Interviews

“Sendak on Melville,” Melville Society Extracts, Number 87 (1991): 1-7.

Articles

“‘The Raven’ and Melville’s Pierre”, The Edgar Allan Poe Review, Volume 20, Number 2 (2019): 210-18.

“Poe as ‘A Critical Jack Ass,’” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, Volume 18, Number 2 (2017): 209-17.

“John Neal on Hawthorne and Poe in the New England Galaxy of 1835,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, Volume 42, Number 2 (2016): 22-35.

"The Sweet Spot," FABS Journal, Volume 27, Number 1 (2023): 24-28.

“Evenings at Home: A Neglected Book of Poe’s Childhood,” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, Volume 21, Number 1 (2020): 64-70.

“Adventures with Poe and Hawthorne,” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, Volume 14, Number 1 (2013): 16-35.  Translated into Japanese by Tadashi Miyagawa for Takayuki Nishitani and Masahiko Narita, eds, The American Renaissance: Criticism Regenerated (Tokyo: Kainbunsha, 2013).

“Poe at Blithedale,” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, Volume 10, Number 3 (2009): 53-59.

“Poe’s Taking of Pelham One Two Three Four Five Six,” Poe Studies, Volume 41 (2008): 109-16.

“A Contemporary Narrative Response to Hawthorne’s ‘The White Old Maid,’” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review Volume 32, Number 1 (2006): 63-70.

“Periodicals as Key to Poe and Hawthorne,” Poe Studies Volume 37 (2004): 28-30.

 “Chiasmus in Walden,” The New England Quarterly, Volume 77, Number 1 (2004): 115-21.            

“The Rhetoric of Walden in Rhetoric and Composition,” Thoreau Society Bulletin, Number 249 (2004) 3-5.

“Readers Write: Nineteenth-Century Annotations in Copies of the First American Edition of Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym,” Nineteenth-Century Literature, Volume 55, Number 3 (2000): 399-408.

   “Thomas Cottrell Clarke’s Poe Collection: New Documents” (written with Michael Singer), Poe Studies, Volume 25, Numbers 1 and 2 (1992): 1-5; reprinted in Perspectives on Poe, ed. D. Ramakrishna (New Delhi: Associated Publishing Company, 1996): 191-202.

  “Hawthorne’s Transplanting and Transforming ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’” Studies in American Fiction, Volume 23, Number 2 (1995), 231-41.

“The Circle and Its Center in ‘Bartleby the Scrivener,’” American Transcendental Quarterly, ns Volume 2, Number 3 (1988): 191-206.

 “The ‘Very Profound Under-current’ of Arthur Gordon Pym,” Studies in the American Renaissance (1987): 143-75; reprinted in The Poe Messenger, Special Issue (1992), with author’s preface.

“The Hidden Journey of Arthur Gordon Pym,” Studies in the American Renaissance (1982): 29-51; reprinted in The Poe Messenger, Volume 15, Number 1 (1985): 15-25.

“The Secret of Arthur Gordon Pym: The Text and the Source,” Studies in American Fiction, Volume 8, Number 2 (1980): 203-18.