Here you will find links to critical essays I have written.
Essays on Poetry
T.S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams: So Much Depends Upon the Image ( Poets’ Quarterly)
Revisiting Emerson: Why His Ideas and the Everyday Image Matter Now (Schuylkill Valley Journal)
Lessons on the Environment: Revisiting Robert Bly (Schuylkill Valley Journal)
He Too Sings America: Jazz, Laughter, and Sound as Protest in Langston Hughes’ Harlem Part 1
He Too Sings America: Jazz, Laughter, and Sound as Protest in Langston Hughes’s Harlem Part 2
He Too Sings America: Jazz, Laughter, and Sound as Protest in Langston Hughes’s Harlem Part 3
Is a Ph.D. Worth It After an M.F.A.? (The Write Life)
Essays/Interviews on Horror Films
The Resonance of the Second Golden Age of Horror (Signal Horizon)
No Clowning Around: The Monster of Entrapment in After Midnight (Signal Horizon)
Revenge Director Coralie Fargeat Talks Influences and Challenging Genre Tropes
Funeral Nightmares, Demonic Dwarves, and the Tall Man: Phantasm at 40 (Signal Horizon)
The Amityville Horror and the Terrors of Home Ownership (Signal Horizon)
An Interview with Irish Director Aislinn Clarke (HorrOrigins)
Talking Black Horror Cinema: An Interview with Horror Noire Director Xavier Burgin (HorrOrigins)
Night of the Living Dead in the Time of Confinement and the Coronavirus (Horror Homeroom)