Books
Leaves of Grass. Norton Library. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., forthcoming.
Walt Whitman in Context. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018 (co-edited with Joanna Levin).
Whitman among the Bohemians. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2014 (co-edited with Joanna Levin).
American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010 (paperback, 2014).
Textbooks
Teaching with the Norton Anthology of American Literature: A Guide for Instructors. 8th, 9th and 10th editions. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2012, 2016, 2022.
Digital Scholarship
The Vault at Pfaff’s: An Archive of Art and Literature by New York City’s Nineteenth-Century Bohemians (pfaffs.web.lehigh.edu). Co-edited with Robert Weidman. 2004 to present. Launched in 2006. Peer reviewed by NINES in 2010. Redesigned in 2014. Currently (2023-24) undergoing a second redesign.
Contributing Editor at The Walt Whitman Archive (whitmanarchive.org), prepared digital editions of Poems by Walt Whitman (1868); Leaves of Grass: The Poems of Walt Whitman (1886); and Gems from Walt Whitman (1889). General Editors Kenneth M. Price and Ed Folsom. 2002, 2014.
The Crowded Page. Proof of concept funded by an NEH Digital Initiative Start-Up Grant. Co-PI with Andrew Jewell of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. 2008–11.
Selected Articles in Journals and Chapters in Books
“Cultures of Data: Antebellum Literature and the Quantitative Turn.” The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies. Eds. Russ Castronovo and Robert S. Levine. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
"Conservatism: Tradition, Hierarchy, and Fictions of Social Change." The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics. Ed. John D. Kerkering. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
“Whitman and Poe’s Literary Networks.” The Oxford Handbook of Walt Whitman. Eds. Kenneth M. Price and Stefan Schöberlein. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.
“Walt Whitman and the New York Literary World.” A Companion to American Literature: 1820-1914, ed. Linck Johnson, 148-63. Vol. 2 of A Companion to American Literature, Ed. Susan Belasco. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
“Book of Mormon Poetry.” Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, Eds. Jared Hickman and Elizabeth Fenton. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 420–37.
“Bluestockings and Bohemians.” The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe, Eds. J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 576–96.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Archives of Injustice.” Teaching with Digital Humanities: Tools and Methods for Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Eds. Jennifer Travis and Jessica DeSpain. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 215–27.
“Networked Literary History and the Bohemians of Antebellum New York.” American Literary History, 29.2 (2017): 286–306.
“The Southern Origins of Bohemian New York: Edward Howland, Ada Clare, and Edgar Allan Poe.” Poe Studies 49 (2016): 35–49 [reprinted in The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk, Eds. Shawn Chandler Bingham and Lindsey A. Freeman. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 20-35.]
“Visualizing the Archive.” The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age. Eds. Amy Earhart and Andrew Jewell. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011. 185–208.
“Elizabeth Porter Gould, Author of Leaves of Grass: Gender, Editing, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace.” ELH 75.2 (2008): 471–96
“The First White Aboriginal: Walt Whitman and John Rollin Ridge.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 52.1–2 (2007): 105–39.
“Whitman’s Occasional Nationalism: ‘A Broadway Pageant’ and the Space of Public Poetry.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 60.4 (Fall 2006): 451–80.
“Presenting Walt Whitman: ‘Leaves-Droppings’ as Paratext.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 19.1 (Summer 2001): 1–17.