Selected Publications

Professional Articles and Papers on Poe's Hidden Murders:

“Fortunato’s Offense: A Mystery No More.” Fifth Annual International Poe Conference. Boston, MA. 2022.

“Wi-Finding Poe for Millennials and Beyond.” American Literature Association Conference (ALA) Boston, MA, 2021.

“Six Secret Murder Mysteries by Edgar A. Poe.” American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, 2018.

“The Duplicitous Design of Five Supposed Tales of Terror.” Modern Language Association Convention, New York, 2018.

 “Poe, Van Dine, and the Crypto-mystery.” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Baltimore, 2017.

 “Untold Story: The Lying Narrator in ‘The Black Cat.’” Rpt. in Invention and Craft, ed. Rhonda Leathers Dively (McGraw Hill, 2016). (Originally published      in Studies in Short Fiction, 1992).

“Poe’s Tales of Detection Morphologically Considered.” Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, New York, 2015.

“Designed for Deceit: An Inventory of Devices in Poe’s Tales.” Third International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, Philadelphia, 2009

 “Plagiarism and Identity in ‘William Wilson.’” International Emerson, Hawthorne and Poe Conference, Oxford, England, 2006

 “Why Will You Say That He is Mad? Re-examining ‘The Tell-Tale Heart.’” Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C., 2005

 “The Biographer as Assassin: The Hidden Murders in ‘The Assignation.’” Poe Studies: Dark Romanticism, 2002.

For General Audiences:

“Fibs, Frauds, and Fakeouts: Secrets of Poe’s Most Famous ‘Tales of Terror.’” Invited Speaker, Poe Room at New York University, 2018.

How to Write about Edgar Allan Poe (Chelsea House, 2017). Book in a series for college and high school students published under the general editorship of Harold Bloom.

“The Poe that Nobody Knows: Poe’s Hidden Mysteries.” Invited Speaker, Bronx Community Conference Faculty Lecture Series, 2017.

“Know about Poe.” Invited Speaker, Poe Room at New York University, 2016.

TEDx talk, “Poe’s Darkest Secret: He Was Kidding.” Bergen Community College, 2013.

“Introduction to Poe Criticism.” Chapter on the history of Poe criticism in Critical Insights: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe (Salem Press, 2010).

Blog Posts on Poe: Macmillan Publishers (www.criminalelement.com)

“Sleuthing out a Solution: Edgar A. Poe and His Crypto-Mysteries.” October, 2020. https://www.criminalelement.com/sleuthing-out-a-solution-edgar-allan-poe-and-his-crypto-mysteries/

“‘The Purloined Letter’: Mystery Solved.” January, 2019. https://www.criminalelement.com/the-purloined-letter-mystery-solved/

“The Real Poe Still Buried: Reviewing PBS’s Buried Alive.” November, 2017. https://www.criminalelement.com/the-poe-myth-still-buried-reviewing-pbss-buried-alive/

“Behind Poe’s Mask: Tricks That Are Treats.” October, 2017. https://www.criminalelement.com/behind-poes-mask-tricks-that-are-treats/

“Poe’s ‘Tell-Tale Heart’: Why Are These Men Laughing?” January, 2017. https://www.criminalelement.com/poes-tell-tale-heart-why-are-these-men-laughing/

“The World’s First Murder Mystery: A Birthday Present from Edgar A. Poe.” January, 2016. https://www.criminalelement.com/the-worlds-first-murder-mystery-a-birthday-present-from-edgar-allan-poe-the-assignation-lord-byron/

“166 Years after his Death: Test Your Poe IQ.” October, 2015. https://www.criminalelement.com/edgar-allan-poe-death-anniversary-test-poe-q-true-false-fact-or-fiction-hoax-susan-amper/

“Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe: Dominated by Humor, Not Terror.” January, 2014. https://www.criminalelement.com/happy-birthday-edgar-allan-poe-dominated-by-humor-not-terror-susan-amper-hall-of-famers-detective-historical/

“Poe in Boston: Perpetuating a Misconception.” January, 2012. https://www.criminalelement.com/poe-in-boston-perpetuating-a-misconception/

“Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe: ‘Thou Art the Man.’” January, 2012. https://www.criminalelement.com/page/3/?s=edgar+a.+poe

“The Death of Edgar A. Poe: ‘A Tissue of Malevolent Blasphemies.’” October, 2012. https://www.criminalelement.com/the-death-of-edgar-allan-poe-a-tissue-of-malevolent-blasphemies-traditional-detective-thriller-hall-of-famers/

“Poe: Toast of Gotham.” April, 2011. https://www.criminalelement.com/poe-toast-of-gotham/

Other Publications

“Love and Death Reconsidered: The Union of Lovers in Another Country.” 1995. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Jonathan Vereecke. Vol. 377. Detroit: Gale, Cengage, 2019, 20-24.

(Book) How to Write about Edgar Allan Poe. Rpt. As Bloom’s How to Write about Edgar Allan Poe, 2007. Chelsea House online, 2017.

“Untold Story: The Lying Narrator in ‘The Black Cat.’” 1992. Rpt. In Invention and Craft. Rhonda Leathers Dively. McGraw Hill, 2016.

“‘I Believe, I Believe”: The Miracle of Christ in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood.” Wise Blood: A Reconsideration, edited by John Han, Rodopi Press, 2011, pp. 43-58.

“Introduction to Poe Criticism.” Critical Insights: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Steven Frye, Salem Press, 2010, pp. 55-62.

“Dexter’s Dark World: The Serial Killer as Superhero.” Serial Killers–Philosophy for Everyone: Being and Killing, edited by Sara Waller. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 102-114.

“Using Web Posts to Jump Start Class Discussion.” The Atrium: A Journal of Academic Voices, 2010.

Wise Blood.” Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature. Ed., Jennifer McClinton-Temple. Facts on File, 2010.

(Book) How to Write about Edgar Allan Poe, Chelsea House Publications, 2007.

“Broken Silence: Teaching Deborah’s Untold Story in Life in the iron Mills.” Teaching American Literature. Fall, 2007.

“‘I Do Not Know the Man’”: The Lawyer’s Willful Blindness in ‘Bartleby the Scrivener.’” Christianity and Literature Conference Proceedings, 2006.

“International Poe Bibliography: 1994-1997; 2001-2003,” Compiler and Annotator. Poe Studies: Dark Romanticism, 2004.

“Essays on Poe, Epistemology, and Modern Thought,” Guest Editor and Introduction. Poe Studies: Dark Romanticism, 2003.

“The Biographer as Assassin: The Hidden Murders in ‘The Assignation.’” Poe Studies: Dark Romanticism, 2002.

“Male Fears and Fantasies in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘The Black Bess.’” West Virginia University Philological Papers 48 (2002): 29-37.

“Lolita and Her Movies: The Unmaking of Humbert.” West Virginia University Philological Papers 41 (1996): 82-88.

“Love and Death Reconsidered: The Union of Lovers in Another Country.” Journal of the Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts 1 (1995): 103-111.

“Untold Story: The Lying Narrator in ‘The Black Cat.’” Studies in Short Fiction 29 (1992): 475-485.