Books & Collections
Comics & Cultural Theory
Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore: Critical Essays on the Graphic Novels
McFarland, 2012 · Co-edited with Joseph Michael Sommers
This collection investigates the political, social, cultural, and sexual ideologies that emerge from Alan Moore’s seminal work, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Lost Girls.
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Film & Cultural Theory
Terror and the Cinematic Sublime: Essays on Violence and the Unpresentable in Post-9/11 Films
McFarland, 2013 · Co-edited with Lloyd Isaac Vayo
Eleven essayists address Hollywood movies, indie film, and post-cinematic media in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, including work by directors such as Spielberg, Aronofsky, Tarantino, and Spike Lee.
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Political & Cultural Criticism
What Comes After Occupy? The Regional Politics of Resistance
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015
Thirteen essays critically address the politics of occupation in places such as Indiana, Oregon, Texas, Ohio, and Montana, examining how Occupy tactics evolved outside New York’s Zuccotti Park.
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Appalachian Journal: As the Crow Flies
A Late Night Frittata on Lancaster Street
A poem rooted in the domestic and the late-night, finding meaning in the small rituals of food, place, and the quiet hours when the world goes still.
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While At Eyecare Associates, My Dead Mother Walks In
A haunting encounter in an ordinary waiting room, grief appearing without warning in the mundane, reshaping the present with the weight of absence.
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The Silence of Rockford Chapel
A poem exploring silence, space, and the sacred in an Appalachian chapel, written in the Quaker tradition of contemplative attention to the still, small voice.
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The Domestic Politics of Disability in Octavia Butler’s Kindred
JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory · 48.1 · Winter 2018
The Disabled Hero: Being and Ethics in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings
Mythlore · 35.1 · Fall 2016
A Mortal Agency: Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds
Journal of Modern Literature · 31.2 · 2008
Playing at Birth: Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren
JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory · 35.2 · 2006
This Aggression Will Not Stand: Myth, War, and Ethics in The Big Lebowski
SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism · 34.2 · 2005
Pacifism as Ideological Complicity in The Big Lebowski
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture · 7.3 · 2007
Introduction: Disability Studies and Ecocriticism
Co-written and co-edited with Christine Junker. Double thematic issue of Studies in the Humanities · 2020
The Hidden Architecture of Disability: Chris Ware’s Building Stories
In Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives, ed. Chris Foss, Zach Whalen, Jonathan Gray · Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016
Being Singular Plural on Main Street
Introduction to What Comes After Occupy? The Regional Politics of Resistance · Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015
The Indigestibility of the World; or, Birthing the Posthuman in Spielberg’s A.I.
In Terror and the Cinematic Sublime, ed. Comer and Vayo · McFarland, 2013
There’s Got To Be a Mourning, After: Terror and the (Post)Cinematic Sublime
Introduction (with Isaac Vayo) to Terror and the Cinematic Sublime · McFarland, 2013
Body Politics: Unearthing an Embodied Ethics in V for Vendetta
In Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore, ed. Comer and Sommers · McFarland, 2012
The Polarizing of Alan Moore’s Sexual Politics
Introduction (with Joseph Sommers) to Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore · McFarland, 2012
Who Needs Family? How the Doctor’s Non-Domesticity Interrupts History
In Peregrinations, Ruminations, and Regenerations: A Critical Approach to Doctor Who, ed. Chris Hansen · Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010
Essays, Reviews & Other Writing
Finding Myself Elsewhere: My Impaired, Appalachian Self
To be published in 2027 in Appalachian Disability Anthology, edited by Kendra Winchester (University Press of Kentucky).
Knuckles Muldoon: Or, One Viewpoint on the Plural Nature of the Liberal Arts
Faculty column · DC Magazine · Summer 2015
Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day
The Crescent News · Defiance, OH · January 18, 2016
The Terminal and Dogville
Film reviews of Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal (DreamWorks, 2004) and Lars von Trier’s Dogville (Zentropa, 2003) · Journal of Religion and Film · 9.1 · 2005
Review: Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin (Routledge, 1998) · Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies · 2.1 · 2000
Coming Soon
● Circulating to Publishers
Poetry Collection
A Weekend Rot: Poems
Manuscript complete
A completed poetry collection currently being circulated to publishers.
● Circulating to Publishers
Poetry Collection
Mary and Etta: Appalachian Poems
Manuscript complete
A completed collection of Appalachian poems centered on the lives of Mary and Etta, voices rooted in place, labor, and the quietly extraordinary.