Publications and creative works by faculty in the Department of English, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, are collected here.

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Submissions from 2014

Poets & the Peacock Dinner : The Literary History of a Meal, Lucy McDiarmid (2014)

The Second Sex, Michael Robbins (2014)

American Psalm, World Psalm, Nicholas Samaras (2014)

Submissions from 2013

The Paradox of Catholicism in New England Women’s Gothic, Monika M. Elbert (2013)

Transnational Gothic : Literary and Social Exchanges in the Long Nineteenth Century, Monika M. Elbert and Bridget M. Marshall (2013)

The Murder of Sergei Kirov : History, Scholarship and the Anti-Stalin Paradigm, Grover Furr (2013)

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Film and Migration: Narrative, Genre, Spectatorship, Alex Lykidis (2013)

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Milton, Zanchius, and the Rhetoric of Belated Reading, Jeffrey Miller (2013)

Educators Online : Preparing Today’s Teachers for Tomorrow’s Digital Literacies, Laura M. Nicosia (2013)

Women Warriors in Romantic Drama, Wendy C. Nielsen (2013)

Dangerous Knowledge : The JFK Assassination in Art and Film, Art Simon (2013)

Toward a Literary Ecology : Places and Spaces in American Literature, Karen E. Waldron and Rob Friedman (2013)

Submissions from 2012

The Woman’s Law in The Scarlet Letter, Monika M. Elbert (2012)

Japanese Proverbs : Wit and Wisdom, David Galef (2012)

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Occupy Wall Street's Debt to Melville, Jonathan Greenberg (2012)

Before the Rainbow, Lee Cullen Khanna (2012)

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The Faulty Metaphors of Finance in Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas, Johnny Lorenz (2012)

The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film (4 volumes), Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, and Art Simon (2012)

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Fairy Tales Redux: Jon Scieszka’s Revitalization of a Genre for the 21st Century Kid.”, Laura Nicosia and James Nicosia (2012)

Alien vs. Predator, Michael Robbins (2012)

American Rhapsody : Poems, Carole Stone (2012)

Submissions from 2011

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The Victorian Marcus Aurelius: Mill, Arnold, and the Appeal of the Quasi-Christian, Lee Behlman (2011)

Khrushchev Lied : The Evidence That Every "Revelation" of Stalin's (and Beria's) "Crimes" in Nikita Khrushchev's Infamous "Secret Speech" to the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on February 25, 1956, is Provably False, Grover Furr (2011)

My Date with Neanderthal Woman, David Galef (2011)

Modernism, Satire, and the Novel, Jonathan Greenberg (2011)

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Black Representation in Independent Cinema: From Civil Rights to Black Power, Alex Lykidis (2011)

Submissions from 2010

Lahore with Love : Growing Up with Girlfriends, Pakistani-Style, Fawzia Afzal-Khan (2010)

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Performative Interventions in the Body Politic of Pakistan, Fawzia Afzal-Khan (2010)

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Sext of Saudade, Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Annie Rachele Lanzillotto (2010)

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Jihad Against Violence: A One-Act Play, Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Bina Sharif (2010)

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Loving 'Stranger-Wise': Augusta Webster's Mother and Daughter and Nineteenth-Century Poetry on Motherhood, Lee Behlman (2010)

The Metropolitan as Master Subject: Janet Flanner's 'Paris Letters', Jeffrey Gonzalez (2010)

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Cannibals and Catholics: Reading the Reading of Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief, Jonathan Greenberg (2010)

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Multicultural Encounters in Haneke's French-Language Cinema, Alex Lykidis (2010)

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“Making Sense of the Lunacy: Synesthesia, Paratextual Documents and Thoughtless Memory in John Dufresne’s Deep in the Shade of Paradise”, Laura Nicosia (2010)

Submissions from 2009

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Meat and the Millennium: Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats and the Transnational Politics of Race and Gender, Emily Cheng (2009)

Minority and Immigrant Representation in Recent European Cinema, Alex Lykidis (2009)

