This bibliography includes select critical articles written or co-authored by the graduate faculty members of the Department of English from 2004 to the present. For additional faculty achievements, see our lists of faculty books and awards.
| Vicki Carstens |
| “Agree and EPP in Bantu.” Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (2005): 219-279 |
| "Rethinking Complementizer Agreement: Agree with a Case-Checked Goal." Linguistic Inquiry (2003) 34.3: 393-412 |
| "Antisymmetry and word order in serial verb constructions." Language (2002) 78.1: 3-50 |
| "Multiple Agreement and Case-Deletion: Against Φ-(In)Completeness." Syntax (2001) 4: 147-163 |
| "Concord in minimalist theory." Linguistic Inquiry (2000) 31.2: 319-355 |
| "Null nouns in Bantu locatives." The Linguistic Review (1997) 14.4: 361-410 |
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| Elizabeth Chang |
| Elizabeth H. Chang. "Converting Chinese Eyes: Rev. W. H. Medhurst, "Passing," and the Victorian Vision of China" A Century of Travels in China: Critical Essays on Travel Writing from the 1840s to the 1940s Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007. |
| “'Eyes of the Proper Almond Shape': Blue-and-white China in the British Imaginary 1823-1883.” Nineteenth-Century Studies (2005): 17-34 |
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| Samuel Cohen |
| "Triumph and Trauma: In the Lake of the Woods and History." Clio: Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 36.2 (Spring 2007) |
| “Mason & Dixon & the Ampersand.” Twentieth-Century Literature 48.3 (Fall 2002) |
| “Tinkering toward WAC Utopia.” Journal of Basic Writing 21.2 (Fall 2002) |
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| Frances Dickey |
| "Prufrock and Other Observations: A Walking Tour." Blackwell Companion to T. S. Eliot Forthcoming |
| "Opening the Box." Essays in Criticism 57.1 (Winter 2007): 73-81.
Review essay of Elizabeth Bishop’s Edgar Allan Poe and the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments |
| "Parrot's Eye: A Portrait by Manet and Two by T. S. Eliot" Twentieth-Century Literature 52.2 (Summer 2006): 1-34. |
| “Bishop, Dewey, Darwin: What Other People Know" Contemporary Literature 44.2 (Summer 2003): 301-331. |
| Frances Dickey and Jimmie Killingsworth. "Love of Comrades: The Urbanization of Community in Whitman’s Poetry and Pragmatist Philosophy" Walt Whitman Quarterly 21.1 (Summer 2003): 1-24. |
| "Questions That Have No Reply: Robert Frost’s Problem of Other Minds" New England Quarterly 75.2 (June 2002): 299-311. |
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| Rebecca Dingo |
| “Securing the Nation: Neoliberalism's U.S. Family Values in a Transnational Gendered Economy.” Journal of Women's History 16.3 (2004): 173-186 |
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| John Evelev |
| "Every One to His Trade": Mardi, Literary Form and Professional Ideology American Literature 75:2 (2003) |
| The Contrast: The Problem of Theatricality and Political and Social Crisis in Postrevolutionary America Early American Literature 31:1 (1996) |
| Typee, Tattooing, and the Literary Marketplace Arizona Quarterly 48:4 (1992) |
| The Politics of the New England Village Novel: The Picturesque Sensibility and Reform" ESQ forthcoming |
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| Elisa Glick |
| Elisa Glick with Linda Garber, Sharon Holland, Daniel Balderston and José Quiroga. "New Directions in Multiethnic, Racial, and Global Queer Studies." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
10.1 (2003): 123-137 |
| "Harlem’s Queer Dandy: African American Modernism and the Artifice of Blackness." Modern Fiction Studies 49.3 (Fall 2003) [Special Issue: Racechange and the Fictions of Identity]: 414-442 |
| "The Dialectics of Dandyism." Cultural Critique 48 (Spring 2001): 129-163 |
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| Matthew Gordon |
| “Techniques of analysis 1: Phonological variation.” Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics. Eds. C. Llamas, et al. London: Routledge, 2007. 19-27. |
| “The investigation of diachronic variety in language: Traditions and recent developments.” History of the Language Sciences Vol. 3. Eds. S. Auroux, E.F.K. Koerner, et al. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. |
| “Interview with William Labov.” Journal of English Linguistics 34(2006): 1-20. |
| “Tracking the low back merger in Missouri.” Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at “Heartland” English T. Murray and B. Simon. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2006. 57-68. |
| “Slang, dialect, and other types of marked language.” American History through Literature: 1870-1920 Eds. G. Scharnhorst and T. Quirk. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006. 1051-1055. |
