Publications
An analysis of the literary strategies wielded by Black women during the oppressive Jim Crow years. University Press of Mississippi, 2022.
Analyzes profound implications of place in Friel’s five best-known and critically acclaimed plays. Syracuse University Press, 2022.
This anthology offers readers creative works by Texas writers as they wrestle with evolving systems of belief or nonbelief. Texas Christian University Press, 2022.
A collection of modern country house poems from over 160 distinguished poets. Liverpool University Press, 2021.
A critical examination of the role of property in gothic literature depicting slavery. University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
This reader traces the diverse heritages and global impulses that shaped America. Baylor University Press, 2020.
Studies the rhetorical pedagogy of Austin Phelps, the prominent preacher and professor of sacred rhetoric. Routledge, 2020.
Examines manifestations of public green spaces in modern literature. Routledge, 2020.
Considers the role that cinematic narrative and religious tradition can play in healing racial dynamics. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Examines how modernist works express optimism about the future based on a belief in the social power of art. Routledge, 2020.
Daily devotional pairing literary passages with scripture and prayer. Westminster John Knox Press, 2019.
Examines gender and the twinning trope in over fifty years of television. Lexington Books, 2019.
A collection of previously undiscovered poems by Sir John Betjeman. Bloomsbury Press, 2019.
Interlinked poems of love for a hospitalized infant. Finishing Line Press, 2019.
Interdisciplinary collection examines how religion was debated and deployed in the nineteenth century. Ohio State University Press, 2019.
Examines the emergence of a distinct women's rhetoric in the American Female Moral Reform Society. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.
A new assessment of Thomas Hoccleve's role as a religious author and poetic mediator. Liverpool University Press, 2018.
How and why Mark Twain has been "under fire" from the advent of his career to the present day. Camden Press, 2016. Boydell & Brewer, 2018.
How modern poetry engages with constructed green spaces in America. University of Virginia Press, 2017.
A comprehensive study of the award-winning Midwestern author of fiction and nonfiction. University of South Carolina Press, 2017.
The zombie apocalypse as an archetypal narrative for the contemporary world. Oxford University Press, 2017.
Intimate poems that cut through the climate of silence surrounding mental illness and treatment. Bull City Press, 2017.
A captivating YA thriller: one missing girl, one radical church, one day with a sister determined to solve her disappearance. Lakewater Press, 2017.
An anthology of poems by post-war authors that capture British nostalgia for parish churches. Bloomsbury, 2016.
Traces the influence of Christian and Classical prototypes in ideas and depictions of the divine face. Bloomsbury, 2015.
This study helps readers better understand the life and major works of Seamus Heaney. Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
A study of print-mediated spiritual communion in Britain during the nineteenth century. Ohio State University Press, 2015.
Examines representations of housework in sixty popular television shows of the 1950s-1980s. Lexington Books, 2015.
Christine de Pizan's landmark defense of women, written in French, edited side-by-side with an English translation from Henry VIII's reign. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015.
Rich ground for creative expression exists in the search for answers to the question: What lies in store for us after we die? Oxford University Press, 2015.
Regional voices that inspired Heaney offer a unified understanding of his body of work. Winner of the 2014 Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award. University of Notre Dame Press, 2014.
Stories that explore the profound effects of what it is to lose and be lost. Winner of the 2015 PEN/Hemingway Award. Sarabande Books, 2014.
Oral storytelling in the works of black and white Southern writers. University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Original research on the intersections of rhetoric and Christianity from prominent and emerging scholars. Routledge, 2015.
Award-winning first book by Chloe Honum, finalist for 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Poetry. Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2014.
Complete analysis of D.H. Lawrence as a religious man, thinker and artist from 1915 onward. Bloomsbury, 2013.
Powerful contemporary retelling of the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Zondervan, 2013.
Rhetorical opportunities in the 19th century Methodist church increased women's presence in the public sphere. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
Bold new assessment of the work of one of America's most celebrated writers. Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
First study devoted to Sylvia Plath's fiction. Edinburgh University Press, 2010.