English Faculty Publications

Professor Susan Abbotson

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Modern American Drama Playwriting in the 1950s

Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1950s

Methuen Publishing, 2019

Critical Companion to Arthur Miller A Literary Reference to His Life And Work

Critical Companion to Arthur Miller : A Literary Reference to His Life And Work Facts on File, 2007

Masterpieces Of 20th-century American Drama

Masterpieces Of 20th-Century American Drama

Greenwood Press, 2005

Thematic Guide to Modern Drama

Thematic Guide to Modern Drama

Greenwood Press, 2003

Student Companion to Arthur Miller

Student Companion to Arthur Miller

Greenwood Press, 2000

Understanding Death of a Salesman A Student Casebook to Issues Sources and Historical Documents

Understanding Death of a Salesman: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

Greenwood Press, 1999

Professor Karen Boren

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Secret Waltz

Secret Waltz

Flexible Press, 2022

Mother Tongue

Mother Tongue

New Rivers Press, 2015

Girls in Peril

Girls in Peril

Tin House Books, 2006

Professor Anita Duneer

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Jack London and the Sea

Jack London and the Sea

University of Alabama Press, 2022

Professor Brandon Hawk

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Apocrypha for Beginners: A Guide to Understanding and Exploring Scriptures Beyond the Bible

Apocrypha for Beginners: A Guide to Understanding and Exploring Scriptures Beyond the Bible

Rockridge Press, 2021

The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Nativity of Mary

The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Nativity of Mary

Cascade Books, 2019

Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England

Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England

University of Toronto Press, 2018

Professor Jennifer Holl

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Shakespeare and Celebrity Cultures

Shakespeare and Celebrity Cultures

Routledge, 2021

Professor Zubeda Jalalzai

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Literary License and the West's Romance with Afghanistan

Literary License and the West’s Romance with Afghanistan

Lexington, 2023

Washington Irving and Islam Critical Essays

Washington Irving and Islam: Critical Essays

Lexington Books, 2018

Globalizing Afghanistan Terrorism War and the Rhetoric of Nation Building

Globalizing Afghanistan: Terrorism, War, and the Rhetoric of Nation Building

Duke University Press, 2011

Professor Kathryn Kalinak

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Film Music A Very Short Introduction

Film Music: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Ed.

Oxford University Press, 2023

Sound Dialogue Music and Effects Behind the Silver Screen Series

Sound: Dialogue, Music, and Effects

Rutgers University Press, 2015

How the West Was Sung Music in the Westerns of John Ford

How the West Was Sung: Music in the Westerns of John Ford

University of California Press, 2007

Settling the Score Music and the Classical Hollywood Film

Settling the Score: Music and the Classical Hollywood Film

University of Wisconsin Press, 1992

Professor Michael Michaud

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A Writer Reforms (the Teaching of) Writing: Donald Murray and the Writing Process Movement, 1963–1987

A Writer Reforms (the Teaching of) Writing: Donald Murray and the Writing Process Movement, 1963–1987

The WAC Clearinghouse, 2024

Professor Russell Potter

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May We Be Spared To Meet On Earth

May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition

McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022

Finding Franklin

Finding Franklin

McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016

Pyg The Memoirs of Toby the learned Pig

Pyg: The Memoirs of Toby, the Learned Pig

Penguin Books, 2012

Arctic Spectacles The Frozen North in Visual Culture 1818-1875

Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875

University of Washington Press, 2007

Spectacular Vernaculars

Spectacular Vernaculars

State University of New York Press, 1995

Professor Ricardo Quintana Vallejo

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I Hunt for Stars Alone

I Hunt for Stars Alone

North Meridian Press, 2024

Children of Globalization

Children of Globalization: Diasporic Coming-of-Age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States

Routledge, 2020

Professor Carrie Shipers

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Grief Land Poems

Grief Land: Poems

University of New Mexico Press, 2020

Family Resemblances Poems

Family Resemblances: Poems

University of New Mexico Press, 2016

Cause for Concern

Cause for Concern

Able Muse Press, 2015

Ordinary Mourning

Ordinary Mourning

ABZ Press, 2010

Professor Alison Shonkwiler

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The Financial Imaginary Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realism

The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction

University of Minnesota Press, 2017

Reading Capitalist Realism

Reading Capitalist Realism

University of Iowa Press, 2014

Professor Joseph Zornado

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The Cinematic Superhero as Social Practice

The Cinematic Superhero as Social Practice

Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Critical Thinking Developing the Intellectual Tools for Social Justice

Critical Thinking: Developing the Intellectual Tools for Social Justice

Routledge, 2019

Disney and the Dialectic of Desire Fantasy as Social Practice

Disney and the Dialectic of Desire: Fantasy as Social Practice

Palgrave MacMillan, 2017

Professional Writing for the Criminal Justice System

Professional Writing for the Criminal Justice System

Springer Publishing, 2017

2050 Volume Two The Power at the Bottom of the World

2050 Volume Three: When Immortals Reign

Merry Blacksmith Press, 2015

2050 Volume Two The Power at the Bottom of the World

2050 Volume Two: The Power at the Bottom of the World

Merry Blacksmith Press, 2015

2050 Volume One Gods of Little Earth

2050 Volume One: Gods of Little Earth

Merry Blacksmith Press, 2014

Professional Writing for Social Work Practice

Professional Writing for Social Work Practice

Springer Publishing, 2012

Inventing the Child Childrens Literature and Culture

Inventing the Child

Routledge, 2006

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