PUBLICATIONS
Dancing Ghosts: Native American and Christian Syncretism in
Mary Austin's Work (University of Nevada Press,
1998).
"Cultivating Desire, Tending Piety: Botanical Discourse in
Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Minister's Wooing." In
Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of
Ecocriticism. Eds. Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace.
(University Press of Virginia, 2001). 111-125.
"Mary Hunter Austin." In Vol. 206: Twentieth-Century
American Western Writers, Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Ed. Richard Cracroft. (Gale Publishing, 1999). 20-32.
"Ritual Drama/Dramatic Ritual: Austin's Indian Plays." In
Exploring the Lost Borders: Critical Essays on Mary
Austin. Eds. Melody Graulich and Betsy Klimasmith. (University
of Nevada Press, 1999). 39-63.
"'To bring the world into divine focus': Syncretic Prophecy in
The Land of Little Rain." Western American Literature
31, 1 (May 1996): 3-31.
"Prophecy in a New West: Mary Austin and the Ghost Dance
Religion." Western American Literature 30, 3 (November
1995): 235-255.
"Weaving the Story: Northern Paiute Myth and Mary Austin's The Basket Woman." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 19, 1 (Spring 1995): 133-151.