Department of English at the University of Virginia

Tangled Up in Blue: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism.  Forthcoming.

The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual (Basic Books, 2006).

Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. Oxford University Press, 1993; paperback, 1995.

“Back Door Man: Howlin’ Wolf and the Sound of Jim Crow.” American Quarterly 63.3 (2011).

“Bob Dylan’s ‘Love and Theft.’” The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan.  Ed. Kevin J.H. Dettmar.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009.

“Perfect Is Dead: Karen Carpenter, Theodor Adorno, and the Radio; Or, If Hooks Could Kill.”  Criticism 50.2 (2008). Rpt. in: Aesthetic Dimensions.  Ed. Christopher Looby and Cindy Weinstein.  New York: Columbia UP, 2012; Pop When the World Falls Apart: Music in the Shadow of Doubt.  Ed. Eric Weisbard.  Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2012.

“Criticism in the Vineyard: Twenty Years After ‘Race,’ Writing, and Difference.”  PMLA 123.5 (2008).

“National Treasure, Global Value, and American Literary Studies.”  American Literary History 20.1-2 (2008).

"The Wages of Liberalism: An Interview with Eric Lott."  minnesota review 63-64 (2005).

Cornell University Society for the Humanities Fellowship, 2011-12

Princeton University Council for the Humanities Fellowship, 2001

NEH Fellowship 1996

MLA Best First Book Prize 1994

OAH Avery Craven Book Prize 1994

Myers Center for Human Rights Book Award 1994

Rourke Prize for Best American Quarterly Article 1992