Essays

“‘A Mass Politics of Beauty’: On Hull-House’s Radical Craft,” Cleveland Review of Books vol. 3, no. 2 (fall 2025), 40–45.

“This is a Golden Age of Academic Unionization,” Chronicle of Higher Education, December 8, 2023

“Ordinary Street Cars at High Speeds,” n+1, July 24, 2023.

“The Gospel of Creativity,” New Literary History vol. 53, no. 2 (spring 2022): 241–63.

“The Birth of Creativity: Emerson’s Creative Impulse,” Modern Language Quarterly vol. 80, no. 2 (June 2019): 167–93.

“Persona Ficta: Frederick Douglass,” English Literary History vol. 85, no. 3 (fall 2018): 775–800.

“From Objectivity to the Scientific Self: A Conversation with Peter Galison,” qui parle vol. 23, no. 2 (spring/summer 2015): 89–114.