I am interested in the history of American literature and culture (popular culture, history, film) from the Civil War to the Great Depression, with special interest in the American realist novel. I am working on a project analyzing writings from the cattle trade after the Civil War (histories, novels, diaries, letters, memoirs, autobiographies, films).
"'A Crossblood at the Scratch Line'": INTERIOR LANDSCAPES." LOOSENING THE SEAMS: INTERPRETATIONS OF GERALD VIZENOR. ed. by A. Robert Lee. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2000. 109-125.
“Introduction,” James Fenimore Cooper. The Last of the Mohicans. Signet Classics, 2000.
“Dividing the Horses: Trail-Driving Practices and the Realist Novel, An Example from Andy Adams’ The Outlet.” Heritage of the Great Plains, Fall/Winter, v. XXXIII, no. 2, 2000.
“Guthrie’s Shane and the Culture of the Cold War,” Fifty Years After the Big Sky: New Perspectives on the Fiction and Films of A. B. Guthrie, Jr. ed. by William E. Farr and William W. Bemis. Montana Historical Society P, 2001.
"John Ford's MY DARLING CLEMENTINE," REPRESENTATIONS 84 (2004), 200-212.
"Sermons in Stone: Monument Valley in THE SEARCHERS," in THE SEARCHERS: ESSAYS AND REFLECTIONS ON JOHN FORD'S CLASSIC WESTERN, ed. by Arthur M. Eckstein and Peter Lehman. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2004, 93-108.
"Early Film Versions of THE VIRGINIAN." in READING THE VIRGINIAN IN THE NEW WEST, ed by Melody Graulich and Stephen Tatum. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P.2003, 126-147.
"Ecce Cowboy: E. C. Abbott's WE POINTED THEM NORTH," WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 37:2 (Summer 2002), 243-263. Reprinted in WESTERN SUBJECTS: autobiographical writing in the North American West, ed. by Kathleen Boardman and Goia Woods. U of Utah Press, 2004.
"JUNIOR BONNER: Old West/New West or the Antinomies of the Father," in SAM PECKINPAH'S WEST: NEW PERSPECTIVES. ed. by Leonard Engel, Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 2003, 151-167.
“Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales,” in A New Literary History of America, edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollers. Harvard University Press, 2009.
"William S. Hart’s Hell’s Hinges in the Progressive Era,” in Revue Francaise d’Etudes Americaines, No. 122, 4th trimester 2009
“Renaissances americaines: de la jeremiade au western” in Refaire L’Amerique: Imaginaire et Histoire des Etats-Unis, edited by Didier Aubert and Helene Quanquin, Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 2011.
“La modernita nel villaggio: The New York Hat, in Lo Schermo Gigante: Scritti in onore di Franco La Polla, edited by Michele Fadda e Sara Pesce. Edizioni Cineteca di Bologna, 2011
“’You can’t hunt alone’: White Hunter Black Heart,” in New Essays on Clint Eastwood, edited by Leonard Engel. University of Utah press, 2012.
“Citizen Hoover: Clint Eastwood’s J. Edgar,” with Kathleen Moran, in New Essays on Clint Eastwood.
"History in the Heroic Mode: J. Evetts Haley's Charles Goodnight." Panhandle-Plains Historical Review. LXXXIV (2012-2013), 65-81.
