He has published articles in journals including American Quarterly; Law, Culture, and the Humanities; African American Review, and Arizona Quarterly, and has a forthcoming chapter on science and aesthetics in the Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism. His book, The Poetics of Sovereignty in American Literature, 1885-1910 (Cambridge, 2013) examines how American literature conventionalized legal forms of sovereignty and administration. His current book project examines the relationship between literary aesthetics, scientific ecology, and the Progressive Era state.