Peer-Reviewed Academic Articles
My academic research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century American fiction, film, and television. In particular, I study the development of the legal procedural genre in the context of historical changes to American criminal procedure. Kind of like a pre-history of Law & Order. Publications below are related to that work.
“Reserving the Kill: The Suicide Ban and Criminal Punishment in Code-Era Hollywood Film,” in Film History (Winter, 2019)
“In Cold Blood, the Expansion of Psychiatric Evidence, and the Corrective Power of True Crime,” in Law and Literature, vol. 31, no. 1 (2018), pp. 21-47.
Academic Review Essays
“The Privilege of Illegibility: Examining Race in Matthew Levay’s Violent Minds,” Critical Analysis of Law, vol. 7, no. 2 (2020)
Essays / Articles
All of Our Good—and All of Our Evil—Lies in Wait in the Archives, Lit Hub, November 2019
The Book That Made Me: Unashamed, Public Books, October 2017
Workplace Romances, Public Books, November 2016
"The Night Of" and the Didactic Procedural, Public Books, October 2016
Don't be fooled by "Suffragette": Violence alone did not secure the woman's vote, Quartz
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