Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech. University of Alabama Press, 2004. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

"Dialect Literature and English in the USA," in Varieties in Writing: The Written Word as Linguistic Evidence, ed. Raymond Hickey. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. In press, 2010.

"Literary Dialect," in Language in the American South, Michael Montgomery and Ellen Johnson, eds. The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

"Representations of Speech and Attitudes about Race in The Sound and the Fury," Southern Journal of Linguistics 25:1/2, 2003.

"Jim's Language and the Issue of Race in Huckleberry Finn," Language and Literature 10:2, 2001.

"A History of the History: Philosophies and Texts for Teaching the History of the English Language," in preparation.

"Language Attitudes and Pre-Service Teacher Preferences," in preparation.

"Performing Southernness: Dialectal Representations and Southern Linguistic Identity," in preparation.

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