“Signs: Print, Image, and Digital Media in DeLillo.” In Don DeLillo in Context, ed. Jesse Kavadlo. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 144–52. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009025676

“Post-9/11 Narratives.” In The Encyclopedia of American Fiction, 1980-2020, ed. Patrick O’Donnell, Stephen Burn, and Lesley Larkin. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. Chapter 160. 1079-87. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119431732.ecaf0160

“Cosmopolitanism and Remigration in Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.” In Shifting Twenty-First-Century Discourses, Borders, and Identities, ed. Oana Celia Gheorghiu. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. 3–22.

“The Deep Web of Conspiracies: Under the Shadow of Trump Tower in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge.” Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television. Ed. Stephen Hock. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. 97-111.

“Virtual Reality.” American Literature in Transition: 1990-2000. Ed. Stephen J. Burn. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 279-94.

“A Man Called Cody: Race and the ‘Passing’ of a Sicilian in New Orleans.” Essays on Italian American Literature and Culture. Ed. Dennis Barone and Peter Covino. New York: Bordighera Press and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 2012. 23-8.

“Writing amid the Ruins: 9/11 and Cosmopolis.” The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo. Ed. John N. Duvall. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 179-192.

“Discipline and Anarchy: Disrupted Codes in Kathy Acker’s Empire of the Senseless.” Reprinted from Design & Debris in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, v. 191. Ed. Tom Schoenberg. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Press, 2008. 78-90.

“Long and Serial Poetry.” The Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman. New York: Facts on File, 2005. 283-86.

“The Virtual Reader: Cybernetics and Technocracy in William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine.” The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction. Ed. Peter Freese and Charles B. Harris. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2004. 28-52.

“The Virtual Reader: Cybernetics and Technocracy in William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine.” Science, Technology, and the Humanities in Recent American Fiction. Arbeiten zur Amerikanistik 36. Ed. Peter Freese and Charles B. Harris. Essen, Germany: Verlag Die Blaue Eule, 2004. 131-57.

“The Subway’s Iron Circuit: George Oppen’s Discrete Series.” Reprinted from Unending Design in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, v. 107. Ed. Linda Pavlovski. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research Press, 2001. 319-28.

“‘Not by Art Alone’: William Bronk’s Meditative Negativity.” The Body of This Life: Reading William Bronk. Ed. David Clippinger. Jersey City, NJ: Talisman House, 2001. 168-74.

“John Ashbery: The Pastoral and the Urbane [On ‘Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape’].” Reprinted from Unending Design in An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry. Ed. Cary Nelson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

“Louis Zukofsky: The Renaissance and Brooklyn Heights [On ‘Mantis’].” Reprinted from Unending Design in An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry. Ed. Cary Nelson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

DLB 169: “Introduction: American Poetry Since World War II.” Dictionary of Literary Biography 169: American Poets Since World War II (Fifth Series). Ed. Joseph Conte. Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1996. xi-xviii. Revised and updated for DLB 165 and DLB 193.

“James Schuyler.” Dictionary of Literary Biography 169: American Poets Since World War II (Fifth Series). Ed. Joseph Conte. Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1996. 235-43.

“Natural Histories: Serial Form in the Later Poetry of Lorine Niedecker.” Lorine Niedecker: Woman and Poet. Ed. Jenny Penberthy. Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, 1996. 345-60.

“The Uncertain Predictor: Calvino’s Castle of Tarot Cards.”  Literature and Science (Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature 14). Ed. Donald Bruce and Anthony Purdy. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Editions Rodopi, 1994. 131-47.