Publications include Cold Warriors: The Crisis of Manliness and the Rhetoric of the West, Southern Illinois University Press, 2000; Sentimental Modernism: Women Writers and the Revolution of the Word, Indiana University Press, 1991 ; articles on Zora Neale Hurston, Hemingway, Millay, Boyle, Dillard, Malamud, LeGuin, Sandoz; essays on critical theory and rhetoric, including an interview with Julia Kristeva, argument, sentimental literacy, "Fight Club," rural schools, teaching.

Currently I am working on a manuscript titled "The Natural History of Modernism."
and a book about Robert D. Clark, co-authored with David Frank.