Peer-Reviewed Publications

“Victorian Life-Writing, Legal Anecdotes, and the Novel: Stevenson’s Weir of Hermiston and Cockburn’s Memorials.” Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies. 30.1 (2026): 37-53. (9,433 words) [Original Article in Peer-Reviewed Publication]

“Feudal Scots Law and the Theory of the Historical Novel Genre.” Law and Literature. 38.2 (2026): 383-405. (10,935 words) [Original Article in Peer-Reviewed Publication]

“Uneven Development, Romantic Stadialism, and Captain Basil Hall’s Hopeful Future for Mexico and South America.” Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. 2 (Nueva Epoca).4 (2026): 27-33. (4,243 words) [Original Article in Peer-Reviewed Publication]

“Different Difference in Scott, Cooper, and Richardson: Trait-Based Character Construction in the Transatlantic Historical Novel Form.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 47.1 (2025): 51-68. (10,683 words) [Original Article in Peer-Reviewed Publication]

“Exclusive Interiorities: Forgotten Novels and the Walter Scott Importance Trope.” English Literary History (ELH). 90.4 (2023). 1035-1068. (14,700 Words) [Original Article in Peer-Reviewed Publication]

“Romancing the Courtroom Anecdote: Henry Cockburn’s and Walter Scott’s Shared Historical Form.” Studies in Romanticism. 61:4 (2022). 559-584. (11,060 Words) [Original Article in Peer-Reviewed Publication]

“The Precariousness of Human Life: Jane Austen, Pandemic, and the Coping Mechanisms of 19th-Century Literature.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 43.5 (2021). 541-546. (3,149 words) [Original Article in Peer-Reviewed Publication]

“Character Evidence, Mediocrity, and Walter Scott’s Advocate-Narrator.” European Romantic Review. 31:3 (2020). 351-361. (6,339 Words) [Original Article in Peer-Reviewed Publication]

“Scott, Godwin, and the Casuistry of Romantic Individualism: Politics, Legal Dysfunction, and Inequality.” European Romantic Review. 31.2 (2020). 219-241. (13,121 Words) [Original Article in Peer-Reviewed Publication]

“Symbolism and Empire: Stevenson, Scott, and Toy Soldiers.” in The Land of Story Books: Scottish Children’s Literature in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Sarah Dunnigan (University of Edinburgh) (Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2019) (5,537 words) [Book Chapter in Scholarly Book]

“Sympathetic Exchange, Sexual Attraction, and the Reinscription of National Identity: Frances Burney’s Evelina as Anglo-Scottish Integration Fantasy” The Burney Journal, Vol. 13, 2016. 83-102. (6,486 words) [Original Article in Peer-Reviewed Publication]

“H.P. Lovecraft, Too Much Sex, and Not Enough: Alan Moore’s Playfully Repressive Hypothesis.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol 26, Issue 3, 2015. 489-511. (9,997 words) [Original Article in Peer-Reviewed Publication]

“Courtrooms.” Elgar’s Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature. Eds. Robert Spoo & Simon Stern. [Forthcoming] (2,640 words)

“Kidnapped,” “The Jungle Book,” “Ballantyne, R.M.,” and “Barrie, J.M.” The Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction edited by Kevin Morrison (McFarland & Co, 2018). (250-500 Words Each)

Book Review: “Representing and Interrogating Dueling, Caning, and Fencing during the British Romantic Period by William Brewer” (2050 words) [forthcoming in 2027, solicited by Wordsworth Circle]

Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions ed. by Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt (review). (1197 words). Scottish Literary Review. 27.2 (2025): 252-255.

“A Broad View of Character for Nineteenth-Century Law and Literature.” A review of Catherine O. Frank, Character: Writing and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature. (2022). New Rambler Review (2,374 Words). https://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/literary-studies/a-broad-view-of-character-for-nineteenth-century-law-and-literature

“A Primer for Teaching Women, Gender, and Sexuality in World History.” The Polish Review. 67.2 (2022): 131-3. (968 Words) [Book Review]

Book Review: “Romantic Capabilities: Blake, Scott, Austen and the New Messages of Old Media.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 43.1 (2021): 119-20. (1212 Words) [Book Review]

“Reviewed Work: The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire by Thomas McLean.” Polish American Studies. 71.1 (2014): 76-8. (1067 words) [Book Review]