Writing
Selected Journalism
“The Good Traitor,” The Atavist
“The Never-Ending Story: Bruce Davis’s Long Wait for Parole,” Alta Journal
“Introducing American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside,” JSTOR Daily
“The American Penal Press Contest and the Cultivation of Prison Journalism, 1965-1991,” Journalism History
“Easing the Way Home for Returning Senior Citizens,” Next City
“Startup Company Provides Greeting Cards For Those Incarcerated,” Illinois Public Media
Press History (Peer-Reviewed Scholarship)
“Dialogues with Death: Fact, Fiction and the Many Adaptations of Arthur Koestler’s Prison Narrative,” Just Sentences: Literary Journalism Goes Inside Prison, edited by David Swick and Richard Keeble, Routledge, 2023, 125-139.
“Life Outside: Max Winter, the Arbeiter-Zeitung, and the Rise of Literary Reportage in Early Twentieth-Century Vienna,” Literary Journalism Studies 14 (December 2023): 60-85.
“Literary Journalism and the American Prison Press,” Literary Journalism and Social Justice, edited by Robert Alexander and Willa McDonald, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 209-24.
“Into the Courtroom: Paul “Sling” Schlesinger and the Origins of German Literary Trial Reportage,” Literary Journalism Studies 7 (Fall 2015): 9-27.
“Four Stories From the Vossische Zeitung: The Naked Man in the Meadow, The Beast, The Writers, The Crumbs of Humanity (Paul “Sling” Schlesinger),” trans. Kate McQueen, Literary Journalism Studies 7 (Fall 2015): 28-35.
Book Reviews & Interviews
“Hugo von Kupffer: A Pioneer of Modern Reporting in Berlin,” Review of Reporterstreifzüge: Die ersten modernen Reportagen aus Berlin. By Hugo von Kupffer. Literary Journalism Studies 14 (December 2023): 211-213.
“The Hard Work of Modernity,” Review of Mühen der Moderne von Kleist bis Tschechow—deutsche und russische Publizisten des 19. Jahrhunderts, by Horst Poettker and Aleksandr Stanko, Literary Journalism Studies 12 (December 2019): 202-203.
“Scholar Practitioner Q & A: An Interview with Ed Yong,“ Literary Journalism Studies 10 (Fall 2018): 190-203.
“Digital Narrative Takes an Atavistic Turn”, Review of Love and Ruin. Tales of Obsession, Danger, and Heartbreak from The Atavist Magazine edited by Evan Ratliff, Literary Journalism Studies 9 (Fall 2017): 134-135.
“Scholar Practitioner Q & A: An Interview with Leon Dash,” Literary Journalism Studies 9 (Spring 2017): 131-139.