| “The sounds, they are a shiftin’. Do you speak American?” This website is a companion to a documentary series which aired on PBS in January, 2005. |
| “Research aims and methodology.” Sociolinguistics: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society, 2nd edition Eds. U. Ammon, N. Dittmar, K. Mattheier, and P. Trudgill. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2005. 955-965. |
| “New York, Philadelphia, and other northern cities.” Handbook of Varieties of English: The Americas and Caribbean, Vol. 1, Phonology Ed. E. Schneider. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2005, 282-299. |
| “The Midwest and West.” Handbook of Varieties of English: The Americas and Caribbean, Vol. 1, Phonology Ed. E. Schneider. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2005. 338-350. |
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| Joanna Hearne |
| “Telling and Retelling in the ‘Ink of Light’: Documentary Cinema, Oral Narratives, and Indigenous Identities.” Screen 47:3 (Autumn 2006): 307-326. |
| “Race and Ethnicity,” “Julie Dash,” and “James Young Deer and Princess Red Wing.” Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film Eds. Barry Keith Grant, Janet Staiger, Jim Hillier and David Desser. Farmington Hills, MI: Thompson Gale Publishing, December 2006. |
| “‘John Wayne’s Teeth’: Speech, Sound and Representation in Smoke Signals and Imagining Indians.” Western Folklore 64:3&4 (“Folklore and Film” special issue, Summer and Fall 2005): 189-208. |
| “House Made of Dawn: Restoring Native Voices in Cinema.” Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, Film and Video Center. Native Networks / Reges Indigenas. December 8, 2005. |
| “The ‘Ache for Home’: Assimilation and Separatism in Anthony Mann’s Devil’s Doorway (1950).” Hollywood’s Wests: The American Frontier in Film, Television, and History. Eds. Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005. 126-159. |
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| Noah Heringman |
| “'Manlius to Peter Pindar': Satire, Masculinity and Patriotism in the 1790s,” Romantic Circles Praxis Series (May 2006) |
| “Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century,” SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 45.4 (Autumn 2005): 961-1037. |
| “Peter Pindar, Joseph Banks, and the Case against Natural History,” The Wordsworth Circle 35.1 (Winter 2004): 21-30. |
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| Andrew Hoberek |
| “Liberal Anti-Liberalism: Mailer, O'Connor, and the Gender Politics of Middle-Class Ressentiment,” Women's Studies Quarterly Fall/Winter 2005: 24-47 |
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| Clenora Hudson-Weems |
| “Africana Womanism: Black Feminism, African Feminism, Womanism.” Black Studies: From the Pyramids and Pan Africanism and Beyond Ed. William “Nick” Nelson, Jr. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006. |
| “Africana Womanism: Entering the New Millennium.” State of the Race, Creating our 21st Century: Where Do We Go From Here? Eds. Jemadari Kamara and T. Menelik Van Der meer. Boston: Diaspora Press of America, 2004. |
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| Michelle Karnes |
| "Nicholas Love and Medieval Meditations on Christ," Speculum 82:2 (April 2007): 380-408 |
| "Will's Imagination in *Piers Plowman*," Journal of English and Germanic Philology Forthcoming |
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| William Kerwin |
| “The Rhythm of the Political: Peadar O’Donnell’s Rural Fiction.” New Hibernia Review 9.2 (Summer 2005): 111-124. |
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| Maureen Konkle |
| "Treaties, History, and the 'Full-blood' in Indian Territory Native Writing," Western American Literature 35.3 (Fall 2000): 143-161. |
| "Indian Literacy, U.S. Colonialism, and Literary Criticism," American Literature 69.3 (September 1997): 457-486. Reprinted in Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature, ed. Peter Schmidt and Amritjit Singh (Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 2000): 151-75 |
| "Indigenous Ownership and the Rise of U.S. Liberal Imperialism," American Indian Quarterly 32.3 (Summer 2008). |
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| Johanna Kramer |
| “‘Falsett no feit hes’—A Proverb in William Dunbar’s ‘In vice most vicius he excellis’” English Studies (Forthcoming). |
| "'Thu eart se weallstan': Architectural Metaphor and Christological Imagery in the Old English Christ I and the Book of Kells." Source of Wisdom: Old English and Early Medieval Latin Studies in Honour of Thomas D. Hill, ed. Charles D. Wright, Frederick M. Biggs, and Thomas N. Hall (U of Toronto P, 2007). 90-112. |
