Monographs & Editions

The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot. Vol. 6: The War Years, 1940–1946
Johns Hopkins UP, 2017.

Which Sin To Bear? Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes
Oxford UP, 2013.

T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide
U of Chicago P, 2003.

Edited Collections

Eliot Now
Bloomsbury, 2024.

A Companion to Modernist Poetry
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

A Companion to T. S. Eliot
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Articles & Chapters

Hughes and the McCarthy Committee Behind Closed Doors
Langston Hughes Review 25.1 (2019): 95-104.

A Major Minor Document
T. S. Eliot Studies Annual 2 (2018): 129-32.

Popular Culture
Co-authored with Julia E. Daniel. The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land. Cambridge UP, 2015. 69-83.

Langston Hughes
A Companion to Modernist Poetry. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. 536-50.

"A real, solid, sane, racial something": Langston Hughes's Blues Poetry
Black Music, Black Poetry. Ashgate, 2014. 67-75.

A Vast Wasteland? Eliot and Popular Culture
A Companion to T. S. Eliot. Blackwell, 2009. 66-78.

The New Harlem Renaissance Studies
Modernism/Modernity 13.2 (2006): 375-82.

The Waste Land
A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture. Blackwell, 2006. 324-32.

In the Shadows: Popular Song and Eliot’s Construction of Emotion
Modernism/Modernity 11.3 (2004). 449-67.

The Problem of Dullness: Eliot and the Lively Arts, 1921-1927
T. S. Eliot and Our Turning World. Macmillan, 2001. 127-40.

"Arm the paper arm": Kenneth Koch's Postmodern Comedy
The Scene of My Selves: New Essays on the New York School Poets. National Poetry Foundation, 2001. 311-26.

"A jazz-banjorine, not a lute": Eliot and Popular Music before The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot's Orchestra. Garland, 2000. 3-24.

T. S. Eliot's "Blue" Verses and their Sources in the Folk Tradition
Journal of Modern Literature 23 (1999-2000). 329-33.

Rejuvenation through Joy: Langston Hughes, Primitivism, and Jazz
American Literary History 9 (1997): 60-78.

Literacy and Authenticity: the Blues Poems of Langston Hughes
Callaloo 19 (1996): 177-92.

Dance, Little Lady: Poets, Flappers, and the Gendering of Jazz
Modernism, Gender, and Culture. Garland, 1996. 319-335.

Cummings' Challenge to Academic Standards
Spring 5 (1996): 78-81.

T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide
PMLA 110 (1995): 236-47.

All the Disheveled Wandering Stars: Astronomical Symbolism in "Ithaca"
Twentieth Century Literature 37 (1991): 432-41.

The Poem as Sacrament: Spenser's Epithalamion
Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 21 (1991): 251-68.

Reviews

Rev. of Faber & Faber: The Untold Story, by Toby Faber
Time Present 101 (2020): 5++.

Rev. of Langston's Salvation, by Wallace D. Best
American Literary History Online Review 16 (2018). Web.

Rev. of Revisiting The Waste Land, by Lawrence Rainey
The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914–1945 2 (2007): 143–47.

Rev. of T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews, ed. Jewel Spears Brooker
T. S. Eliot Society Newsletter 58 (2006):7-9.

Rev. of Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce, by Alfred Appel
Common Knowledge 11.3 (2005): 500.

Rev. of Between Montmartre and the Mudd Club: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde, by Bernard Gendron
Modernism/Modernity 10 (2003): 189-91.

Rev. of Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art, by Ronald Schuchard
ANQ 15 (2002). 61-65.

Rev. of Inventions of the March Hare, by T. S. Eliot (ed. Christopher Ricks)
ANQ 11 (1998): 56-64.