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“Voice and Organizational Integrity” in the Elgar Research
Handbook on Organizational Integrity (with Mary Gentile, Ed. Muel Kaptein)

“Kant’s ‘Jewel’ and Collins’s ‘Moonstone’: The Problem of Moral Luck in Mystery Fiction” in Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature

“How Black Lives Matter: Alice Walker, Alasdair MacIntyre, and the Moral Significance of Enacted Narrative” in Philosophy and Literature

“Ethical Influence: A Virtue Perspective” in a collection on business ethics assembled by the Fanning Center for Business Communication at Notre Dame published by Kendall Hunt

“Acting Christ: The Christocentric Exemplarism of Gerard Manley Hopkins” in Literature and Theology (Vol. 34, No. 2, June 2020, pages 228-244)

“Oscar Wilde’s Humility: A Reassessment of The Ballad of Reading Gaol” in Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 69, No. 4; Fall 2017)

“The Triptych of Dorian Gray: Reading Wilde’s Novel as Three Print Objects” in Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens (Vol. 84, Fall 2016)

“Hopkins’s Approach to Mortality and his Innovations in Poetic Form” in The Hopkins Quarterly (Vol. 41 Nos. 3-4, Fall 2015)

Teaching

At the University of Notre Dame

Ethical Issues in Business and Technology (ESTEEM)

Introduction to Business Ethics (Undergraduate)

Management Communication (MNA)

Strategic Communication (MS in Management)

Management Speaking (MS in Management)

Moreau First Year Experience (Undergraduate)

Strategic Writing (MBA, MS in Accounting)

Writing and Rhetoric (Undergraduate)

At Moreau College (Indiana State Correctional Facility, Westville, IN)

Business Ethics (Undergraduate)

At Loyola University Chicago

Interpreting Literature (Undergraduate)

Women in Literature (Undergraduate)

Writing Responsibly (Undergraduate)

Popular Essays and Reviews

“Finding the Fairness Formula.” (Cover Story) Mendoza Business Magazine. Spring, 2025.

“Head, Heart, and Hands.” (Cover Story) Mendoza Business Magazine. Spring, 2024.

“Taking Her Science to the Streets.” Notre Dame Stories. July 22, 2024.

“Bernie, Oppie, and the Atom Bomb.” Notre Dame Magazine. Fall, 2023.

“Groundbreakers.” (Cover Story) Mendoza Business Magazine. Spring, 2023.

“The Chip Makers.” Notre Dame Stories. May 1, 2023.

“Peace Can Happen.” Notre Dame Magazine. Winter, 2022

“Greener Measures.” (Cover Story) Mendoza Business Magazine. Spring, 2022. (This issue won a Circle of Excellence Silver Award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education)

“Power of the People.” Notre Dame Magazine. Fall, 2021.

“The Century Mark.” (Cover Story)  Mendoza Business Magazine. Spring, 2021.

“Charting the Course to Your Calling.” Mendoza Business Magazine. Spring, 2021.

“What We Know, We Owe.” Notre Dame Magazine. Summer, 2020.

“The Newest Code Makers.” Notre Dame Magazine. Summer, 2020.

“Chasing Unicorns.” Mendoza Business Magazine (Cover Story). Spring 2020.

“How to Prioritize Ethical Leadership Amid the Pandemic.” Mendoza Business Magazine. March 24, 2020.

“How Disinformation Hacks Your Brain.” Scientific American. December 26, 2019.

“Scrooge, Marley, and the Business of Mankind.” Notre Dame Magazine. December 19, 2019.

“The ESOP Effect.” Mendoza Business Magazine. Fall 2019.

“You Won’t Believe Your Eyes.” Notre Dame Magazine. November 11, 2019.

“A Poet in the Pulpit: On the Brilliant, Homely Homilies of Gerard Manley Hopkins.” Los Angeles Review of Books. October 16, 2019.

“Why the Catholic Church’s new saint, John Henry Newman, is surprisingly relevant in a Pope Francis era.” The Washington Post. October 11, 2019.

