Books

God's Only Daughter: Spenser's Una as the Invisible Church. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Pp. 1-238.

A Made-Up Place: New Zealand in Young Adult Fiction. Ed. with Anna Jackson Wellington et al. Victoria University Press. 2011.

Scholarly edition

Ed. with Marguerite Stobo. William Baspoole, The Pilgrime. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, in conjunction with the Renaissance English Text Society, 2008. Contents: Introduction, pp. 3-174; Text, pp. 175-356; General Commentary, pp. 358-502; Glossary, Works Cited, and Index: pp. 505-558.

Sections in books

“Spenser and the ‘medieval’ past: A question of definition.” In J. Hecht and J. B. Lethbridge (eds), Spenser in the Moment, Madison WI: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015. Pp. 35-66.

“Hagar: literature”, Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol.X Berlin: De Grűyter, 2015. Cols 1127-33.

"'What I must steer clear of': The influence of his mother's stories on Maurice Gee". In Maurice Gee, A Literary Companion: The Fiction for Young Readers. Ed. Elizabeth Hale. Otago: Otago University Press, 2014. Pp. 101-23.

"Māori and Pākehā" and "Money." A Made-Up Place: New Zealand in Young Adult Fiction. Eds Anna Jackson et al. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2011. Pp. 27-42, 112-39.

"The Ark of the Covenant."  Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Vol II. Berlin: De Grűyter, 2009. Cols 761-65.

"'Memorie shall attend thee': Past and Present in William Baspoole's The Pilgrime." Pp. 359-70. In New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV: Papers of the Renaissance English Text Society 2002-2006. Ed. Michael Denbo. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe Arizona: 2008.

"'At the Bay': A Ghost's Story." The Sun Still Shines When You Think of It: A Festschrift for Vincent O'Sullivan. Eds Bill Manhire and Peter Whiteford. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2007. Pp. 345-63.

"The First Playmate." A Book for Bill: Manhire at 60. Eds Fergus Barrowman and Damien Wilkins. Wellington: Victoria University Press and Sport, 2006. Pp. 33-9.

"'True-seeming lyes' in Margaret Mahy's Fiction." in Marvellous Codes: The Fiction of Margaret Mahy. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2005. Pp. 148-67.

"'A Prophetique Dreame of the Churche': William Baspoole's Laudian Reception of the Medieval Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode." Centered on the Word. Eds. Daniel W. Doerksen and Christopher Hodgkins. Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 2004. Pp. 245-76.

Entry on Margaret Mahy. Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Eds Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie. Auckland: OUP, 1998. Pp. 328-29.

Entry on Margaret Mahy's A Lion in the Meadow. Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Eds Roger Robinson and Nelson Wattie. Auckland: OUP, 1998. Pp. 306-07.

"Medieval 'allegorical imagery' in c.1630: Will. Baspoole's revision of The Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode." In Studies in English Language and Literature: 'Doubt wisely'—Papers in Honour of E.G. Stanley. Eds. M.J. Toswell and E.M. Tyler. London and New York, Routledge, 1996. Pp 304-22.

"Peace as a Carpenter's Square in Guillaume de Deguileville's Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine." In Of Pavlova, Poetry and Paradigms: Essays in Honour of Harry Orsman. Eds. Laurie Bauer and Christine Franzen. Wellington, Victoria University Press, 1993. Pp. 261-73.

Journal articles

“’Kultour’ meets cul: More Wordplay in Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale”. Notes and Queries (2019), 1-2.

“David Bindon’s ‘pledges’ and the marketable children of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal”. Notes and Queries 65: 2 (2018), 233-35.

“Elizabeth Drury as ‘druery’ in John Donne’s ‘A Funeral Elegy’”. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 31: 2 (2018), 73-75.

“Being Overshadowed: An Ovidian Antecedent for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 41-9”. Coleridge Bulletin. New Series 52 (2018), 59-62.

