His publications include “From Robert Lowell to Frank Bidart: Becoming the Other; Suiciding the White Male ‘Self’,” New Directions in American Literary Scholarship: 1980-2002 (co-authored with Emory Elliott), “Melville and the Bible: Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale, Multivocalism, & Plurality,” “If Only L.A. Had a Soul: Spirituality and Wonder at the Museum of Jurassic Technology,” “A Southern California Boyhood in the Simu-Southland Shadows of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room,” and “Manishevitz and Sake, the Kaddish and Sutras: Allen Ginsberg’s Spiritual Self-Othering."