Scholarly Writing

My scholarly papers can be downloaded from my SSRN page.

My scholarship addresses neurodiversity; legal and cultural issues related to mental illness, gender, and race; and higher education theory.

Foreword, in Of Many Minds: Neurodiversity and Mental Health Among University Faculty and Staff, Rebecca Pope-Ruark & Lee Skallerup Bessette eds. (Johns Hopkins UP 2025).

“Genre Discovery 2.0.,” Barry Law Review, Vol. 28, pp. 1+ (2023).

“Systemic Burnout: An Examination of the Work of Front-Line Professors in Caring for Law Students’ Mental Health,” The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, vol. 199 , pp. 27+ (2023).

“Quit Lit Is About Labor Conditions,” in Leaving the Grove: A Quit Lit Reader, Christopher Flanagan & Glenn Wright, eds. (The Graduate School Press of Syracuse University 2022).

Foreword, in Mental Health Among Higher Education Faculty, Administrators, and Graduate Students: A Critical Perspective, pp. xi-xvi, Teresa Heinz Housel ed. (Bloomsbury 2021).

“A Lecturer’s Almanac,” in Critical Digital Pedagogy: A Collection, pp. 140-47, Jesse Stommel, Chris Friend, & Sean Michael Morris eds. (Hybrid Pedagogy Press 2020).

“Manifesto: The Freelance Academic,” in Succeeding Outside the Academy: Career Paths Beyond the Humanities, Social Sciences and STEM, Joseph Fruscione & Kelly J. Baker, eds. (Johns Hopkins UP 2018).

“Heller’s Scapegoats,” University of North Carolina Law Review, vol. 93, pp. 1493+ (2015).

“Vulnerable Defendants in the Criminal Justice System,” University of North Carolina Law Review, vol. 93, pp. 1211+ (2015). (Co-author Prof. Tamar Birckhead.)

“The Genre Discovery Approach: Preparing Law Students to Write Any Legal Document,” Wayne Law Review, vol. 59, pp. 351+ (2014).

“Report: Judicial Preferences for Writing Samples Based on Data Gathered from the New Legal Writers Survey” (2014). (Co-author Prof. Alexa Chew.) Results drawn from The New Legal Writers Survey, Co-Principal Investigator with Prof. Alexa Chew, an IRB-approved survey of legal employers about hiring practices and expectations of new lawyers (2013). Supported by the Brooks Fund Grant for empirical research.

“The Genre of the Mood Memoir and the Ethos of Psychiatric Disability,” in Neurorhetorics, pp. 105-27, Jordynn Jack ed. (Routledge 2013). Originally published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 40, pp. 479-501 (2010).

“Reframing Sanity: Scapegoating the Mentally Ill in the Case of Jared Loughner,” in Re/Framing Identifications, pp. 159-68, Michelle Ballif ed. (Waveland Press 2013).

“The Rhetoric of Sissy-Slogans: How Denigrating the Feminine Perpetuates the Terror Wars,” The Journal of Race, Gender, & Justice, vol. 15, pp. 503-40 (2012).

“Hollywood’s White Legal Heroes and the Legacy of Slave Codes,” in Afterimages of Slavery: Essays on Appearances in Recent American Films, Literature, Television and Other Media, pp. 145-63, Marlene Allen & Seretha D. Williams eds. (MacFarland Books 2012).

“The Creativity Mystique and the Rhetoric of Mood Disorders,” Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 31.3 (2011).

“Walking in Another’s Skin: Failure of Empathy in To Kill a Mockingbird,” in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird: New Essays, pp. 174-89, Michael Meyer ed. (Bloomsbury 2010).

“Intimate Pedagogy: The Practice of Embodiment in University Classrooms,” Assuming Gender vol. 1, pp. 62-77 (2010).

“The Ideology of Terror: Why We Will Never Win the ‘War,’” Journal of American Culture, vol. 28, pp. 368-76 (2005). Winner of the Journal of American Culture Award for Best Graduate Student Paper.