peer reviewed articles and chapters

“The Ambivalence of Consent,” Australian Feminist Studies 38.118 (2023): 472-485.

“Current Trends in the Study of Eighteenth-century Political Thought,” in Research Handbook on the History of Political Thought, eds. Cary J. Nederman and Guillaume Bogiaris (Edward Elgar, 2024), pp. 253-263.

“Virtue in the Republican Tradition,” in The Oxford Handbook of Republicanism, eds. Frank Lovett and Mortimer Sellers (2024, available online ahead of print).

“Rica in Paris: Sociability and Cosmopolitanism in The Persian Letters,” in The Spirit of the Persian Letters, eds. Jeffrey Church and Constantine Vassiliou (Lexington Books, 2023).

“Wollstonecraft’s Gothic Violence,” Polity 54.3 (2022): 457-477.

“Moving Hearts: Cultivating Patriotic Affect in Rousseau’s Considerations on the Government of Poland,” Law, Culture and the Humanities 15.2 (2019): 497–515.

“Fear, Liberty, and Honourable Death in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 28.4 (2016): 623-644.


book reviews

Emily Dumler-Winckler, Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent (Oxford University Press), in Politics & Gender 20.1 (2024): 264-266.

Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean, eds., Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing, (Verso Books), in Cultural Critique Online, Issue 122, Frame 7 (2023).

Sandrine Bergès and Alan Coffee, eds., The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft (Oxford University Press), in Political Theory 47.6 (2020): 904-911.

Jill Locke, Democracy and the Death of Shame: Political Equality and Social Disturbance (Cambridge University Press), in Politics & Gender 14.3 (2018).

Karen Green, A History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe, 1700-1800 (Cambridge University Press), in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, August 2016.

Lee Ward, Modern Democracy and the Theological-Political Problem in Spinoza, Rousseau, and Jefferson (Palgrave Macmillan), in Perspectives on Politics 14.3 (2016): 872-874.

Michel de Montaigne, Selected Essays with La Boétie’s Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (Hackett Publishing), in Comitatus 43 (2012): 243-245.

Review essay, “Rule and Resistance: Theorizing the Female Sovereign in Sixteenth-Century Europe,” a review of Susan Doran, Mary, Queen of Scots: An Illustrated Life (British Library Publishing); Louis Montrose, The Subject of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, and Representation (University of Chicago Press); and Kristen Post Walton, Catholic Queen, Protestant Patriarchy: Mary Queen of Scots and the Politics of Gender and Religion (Palgrave Macmillan), in Comitatus 39 (2008): 219-224.

Judith M. Bennett, History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (University of Pennsylvania Press), in Comitatus 38 (2007): 187-190. 


shorter pieces

“Wollstonecraft and the Question of French Character,” Age of Revolutions (October 18, 2021)

“Agency and Anxiety: On Marie-Hélène Huet’s The Culture of Disaster,” The 18th-Century Common, October 9, 2014

“‘An Unknown Arc into the Future’: An Interview with Daniel Lewis, Curator of ‘Beautiful Science: Ideas that Changed the World’ at the Huntington Library,” The 18th-Century Common, September 28, 2013