Articles

• "Reshaping the Universe in an Amorphous Image."  Science Fiction: Film and Television.  (in press).
• "Singing Christmas Carols - The Dickensian Musical vs. The Dickensian Mega-Musical." English: The Journal of the English Association 61:232 (2012):  66-88.
• "'Elementary, my dear Robin!': Batman, Sherlock Holmes, and Detective Fiction Fandom" in Fan Phenomena: Batman.  Bristol: Intellect Books, Ltd. (in  press).
• “A Melodious Anti-Melodrama: Underscoring, Song, and Parody in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.” Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance (in press)
• “Making Music with the Pickwickians: Form and Function in Musical Adaptations of The Pickwick Papers.” Dickens Studies Annual 42 (2011).
• “’This garish parish called the musical hall’: Rupert Holmes’s Drood as Dickensian Adaptation.” Neo-Victorian Studies 3:1 (2010)
• “An Oppressed Orphan, Child Champion: The Child Hero in Oliver Twist and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” The Journal of Children’s Literature Studies 6:3 (2010)
• “Disneyfying Dickens: Oliver & Company and The Muppet Christmas Carolas Dickensian Musicals.” Studies in Popular Culture 32:1 (2009)
• “Hear Jane Sing: Narrative Authority in Two Musical Versions of Jane Eyre.” Studies in Musical Theatre 2:1 (2008): 33-50.

• "Learning the Trade: Dickens's Debt to Cruikshank."  Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati, OH, November 8-11, 2012. 
• "Guidance from the (M)other side: Deceased mothers as moral guides in Dickens and Rowling."  Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American  Culture Association, Columbus, OH, October 12-14, 2012. 
• "Pickwickian Puppetry."  Dickens in Lowell, Lowell, MA, March 30, 2012.
• "From Gothic to Gritty."  Northeast Modern Language Association,Rochester, NY, March 15-18, 2012. 
• "A Musical Curiosity."  Victorian Literary Cinema Roundtable. Northeast Modern Language Association, Rochester, NY, March 15-18, 2012. "Dickensian Dialectics."  Victorian Institute, Myrtle Beach, SC, October 21-23, 2011.
• “’I am in the theatrical profession myself…’: Performance in the Dickensian Literature Classroom.” NeMLA. New Brunswick, NJ, April 7-10, 2011.
• “Executive Disorder: Hawthorne, Pierce, and Concord.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Society. Concord, MA, June 10-13, 2010.
• “Music, Melodrama, and Narrative: The Use of Underscoring in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Tampa, FL, March 11-13, 2010.
• “Scribblings, Sketches, and Stagings: The Progress of Dickens’s Art in the Victorian Popular Consciousness.” Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, December 2, 2009.
• “’Consider yourself at home’: Dickens, Music-Hall Culture, and Adaptation.” Victorian Institute, Spartanburg, SC, October 16-17, 2009.​