Current Publications

Books:
Laying Claim: Imagining Empire on the U.S./Mexico Border, under contract, Oxford University Press. 

Why American Literature?, under contract, Wiley-Blackwell, Manifesto Series.

Edited and Co-Authored Books
Studying the Americas, co-edited with Alexander Byrd, Anthony Pinn, Michael Emerson, and Moramay López-Alonso,  Palgrave Macmillan.

Articles:
“Reinventing American Literary History,” American Literary History 20.3, forthcoming Fall 2008.

Hemispheric American Studies: Preliminary Thoughts on Research and Pedagogical Challenges,” Literature Compass (Blackwell), forthcoming Fall 2008.

“Childhood Innocence: Protecting American Childhood,” The Chicago Companion to the Child (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2008.

“Literary Historiography and Biography,” Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Vol. 1, Ed M.A.R. Habib, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2008.

“Literature: Early Republic and the American Renaissance,” “Literature: From the Civil War to World War II,” Encyclopedia of Religion in America, (CQ Press), forthcoming 2008.