His publications include an edited essay collection, Mass Culture and Everyday Life (Routledge 1997) and Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation (Cambridge UP, 2001), as well as essays on Poe, Whitman, Melville, Twain, Doctor Holmes, Justice Holmes, John Singer Sargent, Wharton and James, Edward Everett Hale, Michael Snow and shopping mall spectacle, the experience of nineteenth-century shopping arcades, and cosmopolitanism in nineteenth-century American literature. He is just completing a new book exploring the mid-century “culture of conversation” as it shaped the writings of a wide range of authors, and is at work on an ongoing project on the relation of a line of nineteenth-century American writers to the cosmopolitan vision of a “traveling culture.”