“’It begins with the tale of a garden’: The Biblical Resonance of Margaret Mahy’s The Tricksters”.  Journal of New Zealand Literature 36:2 (2018), 84-96.

“An Analogous Adversary: The Old Dispensation in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 28: 2 (2017), pp. 204-18.

“The Generic Ambiguity of Margaret Mahy’s The Changeover”. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 41: 1 (2016), 59-73.

“OED add, v. 1.b. ‘to add faith to’: A problematic citation”, Notes and Queries 63:1 (2016), 22-23.

“The After-lives of Vain Women: Pope’s Sylphs and the Corpuscular Philosophy of Robert Boyle”. Journal of Literature and Science, 9:1 (2016), 1-15.

“Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 740 and New York Public Library MS Spencer 19: A common history?” Journal of the Early Book Society 18 (2015), 192-206.

“Louise Moulton's 'Number 101’: A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Anticipation of the Stone Angel in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel". ANQ: A Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. 17:4 (2014), pp. 171-76

"'Vehicles of Prayer' and 'Vehicles . . . of Prayer': The Hind and the Panther III 65-6 and The Rape of the Lock I. 50." Notes and Queries 61: 3 (2014). Pp. 397-98.

"Keats’s 'cloudy symbols' and the Shape-Shifting Clouds of Shakespeare’s Antony (Antony and Cleopatra IV.xiv.1-22)." ANQ: A Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 27: 1 (2014). Pp. 13-15.

"The Wedding Feast as Communion in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Notes and Queries 61: 1 (2014). Pp. 56-8.

"'In a valley of this restless mind': A Source in the Horologium Sapientiae of Henry Suso." Notes and Queries 60: 2 (2013). Pp. 194-96.

"Home Truths and Fantasy Worlds" By-line article on Margaret Mahy in New Zealand Books 100. Summer 2012.

"The Cupid and Psyche Fable of Apuleius and Guyon’s Underworld Adventure" in The Faerie Queene II.vii.3-viii.8. Spenser Studies 26 (2011). Pp. 45-73.

"Spenser’s Adiaphoric Dwarf." Spenser Studies 25 (2010). Pp. 53-78.

"The Analogy from Chemistry in Pope's 'Epistle to a Lady' 269-92." ANQ: A Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Review. 23: 3 (2010). Pp. 154-62.

"A Question of Competence: The Card Game in The Rape of the Lock, A Response to Oliver R. Baker." Connottions 19: 1-3 (2009-10). Pp. 229-37.

"Margaret Mahy: An Adlerian Reading." International Research in Children’s Literature, 1: 2 (December 2008). Pp. 187-99.

"'Resorting to Sermons' The Place of Preaching in William Baspoole’s The Pilgrime and George Herbert’s The Country Parson." George Herbert Journal, 30: 1-2 (Fall 2006/Spring2007). Pp. 42-58.

"Pope's Essay on Criticism, ll. 205-6: A Source in the Moriae Encomium of Erasmus." Notes and Queries 253: 3 (September 2008). Pp. 315-6.

"'My mother was a writer': Kathryn Walls looks at the influence of Lyndahl Chapple Gee's writing on her son's." Byline article. P. 12 in New Zealand Books (December, 2006).

"The Unveiling of the Dressing Table in Pope’s Rape of the Lock." Notes and Queries, 53: 2 (June, 2006). Pp. 196-7.

"The Magnus Effect: Names in The Real Inspector Hound." English Language Notes, 43: 2 (December, 2005). Pp. 180-92.

"'Adam-Wits' in Absalom and Achitophel." Notes and Queries, 52: 3 (September, 2005). P. 337.

Shakespeare’s Hamlet I.2.35-38. The Explicator, 63:1 (2004). Pp. 4-5.

"Pope's 'Epistle to a Lady' l.207-10." The Explicator. 62:2 (2004). Pp. 83-5.

"Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing 3.5.17-26." The Explicator 61:4 (2003). Pp. 200-02.

"The Axe in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." ANQ: A Quarterly of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. 16: 1 (2002). Pp. 13-18.

"Divine Resorts: Arlo Hill and Mount Thabor in Spenser's ‘Mutabilitie Cantos’." English Language Notes 40: 2 (2002). Pp. 1-3.

"The Popish Kingdom as a possible source for the satyrs' reception of Una and her Ass." English Language Notes 40: 1 (2002). Pp. 22-9.

"Absolon as Barber-Surgeon." Chaucer Review 35:4 (2001). Pp. 390-98.

"Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde ll. 580-875." The Explicator 59: 2 (2001). Pp. 59-62.

"Archbishop Cranmer's ‘poor box’ Injunction and The Faerie Queene, I. iii. 16-18." Notes and Queries 48: 3 (2001). Pp. 251-54.

"The Wine-Press of Learning in Herbert's 'The Pearl'." Notes and Queries 45: 1 (1998). Pp. 40-43.

"The Rainbow as Archer's Bow in the Chester Cycle's Noah's Flood." Notes and Queries 42: 1 (1995). Pp. 27-28.

"The Significance of Arca and 'Goddes Pryvetee' in The Miller's Tale." Notes and Queries 42: 1 (1995). Pp. 24-26.

"Problem Solving in Real and Imagined Worlds." Centre for Research in the New Literatures in English Reviews Journal. No 1, 1993. Pp. 103-10.

"The Dove on a Cord in the Chester Cycle's Noah's Flood." Theatre Notebook. 47: 1 (1993). Pp. 42-47.

"Saint Gregory's Moralia as a Possible Source for the Middle English Patience." Notes and Queries. 39: 4 (1992). Pp. 436-38.

"'To prosecute the plot': A Spenser allusion in Absalom and Achitophel." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. 4: 3 (1991). Pp. 122-24.

Stobo, M. "The Cambridge Copy of The Pilgrim and the Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptorum Angliae (1697)." Notes and Queries. 34: 4 (1987). Pp. 463-65.

"Abessa and the lion: The Faerie Queene, I.3.1-12." Spenser Studies. V, (1985). Pp. 3-30.

"Spenser's Kirkrapine and John Foxe's attack on Rome." Notes and Queries 31:2 (1984). Pp. 173-75.

"George MacDonald's Lilith and the Later Poetry of T.S. Eliot." English Language Notes 26 (1978). Pp. 173-75.

"Patience and her 'hil of sand' in the 'Parliament of Fowls'." American Notes and Queries 16 (1977). P. 34.

"The 'just day' in Jonson's 'On my First Sonne'." Notes and Queries 24:2 (1977). P. 136.

"Did Lydgate translate the Pelerinage de Vie Humaine?" Notes and Queries 24: 2 (1977). P. 136.

Online

Edmund Spenser. (with Victoria Coldham-Fussell). Oxford Bibliographies: Renaissance and Reformation (2017)

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195399301/obo-9780195399301-0372.xml

Joy Cowley. The Literary Encyclopedia 9.1.2 (2017).

https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1047

Reviews

Dominion, Edmund Spenser Online, Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, Landfall, Mystics Quarterly, New Zealand Books, New Zealand Listener.

Conference papers

At conferences of the Australia and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (several, plus chairing), Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research (2, plus chairing), Australasian Languages and Literature Association (1), International Congress on Medieval Studies, at Kalamazoo (several), International Courtly Literature Society (1), International Medieval Congress, Leeds (1), International Research Society for Children’s Literature (1), Mythopoeic Literature Society of Australia (1), Northeastern Renaissance Conference (1), Renaissance Society of America (1, plus chairing), Scientiae (1, plus chairing, and 1 forthcoming), Société du Musée historique de la Réformation et Bibliothèque Calvinienne (1), Sixteenth-Century Society (4).