Articles
“American Origins: Political Divides in U.S. Collective Memory,” Memory Studies 15.1 (February 2022). Advanced copy published online. Co-authored with Jeremy Yamashiro (first author) and Henry L. Roediger, III (last author).
“Pursuing the ‘True History’ of America: American Exceptionalism and the Making of the Massachusetts Historical Society.” Massachusetts Historical Review, forthcoming.
“The Last Cleric: Ann Douglas, Intellectual Authority, and the Place of Feminization at Forty” (co-authored with Kevin Pelletier and Claudia Stokes), J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 7.1 (2019): 185-208.
“Introduction: Postexceptionalist Puritanism” (co-authored with Sarah Rivett), American Literature 90.4 (2018): 675-692.
“Eliza’s Disposition: Freedom, Pleasure, and Sentimental Fiction.” Early American Literature 51.2 (2016): 297-331.
“Origins and Last Farewells: Bible Wars, Textual Form, and the Making of American History.” The New England Quarterly 86.4 (December 2013): 543-92. Whitehill Prize Winner.
“Advertising the Domestic: Anne Bradstreet’s Sentimental Poetics.” Legacy 28.1 (2011): 47-68.
“Puritanism and the Power of Sympathy.” Early American Literature 45.3 (Fall 2010): 533-564.
“Shifting Perspectives: Sin and Salvation in Julian’s A Revelation of Love.” Literature and Theology 23.1 (March 2009): 1-17.
“Reclaiming Claims: What English Students Want from English Profs.” Pedagogy 5.1 (January 2005): 5-18.
Book Chapters
“Introduction,” co-written with Kristina Bross, A History of American Puritan Literature.
“Prologue” and “Afterword,” both in A History of American Puritan Literature.
“The Puritan Culture of Letters.” A Companion to American Literature, vol. 1, ed. Susan Belasco and Theresa Strouth Gaul (Blackwell, 2020), 51-72.
“Claiming the High Ground: Puritans, Catholics, and the City on a Hill.” In American Literature and The New Puritan Studies. New York: Cambridge UP, 2017.
“The Salem Witch Trials.” In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. 2016.
“Puritanism.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Review Essays
“New England Anew,” New England Quarterly 93.2 (June 2020): 221-227.
“A Medieval Puritan Welcomes the Early American Enlightenment: What Bible Commentaries Can Offer Post-secular and Literary Studies,” Early American Literature 52.2 (2017): 423-441.
“Three Questions for American Literature and Religion,” Journal of American Studies 51 (2017): 220-226.
“Anne Bradstreet in England.” Women’s Studies 43.3 (2014): 379-92.
Book Reviews
“Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States by Seth Perry,” Journal of Religion 100.1 (2020).
“Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America by Michael P. Winship,” Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion (May 31, 2019).
“The Story Upon a Hill: The Puritan Myth in Contemporary American Fiction by Christopher Leise,” Studies in the Novel 50.2 (2018): 309-310.
“Female Piety and the Invention of Puritanism by Bryce Traister and Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850 by Mark J. Miller,” American Literature 89.2 (2017): 425-428.
“Puritanism and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Ministry and Theology of Ralph Venning, c. 1621-1674 by S. Bryn Roberts,” Church History 85.4 (2016): 856-858.
“The Last Puritans: Mainline Protestants and the Power of the Past by Margaret Bendroth,” Church History 85.2 (2016): 398-401.
“Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature by Kevin Pelletier,” Amerikanstudien/American Studies.
“Damnable Heresy: William Pynchon, the Indians, and the First Book Banned (and Burned) in Boston by David Powers,” New England Quarterly 88.4 (December 2015): 715-717.
“Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England by Meredith Neuman,” Prose Studies 36.2 (2014): 159-162.
“The Good, the Bad, and the Puritans,” review of Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates (Riverhead, 2008), in Books&Culture (2008).
“Teaching Life, with Restraint,” review of Stanley Fish, Save the World on Your Own Time (Oxford UP, 2008), in Books&Culture (2008).
“Double Helix,” review of David Maine, Fallen (St. Martin’s Press, 2005), in Books&Culture (March/April, 2006).
“The Nature of Redemption,” review of Steven Kellman, Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth (Norton, 2005), in Books&Culture (January/February, 2006).
“Insect Theodicy,” review of Jeffrey Lockwood, Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier (Basic Books, 2004), in Books&Culture (June 21, 2004).
“Mystery and Message,” review of Gregory Wolfe, Intruding Upon the Timeless: Meditations on Art, Faith, and Mystery (Square Halo Books, 2003), in Books&Culture (May 10, 2004).
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