The Would-Be Commoner: A Tale of Deception, Murder, and Justice in Seventeenth-Century France (Houghton Mifflin, 2008)

The Contested Parterre: Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680-1791 (Ithaca 1999).

Selected Articles

• “Husband-Killer, Christian Heroine, Victim: The Execution of Madame Tiquet, 1699," Seventeenth Century Studies, 32.2 (2010): 120-36.
• "The Playwright vs. His Mother-in-Law (1738)," in Ris, masques, et trétaux: Aspects du théâtre du XVIIIe siècle. Mélanges en hommage a David Trott. Eds. Marie-Laure Swiderski, et al. (Presses Universitaires Laval, 2008), 273-87.
• “The Coachman's Bare Rump: An Eighteenth-Century Cover-up," Eighteenth Century Studies, 40 (2007): 279-308.

Selected Online Book Reviews

• Matthew Buckley, Tragedy Walks the Streets: The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama (Johns Hopkins, 2006); H-France Discussion List, November 2007
• Elizabeth Hyde, Cultivated Power: Flowers, Culture, and Politics in the Reign of Louis XIV (Pennsylvania, 2005); H-France Discussion List, September 2006.
• Paul Friedland, Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution (Cornell, 2002); H-France Discussion List, June 2003.
• Jeffrey Freedman. A Poisoned Chalice. (Princeton, 2002); H-Law Discussion List, February 2003.