A book-length study of Marianne Moore’s engagement with the art, literature and culture of the 17^th century; articles on Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gertrude Stein, and Elizabeth Bishop.

• “Introduction” to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (NY: Sterling Press, 2012).
• "Introduction" to The Early Poems and Plays of Edna St. Vincent Millay (New York: Barnes and Noble Essential Reading Series, 2006).
• "Mannerist Moore: Poetry, Painting, Photography," in 'A Right Good Salvo of Barks': Poets and Critics on Marianne Moore, eds. Linda Leavell, Cristanne Miller and Robin Schulze (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2005): 113-36.
• "Love's 'Little Day': Time and the Sexual Body in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Sonnets," in Millay at 100: A Critical Reappraisal, ed. Diane P. Freedman (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Press, 1995): 100-116; excerpted at http://www.english.uiuc.educ/maps/poets, Website companion to Anthology of American Poetry, ed. Cary Nelson (New York: Oxford UP, 2000).
• "The Many-Armed Embrace: Collection, Quotation and Mediation in Marianne Moore’s Poetry," Sagetrieb12:2 (Fall 1993): 7-32; excerpted at http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets, Website companion toAnthology of American Poetry, ed. Cary Nelson (New York: Oxford UP, 2000).
• "Telling Accounts: DeQuincey at the Bookseller's," in Postmodernism Across the Ages: Essays for a Postmodernity that Wasn’t Born Yesterday, eds. Bill Readings and Bennet Schaber (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 1993): 153-68.
• "'A Splintery Box': Race and Gender in the Sonnets of Gwendolyn Brooks," in Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 25:1 (Spring 1992): 47-64. Reprinted in Diversifying the Discourse: The Florence Howe Award for Feminist Studies: 1990-2003, eds. Roseanne Dufault and Mihoko Suzuki (New York: Modern Language Association Press, 2006).