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.

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 Stephanie Coyne DeGhett

 "The Blackbird Singing."  Cottonwood 68. Cottonwood Press. Fall 2010: 99-105.

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 Enemy.  The University of Arkansas Press, 2007.

 

Jennifer Richardson, Phenomenon Trial: Reading Rhetoric at Texas Beef v. Oprah Winfrey

 

Jennifer Richardson

“Phenomenon Trial: Reading Rhetoric at Texas Beef v. Oprah Winfrey.” The Oprah Phenomenon.  The University Press of Kentucky, 2007: 165-187.

 

Rick Henry, Lucy's Eggs

 

Rick Henry

Lucy’s Eggs.  Syracuse 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, 1790-1860.  Routledge, 2006.

 

Alan Steinberg, Cry of the Leopard

 

 Alan Steinberg

 Cry of the Leopard.  St. Martin’s Press. 1997.

 

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

 

Judith E. Funston

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