Book:

The Black Romantic Revolution: Abolitionist Poets at the End of Slavery (Verso Books, 2020). 

Articles and Book Chapters:

—”Stand Up and Spout: Can the Hortonizer Revive a Long-Departed Poet?” The Baffler, No. 72, January 2024.
—“‘You Know What’s Cool About James Baldwin, Man?’: An Interview with Cecil Brown,” James Baldwin Review, 9:1, September, 2023.
—“The Necessity of Abolition.” Soundings, Special Issue for Global Climate Justice: “Planetary Imagination,” ed. Ashish Ghadiali, Issue 78, Fall 2021.
—“Black Romanticism and the Lyric in Crisis.” African American Literature in Transition, Vol. 4: 1850-1865, ed. Teresa Zackodnik, Cambridge U.P., series general ed. Joycelyn Moody, 2021.
—“Frederick Douglass’s Prophecies of Abolition: World Literature and the Black Romantic Man of Letters.” European Romantic Review. Special issue edited by Manu Samriti Chander and Patricia A. Matthew: “Abolitionist Interruptions: Romanticism, Slavery, and Genre.” 29:4, 2018.
—“Poe’s Survival Stories as Dying Colonialisms.” The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples. Oxford U.P., 2018.
—"Black Byronism." The Byron Journal. 45:1, Summer 2017.
—“Gertrude Stein and the New Failure Studies.” Twentieth Century Literature, 63:2, Summer 2017.
—“Aguas Negras: The Poe Tradition and the Limits of American Africanism.” Comparative Literature, 67:4, December 2015.
—“Music Physicianers: The Blues and the American Medicine Show.” Journal of American Studies. 49:1. February, 2015.
—“Kindred Darkness: Whitman’s New Orleans.” Whitman Noir: Essays from Black America on the Good Grey Poet, ed. Ivy Wilson. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2014.
—“The Glamour of Paul Laurence Dunbar: Self-Help, Bohemia, and Dialect Poetry.” We Wear the Mask: Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Representation of Black Identity. ed. Willie Harrell. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2010.

Reviews and Other Shorter Things:

—Review of Virginia Jackson, Before Modernism: Inventing the American Lyric, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 78:4, March, 2024.
—”On the Concept of Corrosive Irony with Continual Reference to Edward Said: In Belated Memoriam, Morningside Heights, 2024.” Politics/Letters, February 11, 2024.
—Review of Stefon Schöberlein, Walt Whitman’s New Orleans: Sidewalk Sketches and Newspaper Rambles, American Literary History, 34:4, Winter 2023.
—“Louise Glück, Abolition, and Minstrelsy.” Verso Blog, January 13th, 2021.
—”7 Books About Slavery and Abolition by 19th Century Black Writers.” Electric Literature, September 29, 2020.
—“Presidential Purgatories.” Review of George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo. The L.A. Review of Books, May 22nd, 2017.
—“Miami Melancholia.” Review of Moonlight. The L.A. Review of Books, December 16, 2016.
—“A Clanking Ride to an Uncertain Freedom.” Review of Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad. The L.A. Review of Books, September 10, 2016.
—Review of James Monroe Whitfield. The Works of James M. Winfield: America and Other Writings, Callaloo 37.3. Summer 2014.
—Review of Wynton Marsalis and Geoffrey C. Ward.  Moving to a Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life, 2009, and Robin D.G. Kelley. Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, 2009. African American Review 44.3. Fall 2011.
—Review of Nathaniel Mackey, Splay Anthem, 2006. Callaloo 32.4. Fall 2009.
—“Vallejo’s Songskeleton.” Review of Cesar Vallejo, The Complete Poetry, a Bilingual Edition. Atlantic Studies 6:3. November 2009.
—Review of Claude McKay, Complete Poems. ed. William J. Maxwell, 2004. Atlantic Studies 4:2. October 2007.