Epistolary Evidence VQR, Summer 2025

Through Darkness to Light   VQR, Winter 2017

Bound to Succeed VQR, Spring 2017

Mating Rituals VQR, Fall 2016

Dive Bars and Card Games with Dad Literary Hub, June 17, 2016

Table for One VQR, Spring 2016

Muscle Memory VQR, Fall 2015

Fantasy Life VQR, Summer 2015

The Serial Wife  The Atlantic October, 2014 (Download PDF)

Review: Choice and Chance in Elizabeth Crook’s Monday, Monday  The Texas Observer, May 26 2014 (Download PDF)

Female Matadors  VQR, Spring 2014 (Download PDF)

Houston Author David Dow’s Death and Dying Lowdown The Texas Observer, March 3 2014 (Download PDF)

Tragedy is Fast, Knowledge is Slow  The Rumpus, May 30 2013 (Download PDF)

Rooting Around for the Origins of Cheerleading  The Ultimate History Project, Issue 2 (2012).

Youth Culture and Social Control During the Cold War Pop Culture Universe: Icons, Idols, Ideas (PCU). ABC- CLIO. 2012.

Camps for Kids: Age, Gender, and Power in the Woods.  Review of Paris, Leslie, Children’s Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp. H-Childhood, H-Net Reviews. December, 2009 (Download PDF)

Slayers and Superheroes: The Third Wave Feminist Response to the Cheerleader Character.  The World is a Text: Writing, Reading, and Thinking about Visual and Popular Culture, ed. Jonathan Silverman and Dean Rader (Pearson, 2008).

Girls and Sport in Contemporary Film  Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia, ed. Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid- Walsh (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008) 322-24.

Slut   Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia, ed. Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008) 539-40.

Juvenile Violence on Television  Encyclopedia of Juvenile Violence, ed. Laura L. Finley (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007) 280-82.

Juvenile Violence – 2000 to date  Encyclopedia of Juvenile Violence, ed. Laura L. Finley (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007) 173-74.

‘Yee-Haws and Yells’: Cheerleading in the Lone Star State Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas Vol. 37 (Nov. 2006): 21-32.