Research Activity
Information Studies/Archives
Publications
“No Mere Culinary Curiosities: Using Historical Cookbooks in the Library Classroom.” RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage 21, no. 1 (2020): 79-97. https://doi.org/10.5860/rbm.21.2.79.
“Instruction Consultation for Archives Visits: Why No One Talks About It, and Why They Should.” American Archivist 82, no. (2019): 484-507. https://doi.org/10.17723/aarc-82-02-03.
"What Do Researchers Need: Feedback on Use of Primary Source Materials." D-Lib 20, no. 7/8 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1045/july2014-deridder. (With Jody L. DeRidder.)
Presentations (Selected)
"The Manly Diaries and the 'College Servants' at the University of Alabama," paper presented at the Southern Archivists Conference, Montgomery, Alabama, 2018.
"Can I Write from the Cat’s Perspective?: Lessons from an Archives-Based Narrative Writing Assignment," paper presented at Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, Iowa City, Iowa, 2017.
"The Alabama Women's Lives Project: Mapping as a Discovery Tool," Digitorium, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2016.
"Digital Exhibits Demystified," presentation to the Society of Alabama Archivists Annual Conference, Foley, Alabama, 2016.
Posters
"'College Servants' & the University of Alabama: A Case Study in Identifying Records of Enslavement in University Archives,” poster presented at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, online, 2021.
“Listening to ‘Unlikely Voices’: Using Archival Documents to Teach the Constructed and Contextual Nature of Authority,” digital poster presented at the Association of College & Research Libraries Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, 2019.
"Re-Framing Information Literacy for the Special Collections Classroom," poster presented at the Association of College & Research Libraries Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 2017. (With Sara Maurice Whitver.)
"Go Local! Using Digital Archives as Alternative Textbooks in First-Year Writing," poster presented at the Association of College & Research Libraries Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2013. (With Sara Maurice Whitver and Jennie L. Vaughn.)
Literature/Culture/History
Publications
“How Do Edutainment Podcasts Balance Learning and Diversion?: Case Studies on Medical History Topics.” Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 20, no. 2 (2022): 191-208. https://doi.org/10.1386/rjao_00059_1
“We All Cook by Ear: Plantation Cookbooks and the Paradox of the Written Recipe.” Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South 82, no. 1 (2021): 35-67.
“Cookbooks.” In The World of Jim Crow America: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, edited by Stephen A. Reich (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2019), 294-296.
The Short Story Composite and the Roots of Modernist Narrative. (PhD diss., University of Alabama, 2012). https://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/1392
Presentations (Selected)
“Humor in the Civil Rights-Era South: The Inexcusable Lightness of Elise Sanguinetti's The Last of the Whitfields,” paper presentation at the Southern Studies Conference, Auburn University - Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, 2019.
"The Complex Rhetoric of 'Soul Food' As Found in African-American Cookbooks of the 1960s through 1980s," paper presented at the Southern Studies Conference, Auburn University - Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, 2017.
"The Jazz Age in Parallax: F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Thornton Wilder's The Cabala," paper presented at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Louisville, Kentucky, 2016.
"Captain Confederacy and the Cultural Legacy of the 'Lost Cause,'" paper presented at the Southern Studies Conference, Auburn University - Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, 2016.
Special Projects
“The Elise Ayers Sanguinetti Digital Collection,” curated digital collection of archival materials with scholarly analysis, online at https://apps.lib.ua.edu/blogs/sanguinetti/