MODERNISM (see also entries for Conrad, Joyce, and Woolf)
- The Reader in Modernist Fiction. Edinburgh University P, 2024.
- A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-first Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives. Ohio State UP, 2019. Discusses strategies of narrative beginnings, middles, and endings in numerous modernist authors, including Wilde, James, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Borges, Nabokov, and others.
- Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative. U of Delaware P, 1997. Includes discussion of modernist treatments of chance and cause as well as specific studies of Nostromo, Mrs Dalloway, Light in August, and Invisible Man.
- “Modern Fiction, the Poetics of Lists, and the Boundaries of Narrative.” Style, vol. 50, no. 3, 2016, pp. 327-341.
- “Social Minds, Natural and Unnatural: “We” and “They” Narratives in Fiction and Nonfiction.” Narrative, vol. 23, no. 2, 2015, pp. 200-212. Discusses works by Conrad, Richard Wright, Vargas Llosa, and Perec.
- “Fictional Minds: Natural and Unnatural.” Proceedings of the 7th Narrative Matters Conference: Narrative Knowing/Actes du 7e Congrès: Récit et Savoir 2014, 2014. https://hal-univ-diderot.archives-ouvertes.fr/NARRATIVE_MATTERS/hal-01111077 Includes discussion of other minds in Joyce, Woolf, and Richard Wright.
- “Teaching Narrative Beginnings, Middles, and Ends,” Approaches to Teaching Narrative Theory, edited by David Herman, Brian McHale, and James Phelan, MLA, 2010, pp. 109-122.
- “Making Time: Narrative Temporality in Twentieth Century Literature and Theory.” Literature Compass, vol. 3, no. 3, 2006. http://www.literature-compass.com
- “Beyond the Poetics of Plot: Alternative Forms of Narrative Progression and the Multiple Trajectories of Ulysses.” Blackwell Companion to Narrative Theory, edited by James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz, Blackwell, 2005, pp. 167-180.
- “The Genealogies of Ulysses, the Invention of Postmodernism, and the Narratives of Literary History.” ELH, vol. 67, no.4, 2000, pp. 1035-1054.
- “Re-Mapping the Present: The Master Narrative of Modern Literary History and the Lost Forms of Twentieth-Century Fiction.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 43, no. 3, 1997, pp. 291-309.
- “The Other Reader's Response: On Multiple, Divided, and Oppositional Audiences.” Criticism, vol. 39, no.1, 1997, pp. 31-53. Includes a discussion of the reader in Lolita and other modernist texts.
- “White on Black: Iconography, Race, and Reflexivity in Ellison's Invisible Man.” Southern Humanities Review, vol. 30, no. 2, 1996, pp. 139-150.
- Review of Standard Deviations: Chance and the Modern British Novel by Leland Monk. Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 40, no. 2, 1994, pp. 397-399.