Scholarly Books
How To Write About Homer. A guide for students. (Chelsea House, 2010).
Sophocles’ Three Theban Plays. A verse translation with notes and commentary (Wordsworth Editions, 2004).
Plato’s Symposium: Eros and The Human Predicament. Macmillan (Twayne’s Masterwork Studies, 1999).
Scholarly Essays, Book Chapters, and Articles
“Drawing a Blank: Bion Speaking on Chinese Writing,” American Imago, Vol. 80, No. 1, Spring 2023.
“Bion at the Crossroads: A Contrarian Reading of ‘On Arrogance’,” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA), August 2022. Winner, JAPA New Authors Prize.
“Prescription for a New Model University for the Humanities,” Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, Vol. X., pp. 143-60.
“Guilt, Evil, and Hell in Macbeth, Hamlet, and Doctor Faustus,” in The Function of Evil Across Disciplinary Contexts (Lexington Books, 2017).
“Bergman’s Wild Strawberries: the Failure of Sublimation and the Fate of Pain,”American Imago, Volume 73, Number 2, Summer 2016.
“Technology, Labor, and the Sacred: the Cultural Context of Robert Frost,” in Critical Insights: Essays on Robert Frost, edited by Morris Dickstein (EBSCO Publishing, 2009).
“Tragedy, Hamlet, and Luther,” Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, 2002.
“Scarcity and Compensation in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick,” The Massachusetts Review, Vol. XXXX, No. 1. Spring 1999.
“Limitations of Textuality in Thomas More’s Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer,” The Sixteenth Century Journal. January 1996.
“Scarcity and Poetic Vocation in Two Sonnets of John Keats,” English Literary History(E.L.H. Vol. 61.1), Johns Hopkins University Press, Spring 1994.
“Two Tropes of the Opening Sections of Walt Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’,” The Cloverdale Review, 1992-1993.
Papers Presented at Conferences and Public Lectures
“Supernature and the Guilty Imagination: Macbeth, Hamlet, Doctor Faustus,” for “Shakespeare Connects” Conference, Grand Valley State University, MI, October, 2009.
“Sophocles As Educator,” New York Council for the Humanities, New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Branch, November 1, 2004.
“Elegies of Two World Wars: Wilfred Owen and Dylan Thomas,” Poetries of the 1940s, American & International: A National Poetry Foundation Conference. University of Maine, Orono, ME, June 23-27, 2004.
“Tragedy, Piety, and the Hermeneutic Burden: A Reading of Hamlet and Luther,” 16th Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, October 1996.
“Habit and Stream of Thought in William James’ Principles of Psychology: An Emersonian Reading,” N.E.M.L.A. Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, April 1994.
“D.H. Lawrence and Modernity: A Heideggerian Reading,” The Fifth International D.H. Lawrence Conference, Ottawa, Canada, June 1993.