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The Ideology of the Mermaid., Patricia A. Matthew and Jonathan Greenberg (2009)

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Boadicea Onstage before 1800, a Theatrical and Colonial History, Wendy Nielsen (2009)

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“Boadicea Onstage before 1800, a Theatrical and Colonial History.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 49.3 (Summer 2009): 595-614., Wendy Nielsen (2009)

Submissions from 2008

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Saints and Sinners: Uncanny Resemblances between Alcott and Twain and Their Redemptive Adolescent Protagonists, Monika M. Elbert (2008)

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“Adolescent Literature and Second Life: Teaching Young Adult Texts in the Digital World”, Laura Nicosia (2008)

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“Literature Alive! Using Second Life to Teach American Literature”, Laura Nicosia (2008)

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“Louis Sachar’s Holes: Palimpsestic Use of the Fairy Tale to Privilege the Reader”, Laura Nicosia (2008)

Submissions from 2007

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Ethical and Methodological Considerations in Clinical Communication Research with Hispanic Populations, José G. Centeno and Willard Gingerich (2007)

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Okonkwo and the Storyteller: Death, Accident, and Meaning in Chinua Achebe and Walter Benjamin, Jonathan Greenberg (2007)

Submissions from 2006

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Nature, Magic, and History: Forging a National Identity in Stowe, Monika M. Elbert (2006)

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Nathanael West and the Mystery of Feeling, Jonathan Greenberg (2006)

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“Adolescent Literature of Witness: Testimonies from the American Margins.”, Laura Nicosia (2006)

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“’Prodigiousness of Diction’: Marianne Moore and Sir Thomas Browne, Secret Sharers of a Like Tradition.”, Laura Nicosia (2006)

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A Tragic Farce: Revolutionary Women in Elizabeth Inchbald’s The Massacre and European Drama, Wendy Nielsen (2006)

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“A Tragic Farce: Revolutionary Women in Elizabeth Inchbald’s The Massacre and European Drama.” European Romantic Review 17.3 (Summer 2006): 275-88., Wendy Nielsen (2006)

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Edmund Eyre's The Maid of Normandy; or, Charlotte Corday in Anglo-Irish Docudrama, Wendy Nielsen (2006)

Submissions from 2005

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Review of David Adams, Colonial Odysseys: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel, Jonathan Greenberg (2005)

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Escape from the dead letter office Smuggled Birds and the Paperless Body in the Americas, Johnny Lorenz (2005)

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A Box for Wilfrid Blunt, Lucy McDiarmid (2005)

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On the Irish Tradition of Intemperate Speech, Lucy McDiarmid and Shirley Kelly (2005)

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“The Essential If/Then: Nathan Zuckerman as Flawed Liberal Ironist in Philip Roth’s The Counterlife.”, Laura Nicosia (2005)

Submissions from 2004

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Burning, burial, and the critique of stoicism in Pater's Marius the Epicurean, Lee Behlman (2004)

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The Escapist: Fantasy, Folklore, and the Pleasures of the Comic Book in Recent Jewish American Holocaust Fiction, Lee Behlman (2004)

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Hawthorne's Gentle Audience and the Feminization of History, Monika M. Elbert (2004)

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Lady Gregory, Wilfrid Blunt, and London Table Talk, Lucy McDiarmid (2004)

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“Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs.”, Laura Nicosia (2004)

Submissions from 2003

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From Ancient to Victorian Cultural Studies: Assessing Foucault, Lee Behlman (2003)

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Wharton's hybridization of Hawthorne's 'brand' of Gothic: gender crossings in 'Ethan brand' and 'bewitched', Monika M. Elbert (2003)

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"Was Anyone Hurt?": The Ends of Satire in "A Handful of Dust", Jonathan Greenberg (2003)

Submissions from 2002

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Striking a Historical Pose: Antebellum Tableaux Vivants, "Godey's" Illustrations, and Margaret Fuller's Heroines, Monika M. Elbert (2002)

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The Displacement of Desire: Consumerism and Fetishism in Mary Wilkins Freeman's Fiction, Monika M. Elbert (2002)

