Books •
The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture (
Duke University Press, 2002). •
Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Duke University Press, 2010). •
Beside You in Time: Sense-Methods and Queer Sociabilities in Nineteenth-Century America (Duke University Press, 2019).
Chapters and articles • “Parasymptomatic Reading: Medical Kink, Care, and the Surface/Depth Debate”.
Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, (2023). • "The Queer Temporalities of
Queer Temporalities".
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies vol. 25, no. 1 (2019). • "Shakers, Not Movers: The Physiopolitics of Shaker Dance". In Cindy Weinstein (ed.),
A Question of Time: From Colonial Encounter to Contemporary Fiction (
Cambridge University Press, 2018). • "Afterward". In Kent Brintnall and Joseph Marchal (eds.),
Sexual Disorientations: Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies (
Fordham University Press, 2017). • "Timing Sex in the Age of Digital Reproduction".
New Formations special issue, no. 92 (2017). • “Synchronic/Anachronic.” In Joel Burges and Amy Elias (eds.),
Time: a Vocabulary of the Present (
New York University Press, 2016). • “Hopeless Cases: Queer Chronicities and Gertrude Stein’s ‘Melanctha’”.
Journal of Homosexuality vol. 63, no. 3 (2016). • “Connecticut Yankings: Mark Twain and the Masturbating Dude.” In Dana Luciano and Ivy Wilson (eds.),
Unsettled States: Nineteenth Century American Literary Studies (New York University Press, 2014). • “The Chronic: Renate Lorenz in Conversation with Mathias Danbolt and Elizabeth Freeman” (in German).
Springerin, no. 1 (2014). • “Lessons from Object Lessons”.
Feminist Formations vol. 25, no. 3 (2013). • “Never the Usual Terms: A Song for 21st Century Occupations,” written with Peter Coviello. In
Social Text Periscope online dossier on “Work and Idleness in the Age of the Great Recession” (2013). • “Normal Work: Temporal Drag and the Question of Class”. In Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz (eds.),
Temporal Drag (
Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011). • “Reimagining Gender and Sexuality”. In Leonard Cassuto (ed.),
The Cambridge History of the American Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2011). • “Sacramentality and the Lesbian Premodern.” In Noreen Giffneyet et al. (eds.),
The Lesbian Premodern (
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). • “'We’re Only Making Plans for Nigel': In Response to Didier Eribon”.
Qui Parle vol. 18, no. 2 (2010). • “Turn the Beat Around: Sadomasochism, Temporality, History”.
differences vol. 19, no.1 (2008). • "Still After".
South Atlantic Quarterly vol. 106, no .3 (2007). • "Queer Belongings: Kinship Theory and Queer Theory". In George Haggerty and Molly McGarry (eds.),
A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies (
Blackwell Publishers, 2007). • "'Monsters, Inc.': Notes on the Neoliberal Arts Education".
New Literary History vol. 36, no. 1 (2005). • "Time Binds, or, Erotohistoriography".
Social Text, nos. 84–85 (2005). • "The Whole(y) Family: Economies of Kinship in the Progressive Era".
American Literary History vol. 16, no. 4 (2004). • "Queer Bonds".
Concerns, no. 27 (2000). • "Packing History, Count(er)ing Generations".
New Literary History vol. 31, no. 4 (2000). • “Honeymoon with a Stranger: Pedophiliac Picaresques from Poe to Nabokov”.
American Literature vol. 70, no. 4 (1998). • “‘The We of Me’: The Member of the Wedding’s Novel Alliances”.
Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory vol. 8, no. 2 (1996). • "Teaching Outside the Curriculum: Guerrilla Sex Education and the Public Schools", written with Anne-Elizabeth Murdy and Scott Mendel.
Radical Teacher, no. 45 (1994). • "'What Factory Girls Had Power to Do': The Techno-logic of Working Class Feminine Publicity in the Lowell Offering".
Arizona Quarterly vol. 50, no. 2 (1994). • "Queer Nationality", written with Lauren Berlant.
Boundary 2 vol. 19, no. 1 (1992). ==Awards==