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Monograph

This book, Dark Logic: The American Gothic in Detective Mysteries, discusses how American detective fiction grows from the American Gothic tradition. Lexington Books (In progress 2026)

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Textbook

The developmental writing textbook and reader, entitled Doing the Thing: Surviving and Thriving in College Writing, was created in collaboration with student illustrator, Erin Mulder, and features graphic illustrations and satirical banter to soothe the savage freshmen. (Kendall Hunt, Second Edition in progress 2026) 

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Edited Collections

Her most recent book chapter “Teaching Nineteenth Century Gothic,” offers discussion and instructional strategies for teaching the popular text The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and the more obscure The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange by Anna Katharine Green, and will soon appear in the edited collection Teaching Gothic Now with Routledge. (In progress 2026).

 

The book chapter, “Violet Strange: Gothic Girl Detective,” explores gender, class, and gothic violence in the adventures of Anna Katharine Green’s young girl detective, and was included in the edited collection Rethinking Gothic Transgressions of Gender and Sexuality with Routledge (2024). ​

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Journal Articles

​The essay “‘This Guy is Queer’: Words of Power in The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep” appears in the Fall 2024 edition of Crime Fiction Studies and discusses how the detectives in each novel leverage societal homophobia to manipulate situations to their advantage, like actors playing a part.

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The article “Cherchez la Femme: A Good Woman’s Place in Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction,” was published in Clues: A Journal of Detection (2018) and focuses on the often sought for dependable woman in hard-boiled detective worlds.

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