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Pit bulls went from America’s best friend to public enemy – now they’re slowly coming full circle
The Conversation, October 2022

Someone’s in the Kitchen
First of the Month: A Website of the Radical Imagination, February 21, 2017

White dogs on track in Trump’s America
Princeton University Press blog, February 3, 2017

On ICE
Boston Review, September 21, 2016

White Leghorns
Boston Review, memoir/essay, August 2016

The Old Gray Mare
Yale Review, memoir/essay, April 2016

Goring Beauty
Los Angeles Review of Books, memoir/essay, April 2016

Dead Dogs
The Boston Review

Melville, Locke and Faith
Raritan

Servile Law
Cities Without Citizens

Slaves, Ships, and Routes
Research in African Literatures

The Blue Room in Florence
The Yale Review

Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies
Materializing Democracy

Legal Terrors
Representations

Looking for Ghosts
The Yale Review

The Dogs
Southwest Review

The Photo
The Yale Review

Held in the Body of the State
History, Memory, and the Law

And Then Came Culture
Special Issue in Honor of Michel Rolph Trouillot, Cultural Dynamics

With Law at the Edge of Life
South Atlantic Quarterly

From Romance to Modernity: Poe and the Work of Poetry
Studies in Romanticism, 29 (Fall 1990): 413-437

Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves
American Literature, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Jun., 1994), pp. 239-273

Poe, Persons, and Property
American Literary History, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 405-425

 

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