Essays and Articles
            “From Margins to Margins: Cultural Integrity, Ecological Survival and Future Transcripts
in the Historical Home-Based Health Narratives of Nova Scotia and West Virginia.” Probing the Boundaries [Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship]. 7th Global Conference, Inter-Disciplinary Net. Mansfield College, Oxford, England.  11 July 2008.   Online:  http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/ebooks/connected-accountabilities/

‘Butter the size of a walnut’ :West Virginia Food and Folklore--and Changes in Rural Women’s Health?.  West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies (accepted April 2008).

Stiles, D.; Rangel, C.; MacLaughlin, J.; Sanderson, L.; and K. MacNeil. 2007. Rurality, Gender, and Leisure: Experiences of Young Rural Women in a Nova Scotia Community. Journal of Rural Community Psychology E10(2). Available: http://www.marshall.edu/jrcp/V10 N2/stiles.pdf

‘The Dragon of Imperialism’:  Martin Butler, Butler’s Journal, the Canadian Democrat, and Anti-Imperialism, 1899-1902. Canadian Historical Review 85, 3 (September 2004) 481-505.

Rural Women, Underdevelopment, Health Knowledge, and Modernity:  Women and Family Farms as Part of a Broader Context of Change.  Anita Silvana Ilak Persuric, ed. Perspektive Žena u Obiteljskoj Poljoprivredi I Ruralnom Razvoju / Women Perspectives in Family Farming (Porec, Croatia: The Institute for Agriculture and Tourism, 2003), 130-35.

The Gender and Class Dimensions of a Rural Childhood: Martin Butler in New Brunswick, 1857‑1871. Acadiensis. XXXIII, 1 (Fall 2003), 73-86.

‘Of the people in the country’: Rural Radicalism, Martin Butler, and Butler’s Journal, 1890-1915. (Truro, NS: Proc., Sixth Annual Colloquium of the Rural Research Centre, K.B. Beesley and D. Ramsey, eds.,  Nova Scotia Agricultural College, 1999)1-12.

"Masculinity, Martin Butler, and the North American Sole Leather Tanning Industry:
1871‑1890."  Labour/Le Travail 42(Fall 1998)85-114.

"'An Inner and Outer Peace':  A Tribute to Petra Kelly (1947‑1992)," Maine Peace Action Committee Newsletter (March 1993)2‑3.

Tucker County Rural Development Study: Implications for the Future Development of Mountain Aquaculture and Producers Association, Inc. (MA & PA), a Non-Profit Farmers Cooperative. Technical Report, W.Va. Institute of Technology EDA University Center, 1993. Co-authored with Kai Schafft.

"Buckwheat‑‑History‑‑and The Bouchard Family Farm," Le Forum 16.4 (1989):27.

Reviews
War on the Home Front:  The Farm Diaries of Daniel MacMillan, 1914-1927. ed. Bill Parenteau and Stephen Dutcher. Vol. 7, The New Brunswick Military Heritage Series.  Fredericton:  Goose Lane Editions, NBMHP, 2006.  Canadian Historical Review 88.3 (September 2007):527-29.

Clifton Royal:  The Wetmores and Village Life in Nineteenth-Century New Brunswick. ed. Judith Baxter.  Mercury Series. Gatineau:  Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2004. Canadian Historical Review 87.3 (September 2006): 521-22.

Divisions of the Heart: Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Memory and Place. eds. Barry, Davies, Sanger. The Antigonish Review 133 (Summer 2003): 65-8.

No Willows: For the Zen Cowboy by Tom Gibbs. Wind Magazine  19.64 (1989): 106‑7.

Momentary Days by Robert Gibb.  Wind Magazine 20.65(1990):105‑06.

Crossing Borderlines (music review). Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum 17.2(1989):16.

The Devil is Loose! by Antoinine Maillet.  Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum.17.5/6 (1990):24.

Poetry
"Old Man." Wind Magazine 17.60 (1987):35.
"Subliminal Prejudice." MsQuotes (1988): 2.
"Sleep:  In the House on Eighth Avenue."  Potato Eyes 2 (1988):70.
"Milk."  Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum 16.3(1988):21.
"Visitation." Chants 1 (1989):13.
"Mnemonic."  The Maine Review (1989):15.
"Mid‑February Down‑Side."  The Maine Review (1989):32.
"A Drive from St. Agathe." Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum 16.4 (1989):28.
"At the Fair."  The Puckerbrush Review  9.2 (Summer 1990): 11.
"Scent."  The Puckerbrush Review  9.2 (Summer 1990): 11.
"Old Wool."  Kennebec 14(1990):20.
"Mother." The Maine Review (1990):41.

