In addition to her monograph, Schoolhouse Gothic (2008), she has published essays on the fiction of James Baldwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Donna Tartt, Stephen King, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, and Joyce Carol Oates as well as on popular culture topics such as television (postmodern storytelling in The X-Files) and music (the songwriting of The Pretenders’ frontwoman Chrissie Hynde). In addition, she has delivered papers at regional and national conferences on works by Lydia Davis, Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker.