Essays & Interviews

Online essays: 

• “Circuitous Routes: A St. Louis Saga.” MO Humanities. Spring/Summer 2023.
•  “Exploring Speculative Biography through J. C. Hallman’s Say Anarcha.” The Biographer’s Craft. May 2023.
• “Writing Man and Nature (1864) in Italy: George and Caroline Marsh on Human-Environmental Relations.” Rivista italiana di filosofia politica. 2023.4.  
• "Location, Location, Location!" SUNY Press Blog. December 14, 2022.
• "Emily Bliss Gould: An American in Italy." History in the Margins. October 1, 2022.
• "Trailing Spouse or Career Carver?" SUNY Press Blog. March 20, 2022.
• “Food.” Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures, Eds. Fátima Vieira, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Peter Marks. Springer Publishing. 2022.
• “Future Visions at Villaggio Verde.” Communities Magazine. Winter 2019. Passing the Torch: Generational Shifts in Community.
• “Caroline Crane Marsh (1816-1901).” The Bluestocking Bulletin. June-July 2019.
• “Ambasciatrice, Activist, Auntie, Author: Caroline Crane Marsh.” New York Public Library, Short Term Research Fellows. December 19, 2018.
• Travels, Translations and Limitations: Ambasciatrice Caroline Crane Marsh Transatlantica: American Studies Journal. 2018.1
• “Against Utopia.” Just Teach One, Common-Place, the journal of early American life.
• “Anne Hampton Brewster.” The Bluestocking Bulletin. June-July 2017.

Online interviews and presentations:

• American Women Writers in Italy in the 19th Century. Unsung History podcast. January 23, 2023.
• "Mr. Kate Cromo": News Correspondent Anne Hampton Brewster in Rome. Library Company of Philadelphia Fireside Chat. January 19, 2023.
• “Engaging Italy: American Women’s Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks.” Let’s Talk Books at NMU (Northern Michigan University). November 18, 2022.
• Author Interview. Biographers International Organization (BIO) podcast #103. October 16, 2022.
• "Anne Hampton Brewster--St. Martin's Summer." Lost Ladies of Lit podcast. October 11, 2022.
• "The Happier Therapist Who Writes." ReConceive podcast. October 4, 2022.
• "Little-Known Women." An essay interview with Ellora Bultema, Missouri State University. February 3, 2022.
• “Science Fiction, Dystopia, and How it Relates to Real Life.” A STEM Spots interview with Dr. David Cornelison on NPR-affiliate KSMU October 22, 2020.
• “Mediterranean Quarantine: Perspectives of a Person of Privilege.” Fireside Chat. Library Company of Philadelphia. April 23, 2020.
• “A Literature Professor's Take on the History of Science.” A STEM Spots interview with Dr. David Cornelison on NPR-affiliate KSMU February 8, 2020. 

Other essays related to Engaging Italy:

• Nineteenth-Century News from Rome
• "Soaring Above Zoar: Woolson's Utopian Visions and Discourses." in Secret Histories: A New Era in Constance Fenimore Woolson Scholarship, forthcoming, U of Georgia P.
• “Anne Hampton Brewster’s St. Martin’s Summer and Utopian Literary Discourses.” in Utopian Studies 28.2 (2017).
• “American Anne Hampton Brewster’s Social Circles: Bagni di Lucca, 1873, and Roman Rodolfo Lanciani.” in Questioni di Genere: Femminilità e Effeminatezza nella Cultura Vitoriana. Ed. Roberta Ferrari e Laura Giovannelli. (Bononia UP 2016).

Recent essays on utopian literature and intentional communities:

• Review of Margot Anne Kelley's Foodtopia: Communities in Pursuit of Peace, Love & Homegrown Food. (Godine, 2022.) Forthcoming in Communal Societies. 
• Review of Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. (Penguin Random House, 2018.) Communal Societies. 41.1 & 2 (2021).
• Review of Timothy Miller’s Communes in America, 1975-2000. (Syracuse UP 2019) in Religion, State and Society 48.1 (2020).
• Review of Adrienne Rose Bitar’s Diet and the Disease of Civilization. (Rutgers UP 2018) in Utopian Studies 29.2 (2018).
• Review of Mark Sundeen’s The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today’s America. (Riverhead 2016) in Communal Societies 37.1 (2017).