"Faunus and Melliflora Revisited: A Pastoral Knot Untied," in Explorations in Renaissance Culture, Vol. VIII-IX (1982-83).
"His Master's Voice" in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 60 (1984).
"Parrots, Poppinjays, and Paraquitos: Of Words and Birds in I Henry IV" in Shakespeare: Text, Subtext, and Context (Associated University Press: Selingsgrove, 1989), ed. Ronald Dotterer.
"Gertrude the Poet" in Hamlet Studies, Vol. 13 (1991).
"The Vandyke Portrait of Washington Irving" in Studies in the American Renaissance (University of Virginia Press: Charlottesville, 1992).
"Gerontion as Jokester: Humor and Anxiety in Robert Frost's 'Directive'" in The Robert Frost Review (Vol. 1, no. 1, 1992).
For the Dark (Mellen Poetry Press), 1992.
" 'Once more o ye laurels': 'Lycidas' and the Psychology of Pastoral" in Milton Quarterly, Vol. 27 (May, 1993).
" 'O monstrous world': Shakespeare and the Beast with Two Backs" in The Upstart Crow, Vol. XIII (1994).
"Shakespeare's Confidence Man" in The Sewanee Review, Vol. CI, No. 4 (Fall, 1993).
"Hamlet's Lost Father" in Hamlet Studies, Vol. 16 (1994).
"As You Like It as Christian Pastoral" and " Parodic Shepherding in Henry VI" in Shakespeare's Christian Dimension (Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1994).
" 'Chips Off the Old Block': Birching, Social Class, and the English Public Schools," in Nineteenth Century Studies, Vol. Ten (1996).
Edited and wrote the "Introduction" to New and Collected Poems of Herbert Coursen: 1966-96 (E.M. Press, Inc, 1996).
" 'A Quiver of Moonbeams': The Haunting of the Hawthornes" in The Bowdoin Magazine, Vol. 69, no. 2 (Winter 1998).
"Nation and History: The Emergence of the English Pastoral Elegy," Chapter Seven of the Oxford Handbook of the Elegy (Oxford, 2010), pp. 135-153.
"A Down East Huck Finn: Samuel Pickard, Hawthorne's First Diary, and Bowdoin College" in The Bowdoin Magazine, Vol. 82, No. 1, Winter 2011, pp.30-37 with Devon Shapiro '13