Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).
*Read reviews in the Los Angeles Review of Books and American Literary History.
Peer-reviewed essays
“Emerson Undersea.” Co-authored with Dominic Mastroianni. The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Forthcoming, Spring 2024.
"Antebellum Coral." American Literature 91.2 (2019): 263-293.
"Island Nation: Mapping Florida, Revising America." Early American Studies 11.2 (2013): 243-271.
"Liquid Landscape: Possession and Floridian Geography." Early American Literature 47.1 (2012): 89-114.
other essays
“Climate change is destroying reefs, but the effects are more than ecological.“ The Conversation. September 5th, 2023.
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Florida.” In Once Upon a Time in Florida: Stories of Life in the Land of Promises. Edited by Jacki Levine. University of Florida Press (forthcoming, November 2023). Originally published as “Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Florida” in FORUM: The Magazine of the Florida Humanities Council (Fall 2019): 42-45.
Review of Magnificent Decay: Melville & Ecology, by Tom Nurmi. Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 24.1 (2022): 93-96.
“Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast.” Book review essay, Cameron B. Strang’s Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 (UNC Press, 2018). Southern Spaces (May 2019).
”Coral, Labor, Slavery, and Silence in the Archives.” Age of Revolutions, “Revolutionary Material Cultures” Essay
Series (April 22, 2019).
"A Book Full of Seaweed." Huntington Frontiers Magazine. (Spring/Summer 2018): 8-12.