Submissions from 2001

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Sacred Forgeries and the Translation of Nothing in the Tablets of Armand Schwerner, Willard Gingerich (2001)

Submissions from 2000

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The Man Who Died for the Language: The Reverend Dr. O’Hickey and the “Essential Irish” Controversy of 1909., Lucy McDiarmid (2000)

Submissions from 1999

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Mass Transit Maniza Naqvi, Fawzia Afzal-Khan (1999)

Submissions from 1995

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Maternal Dialogics in Toni Morrison's Fiction, Monika M. Elbert (1995)

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Armand Schwerner: An Interview, Willard Gingerich (1995)

Submissions from 1994

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An Interview with Armand Schwerner, Willard Gingerich (1994)

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Augusta Gregory, Bernard Shaw, and the Shewing-Up of Dublin Castle, Lucy McDiarmid (1994)

Submissions from 1993

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Poems and Songs of the Cuicapicqueh, Contemporary Nahuatl Poets, Willard Gingerich (1993)

Submissions from 1992

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Cihuacoatl, Her Song, from the Florentine Codex, Willard Gingerich (1992)

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Myth of the Suns and the Toltec-Chichimec Origins of the Mexica People: The Entire Leyenda de los Soles, Willard Gingerich (1992)

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Quetzalcoatl's Hero Journey, from the Anales de Cuauhtitlan, Willard Gingerich (1992)

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Ten Types of Ambiguity in Nahuatl Poetry, or William Empson among the Aztecs, Willard Gingerich (1992)

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Teteo Innan, Her Song, from the Florentine Codex, Willard Gingerich (1992)

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Tlaloc, His Song, from the Florentine Codex, Willard Gingerich (1992)

Submissions from 1991

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Drum of Poetry, Drum of War, Willard Gingerich (1991)

Submissions from 1990

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History as Tragic Myth in Todos los gatos son pardos, Willard Gingerich (1990)

Submissions from 1989

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The Desert Is No Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art by Vera Norwood and Janice Monk, Willard Gingerich (1989)

Submissions from 1988

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Chipahuacanemiliztli: The Purified Life, in the Discourses of Book VI, Florentine Codex, Willard Gingerich (1988)

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Three Nahuatl Hymns on the Mother Archetype: An interpretive commentary, Willard Gingerich (1988)

Submissions from 1987

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Heidegger and the Aztecs: The poetics of knowing in pre-Hispanic Nahuatl poetry, Willard Gingerich (1987)

Submissions from 1986

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Entrevista con Rogelio Sinán, Alina Camacho Gingerich and Willard Gingerich (1986)

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Quetzalcoatl and the Agon of Time: A Literary Reading Of The Anales de Cuauhtitlan, Willard Gingerich (1986)

Submissions from 1984

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An Aztec "Song of Anguish": The Shape of Performance, Willard Gingerich (1984)

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Arias, Ronald Francis (1941- ), Willard Gingerich (1984)

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Aspects of Prose Style in Three Chicano Novels: Pocho, Bless Me, Ultima, and The Road to Tamazunchale, Willard Gingerich (1984)

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The Poetics of History: A Defense of the Washington Address of Octavio Paz, Willard Gingerich (1984)

Submissions from 1983

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Critical Models for the Study of Native American Literature: The Case of Nahuatl, Willard Gingerich (1983)

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The Vagina Dentata Motif in Nahuatl and Pueblo Mythic Narratives: A Comparative Study, Willard Gingerich and Pat Carr (1983)

Submissions from 1979

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The Old Voices of Acoma: Simon Ortiz's Mythic Indigenism, Willard Gingerich (1979)

Submissions from 1977

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Chicanismo: The Rebirth of a Spirit, Willard Gingerich (1977)

Submissions from 1976

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Rules of the Aztec Language y Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, Willard Gingerich (1976)

Submissions from 1975

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A Bibliographic Introduction to Twenty Manuscripts of Classical Nahuatl Literature, Willard Gingerich (1975)