Writing

When We Pretend That We're Dead:
Monsters, Psychopaths, and the Economy in American Popular Culture
Forthcoming from Duke University Press.
Bad Subjects Anthology
New York University Press, 1997
I was instrumental in putting together this collection of articles from the first four years of the e-publication Bad Subjects. I co-founded Bad Subjects in 1992.
White Trash: Race and Class in America
Routledge Press, 1997
I co-edited and contributed to this anthology of articles about poor whites in the United States. Buy it at Amazon.com.

Bi-weekly column on the Bay Area local high tech scene in SF Gate
Paying to Play: My XXX-mas in Vegas
Cover story in the January 3 issue of New York Press
In Search of Adolph Sutro
Cover story in the January 13 issue of The San Francisco Bay Guardian
Doug Henwood: The Marxist Wall St. Couldn't Ignore
In the December 21 edition of Salon Magazine.
Monthly column on the academic job search in the online version of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Chronic Honeymoon Cystitis
In the September issue of Bad Subjects
The Progressive Surf: Don't Kill Your Television, Learn Tube Politics
In the Sept. 16-22 issue of the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
If It's Free, Is it Pornography? Amateur Pornographers Online
In the Aug. 12-18 issue of New York Press.
With Godzilla on Our Side
In the May 28 edition of FEED magazine.
Of Rights and Life--a Personal and Political Consideration of Roe v. Wade
In the May/June issue of Punk Planet.
Murdering Mothers
In the anothology Bad Mothers: The Politics of Blame in America, edited by Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky.
New York University Press, 1998.

More Haunted Houses, on A&E.
I talked about the Winchester Mystery House, a ghostly reminder of dead industry that haunts the Silicon Valley. The show aired March 14, 1999.
The Net Cafe syndicated on PBS.
I was interviewed about "literature on the web" and the website I designed with Freya Johnson called The Post-World War II Literature and Culture Database. This show was aired the week of January 8, 1999.
A Higher Education on PBS TV affiliate KCSM
I was part of a discussion about "whiteness studies" on May 6, 1998.

The Winchester Mystery House and Other Ghost Stories of Silicon Valley
Presented at the California American Studies Association conference, May 1997. I discuss the Winchester Mystery House in a forthcoming documentary about ghost stories on the A&E Network.
On the Whiteness of the Police
Presented at "The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness Conference," UC Berkeley, April 1997.