Selected Writing

Books

Undisciplined: How America's Tradition of Invention Can Transform College Today, forthcoming MIT Press

Hotel Life: The Story of a Place Where Anything Can Happen, with Matthew Pratt Guterl, 2015, University of North Carolina Press. Complex Chinese Edition, 2019; Simplified Chinese Edition, China Worker Publishing House, 2020.

Where Is American Literature?, June 2013, Wiley-Blackwell, Manifesto Series.

Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W.E.B. Du Bois (Duke UP 2006). Nominated for American Studies Associations John Hope Franklin Prize and for Modern Language Association James Russell Lowell Prize (Choice Essential Book).

Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Culture and Literature (Cambridge UP 1998, paperback reprint 2009) (Choice Recommended Book).

Articles and Essays

“American Studies @ Scale,” in Neither the Time Nor the Place: Today’s Nineteenth Century, Eds. Susan Gillman and Christopher Castiglia (University of Pennsylvania Press), June 2021.

Inside Higher Ed Series: Education in the Time of Corona, with Peter Decherney, April 22, 2020

“Education in the Time of Corona,” 9 part series for Inside Higher Ed, April 22-June 10, 2020.

“Can Remote Teaching Make us More Human?,” April 22

“The Hottest Job in Higher Education: Instructional Designer,” April 24

“Community is the Secret to Successfully Enrolling Students in the Fall,” April 29

“Can Universities Learn to Share Before Facebook Does it for Us?,” May 4

“Gallery View,” May 13

“What Will Life Be Like at Post-COVID Universities?,” May 20

“Education is a Team Sport,” May 27

“When is Safety Dangerous?,” June 4

“The COVID-igital Divide,” June 10

“Global Education, Educating Globally,” in International Education at the Crossroads, Eds. Deborah Cohn and Hilary Kahn (Indiana University Press), 2020.

“Faulkner’s Age, Age in Faulkner’s Work,” in Faulkner’s Families, Ed. Jay Watson (University Press of Mississippi), forthcoming 2021.

Edited and Co-Authored Collections

A Companion to American Literary Studies, Wiley-Blackwell, December 2011, Paper Reprint, 2015.

“The Global South and World Dis/Order,” Guest Editor with Walter Mignolo, The Global South, Spring 2011.

“Imagining the Americas” Book Series, Oxford University Press, Co-Editor, 2008-17.

Teaching and Studying the Americas: Cultural Influences from Colonialism to the Present, co-edited with Anthony Pinn and Michael Emerson, Palgrave Macmillan, December 2010.

Hemispheric American Studies, co-edited with Robert S. Levine, Rutgers University Press, October 2007