Scholarly Publications and Presentations
“Muriel Spark,” in Women of the Catholic Imagination, ed. Haley Stewart. Forthcoming 2024.
“Beyond Satire: Muriel Spark and our Ridiculous Reality,” ‘And It Was Very Good.’ (On Creation). Fall Conference. The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, Indiana, November 10-12, 2022.
Fiction Reading Presentation – Normaltown (novel-in-progress). The Future of the Catholic Literary Imagination. Catholic Imagination Conference. University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, September 30-October 1, 2022.
“The Dignity of the Bereaved: When Grief and Self-Help Culture Collide.” I Have Called You by Name: Human Dignity in a Secular World. Fall Conference. The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame,. Notre Dame, Indiana, November 11-13, 2021.
“Virtue Friendship in the Catholic Literary Imagination.” I Have Called You Friends. Fall Conference. The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame, Indiana, November 7-9, 2019.
“Following William Holden on Twitter: Social Media and the Search in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer,” in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer at Fifty: New Takes on an Iconic American Novel, ed. Jennifer Lavasseur and Mary A. McCray, foreword by Jay Tolson (Baton Rouge, 2016), 119-131.
Creative Writing
“How I Cancel Impostor Syndrome, Sometimes for as Long as 37 Minutes” in The Startup, ed. Ali Mese and Alessandro Butler (web-only), 2019.
“And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus” in Word by Word: Slowing Down with the Hail Mary, ed. Sarah Reinhard (Notre Dame, Indiana, 2015), 76-78.
“Little Volcanoes: An Interview with Amy Welborn” Dappled Things, ed. Meredith Wise, vol. 7 issue 2 (2012), 15-21.
“When labor doesn’t go as expected,” in A Catholic Mother’s Companion to Pregnancy, ed. Sarah Reinhard (Notre Dame, Indiana, 2012), 163.)
“The Bells of Bethlehem,” Adventhology, Labora Editions, 2012.
“Gregorian Chant: Music with a Lasting Legacy,” Learning through History,ed. Rebecca Thompson, vol. 5 issue 5 (2007), 17-20.
“Music in the Civil War: A Common Language for a Divided Nation,” Learning through History, ed. Rebecca Thompson, vol. 5 issue 3 (2007), 41-43.