PUBLICATIONS

Book

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• Reading Smell in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Bucknell University Press 2016)

  • Reviews: Eighteenth-Century Fiction​, The Scriblerian, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer.

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Refereed Publications

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• "What we talk about when we talk about Fan Fiction” Eighteenth-Century Fiction special issue on “Refusing Eighteenth-Century Fictions” (Eds. Eugenia Zuroski and Manu Chander) January 2024."‘Critical Reception up to 1900." Daniel Defoe in Context, Eds. George Justice and Albert J. Rivero. Cambridge University Press.

• “Austen Among the Amateurs” Austen After 200. Eds. Kerry Sinanan, Daniel Cook, and Annika Bautz. (Palgrave 2022)

• “Must Anonymous Be a Woman? Gender and Anonymity in the Archives” Special Issue on “Women in Archives” (Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature Winter/Spring 2021).

• “Eluding Print: Manuscript Fiction and the Survival of Scribal Practices in the Age of Print” Special issue of Huntington Library Quarterly by the Women in Book History Research Group (Summer 2021)

• (with Emily M.N. Kugler) “‘Avoiding’ Racism: Race and Representation in Austen-Inspired Games." Persuasions Special Issue "Beyond the Bit of Ivory: Jane Austen and Diversity", (Summer 2021)

• “Novel Knowledge, or Cleaning Dirty Data: Towards Open-Source Histories of the Novel,” Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture. (Palgrave 2021)

• "'Is It Thursday Yet?" Narrative Time in Critical Role" in Roleplaying Games in the Digital Age: Essays on Transmedia Storytelling, Tabletop Role-Playing, and Fandom, Eds. Jennifer Grouling & Stephanie Hedge (Studies in Gaming Series, McFarland & Co. 2020) 

• "Ownership, Copyright, Ethics of the Unpublished" in Access, Control, and Dissemination in Digital Humanities (Routledge 2021) 

• “Am I A Romanticist? My Department Can’t Decide.” Keats-Shelley Journal, "200 Years, 50 Voices" special issue (2020)

• "Amateur Manuscript Fiction in the Archive: An Introduction." For After Print, (Ed. Rachael King). University of Virginia Press 2020. 

• "Becoming Catherine Morland: A Cautionary Tale of Manuscripts in the Archive" Persuasions 39 (2018). [preprint available here]

• “Considering Johnson’s ‘Nose of the Mind’ and Mind’s Nose: Olfaction Deployed and Suppressed in the Age of Johnson.” For New Essays on Johnson and His Circle: Reevaluation. Anthony Lee, Ed. University of Delaware Press.​ [preprint available here]

• Co-Editor (with Devoney Looser) Special Issue of Romantic Circles Pedagogy on Teaching Austen. Co-wrote introduction and includes single-authored essay on “Teaching Austen in the Literary Marketplace” (2014)

• “‘Bad Smells’ and ‘fragrance’: Reading Mansfield Park Through the Eighteenth-Century Nose.” Persuasions Online, December 2014.

• "Austen among the fragments: Understanding the Fate of Sanditon" in a special issue of Women's Writing on "Rethinking Influence, 1680-1830" edited by Jennie Batchelor. (Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2013) [preprint available here]

• “Schools Beyond Scandal: Contextualizing The School for Scandal, 1732-1800" for Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The Impresario in Political And Cultural Context, edited by Dan Ennis and Jack DeRochi (Bucknell University Press 2012) [preprint available here]

• “Sir Charles Grandison's Never-Ending Story: Richardson, Closure, and the Rise of the Novel" Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. (Summer 2012) [preprint available here]

• "Wanderer’s End: Understanding Burney’s Approach to Endings." The Burney Journal 10. (2010) [preprint available here]

• “Remarks on Richardson: Sarah Fielding and the Rational Reader," Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Spring 2010, issue 22:3) [preprint available here]

• “‘To such as are willing to understand": Considering Fielding's Community of Imagined Readers,” in Masters of the Marketplace: British Women Novelists of the 1750s, edited by Susan Carlile. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 2010. [preprint available here]

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 Public Writing

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• For Polygon (as Em Friedman)

  • "An explosive episode of Critical Role kept viewers hooked for 5 horrifying hours" (April 18, 2024)

  • "The best actual play of 2024 includes Dungeons & Dragons and many more systems" (January 30, 2024)

  • "The 5 best moments in actual play of 2023" (January 22, 2024)

  • “As Worlds Beyond Number’s second season begins, time is on their side” (November 1, 2023)

  • “For Dimension 20’s next campaign, Burrow’s End, Aabria Iyengar needs you to trust her” (October 11, 2023)

