

• “Seeing and Hearing Black Modernism, or Thinking a Redundancy,” forthcoming in African American Literature

• “Zora Neale Hurston” reference entry, forthcoming in Gale Literature Criticism

• “Before the Ship and the Plantation: Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon and Blackness as Totality” in MELUS (2023 Honorable Mention for the American Literature Society’s 1921 Prize in American Literature)

• “‘Such a Tangible Thing’: Zora Neale Hurston’s Unruly Stones of Memory” in the Journal of American Culture

• “Teach Students to Be Critics—and Builders” at Inside Higher Ed

• “Bringing Home the Picture: Mark Twain’s Anti-Imperialism as Visual Mediation” in The Mark Twain Annual

• "‘That Can Never Be History’: Gertrude Stein and the Speed of the Reading Machine” in Modernism/modernity

• “Zora Neale Hurston Against the World” at Public Books

• “Delirium So Real: Mark Twain’s Spectacular History” in J19

• Review of Alix Beeston’s In and Out of Sight in Modernism/modernity

• “Visions of History at Quarry Farm” at the Center for Mark Twain Studies

• “Mark Twain’s Modernism” at the Center for Mark Twain Studies

Recent Talks

• “Criticism as Ekphrasis,” What is Criticism (Good) For? roundtable, Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, Jan. 2027

• “Du Bois’s World,” Modernist Studies Association / British Association for Modernist Studies, Loughborough, UK, July 2026

• “Between Shots: Zora Neale Hurston’s Cameras and Guns,” BRIDGS Guns in Society Symposium, Arizona State University, Feb. 2026

• “Not Delicate Enough: Du Bois and Totality,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History , Detroit, Nov. 2025

• “Seeing and Hearing Black Modernism,” Association for the Study of Arts of the Present, Houston, TX, Nov. 2025

• “Mechanical Failure in Diego Rivera and George Schuyler,” Modernist Studies Association, Boston, MA, Oct. 2025

Invited Lectures

• “Seeing and Hearing Black Modernism,” African American Literature & the Other Arts: A Symposium at Rice University, March 2025

• “Between Spectacle and Structure: Mark Twain’s Anti-Imperialism,” Park Church Lecture Series, Elmira, NY, July 2020

• “Laughing at Fixed Capital: Chaplin’s Modern Times,” Temple University, February 2020