- “His Enemy’s Language’: African American Prison Life Writing, the Literary Forms of Institutional Power and George Jackson’s Soledad Brother.” Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice, edited by Claire Westall and Michelle Kelly, Routledge, 2020.
- “Shame and the Ex-Convict: The New Jim Crow, African American Literature, and Edward P. Jones’ ‘Old Boys, Old Girls.’” Canadian Review of American Studies. Vol. 48, no.1, pp. 2018. * Winner of the Ernest Redekop prize for best article published in 2018 in the Canadian Review of American Studies (http://american-studies.ca/caas-prizes/)
- “White Boy: Prison Life Writing and the Rhetoric of White Male Victimhood in T.J. Parsell’s Fish and Jack Henry Abbott’s In the Belly of the Beast.” American Studies. Vol. 55, no. 4, 2017, pp. 187-206.
- “Bad: Prison Life Writing, African American Narrative Strategies, and The Autobiography of James Carr.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Vol. 38, no. 4, 2013, pp. 191-215.
- “Conversion: Life Writing and the Story of the American Prison.” Critical Survey. Vol. 23, no. 3, 2011, pp. 103-118.
- “‘Change Has Come to America’: The Trouble with Sauling Around.” Rev. of The Trouble with Sauling Around: Conversations in Ethnic American Autobiography, 1965-2002. Madeline Ruth Walker. English Studies in Canada. Vol. 38, no. 2, 2013.
- “Legitimate Children: Teaching Life Writing Texts.” Rev. of Teaching Life Writing Texts. Eds. Miriam Fuchs and Craig Howes. Canadian Literature. Vol. 201, 2009, pp. 164-165.
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