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| April Langley |
| "Interesting Exchanges: Cultural Expeditions and Rhetorical Acquisitions in The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African." BMa: The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review Fall 2003 (Issue 9.1) |
| "Imagined Post-Coloniality and 'Natural' Coloniality: The Production of Space in Phillis Wheatley's 'Niobe in Distress for her Children Slain by Apollo'." A/B: Auto/Biography Studies Spring 2002 (Issue 16.2) |
| "Equiano's Landscapes: Viewpoints and Vistas from the Looking Glass, the Lens, and the Kaleidoscope." Western Journal of Black Studies Winter 2001 (Issue 25.1) |
| "Lucy Terry Prince: The Cultural and Literary Legacy of Africana Womanism" Western Journal of Black Studies Fall 2001 (Issue 25.3) |
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| Elaine Lawless |
| "Ecstacy Across a Thin Line: Pentecostalism in the Deep South," Missouri History Journal in press |
| "Troubling Violence Through Performance: Dramatic Responses to [Un]Common Concerns," Professional Creativity and the Common Good Ed. Edmund Lambeth. Harvard University Press, in press. [23 pg. ms.] |
| Elaine J. Lawless. “In Search of Our Mothers. . .and Our Selves” [non-fiction] Ballad Girls and Absent Gods: Poetry, Fiction, and Other Reflections by Folklorists ed. Frank deCaro, Utah State University Press, in press. |
| Moving Targets: When violence hits home Folklore Summer, 2006 |
| Visual Images: The Eroticizing of female abuse Western Folklore Fall, 2006 (invited) |
| Elaine J. Lawless. "A Call for Action: Improving Community Awareness of and Responses to Local Violence Against Women" Peace Studies Quarterly Fall, 2006 |
| The ‘Cycles of Violence’ Narrative Prototype as a Folk Story: Recognizing Folklore Where it Works for Justice New York Folklore Quarterly 8 (Spring 2004). [Appeared in 2005] |
| Performing Witchery: Cartography and Power in Ethnographic Fiction Louisiana Folklore Quarterly (Spring 2004): 20-31 [Appeared in 2005] |
| Woman as Abject: Resisting Cultural and Religious Myths that Condone Violence against Women Western Folklore 9.4 (2004): 12-22 |
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| Trudy Lewis |
| "Old Wives' Mail" DisClosures: a journal of social theory 16 (2007) |
| "West Wind" New England Review 25: 1&2 (2004) |
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| Emma Lipton |
| "Language on Trial: Performing the Law in the N-Town Trial Play" The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England ed. Candace Barrington and Emily Steiner. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002, pp. 115-35. |
| "Performing Reform: The Marriage of Mary and Joseph in the N-Town Cycle." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22 (2001): 407-35. |
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| Timothy Materer |
| “James Merrill’s Polyphonic Muse.” Contemporary Literature (Winter 2006) |
| “Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.” American History Through Literature, 1820-1870 Ed. Thomas V. Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. V.2. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2006. 850-53. |
| “Imagism.” American History Through Literature 1820-1870 Ed. Thomas V. Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. V.2. New York: Charles Scribner’s, 2006. 483-86 |
| “Mirrored Lives: James Merrill and Elizabeth Bishop.” Twentieth-Century Literature 51.2 (Summer 2005): 179-209 |
| “Vorticism.” The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia Ed. Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005. 230-32. |
| “James Merrill.” The Literary Encyclopedia (invited) University of East Anglia, Norwich. Fall 2005. |
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| Christopher N. Okonkwo |
| “‘Coming to America’: Ike Oguine’s A Squatter’s Tale and the Nigerian/African Immigrant’s Narrative.” Forthcoming (2008) in a special issue of African Literature Today (27) on “New Novels in Africa.” |
| “‘It Was Like Meeting an Old Friend’: An Interview with John Edgar Wideman.” Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters 29.2 (2006). 347-360 |
| “Of Caul and Response: Baby of the Family, Ansa’s Neglected Metafiction of the Veil of Blackness.” CLA Journal XLIX. 2 (December 2005). 144-167 |
| "A Critical Divination: Reading Sula as Ogbanje-Abiku." African American Review 38.4 (Winter 2004). 651-668 |
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| Martha D. Patton |
| “Beyond WI: Building an Integrated Communication Curriculum in One Department of Civil Engineering.” IEEE Special Issue: Integrating and Assessing Communication within Engineering Curricula.
