Writing

Reviews and Commentary

“Harvests and Histories: How Almanacs Fought the American Civil War.” JSTOR Daily. January 2024. Web.

“Imperial Eras: A Taylor Swift Reading List.” Longreads.com. October 2023. Web.

“On Paul McCartney’s Beard.” Avidly, LA Review of Books. May 2022. Web.

“Sister of the Moon: A Stevie Nicks Reading List.” Longreads.com. May 2022. Web.

“A Writer’s Table (A Quarry Farm Testimonial).” Center for Mark Twain Studies. Sept. 2021. Web.

“Glam Rock Nancy Mitford–The Pursuit of Love, reviewed.” Apollo: The International Art Magazine. 14 May 2021. Web.

“A Caring Man: Remembering John W. Jones and Mark Twain in Elmira.” Center for Mark Twain Studies. Jan. 2021. Web.

“Jillian Caddell on Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows.” The Rambling. 23 Oct. 2020. Web.

“Profile of Kudzanai-Violet Hwami,” 40 Under 40 Africa Artists. Apollo: The International Art Magazine. 28 Sept. 2020. Web.

“Five books from the 19th century that will help you understand modern America better.” The Conversation. 14 May 2020. Web.

“Vermeer, Duchamp, and Sally Rooney.” Apollo: The International Art Magazine. 13 May 2020. Web.

“Normal People is irresistible in abnormal times.” CNN Opinion, 7 May 2020. Web.

“Mark Bradford confronts the myth of America’s past.” Apollo: The International Art Magazine. Jan. 2018: 21. Print.

“How paintings of the Obamas will shake up American portraiture.” Apollo: The International Art Magazine. 25 Oct. 2017. Web.

“America needs its history museums more than ever.” Apollo: The International Art Magazine. 15 June 2017. Web.

“The battle to save The Battle of Atlanta.” Apollo: The International Art Magazine. 23 Feb. 2017. Web.

“Telling the story of the African American experience in Washington” [Review of the National Museum of African American History and Culture]. Apollo: The International Art Magazine. Feb. 2017: 84-85. Print.

Journal Articles

“Melville’s Epitaphs: On Time, Place, and War.” The New England Quarterly. Vol. 87.2 (June 2014): 292-318. Print. [Download link.]

“Words of War.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. Vol. 4.2 (Fall 2016): 228-237. Print. [Article link.]

Book Chapters

“Battle-Pieces and the Paratexts of Civil War History.” The Oxford Companion to Herman Melville. Eds. Jennifer Greiman and Michael Jonik, forthcoming 2024.

“Hellmira and the Practice of Monumentalization.” Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction, Eds. Kathleen Diffley and Coleman Hutchinson, August 2022. [Cambridge UP link.]

“‘Companion to…the pending struggle’: L. Prang and Company’s War Telegram Marking Map.” Visions of Glory: The Civil War in Word and Image. Eds. Kathleen Diffley and Benjamin Fagan. Athens: U of Georgia Press, 2019. [UGA Press link.]

“Near Andersonville: Place and Race in Early American Regionalism.” Literary Cultures of the Civil War. Ed. Timothy Sweet. Athens: U of Georgia Press, 2016. 225-243. Print. [Amazon preview link.]

Digital Projects

Commemorative Cultures: The American Civil War Monuments Database. St. Andrews University, 2018-.

The Commemorative Cultures project is a digital heritage web resource which collects, records, maps, and interprets data about American Civil War monuments across the United States, the UK, and internationally. Unlike other mapping sites, our project’s unique aim is to provide interpretive materials with accompanying images, literary texts, and archival documents for each monument recorded. As well as establishing a more diverse account of Civil War commemoration than a focus on Confederate statuary permits, our primary aim is to create an informative digital resource providing access to otherwise inaccessible histories of these culturally contentious objects.

Lectures

“Memory-Building and Memorializing in Elmira: Mark Twain and John W. Jones in Relation.” Park Church Summer Lecture, Center for Mark Twain Studies, Elmira, NY. July 2021.

“‘To Follow with Eye and Pencil’: The Civil War at Home.” 2021 Civil War Lecture Series, Chemung County Historical Society, Elmira, NY. March 2021.

Podcasts

“The Invisible Home of Frederick Douglass, John W. Jones, and Mark Twain.” American Vandal Podcast, July 2021.

“Monumentalizing John W. Jones.” C19: America in the Nineteenth Century Podcast, September 2020.

“The Monster Mash: Frankenstein at 200.” The Book Light Podcast, June 2018.

“Frederick Douglass Lives!” The Book Light Podcast, April 2018.

“Poetic Justic: The Life and Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe.” The Book Light Podcast, March 2018.

“Starting School after #Charlottesville: Monuments and Silent Sam with Dr Jill Spivey Caddell.” PhDivas Podcast, September 2017. [LINK]