Race and Ethnicity in American Gangster Cinema (in progress)
Burt Reynolds: Unassuming Auteur (co-author with Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield; in progress)
James M. Cain: Hard-boiled Mythmaker. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011 (co-authored with David Madden).
Selected Articles
“The Mansion as Soft-boiled Noir.” Faulkner and Noir. Spec. issue of The Faulkner Journal 28.1. Ed. Erik Dussere (Spring 2014 issue; published in 2016).
“Adaptation is Anarchist: Understanding Narrative through Complexity.” Special Issue: Adaptation Studies. TheSouth Atlantic Review 80.3–4 (Fall 2015).
Book Chapters
"John D. MacDonald and the Advent of Ecocrime Fiction." The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction and Ecology. Ed. Nathan Ashman (Routledge, 2023).
"The Narcissistic Scandal of Adapting History." The Scandal of Adaptation. Ed. Thomas Leitch (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
"Cosmopolitanism (Spotlight: Edgar Allan Poe)." The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South. Ed. Katharine A. Burnett, Todd Hagsette, Monica Carol Miller (Routledge, 2022).
“The Mozart of the Motor City: Elmore Leonard and Noir Buffa.” ‘If It Sounds Like Writing’: Critical Essays on the Work of Elmore Leonard. Ed. Charles J. Rzepka (Wiley, 2020).
“Ecological Anarchy and Philosophical Anarchism in the Florida Crime Fiction of John D. MacDonald.” Detecting the South: The Intersections of Film Noir, the Detective Genre, and the Southern Imaginary. Eds. Deborah Barker and Theresa Starkey (LSU Press, Fall 2019).
“Il thriller psicologico: una panoramica” [Italian translation of “The Psychological Thriller: An Overview”]. I labirinti della mente: dal thriller psicologico al criminal profiling. Eds. Maurizio Ascari and Alessandra Calanchi (Aras, 2018).
“Authorship and Scales of Adaptation in Patricia Highsmith and Steven North’s Chillers.” Patricia Highsmith on Screen. Eds. Wieland Schwanebeck and Douglas McFarland (Palgrave, September 2018). 225–242.
“The Triumph of Being Unfaithful: Film Adaptations of The Valley of Fear.” Behind the Canonical Screen. 61–76. Ed. Lyndsay Faye and Ashley Polasek (Baker Street Irregulars, Spring 2016).
“Dishonest Reckoning: Play-‘Acting Through’ Personal Trauma and the Shoah in Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island.” The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film: Critical Perspectives. Ed. Judith Kerman and John Edgar Browning. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy Series 42. 174–192.
“The Psychological Thriller: An Overview.” Critical Insights: The American Thriller. Ed. Gary Hoppenstand. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2014. Print. 48–69.
“Narrative Identity and Criminal Ideology in A Scandal in Paris.” Criminal Papers: Reading Crime in the French Nineteenth Century. Ed. Rosemary Peters. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 201–221.
“Evolution of Patterned GaAs(001) during Homoepitaxial Growth: Size versus Spacing.” Physical Review B 73 (American Physical Society, 2006): 195410.