Book in Progress

Spyography: Modernism, Espionage, and the Militant Aesthetic State

Peer-Reviewed Articles

"If Books Could Kill: Leo Tolstoy and the Cultural Cold War." American Quarterly (forthcoming).

"An Incident in Hyde Park: Basil Thomson, Roger Casement, and Wakean Coincidence."  James Joyce Quarterly 57.3-4 (2020): 245-62.

"The Desert of the Real: Diamonds Are Forever as a Hollywood Novel."  The Many Facets of Diamonds Are Forever: James Bond on Page and Screen.  Ed. Oliver S. Buckton.  Lexington Books, 2019.  157-76.

“True Lies: Virginia Woolf, Espionage, and Feminist Agency.”  Twentieth-Century Literature 64.3 (September 2018): 317-46.

“Spyography: Compton Mackenzie, Modernism, and the Intelligence Memoir.”  The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 13 (2017).  Special issue: “International Intrigue: Plotting Espionage as Cultural Artifact."  Web link.

"Woolf and Whistleblowing: From World War I to WikiLeaks."  Virginia Woolf Miscellany 91 (Spring 2017): 22-24.  Special issue: "Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury, and the War to End War."  Web link.

“Coming to Accounts: Fraud and Muckraking in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition.”  European Journal of American Studies 8.1 (Spring 2013).  Web link.

“A Hermeneutics of Recruitment: The Case of Wordsworth.”  Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 34.2 (Spring 2011): 277-97.

“Slices of Life: The Artist as Vivisector in Giacomo Joyce.”  Hypermedia Joyce Studies 11.1 (2010).  Web link.

Invited Book Reviews

Diplomacy and the Modern Novel: France, Britain, and the Mission of Literature, edited by Isabelle Daunais and Allan Hepburn. Journal of British Literature 61.1 (2022): 236-38.

Master of Deception: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming, by Alan Ogden.  Michigan War Studies Review 2020.109 (Dec. 2020).  Web link.

Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film, by Phyllis Lassner; Espionage in British Fiction and Film since 1900: The Changing Enemy, by Oliver. S. Buckton.  Twentieth-Century Literature 64.1 (Mar. 2018): 111-19. 

Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War, by Andrew N. Rubin.  Modernism/Modernity 20.4 (Nov. 2013): 791-92.

Public Humanities Writing

"The Writer as Liability: The Case of W. Somerset Maugham." Writers in Intelligence, 2 February 2023. Web link.

"Writing the Complete Character: Frank Budgen on James Joyce." CRAFT, 15 June 2021. Web link.

"Ignorant Armies: Private Snafu Goes to War."  Public Domain Review.  Open Knowledge Foundation, 25 March 2015.  Web link.

“Robert Baden-Powell’s Entomological Intrigues.”  Public Domain Review.  Open Knowledge Foundation, 10 July 2013.  Web link.  Reprinted in The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, The First Three Years: 2011-2013.  Ed. Adam Green.  Cambridge, UK: PDR Press, 2014.  39-48.