Books & Publications

Books:

Winner of the Evans Handcart Award for Excellence in Biography

Coming Soon:

A Book Group Guide for Weeds

“From first page to last, [the book] engages with the complex social, economic, and cultural issues surrounding modern agriculture…. Farm is a useful and intelligently organized text that orients students to the problem of disconnection from a key reality of their lives and offers them essential training in cultural and textual literacies.” ~Review from The CEA Forum

“Willa Cather and the Czechs”

Selected Essays (In Progress)

“My Ántonia and Czech Mushroom Folklore,” Louise Pound: A Folklore and Literature Miscellany, 2019

“’Our Toni’/Our Willa: Laying Claims in the First Czech Translation of My Ántonia.” from In the Country of Lost Borders: New Critical Essays on My Ántonia. Stéphanie Durrans, editor. University Press of Paris-Ouest Nanterre, 2017. Book available on Amazon or email me for digital copy of my essay.

‘New World’ Visions and Homegrown Art: National Authenticity in the Works of Willa Cather and Antonín Dvořák” from Modern Fiction Studies, 2019.

“Picturing Their Ántonia(s): Mikoláš Aleš and the Partnership of W.T. Benda and Willa Cather” from Cather Studies, Vol 8, 2010.