He is co-author of Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States (2002), and co-editor of Women and Literacy: Local and Global Inquiries for a New Century (in press) and Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy (1996). He is completing a book on the rhetoric of illiteracy in U.S. journalistic, bureaucratic, and literary discourse at the turn of the twentieth century.