“What rural Texas and Dolly Parton can teach the country about getting along,” Dallas Morning News, January 26, 2020
Little Women offers wisdom on work-life balance and civic engagement for the #MeToo generation, Dallas Morning News, January 5, 2020
#MeToo novel about Dallas ‘Bad Men’ shows the misogyny working women face, Dallas Morning News, July 21, 2019
Best value in small, liberal arts colleges, Billings Gazette, March 16, 2019
The college admissions scandal shows the value of small colleges, Dallas Morning News, March 15, 2019
Abolitionist Resistance and ‘Zero Tolerance’, Texas Tribune “TribTalk: Perspectives on Texas,” July 5, 2018
Small-town Texas and the Politics of Silence, Texas Tribune “TribTalk: Perspectives on Texas,” March 5, 2018
One Year After the Women’s March, the Example of 19th-Century Feminists Offers Hope, Dallas Morning News, January 20, 2018
Are Texas Legislators Channeling The Handmaid’s Tale?, Dallas Morning News, July 25, 2017
American Literary History and a Social Justice Walking Tour of Campus, October 23, 2019
Beyond the Literary Analysis Essay: Autobiographical Literary Criticism, January 29, 2019
How to Organize a Teach-In, October 10, 2018
The World’s Eye and the World’s Heart: How to be a Public Intellectual, March 19, 2018
Teaching Handsome Lake’s “How America Was Discovered” as Protest Literature, November 7, 2017
Pedagogical Lessons from the Transcendentalists: 2017 NEH Summer Institute in Concord, August 21, 2017
Student-Centered, Collaborative Learning and “Literature Circles” in the American Literature Classroom, June 12, 2017