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 2022

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TLAMACHILIZTLAHTOLÇAÇANILLI: A Performance Translation of the Náhuatl "Wisdom-Discourse Fables" from the Manuscript of 1558, Willard Gingerich (2022)

Submissions from 2021

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Narrative and Cosmopolitan Mobility: Teju Cole’s Open City and Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, Jeffrey Gonzalez (2021)

Submissions from 2020

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Overlapping Agencies: The Collision of Cancer, Consumers, and Corporations in Richard Powers’s "Gain", Jeffrey Gonzalez (2020)

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European Romanticism and Frankenstein: A Comparative Literature Course for English Majors, Wendy Nielsen (2020)

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Introduction: Teaching Global Romanticism, Wendy Nielsen (2020)

Submissions from 2019

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Great Gray Poet or Great Gray Fool? Queries of Whitman's Legacy by Chris Adrian, Sherman Alexie, Andrea Dworkin, and Michael Cunningham, Jeffrey Gonzalez (2019)

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"'Who’s there?' 'Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself' : Attending to Students in Diversified Settings", Naomi C. Liebler (2019)

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Rousseau on Stage: Playwright, Musician, Spectator. Edited by Maria Gullstam and Michael O’Dea, Wendy Nielsen (2019)

Submissions from 2018

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Roshan Ara Begum: Performing Classical Music, Gender, and Muslim Nationalism in Pakistan, Fawzia Afzal-Khan (2018)

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Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry (Review), Lee Behlman (2018)

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The Case of Light Verse, or Vers de Societe, Lee Behlman (2018)

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The Marriage of True Minds: Hawthorne and Fuller at Niagara Falls, Monika M. Elbert (2018)

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Teaching Goethe’s Faust, Parts I and II, Wendy Nielsen (2018)

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Wollstonecraft’s Ghost: The Fate of the Female Philosopher in the Romantic Period / The Joseph Johnson Letterbook, Wendy Nielsen (2018)

Submissions from 2017

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Mirrors, Sickrooms, and Dead Letters: Wharton’s Thwarted Gothic Love Plots, Monika M. Elbert (2017)

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The Railroad Reverie in Contemporary Irish Poetry*, Lucy McDiarmid (2017)

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Better, as in the Geneva: The Role of the Geneva Bible in Drafting the King James Version, Jeffrey Miller (2017)

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The Social Network of Early English Drama: A Digital Humanities Lesson Plan, Adam Rzepka, Pierce Williams, and Jennifer Royston (2017)

Submissions from 2016

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The Vietnamese American “Model Orphan” in Aimee Phan’s We Should Never Meet, Emily Cheng (2016)

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Goethe, Faust, and Motherless Creations, Wendy Nielsen (2016)

Submissions from 2015

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The politics of pity and the individual heroine syndrome: Mukhtaran Mai and Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, Fawzia Afzal-Khan (2015)

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Social Space and the Suburb in Mike Cahill's King of California: Mapping Race, Neoliberalism, and Narratives of the Past in the Southern California Landscape, Emily Cheng (2015)

At Home in Nature: Negotiating Ecofeminist Politics in Heidi and Pollyanna, Monika M. Elbert (2015)

Narratives of Teaching and Disability in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature, Monika M. Elbert (2015)

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Water, Waste, and a “Greater Communion”: Rubem Fonseca’s “The Art of Walking in the Streets of Rio de Janeiro”, Johnny Lorenz (2015)

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Art Cinema, Alex Lykidis (2015)

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Crisis of Sovereignty in Recent Greek Cinema, Alex Lykidis (2015)

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Travel in Greek Cinema of the 1990s, Alex Lykidis (2015)

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Rousseau’s Pygmalion and Automata in the Romantic Period, Wendy Nielsen (2015)

Rousseau’s Pygmalion and Automata in the Romantic Period, Wendy Nielsen (2015)

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'How Easy Is a Bush Supposed a Bear?': Differentiating Imaginative Production in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Adam Rzepka (2015)

Submissions from 2014

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Pearl S. Buck’s “American Children”: Adoption of the Amerasian Child, U.S. Democracy, and The Occupation of Japan in The Hidden Flower, Emily Cheng (2014)

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Troubling the ‘Happy Family’: US Liberalism and Narratives of Transnational Adoption and Immigration from China, Emily Cheng (2014)

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Poe and Hawthorne as Women’s Amanuenses, Monika M. Elbert (2014)

(S)exchanges: Reconciling Difference in Julia Ward Howe’s The Hermaphrodite and the Gender Dialectics of Transcendentalism, Monika M. Elbert (2014)

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Ontologies of Interdependence, the Sacred, and Health Care: Marilynne Robinson's Gilead and Home, Jeffrey Gonzalez (2014)

Submissions from 2013

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

Submissions from 2012

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

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

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

Submissions from 2011

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

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

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

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Literature Alive! Using Second Life to Teach American Literature, Laura Nicosia, Eloise Pasteur, and Beth Ritter-Guth (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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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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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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Reviews: Mass Transit by Maniza Naqvi, In the City by the Sea by Kamila Shamsie, Fawzia Afzal-Khan (1999)

Submissions from 1997

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South of Nothing, West of No One: The Prospect for American Studies of Centered Southwest, Willard Gingerich (1997)

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 by Willard Gingerich, 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)