“The Lost Virtue.” Notre Dame Magazine. Summer 2019.

“Automation Anxiety and the Meaning of Work.” Mendoza Business Magazine (Cover Story). Spring 2019.

“Minding the (Income) Gap.” Mendoza Business Magazine. Fall, 2018.

“In Our Own Image: American Christians Imagine God Looks Like Them.” Sojourners. July 5, 2018.

“Nobody’s Bible: A Review of The New Testament: A Translation by David Bentley Hart.” The Cresset (Vol. 81, No. 2)

“Obamacare Saved My Dad’s Life—Then He Voted for Donald Trump.” Salon. January 14, 2017.

“Runners and Losers.” The Other Journal. Online: August 4, 2016 / Print: No. 26, Fall 2016

Review of Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth by Lee Jackson – Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (Spring 2016)

“Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Science Fiction in William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880)” – The Public Domain Review online and included in The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, Vol III (PDR Press, 2016)

“‘I ought to die, my dear’: The Good Death and the Penultimate Installment of Our Mutual Friend” – The Our Mutual Friend Reading Project (October 15, 2015)

“The Poem and the Hotel” – Ploughshares Blog, September 6, 2015

“Emily Dickinson: A Private Poet in the Digital Age?” – Ploughshares Blog, August 2, 2015

“Guns and Poems” – Ploughshares Blog, July 5, 2015

“No Poetry Aloud…?” – Ploughshares Blog, June 7, 2015

“Oscar Wilde and the Stereotype” – Ploughshares Blog, April 29, 2015

“Easter, 1916” – Ploughshares Blog, April 5, 2015

“Reading All the Things” – Ploughshares Blog, February 1, 2015

“The Serial Itch” – Ploughshares Blog, January 4, 2015

“Fall’s Barbarous Beauty” – The Behemoth, October 30, 2014

“Getting to Know Failure” – The Curator, June 13, 2014

“In Defense of War Poetry” – The Curator, April 11, 2014

“Elevation and Entertainment: Field Notes from the Sundance Film Festival” – The Curator, February 12, 2014.

“God’s Wider Presence: Art and Faith in a Neo-Romantic Age” – Books & Culture 

Review of Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World by Thomas Cahill – Booklist

“Reading and Resistance” – The Curator, December 16, 2013

“The Art World Inside Out: Field Notes from ArtPrize 2013” – The Curator, October 21, 2013

“Do Intelligent People Need Religion?” – Religion Dispatches, August 23, 2013

“Comedy and Nothing” – The Curator, August 19, 2013

“Reading Kierkegaard in the Age of MOOCS” – The Curator, May 22, 

Review of The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life by Giorgio Agamben – The Englewood Review of Books

Review of Supernatural Short Stories by Charles Dickens – Booklist

Review of Beg: A Radical New Way of Regarding Animals by Rory Freedman – Booklist

Review of House of Earth by Woody Guthrie – The Englewood Review of Books

Review of Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education by Stratford Caldecott – The Englewood Review of Books

Review of The Eye of The Mammoth: Selected Essays by Stephen Harrigan – Booklist

Review of The Year of Dreaming Dangerously by Slavoj Žižek – The Englewood Review of Books

Review of In Praise of Love by Alain Badiou – The Englewood Review of Books

Review of The Event of Literature by Terry Eagleton – The Englewood Review of Books

Books

(With Kerry Temple) O’Hara’s Heirs: Business Education at Notre Dame, 1921-2021

Research Briefs

The Trust Triad

To be good, be grateful.

Should you be forthcoming about your shortcomings?

How Plain Talk Helps You “Walk the Walk”

A More Positive Path to Power

Will meaningful work make your employees moral?

How Self-Reflection Can Improve Your Leadership

How the Best Apologies Are Made

How to Build a High-Trust Team in a Low-Touch World

How to Fail Better

Can a Connection to Nature Enhance Your Ethics

Turn Your Toxic Conflicts into Productive Disagreements

How to Spark Moral Imagination

Stories Make Your Values Stick

Is ethical leadership an art?