  • “Critical Role’s new RPG is a whole cabinet of curiosities — and familiar mechanics” (June 1, 2023)

  • “The Best Actual Play Not Playing D&D” (February 6, 2023)

  • “At a turning point, new actual plays look back while moving forward” (January 19, 2023)

  • "Battles have gone badly before in Dimension 20, but not like this" (December 15, 2022)

  • "Indie game designers were refashioning the Regency long before Bridgerton" (October 14, 2022)

  • "A Court of Fey & Flowers has a lot to say about love, class, and equality" (October 6, 2022)

  • "How the first decade of actual play has defined the template" (September 14, 2022)

  • "Critical Role reaches a grim new milestone in the latest episode of Campaign 3" (September 9, 2022)

  • "My favorite new Jane Austen adaptation is an elaborate game of Dungeons & Dragons" (Aug 24, 2022)

  • "New York by Night brings Vampire-themed actual play to the City That Never Sleeps" (Jul 1, 2022)

• "Who Owns Dungeons & Dragons?" Los Angeles Review of Books (April 8, 2023)

• "Fantasy Friends" The Rambling Valentine's Issue 2022.

• "A Pie-Based Culture: Adding Southern Roots to Byroden" InMediaRes Critical Role Week (December 8, 2021)

• "Sanditon" The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-Era Women’s Writing

• “Manuscript Fiction in the Archive,” The Eighteenth-Century Common. June 8, 2016. ​

• (With Derek Ross) “Back to our roots: Digital humanities and the history of the book.” Auburn Speaks 2015.

• "Sarah Fielding." Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of British Literature, 1660-1789.

• “The history of the novel as glimpsed through Chawton’s manuscripts.”  The Female Spectator. Autumn 2009, Vol 13. No. 4.

 

Forthcoming:

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• (with Emily M.N. Kugler) "Playable Partners: Spectrums of Queer Possibility in Indie Video Games" (essay for Pop Enlightenments: The Eighteenth Century Now, edited by Madeleine Pelling & Emrys Jones)

• "Declaring Independence: The Search For Authenticity in Actual Play." for Essays on Indie Tabletop Roleplaying Games, Ed. Stephanie Hedge. Studies in Gaming Series, McFarland, 2025. (November 2024)

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Pedagogical Writing

• "Perusall in Practice" Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer October 2020. [link here]

• "Making the Motley Emblem: Marbling as Praxis" Teaching Tools: Tristram Shandy, Ed. Joel Sodano Studies in the Novel  2020. [author preprint here]

• (With Chase Bringardner and Lindsey Doukoupolos) "Performing Frankenstein in the South: Sex, Race, and Science Across the Disciplines" for Adapting the Eighteenth Century: Pedagogies and Practices Eds. Kirsten Saxton and Sharon Harrow (University of Rochester Press 2020)

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Under Review

• "Expanding Exandria: Narrative Adaptation & Compression in Critical Role" for How Do We Want To Do This?: Critical Essays on Critical Role. (essay accepted by editors, collection as a whole under review)

• (with Maria Alberto) Actual Play (an In Focus dossier for Journal of Cinema & Media Studies 2024)

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Work In Progress​​​​

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• Playing Stories:  Reimagining Genres, Ownership, and Authenticity in the Performance of Actual Play (monograph)

• (with Maria Alberto & Dimension 20 Collective) Dimension 20: A Critical Introduction (multiauthored book)

• (with Emily M.N. Kugler) “Spectators, Players and Performers in Austen-inspired games” for Reading Austen and her Contemporaries Ed. Danielle Spratt (Routledge)

• (with Emily M.N. Kugler) “Possible Past Times: How CRPGs Remix 18th Century Culture"

• Editor, Post45Contemporaries Cluster, “Beyond the Dungeon: Tabletop RPGs, Actual Play, and Very Longform Storytelling Now”

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Manuscript Fiction Project:

• Manuscript Novels 1760-1900 (database)

• Alternative Circulation in the Age of Print (monograph)

• The Navy Officer, or True Blue Will Never Stain: A Digital Edition (with Noah Moon)

• Alice Clifton: A Digital Edition (with Amanda Reeves)

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Other Writing:

• “The Strange Afterlife of Austen’s Cancelled Chapters of Persuasion” (article)

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Recent Book Reviews

For The Review of English Studies

• Review of Havens, Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Authorship from Manuscript to Print (2020)

• Review of King, Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres (2019)

• Review of The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson: Correspondence with Lady Bradshaigh and Lady Echlin (2018)

For The Scriblerian

• Review of Orr, Novel Ventures (2018)