Publications

Articles/Essays

• “Walker Bite: Differentiating the Dead” in The Ultimate Walking Dead and Philosophy: Hungry for More, edited by Wayne Yeun. Popular Culture and Philosophy Series, ed. George A. Reisch (Open Court, 2016)
• “Politics of Religion in Popular Culture: Religious Rhetoric and Ironic In(ter)ventions,” Verbum, St. John Fisher College Online Journal (Spring, 2013)
  
  
  
  
• “American Idol(atry): A Religious Profanation,” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (Summer, 2008)
  
  
  
  
• “Read Me Another Story: Bedtime Tales for Those with Postmodern Stress Disorder” Organization Development Journal (Fall, 2003)
  
  
  
  

Book Sections/Chapters

• "On Faith/Trust and Confidence in an Alterfactual Sense" in Trumping Truth: Essays on the Destructive Power of "Alternative Facts," edited by Salvador Jiminez Murguia (McFarland, 2019)
• “Tracing a Dis/Harmony of the Spheres” in Finding God in the Devil's Music: Critical Essays on Rock and Religion, edited by Alex DiBlasi and Robert McParland (McFarland, 2019)
  
• “God, Flag, and Country: Ironic Variations on a Metaphysical Theme” in This is the Sound of Irony: Music, Politics and the Public Sphere, edited by Kathleen L. Turner (Ashgate, 2015)
  
• “Reading the Signs” in The Ultimate Walking Dead and Philosophy: Hungry for More, ed. Wayne Yeun. Popular Culture and Philosophy Series, ed. George A. Reisch (Open Court, 2016)
  
• “Heavy Metal’s Ironic Edge: Distortion, Demonization, and Noise Control” in Music at the Extremes: Essays on Sounds Outside the Mainstream, edited by Scott A. Wilson (McFarland, 2015)
• “Critias” in The Sophists: An Introduction,” edited by Patricia O’Grady (Duckworth, 2008)
  
• “Sextus Empiricus” in Meet the Philosophers: Everything you always wanted to know about Ancient Greek philosophy but didn’t know who to ask, edited by Patricia O’Grady(Ashgate, 2005)
  

Conference Papers/Presentations

• “A Religion Problem: Classification and the Pathologizing of the Religio-Political Other,” Fisher Digital Publications, Northeast Popular Culture Association (Fall, 2012)
  
  

Courses

• Spring 2026