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Monograph

The American Gothic in Detective Fiction: Dark Logic from Poe to Hammett, discusses how detective fiction grows from the American Gothic tradition. Bloomsbury. (Available 7 January 2027)

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Textbook

Doing the Thing: Surviving and Thriving in College Writing, is a developmental textbook and reader created in collaboration with student illustrator, Erin Graham, 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

“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 in Teaching Gothic Now with Routledge. (In progress 2026).

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“Anna Katharine Green and the American Gothic Detective Story” discusses Green’s monumental significance as the “mother” of detective and crime fiction in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Crime Fiction with Palgrave Macmillan. (In progress 2026).

 

“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

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

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

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