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Books:

• Jean-François-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715-1747: A Sojourner in the French Atlantic (translation of Regards sur le monde atlantique, co-edited with Carla Zecher) Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture / University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Honorable Mention, Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work, Modern Language Association, 2012.
• The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero: Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh. University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
• American Captivity Narratives: An Anthology.  Houghton-Mifflin/Riverside, 2000
• "Les Sauvages Américains:" Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature. University of North Carolina Press, 1997

 Selected Articles: “Insects and the American Farmer: Crèvecœur’s Response to Buffon’s and Raynal’s Theories of American Nature” Eighteenth-Century Life 48:1 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-11118292

• “Fordism in Detroit, Consumerism in Los Angeles: A Brief History of Automobile Emissions Regulation and Lessons for Greenhouse Gas Pollution.” Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility, edited by Tatiana Konrad, Chantelle Mitchell, and Savannah Schaufler. University of Exeter Press, 2023; 37-55.
• “Jefferson takes on Buffon: The Polemic on American Animals in Notes on the State of Virginia.”  The William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser. 78 no. 1, Winter 2021, 79-116.
•  “Rare Birds and Rare Books: The Species as Work of Art” in Animals, Plants and Afterimages: The Art and Science of Representing Extinction ed. Valérie Bienvenue and Nicholas Chare. Oxford, UK: Berghan Books, 2022; pp191-210.
• “‘Carbolization’: Cars, Carbon Emissions, and the Global Discipline of Automobility” in Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis: Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change, ed. Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad. West Virginia University Press, 2020.
• “Michipichik and the Walrus: Anishinaabe Natural History in the 17th-century work of Louis Nicolas.” Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies17:4 (Fall 2017).

• “The Alexandrian Library of Life: A Flawed Metaphor for Biodiversity.” Environmental Humanities 9:2 (November 2017), 280-299.
•  “Self-portraiture and commodification in the work of Huron/Wendat artist Zacharie Vincent, aka ‘Le dernier Huron.’” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 39:2 (2015).
• “The Bad Guys Wear Tricornered Hats’: The Villasur Massacre of 1720 and the Segesser II Hide Painting in Spanish and French Colonial Literature” Before the West was West: Critical Essays on Pre-1800 Literature of the American Frontiers. Ed. Amy T. Hamilton and Tom J. Hillard. Lincoln: U. Nebraska Press, 2014; 191-212.
• “’Take my scalp, please!’: Colonial Mimetism and the French Origins of the Mississippi Tall Tale” Colonial Mediascapes ed. Jeffrey Glover and Matt Cohen. Lincoln: U. Nebraska Press, 2014: 203-229.
• “The Oxymoron of American Pastoralism.” Arizona Quarterly 69:4 (Winter 2013), 1-22.
• “How to succeed in exploration without really discovering anything: four French travelers in  colonial Louisiana, 1714-1763” Atlantic Studies 10:1 (2013)
• “A Newly-Discovered Manuscript Map by Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz” French Colonial History 11:1 (2010), 23-45.
• “Renegades from Barbary: The Transnational turn in Captivity Studies” American Literary History 22.2/Early American Literature 45:2 A special joint issue, edited by Sandra Gustafson and Gordon Hutner, 2010.
• “Natchez Ethnohistory Revisited: New Manuscript Sources from Le Page du Pratz and Dumont de Montigny” Louisiana History 50:4 (Fall 2009), 407-431.
• "Plotting the Natchez Massacre: Le Page du Pratz, Dumont de Montigny, Chateaubriand."   Early American Literature37:3 (Fall 2002): 381-413. Awarded Richard Beale Davis Prize, 2003.