"Scene from the University Farm.." The Maine Review  (1990):50.
"Montréal, Again." The Maine Review  (1990):40.
"A Wish: Before the Fire."  Chants  2 (Spring 1990):23.
"Tenacious."  Chants 2 (Spring 1990): 24.
"Movie Kisses."  Kennebec 15 (1991).
"The Waiting." Lincoln News  (January 1991).
"Texas Pecans."  Whetstone  (March 1991).
"Riding Limestone."  Whetstone  (March 1991).
"Reality to Reason." Whetstone  (March 1991).
"A Visit to Arlinka's House."  Zymergy  9 (Spring 1991):26‑28.
"Our Fathers."  Zymergy 9 (Spring 1991): 28.
"The Child Tentacles." Chants 4 (Spring 1992):35.
"Geist." Kennebec 16(1992):54.
"Burninghouse."  Grab‑A‑Nickel (Spring 1992).
"Her Heart Beats." Grab‑A‑Nickel  (Spring 1992).
"The Poet Dreams of Sterility‑‑And of War. . ."  MPAC (March 1993):16.
"A Minute Reflection on Women's General Aversion to War."  MPAC (March 1993):16.
"Hold Fast."  To: 1.2 (Spring 1993):93‑98.
"For Those Who Nurse the Vision."  Grab‑A‑Nickel (Fall 1994).
"The Rules for Elevators." Pottersfield Portfolio 16.1(Fall 1995):71‑72.
"This is What Swimming is." Nashwaak Review  2.2(Fall 1996)117.
"Emperor Penguins."  Nashwaak Review 2.2(Fall 1996)118.
"Hair:  Not a Musical." Nashwaak Review 2.2(Fall 1996)119.
"Those Memorials:  January 1991."  Nashwaak Review 2.2(Fall 1996)120.
"The Return."  Nashwaak Review 2.2(Fall 1996):121.
"Boxes: for K.S." Carleton Arts Review (Winter, 1997):27.
"poem from 20 mai." Yield 1.3 (Winter, 1997):15.
"Separate Spheres."  Fiddlehead  194 (Winter 1997):76‑77.
"Non‑hypocrite Women."  Fiddlehead  194 (Winter 1997):78.
"pms poem." Fireweed 62 (Summer 1998):25.
“that before/after read.”  The Writing Space Journal 9.1 (Spring 2002):5-6.
“the mark(er) is permanent [untitled].” The Writing Space Journal 9.1 (Spring 2002): 7.
“technological possibilities.” The Writing Space Journal 9.1 (Spring 2002):17.
“the final week: triphasil.”52%  (Fall 2002).

“shared sentiment on Melville.” The Antigonish Review134 (Summer 2003): 125.
“was warren harding ever.” The Antigonish Review 134 (Summer 2003): 126.
“Appearances.” Forthcoming in Grab-A-Nickel.

Fiction
"Sunday Morning Execution." Frost Heaves 1(Winter 1990):6‑7.
"Short Story."  Whetstone (April/May 1991):7.
"When Love Steers The Stars‑‑And We Don't Look Away." Gaspereau Review 4 (Summer 1998): 35-39.

Work in Progress
Books:           

(working title) Poet, Peddler, Workingman:  Martin Butler and the Changing Meanings for Rural, Working-Class Masculinity, 1857-1915

(working title, in English) Canadian Men, Manhood, and Masculinity: Historical Essays

B0M 1L0: Essays on the Primacy of Place

No Curtains on These Windows (short story collection)

burninghouse (poetry)

notes from earth (poetry) (under consideration by Puckerbrush Press)

Presentations
     

“Community Identity, Rural Women’s Leisure, and Rural Community Health: What are the Connections?”  Annual Meeting, Agricultural History Society, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA, June 2007. Report from Women’s Health in Rural Communities (WHIRC) research, CIHR-funded project.

      Women Without Borders(femmes sans frontières):  A Canadian-American Look at Rural Women Volunteer Organizations Through An Ongoing Exchange Involving the West Virginia CEOS and the Women's Institutes of Nova Scotia.  Rural Women’s Studies Association Triennial Conference, Lancaster, PA, USA, October 2006.

      Rethinking Gender, Race, and Space: Tools for Synthesis in Twentieth Century Rural History.  American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, January 2005.

Coal Novels and Cookbooks:  A Means to Understanding, Historically, West Virginia’s  Diverse Regions.  Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 2004.

      ‘Butter the Size of a Walnut’:  West Virginia Food and Folklore--and Changes in Rural Women’s Health.  National Rural Women’s Health Conference, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State University, October 2004.

      “Uncle Sam’s Epistle to the Philippines: One Canadian Working-Class Voice Against Empire, 1898-1902" 25th Annual North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, 2003.