He is the author of Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism, which received the Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies and was recently reissued in paperback. His work on American literature, comics, film, and television has appeared in a number of journals and edited volumes, including Criticism, Modern Fiction Studies, Southern Literary Journal, Twentieth-Century Literature, and The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing is a Way of Thinking.