Scholarly
“Satire.” Article in Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Literature. Ed.
Adam Rounce and Philip Smallwood. Wiley Blackwell, 2014.
"Samuel Johnson and Domestic Life." Cambridge Guide to Samuel Johnson in Context.
Ed. Jack Lynch. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
“Lisa Zunshine's Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England.”
The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, 2008.
"A Lock Without a Key: Satiric Metaphor in Samuel Butler's Hudibras." 1650-1850:
Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, 2013.
“The Unnarrated Life: Samuel Johnson and Women’s Writing.” Johnson Re-Visioned:
Looking Before and After. Ed. Philip Smallwood. Bucknell University Press, 2001.
Literary and Cultural
“Critical Reflections on the Push for Same-Sex Marriage.” Connecticut Review, Spring
2011.
Column, Alternatives to Marriage Project Update, 2006-2011: “Why Marriage History
Matters;” “A First Lady We Can Admire?: Reflections on the Role of Presidential Wives;”
"The Terminology of Medical Forms: Some Reflections;" "Commitment Ceremonies:
Imagining Alternatives;" "The Myth of Marital Protection: A Tale of Two Breakups;"
"Challenging the Peter Pan Myth;" "Reflections on Politics, Death, and Taxes;" "Wedding
Gifts: Imagine the Alternatives."
Here Comes the Bride: Women, Weddings, and the Marriage Mystique. Four Walls
Eight Windows, 2001. Barnes and Noble Selected Nonfiction Title. Dial-a-Book
Selection, Publisher's Weekly Program. Featured title: Women's Review of Books,
Washington Post, Time Out New York, Daily News, National Public Radio.
“Parental Advice.” Salmagundi, Spring 2001.
“Modernity’s Paranoid, Primal Father: A Review of John Farrell’s Freud’s Paranoid
Quest,” On the Issues: the Progressive Woman’s Quarterly, Summer 1998.
“Ascent, Assimilation, and the Selling of a Subculture: A Review of Daniel Harris’ The
Rise and Fall of Gay Culture,” On the Issues: The Progressive Woman’s Quarterly, Fall
1997.