Guest Eds. Marie C. Paretti and Lisa McNair. Forthcoming September 2008.
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| Journal of Natural Resources & Life Sciences Education 36 (2007): 95-102. With P. P. Motavalli and R. J. Miles. |
| “Pseudoscience.” American History through Literature, 1870-1920 Eds. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. New York: Charles Scribners & Sons, 2006. 3: 915-21. |
| “Spiritualism.” American History through Literature, 1870-1920 Eds. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. New York: Charles Scribners & Sons, 2006. 3: 1069-74 |
| “Ten Engineers Reading: Disjunctions Between Preference and Practice in Civil Engineering Faculty Responses.” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 36.3 (2006): 253-271. With Summer Smith Taylor. |
| “Research or Faculty Development? A Study of WI Faculty Commenting.” Writing Program Administration: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators 28.1-2 (2004): 75-91 |
| “Frauds, Hoaxes, and Pseudoscience: A Course in Argumentation.” Academic Exchange Quarterly 7.4 (2004): 204-208 |
| “Literacy and Learning in Context: Biology Students in the Classroom and the Lab.” Multiple Literacies for the 21st Century Ed. Beth Stroble, Brian Huot and Charles Bazerman. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2004. 151-171. With Edwin Nagelhout. |
| “Situated Writing Workshops: Putting Writing Advice in Context.” The Writing Instructor (2004). |
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| Sw. Anand Prahlad |
| Anand Prahlad. “Africana Folklore: History and Challenges.” Journal of American Folklore 118.469 (2005): 253-270 |
| Anand Prahlad. “Getting Happy: An Ethnographic Memoir.” Journal of American Folklore 118:467 (2005): 21-44 |
| Anand Prahlad. “The Proverb and Fetishism in American Advertisements.” What Goes Around Comes Around: The Circulation of Proverbs in Contemporary Life Ed. Kimberly J. Lau, Peter Tokofsky, and Stephen D. Winick. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2004. 127-151 |
| Anand Prahlad. “‘You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth’: Proverbial Expressions, Feminist Perspectives, and the Fetish in the Work of Janet Davidson-Hues.” Journal of American Folklore 117:463 (2004): 22-54 |
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| Tom Quirk |
| “The Man against the Sky.” American History through Literature, 1870-1920, 3 vols Eds. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. II: 662-666 |
| “Scientific Materialism.” American History through Literature, 1870-1920, 3 vols Eds. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. III: 1018-1023 |
| “The Confidence Man: His Masquerade." American History through Literature, 1820-1870 3 vols Eds obert Sattelmeyer and Janet Gabler-Hover. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. I: 272-277 |
| “Mark Twain and Human Nature.” A Companion to Mark Twain Eds. Peter Messent and Louis J. Budd. Oxford, UK: Blackwell's Publishing, 2005. 21-37 |
| “Teaching the Isms of the Realist Era.” The Mark Twain Annual 2 (2004): 97-106 |
| “Mark Twain.” Encyclopedia Britannica 16th edition. Chicago, Illinois. XII: 75-77 |
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| Ellie Ragland |
| “Dora and the Name-of-the-Father,” The Symptom 6 (2006) |
| “‘Eyes Wide Shut’: The Woman Not Seen.” Journal of European Psychoanalysis 1.20 (2005): 1-11 |
| Ellie Ragland co-authored with Dragan Milovanovic. “Introduction” Lacan: Topologically Speaking New York: Other Press 2004. xiii-xl |
