Articles, Essays, Books, and Reviews

Journal Articles

‘Speaking with the Dead: Resurrective Reading and Pneumatological Imagination in George MacDonald,’ Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, in press.

‘You Are How You Read? Ethical Reading and Christian Poetics,’ Among Winter Cranes, Vol. 7.1, Winter 2024, 1-9.

‘A Form of (Spiritual) Knowing: Word-Music and the Verticality of Prayer in George MacDonald,’ Victorian Review, Vol. 47.2, Fall 2021, 281-297.

Essays

‘St. Barnabas Jericho in Literature’

Hear more about the essay in this interview

Books

Reading With the Trinity: Theology and Literary Form in George MacDonald, Manchester University Press (anticipated publication, 2026).
Unsaying the Commonplace: George MacDonald and the Critique of Victorian Convention, ed. with Daniel Gabelman, Winged Lion Press, 2024.
‘Chapter 7: Uncommon Interpretation: Reading Dante in Charles Kingsley and George MacDonald’s Fairytales,’ in Unsaying the Commonplace: George MacDonald and the Critique of Victorian Convention, Winged Lion Press, 2024.

Book Reviews

Book Review of John R. de Jong, The Theology of George MacDonald: The Child Against the Vampire of Fundamentalism, Journal of Inklings Studies, Vol. 11.1, April 2021, 103-106.

Book Review of Timothy Larsen’s George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles: Incarnation, Doubt, and Reenchantment, Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, June 2019.