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Journal Articles

“The Space of the New Ethnic Neighborhood: Polka Festival as Imagined Community,” New Horizons in English Studies [Literatures, Linguistics and Cultural Studies], Vol.5, 2020.PDF

“Global Górale and Postmodern Polskoscz: Polish Roots Music & the Post-Communist Recovery of Folk,” The Polish Review Vol. 57, No. 4, 2012, pp. 63-74.

“On Cultural Studies in the Future Tense: Pedagogy and Political Work in Cultural Studies,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. Vol. 8, No. 3, September 2011, pp. 323-329. PDF

“Terra Nova 2.0 – The New World of MMORPGs.” With David J. Gunkel. Critical Studies in Media Communication June 2009, 26:2, 104-127. (lead essay) PDF

“Ethnic Aesthetics: Considering Polish American Art.” Polish American Studies Vol. LXVI, No. 1, Spring 2009. 5 – 24.

“Of Polka, Pierogi, and Ethnic Identity: Toward A Polish American Cultural Studies.” Polish American Studies Vol. LXII, No. 1, Spring 2005. 29 – 42.

“Immigrant Voices: Polka Lyrics as Ethnic Literature.” Polish American Studies Vol. LX, No. 4, Autumn 2004. 37 – 53.

Polka Studies in the Scholarly Landscape.” Polish American Studies Vol. LX, No. 4, Autumn 2004. 5 – 8.

“Imagining the City: The Pedagogy of Urban Media Literacy.” Academic Exchange Quarterly Spring 2004. (Awarded Editor’s Choice, Special Issue on Media Studies) PDF

“The Polka Alternative: Polka as Counter-Hegemonic Ethnic Practice.” Popular Music and Society 27.3, Winter 2004. PDF

“The Sacred in the City: Polonian Street Procession as Countercultural Practice.” Polish American Studies Vol. LX. No. 2, Autumn 2003. (Lead Essay) PDF

“Virtual Geographies: The New Worlds of Cyberspace.” In Critical Studies in Mass Communication (14) 1997. Pp. 123-37. Co-authored with David J. Gunkel. PDF

Book Reviews

“Images of Chicago’s Polonian History.” Review of: Polish Past in Chicago 1851-1941/Dawne polskie Chicago 1850-1941: Exhibition Drawn from Photographic Archives of The Polish Museum of America. James R. Thompson Center, Chicago. May 15-19, 2017. Polish American Studies.

“Ethnicity and Truthiness: Brigid Pasulka’s A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True and the Work of Ethnic Fiction.” Polish American Studies, Vol. 71, No. 2 (Fall 2014), Pp. 98-100. PDF

Review of Making Music in the Polish Tatras by Timothy J. Cooley. Polish American Studies. Vol. LXIV, No. 1, Spring, 2007. Pp. 89-90.

Review of The Grasinski Girls by Mary Patrice Erdmans. Polish American Studies. Vol. LXIII, No. 2, Fall 2006. Pp. 93-94.

“Ethnicity and Folklore: Review of Polish American Folklore by Deborah Anders Silverman. Polish American Studies. Vol. LXIII, No. 1, Spring 2006. 91-92.