recent selected essays
Being Good Relatives: A Story of Indigenous and Settler Surfeminist Collaboration and Land Acknowledgments
With Dina Gilio-Whitaker. From Waves of Hope, Waves of Belonging: Indigeneity, Gender, and Race in the Surfing Line Up, eds. Lydia Heberling, David Kemper, Jess Ponting. University of Washington Press, 231-252. 2025.
Surfeminist Responses to the Violence of Authoritarianism. Keynote from San Diego State University Conference
From Waves of Hope, Waves of Belonging: Indigeneity, Gender, and Race in the Surfing Line Up, eds. Lydia Heberling, David Kemper, Jess Ponting. University of Washington Press, 93-114. 2025.
Reading Power
Waterpeople Podcast, Byron Bay, Australia with Lauren Hill. December 12, 2024.
After Surfer Girls in the New World Order
The Surfing Historian with Dr. Jason Olds. December 15, 2023.
Standpoint, Situated Knowledge, Feminist Wests
Gender and the American West, ed. Susan Bernardin, Routledge, 114-124. DOI:10.4324/9781351174282-11. 2022.
Staying with the White Trouble of Recent Feminist Westerns
Western American Literature (56:2, Summer 2021) 101-124. Winner. Don D. Walker Prize for Year’s Best Essay. Western Literature Association.
What Leisure?! Surfeminism in an Era of Trump
Comment. Palgrave Communications. April 30, 2019.
Introduction: Pasts, Presents, Futures
With Susan Bernardin. On the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Western Literature Association, special issue, Western American Literature (Spring) 53:1, xi-xix. 2018.
Beaches as Spaces of Democracy: Center Hosts Women Surfers Conference
Stanford University, The Bill Lane Center for the American West... & the West Blog. December 15, 2017.
Surfeminism, Critical Regionalism, Public Scholarship
Ed. Dexter Zavzala Hough-Snee and Alex Eastman. The Critical Surf Studies Reader. Duke University Press, 235-262. 2017.
Thinking Otherwise Across Global Wests: Issues of Mobility and Feminist Critical Regionalism
Ed. Aaron Nyerges and Golnar Nabizadeh. PopWest. Stanford Humanities Today Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (10) 1-18. 2016.
We’re Blacksurfing:’ Activist History & Liberation Politics in White Wash
Journal of American Ethnic History (Winter 35:2) 68-78. 2016.
The Problem of the Critical in Global Wests
Ed. Susan Kollin. A History of Western American Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 205-221. 2015.
Exceptionalisms, Other Wests, Critical Regionalism
American Literary History 23(1): 159-173. 2011.