Interests

I study academic libraries in the United States and literary archives of Anglophone writers utilizing mostly quantitative methods. My recorded presentations are available in this YouTube playlist.

Publications

Books

  1. 1,000+ Tips for Life Inside and Outside the Academy. Springer, 2022.

  2. Placing Papers: The American Literary Archive Market. University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.

Articles

  1. Placing Papers Update: The Black and Latino Experience in the Literary Archives Market. Rare Books and Manuscripts 24.1 (2023): 52-70 [Data set]

  2. Possessing an “Inner History”: Curators, Donors, and Affective Stewardship, Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 12.3 (2016): 243-267

  3. The Perils of Literary Celebrity: The Archival Stories of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes Society Journal 2.1 (2011): 30-31

Book Chapters

  1. “Curators at the Top 25 ARL Institutions: Titles, Fields, and Educational Backgrounds,” Radical Visions: New Perspectives on Special Collections Curatorship, Society of American Archivists (Forthcoming 2024) [Data set]

  2. “The Collections Cycle of the Modernist Archive Market,” Cultural Heritage and the Literary Archive, Routledge (Forthcoming 2024)

  3. With Kathryn Ross. “Mentoring a Peer: A Feminist Ethic for Directing Undergraduate Humanities Research, “ Undergraduate Research and the Academic Librarian, Ed. Kaye Hensley Merinda and Stephanie Davis-Kahl, Association of College and Research Libraries (2017): 209-217

  4. With Melanie Meyers, Charlotte Priddle, and Abby Saunders, “K-12 Outreach Methods,” New Directions for Special Collections: An Anthology of Practice (2016): 39-54

  5. With Brooke Champagne. “‘A Certain Kind of Seduction’: Integrating Archival Research into a First-Year Writing Curriculum,” Educational Programs: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections, Ed. Kate Theimer, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2015): 117-129

  6. With Sarah Pickle and Heather Waldroup. “Changing and Expanding Libraries: Exhibitions, Institutional Repositories, and the Future of Academia,” The Process of Discovery: The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the Future of the Academy Ed. John Maclachlan, Elizabeth Waraksa, Christa Williford, Council on Library and Information Resources (2015): 62-81

Interviews

  1. With Shannon K. Supple and Michelle Chesner. “Roundtable Discussion: Teaching Printed History with Codex Conquest,” Printing History 23 (2018)

  2. Natural Life Archive: A Q&A with Tirtza Even, Archive Journal (2016)

Reviews

  1. Book Review of The Pioneer Americanists: Early Collectors, Dealers, and Bibliographers, Rare Books and Manuscripts 19.2 (2018): 154-156

  2. Game Review of The Publishing Trap, Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 6.1 (2018): 2267

  3. Book Review of Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series, and the Avant-Garde, Archives and Manuscripts 45.3 (2017): 258-259

  4. Book Review of Trends in Rare Books and Documents Special Collections Management, 2013 Edition, RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 15.1 (2014): 78-81

  5. Book Review of The Art and Life of Clarence Major, Callaloo 37.2 (2014): 454-456

  6. Book Review of The Tower, The Traveler, and The Worm, Textual Cultures 8.1 (2013): 121-123