(Selected)

•The Problem With Pleasure: Modernism and its Discontents, forthcoming with Columbia University Press, 2013.

•"Blondes Have More Fun:  Anita Loos and the Language of Silent Cinema” Modernism/Modernity Volume 17, Number 2, April 2010, pp. 291-311.

•“Black Screens, Lost Bodies:  The Cinematic Apparatus of 9/11 Horror," Horror after 9/11:  World of Fear, Cinema of Terror, ed. Aviva Briefel and Sam J. Miller.  University of Texas Press, 2011.

•“Punk, PowerPoint & Proust” (on Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Good Squad), De Morgen (Belgium), November 16, 2011.

•“Tien Jaar Later:  Is de Great American 9/11-novel nu geschreven?”  De Morgen (Belgium), September 7, 2011.

•”Afterwords” (on 9/11 and the novel).  Bookforum, November 2009.

• "Striptease Intellectual" Review of Gypsy Rose Lee biographies.  Bookforum, April/May 2009.

•“Still Life:  9/11’s Falling Bodies” in Literature After 9/11", ed. Ann Keniston and Jeanne Fallansbee Quinn  (Routledge, 2008).  

•“Photography/Pornography/Torture:  The Politics of Seeing Abu Ghraib” in One of the Guys, ed. Tara McKelvey (Seal Press, 2007).

•“Falling Man’s Precarious Balance” (Review of Don DeLillo’s Falling Man)  American Prospect, May 11 2007. 

•“Huxley’s Feelies:  The Cinema of Sensation in Brave New World.”  Twentieth-Century Literature 52.4 (Winter 2006).

•“The Romance of Cliché:  E. M. Hull, D. H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction” in Bad Modernisms, Douglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz, eds. (Duke University Press, 2006).

• Sex Drives:  Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism.  Cornell University Press, 2002.

•”With This Ring I Thee Own:  Masochism and Social Reform in Ulysses." Genders 25:  Sex Positives?:  The Cultural Politics of Dissident Sexualities.  New York University Press, 1997.  225-264.

Twentieth century literature and culture; British and comparative modernism; gender and sexuality studies; post-45 literature; visual culture; narrative and 9/11; the history of pleasure.

(Selected)

Sidonie Miskimin Yale College Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities.  May 2004

Senior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University, 2004-2005

Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize, Yale College, June 2001, for outstanding scholarly work by a junior faculty member in the Humanities, for Sex Drives:  Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism

Morse Fellowship in the Humanities, Yale University, 2001-2002

A. Whitney Griswold Faculty Research Grant, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006

Whiting Fellowship, Columbia University, 1997-1998

Mellon Research Fellowship, Columbia University, May 1994