A sampling of writings I've published — not everything!
Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity
My monograph, available in paperback from U of Texas Press.
“Modernism is the Literature of Celebrity is a magical book and a path-breaking study. . . . A series of stunningly prescient and apposite chapters on Wilde, Joyce, Stein, Chaplin, Rhys, Dos Passos, and Hemingway, among others, follows through on the book’s bracing, provocative, and polemical premise for the centrality of celebrity in delineating what modernist literature was, and is.”
— Jennifer Wicke, University of Virginia
"A capacious, generative, and important collection with far-ranging implications for Joyce studies and for our understanding of literature’s relationship to law."
―Ravit Reichman, author of The Affective Life of Law: Legal Modernism and the Literary Imagination
“Brilliantly demonstrates how law and literature intermingle in Joyce’s trajectory but also transcend the case study, opening the door to a new take on high modernist fiction.”
—Forum for Modern Language Studies
Edited collection available in paperback from U Press of Florida
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"When Dorothy Parker Got Fired from Vanity Fair"
February 10, 2020
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"Afterlife"
The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses. Ed. Sean Latham
Cambridge UP, 2014.
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"Including Frances Steloff"
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"Modernism and the Avant-Garde"
Tom Stoppard in Context, Ed. David Kornhaber, James N. Loehlin
Cambridge UP, 2021
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"Revisiting Dyckman Oval, A Lost Landmark From the Heyday of Black Baseball"
November 3, 2021
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"Teaching Ulysses in Nonacademic Spaces"
Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century, Ed. Barry Devine & Ellen Scheible
University Press of Florida, 2025
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"Making Joyce Studies Safe for All"
"The Modernist Review" special issue, co-edited with Cathryn Piwinski
May 17, 2024
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"Eva Tanguay's Racial and Gender Iconoclasticism and the Making of 'Personality' "
Jul 15, 2021
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"Modernist Star Maps: Celebrity, Modernity, Culture"
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“ ‘I’m Gonna Be Somebody’: 1930s Gangsters and Modernist Celebrity”
In Popular Modernism and Its Legacies, ed. Scott Ortolano
Bloomsbury, 2017
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"James Joyce Quarterly" special issue: "Legal Joyce"
I guest-edited James Joyce Quarterly 50.4 and wrote the introduction: “The Legal Fictions of James Joyce”
(Fall 2013). [Published 2015]
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"Wake Uuuup!: 'Do the Right Thing' After Ferguson."
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"The James Joyce Society at 75 Years"
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"Trademark"
Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature, ed Robert Spoo and Simon Stern
Elgar, 2025
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"Why Student Protests Are 'Good for the Jews' and a Congressional Crackdown on Israel Criticism Is Not"
In The Indypendent, co-authored with Jacob Leland
May 16, 2024
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"Celebrity"
In George Bernard Shaw in Context ed. Brad Kent
Cambridge UP, 2015
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"How New Yorkers Celebrated New Year's Eve 100 Years Ago," in Gothamist
Jan 1, 2020
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"Zohran Mamdani, and a 100-year-old history of anti-Zionism in New York City"
September 13, 2025
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"The Difficult Odyssey of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ "
Jan. 28, 2022
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"Chapter Five" in "Death from a Thousand Cuts: A Roundtable on the 1937 Gatsby Condensation"
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"Fania at Fifty"
October 9, 2014
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"Joyce & the Dems: Ulysses, Politics, and Cultural Capital"
My essay about the phenomenon of politicians citing Ulysses as a favorite book. Published in Modernism/modernity.
May 6, 2019
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The Overalls Parade in NYC, 1920
From the Gotham Center website
May 27, 2020
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"Double Exposure: Charlie Chaplin as Author and Celebrity"
2004
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"The Parrotic Voice of the Frivolous: Fiction by Ronald Firbank, I. Compton-Burnett, and Max Beerbohm"
October 1999
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"Flying Off the Page, ‘Ulysses’ Lands on Its Feet"
July 3, 2024
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"Joyce, the Propheteer"
Fall 2004
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"Bloomsday Explained"
June, 2013
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"Babe Ruth's New York @100" in Public Books
Mar 25, 2020
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" 'The Great Gatsby' at – Almost – 100:Staging a Troubled Legacy"
December 2024
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"Winter Is Coming: How HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ Is Going off Book and Breaking All the Rules"
April 9, 2015
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"Smoking with John: John Bishop (1948-2020), Guide, Philosopher, and Friend"