Selected Publications

Books

• Appalachia in The Hunger Games: Real-Life Roots of District 12 (McFarland 2026).

• Milton, Spenser, and the Chronicles of Narnia: Literary Sources for the C.S. Lewis Novels (McFarland 2006)

Chapters and Contributions

• “Muggle Worthy: Deceptive Exteriors and Outsized Interiors in the Wizarding World” in The Ivory Tower, Harry Potter and Beyond (University of Missouri Press 2023)

• “Star Trek in the Classroom, Science, and Professional Lives” in The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek (Routledge, 2022)

• “Where Many Books Have Gone Before: Using Star Trek to Teach Literature” in Set Phasers to Teach (Springer 2018)

• "'Where You Can Starve to Death in Safety': District 12 and Appalachia" in Critical Insights: The Hunger Games (Grey House, 2016)

• "Shakespeare in the Original Klingon" in Star Trek and History (Wiley 2013)

• Preface to Dr. Monika Hilder's The Feminine Ethos in The Chronicles of Narnia (Peter Lang 2012)

• "Horcruxes in Faeryland: Edmund Spenser's Influence on Voldemort's Efforts to Elude Death" in Harry Potter for Nerds (Unlocking Press 2012).

• “Jasper Hale, the Oldest Living Confederate Veteran,” and “Smoky Mountain Twilight: The Appalachian Roots of Emmett McCarty Cullen and His Family” in Twilight and History (Wiley 2010)

• Entries for Encyclopedia of Appalachia (2006)

• Numerous Articles for Carolina Mountain Life, including film reviews in The Big Picture Show column

• Numerous posts at Hogwartsprofessor.com