PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Women Across Time: Mujeres a Través del Tiempo, editor. (under review).

Essays Exploring the Global Caribbean, editor (Cambridge Scholars Publications, 2013)

Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road: American Mobilities (Routledge P, 2011)

Defining Travel: Diverse Visions, editor (UP of Mississippi, 2002)

Women, America, and Movement:  Narratives of Relocation, editor (U of Missouri P, 1998)

Emerson in His Sermons:  A Man-Made Self (U of Missouri P, 1995)

Articles:

“Geographies of Expansion: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Travel Writing.”  Inventing Destiny, ed. Jimmy Bryan.  University of Kansas Press (Fall 2019)

“Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing.”  Blackwell Companion to American Literature, ed. Susan Belasco, Linck Johnson, Michael Soto, and Theresa Strouth Gaul (forthcoming)

“North America/USA.”  Routledge Companion to Travel Writing, ed. Carl Thompson.  London: Routledge Press, 2016. 351-360.

“Caribbean Conversations:  Travel, Slavery and Empire.”  Essays Exploring the Global Caribbean.  Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publications, 2013.136-156.

“Emerson’s English Traits and the Paradox of Empire.”  New England Quarterly 84.2 (June 2011):  265-285. 

“Transcendentalism and Sermons.”  Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism, ed. Joel Myerson, Sandra Petrulionis, Laura Walls (Oxford UP, 2010)

 “American Women and Travel Writing.” Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing, ed. Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera (Cambridge UP, 2008)

“Emerson, Columbus, and the Geography of Self-Reliance.”  Essays on Emerson’s Bicentennial (Massachusetts Historical Society, 2006)

“Geographies of the Self in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Travel Writing.”  American Literary Geographies: Space and Cultural Production, ed. Hsuan Hsu and Martin Brueckner (U of Delaware P, 2007)

“Emerson in the 21st Century.”  The Concord Saunterer.  11 new Series (2003): 18-19.

“Maria Stewart and the Rhetoric of Mobility.”  Journal of International Women’s Studies, Spring 2003.

“Reform and the Interior Landscape:  Mapping Emerson’s Political Sermons.”  In The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform. Ed. T. Gregory Garvey (U of Georgia, 2000)

“Ellen Montgomery’s Other Friend: Race Relations in an Expunged Episode of Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World.”  ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance (1999).

“Orville Dewey.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography:  The American Renaissance in New England, vol. 243.  Ed. Wesley T. Mott (Gale, 2001).

“Henry Ware, Jr.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography:  The American Renaissance in New England, vol. 235.  Ed. Wesley T. Mott (Gale, 2001).

“Richard Watson Gilder,” “Jeannette L. Gilder,” “J. H. Johnston and Alma Calder Johnston,” and “Henry David Thoreau.”  In The Walt Whitman Encyclopedia.  Ed. J. R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings (Garland, 1998).

“’With the Wind Rocking the Wagon’:  Women’s Narratives of the Way West.”  In Women, America, and Movement:  Narratives of Relocation (U of Missouri P, 1998).

“Translocations and Transformation:  Place and Self in N. Scott Momaday’s The Ancient Child.”  American Indian Quarterly (1998).

“Orville Dewey,” “Albert Dod,” “Alexander Everett,” “Samuel J. May,” “Joseph Stevens Buckminster,” and “Ellen Tucker Emerson.”  In Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism.  Ed. Wesley T. Mott (Greenwood, 1996).

“Stowe’s Matriarchy and The Rhetoric of Domesticity.”  In The Stowe Debate:  Rhetorics in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.  Ed. Mason Lowance, Jr., Ellen Westbrook, and Rich DeProspro (U of Massachusetts P, 1994).

“Marriage Manuals.”  In The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States.  Ed. Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin (Oxford UP, 1994).

“‘Degenerate effeminacy’ and the Making of a Masculine Spirituality in the Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson.”  In Muscular Christianity: Embodying the Victorian Age.  Ed. Donald E. Hall (Cambridge UP, 1994).

