His essays and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, South Atlantic Review, Critical Matrix, and College Literature. He is currently working on two book manuscripts, a co-edited volume of critical essays titled The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking, from the University Press of Mississippi in 2010, and a study of the rhetoric of failure in American literature from 1850 to the present.