Current Book Project:
The Spiritual Life of the Mind: Science, Religion, and the Habits of the Brain
(manuscript under contract with Intervarsity Press, forthcoming in fall 2021)
Previous Books:
The Hemingway Files. Novel published by Blank Slate Press, 2017.
Continuing Bonds with the Dead: Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors. (University of Alabama Press, published 2016)
Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age. (University of Alabama Press, 2007)
American Declarations: Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural History. (University of Illinois Press, 1999)
Edited and Co-edited Books:
Above the American Renaissance: David S. Reynolds and the Spiritual Imagination in American Literary Studies. Co-edited with Brian Yothers, University of Texas-El Paso. (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2018)
The Letters of Mark Twain and Joseph H. Twichell. Co-edited and co-written with Peter Messent (University of Nottingham, UK) and Steve Courtney (independent scholar). (University of Georgia Press; published in 2017)
Lincoln in His Own Time. (University of Iowa Press, 2011)