Publications and Conference Papers

Mad Men: The Death & Redemption of American Democracy. Lexington. 2016 

(Co-edited with Dr. Sara MacDonald.) 

Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes: Dead Body Politics. Lexington. 2016

 

Articles and Essays

“Liberal Arts Are About More Than Defending Liberal Democracy” Times Higher Education. 19-25 October 2017.

“Between Past and Future: Promises and Forgiveness in Mad Men” in Mad Men: The Death & Redemption of American Democracy. Eds. Sara MacDonald and Andrew Moore. Lexington, Print. 145-65. (2016). 

Treme and Antigone: Mourning, Music, and Resistance.” European Journal of American Culture. 35.1 (2016): 33-49. 

“A public good: The job of the liberal arts is not just jobs” University Affairs. November 2016.

“Colin Kaepernick, Black Lives Matter, and the NFL” The Allrounder, 29 September 2016. (with Ross Bullen). 

“History, Freedom, and Bureaucracy." The Wire and America’s Dark Corners: Critical Essays.Eds. Arin Keeble and Ivan Stacy. Jefferson: McFarland, 2015. 13-29. 

“Football is Not a Violent Sport” The Allrounder, 8 January 2015. 

“Alden Nowlan Explains the Internet.” The Antigonish Review 177 (2014): 123-33.

“Facebook and the Liberal Arts.” Journal of General Education 61.3 (2012): 264-76. 

“‘Goats and Monkeys!’: Shakespeare, Hobbes, and the State of Nature.” Animus: The Canadian Journal of Philosophy and Humanities 15 (2011). 

“Teaching HBO’s The Wire.” Transformative Dialogues 5.1 (2011). 

“Facebook Therefore Democracy: Understanding the Causality of Twenty-First-Century Democratic Revolutions.” The Antigonish Review 167 (2011): 125-34.

“An Herculean Precedent for Spenser’s ‘Telamond’.” Notes & Queries 53 (2006): 461-3.

 

Conference Papers

Hamlet and Junius Brutus: On Disgust and Resistance in Politics” Presented to the Shakespearean Theatre Conference, University of Waterloo, Stratford, ON, June 2017. 

“Non-Consensual Marriage and Sovereign Power in Measure for Measure.” Presented to the Shakespeare Association of America, Vancouver, April 2015. 

“Contracts between Enemies: On Bonds and The Merchant of Venice.” Presented to the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Los Angeles, April 2014. 

Hamlet and the Aeneid.” Presented to the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Ottawa, April 2013. 

“Shakespeare’s Rome and the Social Contract.” Presented to the Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association, Fredericton, September 2012. 

“‘Then I, and you, and all of us fell down’: Dead Body Politics in Shakespeare and Heywood.” Presented to the Shakespeare Association of America, Boston, April 2012. 

“‘Goats and Monkeys!’: Exploring the Shakespearean State of Nature.” Presented to the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies, Fredericton, May 2011. 

“Facebook, Performance, and Pedagogy.” Presented to the International Conference on the Liberal Arts, Fredericton, October 2010.

“Transferring Desire in Early Modern Roman Plays.” Presented to the Shakespeare Association of America, Dallas, March 2008.

“Arachne and Lavinia: A Tale of Two Tapestries.” Presented to the Shakespeare Association of America, Philadelphia, April 2006.

“Roman Representation for British Imitation in Addison’s Cato.” Presented to the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, London, ON, October 2004.