Faculty Publications

The faculty in the department of English and Communication are active scholars and creative writers. The following selection of publications highlights most recent work.

Derek C. Maus, Unvarnshing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire

 

Derek C. Maus

Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire, University of South Carolina Press, 2011.

Stephanie Coyne DeGhett, Balsam


 Stephanie Coyne DeGhett

 "Balsam."  The Missouri Review. Fall 2011: 150-167.

James J. Donahue, Visions of Gerard and Jack Kerouac's Complicated Hagiography


James J. Donahue


"Visions of Gerard and Jack Kerouac's Complicated Hagiography." The Midwest Quarterly. LI.1 (Autumn 2009): 26-44.
Lisa Wilson, The Public's Open to Us All: Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England, Edited by Laura Engel

 

Lisa M. Wilson

"From Actress to Authoress: Mary Robinson's Pseudonymous Celebrity." The Public's Open to Us All: Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England. Ed, Laura Engel. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2009: 156-175.

Christine M. Doran, “Reading Right to Left: How Defamiliarization Helps Students Read a Familiar Genre.”

 

Christine M. Doran

“Reading Right to Left: How Defamiliarization Helps Students Read a Familiar Genre.”  Teaching the Novel Across the Curriculum: A Handbook for Educators. Ed. Colin Irvine.  Greenwood Press, 2008: 118-129.

Maurice Kenny, Connotations

 

 Maurice Kenny

 Connotations.  White Pine Press. 2008.      

Derek C. Maus, Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley's Fiction

 

Derek C. Maus

Finding a Way Home: A Critical Assessment of Walter Mosley's Fiction. Ed. by Owen E. Brady and Derek C. Maus. The University Press of Mississippi, 2008.

Stephanie Coyne DeGhett, No Longer Any Place But Here

 

Stephanie Coyne DeGhett

No Longer Any Place But Here. Finishing Line Press, 2007.


James J. Donahue, "Hardly the voice of the same man": "Civil Disobedience and Thoreau's Responses to John Brown"

 

James J. Donahue

“Hardly the voice of the same man”: “Civil Disobedience and Thoreau’s Responses to John Brown.”  The Midwest Quarterly 48.2 (Winter 2007): 247-265.

 

James Allen Hall, Now You're the Enemy

 

James Allen Hall

Now You’re the EnemyThe University of Arkansas Press, 2008.  Winner of: Lambda Literary Award; the Helen C. Smith Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, and the George Garrett Award for New Writing from the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

 

Rick Henry, Lucy's Eggs

 

Rick Henry

Lucy’s EggsSyracuse University Press, 2006.

 

Donald J. McNutt, Urban Revelations: Images of Ruin in the American City, 1790-1860

 

 Donald J. McNutt

 Urban Revelations: Images of Ruin in the American City, 1790-1860Routledge, 2006.

 

Alan Steinberg, Cry of the Leopard

 

 Alan Steinberg

 Cry of the LeopardSt. Martin’s Press. 1997.

 

Judith Funston, Henry James, a reference guide, 1975-1987

 

Judith E. Funston

Henry James; a reference guide 1975-1987G.K.Hall & Co, 1991.

 

 

Trevor J. Blank, Folk Culture in the Digital Age


Trevor J. Blank

Folk Culture in the Digital Age: The Emergent Dynamics of  Human Interaction.  Ed. by Trevor J. Blank.  Utah State University Press,  2012.

Trevor J. Blank, Folklore and the Internet

 

Trevor J. Blank

 Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World. Ed. by Trevor J. Blank. Utah State University Press.  2009.

Maurice Kenny, Molly Brant

 

Maurice Kenny

Tekonwatoni/Molly BrantWhite Pine Press.  1992.

 

James J. Donahue, Cooper, Doctorow, and American Exceptionalism; or, why we love historical fiction

 

James J. Donahue

Cooper, Doctorow, ad American Exceptionalism; or, why we love historical fiction.  Narrative is the Essence of History: Essays on the Historical Novel.  Ed. by Jackie Cameron. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.  2012: 89-99.

Alan Steinberg, Maurice Kenny: Celebrations of a Mohawk Writer


Alan Steinberg

Maurice Kenny: Celebrations of a Mohawk Writer. Ed. by Penelope Myrtle Kelsey.  SUNY Press.  2011.  With essays by Alan Steinberg and Karen Gibson.

Alan Steinberg, Inquiry, Argument, & Change: A Rhetoric with Readings

 

Alan Steinberg

Inquiry, Argument, & Change: A Rhetoric with Readings. Kendall Hunt. 2010.  Authors: Krieger, Saint-Amand, Neal, and Steinberg.

 

Alan Steinberg, Body & Soul

 

Alan Steinberg

"The Alzheimer's Man."  Body & Soul: Narratives of Healing from Ars MedicaUniversity of Toronto Press.  2012: 213-214.

Rick Henry, Chant

 

Rick Henry

Chant. BlazeVOX Books.   2008.

Henry, Tyler, Coyne DeGhett, Gann, Steinberg, Gilborn, The Blueline Anthology

 

Rick Henry, Anthony O. Tyler, Stephanie Coyne-DeGhett, Myra Gann, Alan Steinberg, Alice Wolf Gilborn

The Blueline Anthology.  Ed. by Henry, Tyler, Coyne-DeGhett, Gann, Steinberg, and Gilborn.  Syracuse University Press.  2004.

Richard Henry, Pretending and Meaning: Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Fictional Discourse

 

Richard Henry

Pretending and Meaning: Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Fictional Discourse. Contributions in Philosophy, vol. 57. Westport, CT.  Greenwood.  1996.

James Allen Hall, "One Train's Survival Depends on The Other Derailed," The Best American Poetry 2012

 

James Allen Hall

"One Train's Survival Depends on The Other Derailed."  In The Best American Poetry 2012.  Doty and Lehman, eds.  New York: Scribner, 2012.  Originally appeared in New England Review.

 

James Allen Hall, "Fugitives." Who's Yer Daddy?: Gay Men Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners

 

James Allen Hall

"Fugitives." In Who's Yer Daddy?: Gay Men Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners.  Elledge and Groff, eds.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.  2012.

Karyn Crispo Jones, Building a Second Home

 

Karyn Crispo Jones

Building a Second HomeFinishing Line Press.  2009.