Publications in English Studies
Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction |
A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line |
"Escape the Space: Building Better Communication with Peers through Problem Solving," in |
A Screenwriter’s Notebook |
Median Gray |
Four Days to Trinity |
The Hindered Hand |
Aftercare Instructions: A Novel |
No Rule That Isn't a Dare: How Writers Connect With Readers |
Idols, Icons, and Illusions: The Moves We Love – and Love to Hate – and the People Who Made Them |
Reel Change: The Changing Nature of Hollywood, Hollywood Movies, and the People Who Go to See Them |
Race, Gender, and Empire in American Detective Fiction |
New Literacy Narratives from an Urban University |
The Eudaimonic Turn |
Religious Allusion in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks |
The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home |
Wild Poets of Ecstasy |
The Dark Enlightenment |
A Century of Detection |
Reading the Plays of Wendy Wasserstein |
The Last Judgment: Michelangelo and the Death of the Renaissance James A. Connor St. Martin's Griffin, 2010 |
Loopholes and Retreats: African American Writers and the Nineteenth Century John Cullen Gruesser and Hanna Wallinger, eds. LIT Verlag, 2009 |
The Drive Home |
Kepler's Witch (2008) |
Nation, Race & History in Asian American (2008) |
Long Ago and Far Away: Hollywood and the Second World War (2008) |
Cobb Field: A Day at the Ballpark (2008) Craig Lindvahl (Producer, Composer, Director of Photography) |
Television Daddy: A Poetry Chapbook (2008) |
Pascal's Wager: The Man Who Played Dice with God (2006) |
Mystical Discourse in Wordsmith and Whitman: A Transatlantic Bridge (2006) |
The Net Works for Language Learners: Exploring the Internet for High-Beginning ESL (2006) |
Comment and Controversy in Today's World (2006) |
Everyone's Depressed (2005) |
Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis (2005) |
Confluences: Postcolonialism, African American Literacy Studies, and the Black Atlantic (2005) |
Shock Language (2004) |
The American Indian Integration of Baseball (2004) |
Margit: A Teenager's Journey through the Holocaust and Beyond (2003) |
The Flexible Writer (4th ed., 2003) |
Silent Fire (2002) |
Writing the Reformation: Actes and Monuments and the Jakobean History Play (2002) |
The Black Sleuth (2002) |
Issues and the Individual: Reading for College Composition (2nd ed., 2002) |
Black on Black: Twentieth-Century African American Writing about Africa (2000) |
Journeys Near and Far One: Reading and Responding Critically (2000) |
Journeys Near and Far Two: Reading and Responding Critically (2000) |
Writing Together: A Project for Team Research (1998) |
Explorations in World Literature: Readings to Enhance Academic Skills (1998) |
Writing at Kean: A Student Guide (1998) |
Writing the Flesh: The Herbert Family Dialogue (1998) |
The Unruly Voice: Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1996) |
The Lost Works of William Carlos Williams: The Volumes of Collected Poetry as Lyrical Sequences (1995) |
The Hollywood Propaganda of World War II (1994) |
White on Black: Contemporary Literature about Africa (1992) |
Beastbook: A Bestiary of Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of our Fellow Mortals (1990) |
An Epic of Epigrams (1986) |
Robert Frost and Sidney Cox: Forty Years of Friendship (1986) |
The Wages of Expectation: A Biography of Edward Dahlberg (1978) |