Essays, Articles, and Chapters (also here)

“C. S. Giscombe’s Indirection to Noplace.” Paideuma (special issue on “Poems and Places”) 51/52. (forthcoming, 2026).

“Celati’s Transverse Adventures into the Errant Familiar.” Elephant & Castle: Laboratorio dell’immaginario 29 (2023): 150-155.

"The Majella Massif: A Brief Introduction for the Outsider." The Agropastoral Landscape of the Majella National Park / Il paesaggio agro-pastorale del Parco Nazionale della Majella (bilingual, two-volume edition). Sulmona: Parco Nazionale della Majella, 2019. 

“Gianni Celati’s Voicing of Unpredictable Places.” Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies. Eds. Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, and Elena Past. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018. 17-27. 

“Articulating the In-Between: Changing Exhibition Practices in Early Postwar Rome.” (Co-author, with Manuela Mariani.) Curatorial Studies 6.1 (2017): 56-89.

 “Lorine Niedecker’s Paratactic Poetics of Interrelation.” Midwest Quarterly 58.1 (2016): 28-50.

“Cinematic Space in Rome’s Disabitato: Between Metropolis and Terrain Vague in the Films of Fellini, Antonioni, and Pasolini.” (Co-author, with Manuela Mariani.) Modernism/modernity 18.2 (2011): 309-33.

“Unmasked Representations of Space in Edward Dorn’s ‘The Land Below’ and ‘Idaho Out.’” Paideuma 36.1-2 (2010): 105-30.

“Tra colline e canali: seguendo gli indizi di Andrea Zanzotto.” Andrea Zanzotto tra Soligo e laguna di Venezia. Ed. Gilberto Pizzamiglio. Venice: Leo S. Olschki/Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 2008. 193-212.

“Edward Dorn’s Heretical Spatial Knowledge in ‘The North Atlantic Turbine’ and Gunslinger.” The Midwest Quarterly49.4 (2008): 401-15.

“Gianni Celati’s Poetic Prose: Physical, Marginal, Spatial.” Italica 84.2-3 (Summer-Autumn, 2007): 323-44.

“‘The actual universe as a geography’: Charles Olson’s Exploration of Dogtown in The Maximus Poems.” The Worcester Review 27.1-2 (2007): 103-16.

“Spatial Knowledge in ‘The Dispersion of Seeds’: Thoreau as Geographer.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 8.1 (Fall, 2006): 94-109.

“La Majella Massif, ‘The Mother of Mountains.’” MRD: Mountain Research and Development 26.4 (November, 2006): 367-70.

“Gianni Celati’s Verso la foce: ‘An Intense Observation of the World.’” Forum Italicum 2 (Fall, 2005): 481-97.

“Edward Dorn’s Transient, Super-Local Spaces.” North Dakota Quarterly 72.3 (2005): 96-109. Rpt. in Poetry Criticism. Ed. Michelle Lee. Volume 115. Detroit: Gale, 2011. 236-43.

“The Separation of Wild Animal Nature and Human Nature in Gilgamesh.” Papers on Language and Literature 38.4 (2002): 1-20.

“Poetic Memory and History in Maurice Kenny’s Tekonwatonti, Molly Brant.” MELUS: The Journal       of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US 25.3/4 (2000): 31-64. (Rpt. in Native American Writing. Ed. A. Robert Lee. London: Routledge, 2011.)