“Advice to Young Men in Ante-Bellum Nineteenth-Century America.”  Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas (1991).

“Young Emerson and the Mantle of Biography.”  American Transcendental Quarterly (1991).

“Beauty and the Soul:  The Beginnings of Emerson’s Aesthetics.”  Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas (1988).

“The Private Voice Behind the Public Text: Two Emerson Sermons.”  ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance (1986).

“T. S. Eliot’s Symbolical Woman: From Temptress to Priestess.”  Midwest Quarterly (1986).

“Sexism in Present-Day English: Is It Diminishing?” with Garland Cannon, Word (1985).

Reprints of Articles:

“Narrativas de Relocalización y Desloclaización.”  In Nación, diversidad y género:  Perspectivas críticas.  Ed. Patricia Bastida Rodríguez and Carla Rodríguez González.  Trans. Esther Álvarez López. Barcelona, Spain:  Anthropos, 2010.  217-238.

Reviews:

Wrobel, David M.  Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression. Western American Literature, Summer 2015.

Argersinger, Jana L. and Phyllis Cole, eds. Toward a Female Genealogy of TranscendentalismNineteenth-Century Prose, Fall 2015.

Cooper, Valerie C.  Word, Like Fire:  Maria Stewart, the Bible & the Rights of African Americans. Religion and Literature (Forthcoming).

Kevorkian, Martin.  Writing beyond Prophesy:  Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville after the American Renaissance. Emerson Society Papers, 24.2 (Fall 2013): 13-14.

Paryz, Marek.  The Postcolonial and Imperial Experience in American Transcendentalism. 2012.  Prose Studies.

Field, Peter S.  Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.  In H-Net Reviews.

Newfield, Christopher.  The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America. U of Chicago P, 1996.  In Emerson Society Papers

Lackey, Kris.  Road Frames: The American Highway Narrative.  U of Nebraska P, 1997.  In Southern Humanities Review (1999).

Brown, Lee Rust.  The Emerson Museum: Practical Romanticism and the Pursuit of the Whole.  Harvard UP, 1997.  In Southern Humanities Review (1999).

Hedrick, Joan.  Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life.  Oxford UP, 1994. In The Alabama Review (1997).

Richardson, Robert D., Jr.  Emerson: The Mind on Fire. U of California P, 1995.  In Southern Humanities Review (1997).

“A Review Essay: A New Edition of Emerson’s Sermons.”  Documentary Editing (1993).

Cayton, Mary Kupieck.  Emerson’s Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845. U of North Carolina P, 1989.  In Emerson Society Newsletter (1993).

Howe, Florence, ed. Tradition and the Talents of Women.  U of Illinois P, 1991.  In Southern Humanities Review (1993).

Grusin, Richard A.  Transcendentalist Hermeneutics: Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible.  Duke UP, 1991.  In Southern Humanities Review (1992).

Toulouse, Teresa and Andrew Delbanco, eds.  The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 2.  U of Missouri P, 1990.  In Southern Humanities Review (1993).

Von Frank, Albert J., ed.  The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 1; Mott, Wesley T., “The Strains of Eloquence”: Emerson and the Sermons; Cayton, Mary Kupiec, Emerson’s Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845; Cromphout, Gustaaf Van, Emerson’s Modernity and the Example of Goethe.  In Southern Humanities Review (1992).

Pahl, Dennis.  Architects of the Abyss: The Indeterminate Fictions of Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville. U of Missouri P, 1989.  In Southern Humanities Review (1990).

Hodder, Alan D.  Emerson’s Rhetoric of Revelation: Nature, the Reader, and the Apocalyptic Within.  Pennsylvania State UP, 1989.  In Southern Humanities Review (1990).

Leland, S. Person, Jr., Aesthetic Headaches: Woman and the Masculine Poetics of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. U of Georgia P, 1988.  In Southern Humanities Review (1990).

Gould, Lewis L.  Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment. U of Kansas P, 1988.  In Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas (1989).