Articles
You can find a more complete list of articles, with links to full-text, on my Vanderbilt faculty website.
“Romanticism on the Right: Benjamin Disraeli’s Authoritarian Aesthetics.”
Victorian Studies, 64:2 (Winter 2022): 214–239.
“White Desire: Pater and Race.”
Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism, vol. 8 (Summer 2023): 47–56.
“Van Gogh Experiences: Immersive Art in the COVID Era.”
Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB). Dec. 11, 2021
“On the Politics of Decadent Rebellion: Beardsley, Japonisme, Rococo.”
Victorian Literature and Culture vol. 49, no. 4. Special Issue: Scales of Decadence (winter 2021): 643-666.
“What Size do You Take?” Stereoscopic photograph, c. 1898.
“Victorian Erotic Photographs and the Intimate Public Sphere”
Nineteenth-Century Contexts, special issue on Victorian photography. 42:2 (May 2020), 1-19.
Victorian Literature and Culture, inaugural Keywords issue. 46:3-4 (Fall/ Winter 2018), 937-941.
“Cartomania: Sensation, Celebrity, and the Democratized Portrait.”
Victorian Studies, 57:3 (Spring 2015), 462-475.
“Why Does the Historical Novel Need to Be Rescued?”
Considers Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Public Books, Spring 2013.
“Walter Pater’s Renaissance (1873) and the British Aesthetic Movement.”
BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History. A peer-reviewed online resource. Fall 2012.
"Novels, Newspapers, and Global War: New Realisms in the 1850s."
NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction. 45:1 (Spring 2012): 31-55.
"Pictures in Bleak Houses: Slavery and the Aesthetics of Transatlantic Reform."
ELH 76.2 (Summer 2009), 491–522.
Honorable mention for the Donald Gray Prize, for best essay in Victorian Studies published in 2009.
"White Girls: Avant-Gardism and Advertising after 1860."
Victorian Studies 51.3 (April 2009), 422-437.
"Modernist Ruskin, Victorian Baudelaire: Revisioning Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics."
PMLA 122.3 (May 2007), 711–27.
Rosa Csillag as Orfeo. Carte-de-visite theater photograph.