The Power of Positive-Sum Thinking

Want to be a compassionate leader? Start with self-compassion.

During dark times, gratitude matters more than ever.

3 Strategies for Leading in Times of Political Polarization

What Most Leaders Miss About the Value of Virtue

Use this “receptiveness recipe” to improve your toughest conversations.

Three Strategies for Ethical Influence

Why Leaders Should Embrace Emotional Complexity

Four Ways to Stop the Spread (of Misinformation)

When you take a stand, go beyond grandstanding.

Great leaders are good at hearing bad news.

Is there an ethical upside to remote work?

Feeling moral stress? Here’s how to foster resilience.

Leading During Times of Crisis

How can we close the gender punishment gap?

Ethical leaders should be humble—especially about their own ethics.

“Creative Maladjustment”: Refusing to Adjust to Injustice

2020 Vision: Four New Year’s Resolutions for Ethical Leaders

Yes, ethics can be taught.

Be honest, or be kind—Do you really have to choose?

The Surprising Link Between Dishonesty and Empathy

One simple question can “nudge” people toward ethical behavior.

Four Benefits of Bringing Awe to Work

To make better decisions, get comfortable saying “I don’t know.”

Achieve your goals by competing less, not more.

Breaking Conformity: The Power of One Lone Voice

Do What’s Right, Sleep Well Tonight.

Improve Your Self-Control With This Simple Strategy.

To lead in a divided world, learn how to close the empathy gap.

It (literally) pays to be generous.

Gratitude has more benefits—and fewer risks—than you think.

The Little-Known Emotion that Makes Ethical Leadership Contagious

You can promote honesty by asking better questions.

Go ahead. Get angry about unethical behavior.

How High-Integrity Leaders Can Help Employees Speak Up

What Dishonesty Does to Your Brain

To boost ethical behavior, let your employees learn something new.

How “Could” Triggers Moral Insight

Side-by-side comparison can help you make ethical choices and avoid stereotypes.

Are your ethics better than average?

Build Integrity by Imagining Your Future Self

Four Ways to Avoid the Pitfalls of Motivated Moral Reasoning

To think ethically, stay focused on the future.

A simple switch that boosts ethical behavior: focus on gains rather than losses.

Create a “Speak Up” Culture

Ethics Training is Broken. Can Storytelling Fix It?

Getting angry at work can help you stand up for what’s right.

Doing the right thing takes time. What if you don’t have it?

Keep ethics from “fading” when you face a tough decision.

What can a bonobo teach a hedge fund manager?

The Ethical Benefits of Being Yourself

Are you a cynic? It might be hurting your career.

Four Feedback Strategies that Drive Performance and Ethical Behavior

Protecting Yourself from an Unethical Boss

What is Integrity?

Four Ways to Use Your Power Ethically

Attract Emerging Leaders with Purpose, not Perks

How Generosity Builds Trust

The Secrets of Giving and Receiving Thanks at Work

Sustaining Success: Managing the Pressures that Come with High Performance

Digital Projects

Study guides for “The Wreck of the Deutschland” and other poems published at HopkinsPoetry.com, a knowledge site operated by the International Hopkins Association

Interviews

As Interviewee: “Automation Anxiety” on “Kresta in the Afternoon” syndicated on 350 stations and Sirius Satellite Radio

As Interviewer: “The Evolution of the Style Guide: An Interview With Steven Pinker” – Ploughshares Blog, October 20, 2014

Education and Training

Degrees

PhD in English from Loyola University Chicago 

MTS in Christian Ethics from the University of Notre Dame      

BA in English from Calvin College

Certifications and Trainings

Digital Humanities Research Institute, University of Notre Dame

Community Engagement Faculty Institute, University of Notre Dame

Project Management Certificate, University of Notre Dame

Executive Certificate in Digital Marketing, University of Notre Dame

Certificate in Professional Grant Writing, DePaul University