Book

Pulp Surrealism: Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Paris (University of California Press, 2000)

Essays

“Serialised Sensations: Tih-Minh and Louis Feuillade’s Shifty Crime Narratives” in Louis Feuillade: The Complete Crime Serials (1913-1918) (Eureka! Masters of Cinema, Limited Edition Set, Blu-ray, 2024)

“The Rocambolesque and the Modern Enchantment of Popular Fiction” in The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age, ed. Joshua Landy and Michael Saler (Stanford University Press, 2009)

Translator

“Death of Nick Carter” by Philippe Soupault (McSweeney’s 24, 2007)

Articles

“‘Vu et regardé’: Lupin Steals the Show” (Imaginaries 12, issue 2, 2022)

“You Will Enter the Century by Reading Fantômas” (H-France Salon 13, issue 9, no. 8, 2021)

“Collaboration during the Occupation: The ‘St-Cyr and Kohler‘ Mysteries” (Fiction and Film for Scholars of France 3, issue 2, 2012)

“The Crime Factory: The Missed Fortunes of Paul Féval’s Les Habits Noirs” (Journal of the Western Society for French History 37, 2009)

“The Convergence of Fiction and History in the Crime Novels of J. Robert Janes” (Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 30, 2002)

“From Carnivalesque to Rocambolesque: Ponson du Terrail and the Popular Novel under the Second Empire” (Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 29, 2001)

“Comment on nous vole, comment on nous tue: The Private Detective as Con Man in Early Twentieth-Century France” (Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 26, 1998)

“Panorama of the Pègre: Mass Culture as Surrealist Subversion” (Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 22, 1994)

Book Reviews

Jean-François Vilar: Theatres of Crime by Margaret Atack (H-France Review 22, no. 17, 2022)

The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murder in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Aaron Freundschuh (The Historian 80, no. 2, 2018)

Sexual Crime, Religion and Masculinity in Fin-de-Siècle France: The Flamidien Affair by Timothy Verhoeven (H-France Review 18, no. 212, 2018)

Surrealism and the Art of Crime by Jonathan P. Eburne (H-France Review 9, no. 35, 2009)

Aesthetics of Fraudulence in Nineteenth-Century France Frauds, Hoaxes, and Counterfeits by Scott Carpenter (H-France Review 10, no. 95, 2010)

Naissance de la police privée: Détectives et agences de recherches en France, 1832-1942 by Dominique Kalifa (H-France Review 1, no. 21, 2000)

Articles and Reviews in French

Les Bas-fonds. Histoire d’un imaginaire by Dominique Kalifa (Revue historique no. 673, 2015)

“L’Insaisissable et les surréalistes” (trans. Dominique Michele) in Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain (édition intégrale, ed. Loïc Artiaga et Matthieu Letourneux, vol. 3, Robert Laffont, 2014)

“Fantômas a cent ans” co-authored and co-edited with Sándor Kálai (Belphégor: Littératures populaires et culture médiatique 11, no. 1, 2013)

Website

The Fantômas Website , designed by and co-authored with Elliott Smith (1997-2015; archived on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)

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