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Faculty Books

This bibliography includes books written, edited, or co-authored by the graduate faculty members of the Department of English. The list contains titles from 2000 to the present. For additional faculty achievements, see our lists of selected faculty articles and awards.

| Cairns | Cohen | Devlin | Dingo | Evelev | Foley | Gordon | Heringman | Hoberek | Hudson-Weems | Justice | Kerwin | Konkle | Langley | Lawless | Looser | Materer | Morgan | Okker | Okonkwo | Piper | Prahlad | Quirk | Ragland | Read | Rice | Schwartz | Swick | West |

Scott Cairns
 Short Trip to the Edge (spiritual memoir)
 Love's Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life (translations/adaptations)
 Compass of Affection: Poems New & Selected
Scott Cairns Recovered Body New York: George Braziller Publishers, 1998. Reprint Eighth Day Press, 2003
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Samuel Cohen
Samuel Cohen 50 Essays, 2nd ed. 2006
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Albert Devlin
Albert Devlin The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume II: 1945-1957 (New Directions, 2004)
Albert Devlin and Nancy Tischler, eds. The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume I: 1920-1945 (New Directions, 2002)
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Rebecca Dingo
Rebecca Dingo, associate editor Rhetorical Visions: Reading and Writing in a Visual Culture Boston, MA: Pearson, 2005 (limited release)
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John Evelev
 Tolerable Entertainment: Herman Melville and Professionalism in Antebellum New York 2006
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John Foley
John Miles Foley, ed. and trans. The Wedding of Mustajbey's Son Becirbey as Performed by Halil Bajgoric (Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, 2004)
John Miles Foley How To Read an Oral Poem (Illinois University Press, 2002)
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Matthew Gordon
Lesley Milroy and Matthew Gordon Sociolinguistics: Methods and Interpretation (Blackwell, 2003)
Matthew Gordon Small-Town Values, Big-City Vowels: A Study of the Northern Cities Shift in Michigan (Duke University Press, 2001)
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Noah Heringman
Noah Heringman Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology (Cornell, 2004)
Noah Heringman, Editor The Wordsworth Circle Vol. 35, No. 1 (Winter 2004): Special Issue, “Natural Knowledge in the Romantic Age.
Noah Heringman, ed. Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History (SUNY Press, 2003)
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Andrew Hoberek
Andrew Hoberek The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work (Princeton University Press, 2005)
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Clenora Hudson-Weems
Clenora Hudson-Weems, ed. Contemporary Africana Theory and Thought: A Guide to Africana Studies (Africa World Press, 2005)
Clenora Hudson-Weems. Africana Womanist Literary Theory (Africa World Press, 2004)
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George Justice
George Justice The Manufacturers of Literature: Writing and the Literary Marketplace in Eighteenth-Century England (Delaware, 2002)
George Justice and Nathan Tinker, eds. Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in English, 1550-1800 (Cambridge, 2002)
George Justice and Albert J. Rivero, eds. The Eighteenth-Century Novel (2001 - )
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William Kerwin
William Kerwin Beyond the Body: The Boundaries of Medicine and English Renaissance Drama (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005)
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Maureen Konkle
 Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004)
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April Langley
 The Black Aesthetic Unbound: Theorizing the Dilemma of and Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2008
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Elaine Lawless
Lawless, Elaine and M. Heather Carver Troubling Violence: An Auto/Ethnographic Performance Project Forthcoming Univ. of Miss. Press, Fall 2008
Elaine Lawless Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment Through Narrative (University of Missouri Press, 2001)
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Devoney Looser
Devoney Looser, co-editor Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (2004-)
Devoney Looser British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820 (Johns Hopkins, 2000; paperback, 2005)
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Timothy Materer
Timothy Materer James Merrill's Apocalypse (Cornell, 2000)
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Speer Morgan
Speer Morgan, ed. The Missouri Review (University of Missouri Press)
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Patricia Okker
Patricia Okker Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America University of Virginia Press, 2003
Patricia Okker Our Sister Editors: Sarah J. Hale and the Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Women Editors University of Georgia Press, 1995
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Christopher N. Okonkwo
 A Spirit of Dialogue: Incarnations of Ợgbañje, the Born-to-Die, in African American Literature. University of Tennessee Press, 2008
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Karen Piper
Karen Piper Left in the Dust: How Race and Politics Created a Human and Environmental Tragedy in L.A. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
Karen Piper Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity (Rutgers University Press, 2001)
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Sw. Anand Prahlad
Sw. Anand Prahlad The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore (Three Volumes) (Greenwood Press, 2005)
Sw. Anand Prahlad Reggae Widsom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music (University Press of Mississippi, 2001)
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Tom Quirk
Thomas Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst, eds. American History Through Literature, 1870-1920 3 vols. (Scribner's, 2005)
Thomas Quirk The Portable Mark Twain (Penguin Classics, 2004)
Thomas Quirk, ed The Innocents Abroad (Penguin, 2002)
Thomas Quirk Nothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination (Missouri, 2001)
Thomas Quirk, ed Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories by Ambrose Bierce (Penguin, 2000)
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Ellie Ragland
Ellie Ragland and Dragan Milovanovic, eds. Lacan: Topologically Speaking (Other Press, 2004)
Ellie Ragland The Logic of Sexuation: From Aristotle to Lacan (SUNY-Albany, 2004)
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David Read
David Read New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing (University of Missouri Press, 2005)
David Read Temperate Conquests: Spenser and the Spanish New World (Wayne State University Press, 2000)
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Jeff Rice
 The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media 2007
 Writing About Cool: Hypertext and Cultural Studies in the Computer Classroom 2004
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Richard Schwartz
Richard B. Schwartz Into the Dark (Mystery & Suspense Press, 2002)
Richard B. Schwartz Nice and Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction (University of Missouri Press, 2002)
Richard B. Schwartz After the Fall (Mystery & Suspense Press, 2002)
Richard B. Schwartz The Last Voice You Hear (Mystery & Suspense Press, 2001)
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Marly Swick
Marly Swick The Summer Before the Summer of Love (University of Nebraska Press, 2004)
Marly Swick Dernier Saison Avant L’Amour French Edition of The Summer Before The Summer of Love. Albin Michel Publishers, Paris, 2004
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Nancy West
Nancy West Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia University Press of Virginia, 2000
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