(2009) A Somber Pedagogy: the Child Death Bed Scene in Early American Women's Religious Literature, 1780-1920." To appear in Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Summer 2 (2).

(2008) "Purgatory in the Carolinas: Catholic Devotional Practices in the Nineteenth Century". Religion in the South Series, Kentucky University Press, 275-302.

 (2008) ”The Eagle and the Dove:  Constructing Catholic Identity through Word and Image in Early American Catholic Popular Literature”. Material Religion: The Journal of Arts, Objects and Belief. Volume 4.3: November, 306-325.

(2007) “Pre-Modern Scriptures in Post-Modern Times: an Analysis of the Revival Movement of Traditional Reading Practices.” Volume 2, 2007, 295-315.

 (2007) "A Communion of Little Saints:  Women Authors and Nineteenth-Century American Child Hagiographies". Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 23.2, 51-67.

(2006) "The Cowboy and the Christian: The Representation of Christian Pacifism in the Early Western". Thinking About Religion: The Journal of North Carolina Religious Studies Association, 6.

(2005) "An Ethics of Representation:  A Case of Redemptive Storytelling". Arts:  The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, 15:2.

(2005)  "Passion Tickets Bear Mark of Beast! Religous Authority, Otherworld Realism, and Popular Film". Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, XI.