| “Lacan’s Topological Unit and the Structure of Mind,” Lacan: Topologically Speaking Ed. Ellie Ragland and Dragan Milovanovic. New York: Other Press, 2004. 49-70 |
| Ellie Ragland, Trans.. Jean-Michel Vappereau, “Faire des Ronds,” to “Making Rings: The Hole of the Sinthome in the Embedding of the Topology of the Subject.” Lacan: Topologically Speaking New York: Other Press, 2004. 328-360 (with Jane Cloth-Lamb) |
| Ellie Ragland, Trans.. “Le square du sujet” to “The Square of the Subject.” Lacan: Topologically Speaking New York: Other Press, 2004. 268-281 |
| Ellie Ragland, Trans.. Pierre Skriabine, “La clinique et la topologie: le defaut dans l’univers,” to “The Clinic of the Borromean Knot,” Lacan: Topologically Speaking Speaking, (New York: Other Press, 2004), pp, 249-267 |
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| Jenny Edbauer Rice |
| “Unframing Models of Public Distribution: From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Fall 2005 |
| “Rhetoric’s Mechanics.” College Composition and Communication. Forthcoming |
| “Meta/Physical Graffiti: ‘Getting Up’ as Affective Writing Model.” JAC 25.1 |
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| Jeff Rice |
| “Cooltown: The Place of Intellectual Work.” WPA: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (Spring 2007) |
| “The Making of Ka-Knowledge: Digital Aurality.” Computers and Composition Volume 23 Issue 3 2006 |
| “Celebrity, Literacy, The Alter Ego” JAC Volume 26 No 1&2 2006 |
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| Alexandra Socarides |
| “Rethinking the Fascicles: Dickinson’s Writing, Copying, and Binding Practices.” Emily Dickinson Journal 15.2 (2006): 69-94 |
| “The Poetics of Interruption: Dickinson, Death, and the Fascicles.” A Companion to Emily Dickinson Eds. Mary Loeffelholz and Martha Nell Smith. Blackwell's Publishing, 2008. 309-333 |
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| Donna Strickland |
| “Feeling Literate: Gender, Race, and Work in Dorothy West’s ‘The Typewriter’.” Women and Literacy: Inquiries for a New Century. Ed. Beth Daniell and Peter Mortensen. NCTE-LEA Research Series in Literacy and Composition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2007. |
| Strickland, Donna.. "Caring About the Dismal Science" JAC 27 (2007): 211-222. |
| “The Managerial Unconscious of Composition Studies.” Tenured Bosses, Disposable Teachers: Writing Instruction in the Managed University. Ed. Marc Bousquet, Tony Scott, and Leo Parascondola. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004 |
| Drew, Chris, and Matt Garrison, Steven Leek, Donna Strickland, Jen Talbot, and A. D. Waldron. “Affect, Labor, and the Graduate Teaching Assistant: Can Writing Programs Become ‘Spaces of Hope’?” Works and Days Days 21 (2003; published 2004): 169–186. |
| “Taking Dictation: The Emergence of Writing Programs and the Cultural Contradictions of Composition Teaching.” College English 63 (2001): 457–479. |
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| Nancy West |
| Nancy West and Penelope Pelizzon. "Multiple Indemnity: Adaptation, James M. Cain, and the Tabloids.” Narrative (Fall 2005) 35 pp. manuscript |
| Nancy West and Penelope Pelizzon. “‘Good Stories’ from the Mean Streets: Weegee and Hard-Boiled Autobiography.” Yale Journal of Criticism 17.1 (Spring 2004) pages 20-50 |
| “From Recreation to Remembrance: Kodak Advertising During George Eastman’s Time.”
Image (Fall 2004) pages 11-18 |
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