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Photo of a raven by Danielle L. Capparella

2025 “The Raven and the Sea: The Lost Intertidal World of Eighteenth-Century Ornithology.” American Literature,97 (2): 335–61

2022 “A Closing Conversation” co-authored with Lerone Martin, Conversation, MAVCOR Journal, 6.3

2022 "Raven’s Land: American Literary History In Medias Res" American Literary History, 34.1 (301–314)

2021 “The Raven and the Bobolink: An American Fable” Early American Literature, co-authored with Chi-Ming Yang, 56.2 (329-350)

2020 “Indigenous Languages and the Origins of American Literary History” The Cambridge History of Native American Literature edited by Melanie Benson Taylor, 17 - 32

2018 “Postexceptionalism Puritanism,” co-authored with Abram Van Engen, American Literature 90.4 (675 - 692)

2017 “Colonial-Indigenous Language Encounters in North America and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World,” co-authored with Sean P. Harvey, Early American Studies 15.3 (442 -473)

2016 “The Puritans,” American History: Oxford Research Encyclopedia

2015 “Conversion, Communication, and Translation in the Seventeenth-Century Protestant Atlantic” in Cultures of Translation and the Translation of Culture in Early Modern Europe, edited by Karen Newman and Jane Tylus (University of Pennsylvania Press), 189 - 205

Jefferson’s Comparative Vocabularies — Jefferson’s Comparative Vocabularies

Colonial Mediascapes

2014 “The Algonquian Word and the Spirit of Divine Truth: John Eliot’s Indian Library and the Atlantic Quest for a Universal Language” in Early American Mediascapes, edited by Matt Cohen and Jeffrey Glover (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press), 376 - 408

Jeffersons Vocabulary

2015 “Unruly Empiricisms and Linguistics Sovereignty in Thomas Jefferson’s Indian Vocabulary Project,” American Literature 87.4 (645 – 680)

Native American Woman

2014 “Learning to Write Algonquian Letters: The Indigenous Place of Language Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World,” William and Mary Quarterly 71.4 (549 – 588)PMLA 128.4 (989 - 996)

2013 “Early American Religion in a Postsecular Age,” PMLA 128.4 (989 - 996)

2013 “The Spectral Indian Presence in Early American Literature” American Literary History, 25.3 (625 – 637)

2013 “Religious Exceptionalism and American Literary History: The Puritan Origins of the American Self in 2012,” Early American Literature 47.2 (391 – 410)

Johnathan Edwards’ grave, Princeton, NJ — Johnathan Edwards’ grave, Princeton, NJ

2009 “What We Can Learn from Jonathon Edwards,” Early American Literature 44.2 (423 – 432)

Artist: Tompkins Harrison Matteson, Photo of artwork by Detroit Photographic Co. — Artist: Tompkins Harrison Matteson, Photo of artwork by Detroit Photographic Co.

2008 “Our Salem, Our Selves,” William and Mary Quarterly 65.3 (495 – 503)

2007 “Tokenography: Narration and the Science of Dying in Puritan Deathbed Testimonies,” Early American Literature 42.3 (471 – 494)

2006 “Empirical Desire: Conversion, Ethnography, and the New Science of the Praying Indian,” Early American Studies 4.1 (16 – 45)

Native American Tools, Alaska, 1877 — Native American Tools, Alaska, 1877