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Welcome to our Bookshelf, a curated collection showcasing the diverse and insightful publications authored by our esteemed English faculty. This platform offers a unique opportunity to explore various scholarly works, from groundbreaking research articles to thought-provoking essays and engaging literary pieces. Whether you’re a student, a fellow academic, or simply a lover of literature, our Bookshelf is designed to inspire and inform, highlighting our faculty's intellectual contributions and creative endeavors. Discover the wealth of knowledge and creativity that defines our English department.

Our literature and culture genre involves the study of various literary works and their cultural contexts. This field explores how literature reflects and influences societal values, historical events, and cultural norms.

Catherine Ross Nickerson

The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women
The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Dan Sinykin

Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature (Literature Now)
American Literature and the Long Downturn: Neoliberal Apocalypse

Deepika Bahri

Between the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality (Asian American History & Culture)
Native Intelligence: Aesthetics, Politics, and Postcolonial Literature
The Realms of Rhetoric: The Prospects for Rhetoric Education
Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women Writers
Postcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh after Empire

John Johnston

Literature, Media, Information Systems
The Allure of Machinic Life
Information Multiplicity

Martine Watson Brownley

Clarendon and the Rhetoric of Historical Form
Deferrals of Domain: Contemporary Women Novelists and the State
Reconsidering Biography: Contexts, Controversies, and Sir John Hawkins's Life of Johnson
Mothering the Mind: Twelve Studies of Writers and Their Silent Partners
Women and Autobiography (The Worlds of Women Series)

Nathan Suhr-Sytsma

Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature

Barbara Ladd

The North of the South

Benjamin Reiss

Wild Nights
Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture

Benjamin Reiss (Co-Editor)

Keywords for Disability Studies

Deborah Elise White

Romantic Returns: Superstition, Imagination, History

Deborah Elise White (Co-Editor)

Haiti’s Literary Legacies: Romanticism and the Unthinkable Revolution

Elizabeth S. Goodstein

Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary
Experience Without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity

Emil' Keme

Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala
Le Maya Q'atzij/Our Maya Word: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala (Indigenous Americas)
ndigeneidad y descolonización : diálogos trans-hemisféricos
Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala
Le maya q'atzij nuestra palabra maya premio casa de las americas 2020 de estudios sobre culturas y pueblos originarios

Emil' Keme (Editor)

Teorizando las literaturas indígenas contemporáneas

Geraldine Higgins

Heroic Revivals from Carlyle to Yeats
Seamus Heaney in Context
Brian Friel (Writers and Their Work)

James H. Morey

Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature (Illinois Medieval Studies)
Prik of Conscience (Middle English Texts)

James H. Morey (Editor)

Jerome's Abbreviated Psalter: The Middle English and Latin Versions (Foundations) (English and Latin Edition)

Lauren F. Klein

An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States

Lauren F. Klein and Catherine D'Ignazio

Data Feminism (Strong Ideas)

Mandy Suhr-Sytsma

Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult Literature (American Indian Studies)

Marina Magloire

We Pursue Our Magic: A Spiritual History of Black Feminism

Michelle Wright

Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora

Patricia A. Cahill

Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage

Paul Kelleher

Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850)

Ross Knecht

The Grammar Rules of Affection: Passion and Pedagogy in Sidney, Shakespeare, and Jonson

Sheila T. Cavanagh

Multisensory Shakespeare and Specialized Communities (Shakespeare and Social Justice)
Cherished Torment: The Emotional Geography of Lady Mary Wroth's Urania (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies)

Valerie Babb

The Book of James: The Power, Politics, and Passion of LeBron
Black Georgetown Remembered: A History of Its Black Community from the Founding of "The Town of George" in 1751 to the Present Day
Ernest Gaines (Twayne's United States Authors Series)
A History of the African American Novel
Whiteness Visible: The Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature

Walter Kalaidjian

The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
The Edge of Modernism: American Poetry and the Traumatic Past (American Peotry and the Traumatic Past)
American Culture Between the Wars
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
Our creative writing genre encompasses a diverse range of styles and formats, allowing writers to explore and express their creativity through various mediums including Fiction, Poetry, Non-fiction, Drama, and hybrid forms.

T. Cooper

Kim (Changers Book 3)
Changers Book Four: Forever
The Beaufort Diaries
A Fictional History of the United States (with Huge Chunks Missing)
Real Man Adventures
Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes
Some of the Parts
Drew (Changers Book 1)
Oryon (Changers Book 2)
Man Made

Tayari Jones

Leaving Atlanta
Atlanta Noir
The Untelling
Silver Sparrow
An American Marriage

Hank Klibanoff and Gene Roberts

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation

Heather Christle

The Crying Book
Dear Seth
What is Amazing
The Difficult Farm
Heliopause
The Trees The Trees

Jericho Brown

Please
The New Testament
The Tradition
How We Do It

Joseph Skibell

A Curable Romantic
My Father's Guitar and Other Imaginary Things
A Blessing on the Moon: A Novel
The English Disease
Six Memos from the Last Millennium: A Novelist Reads the Talmud (Exploring Jewish Arts and Culture)

Kimberly Belflower

Lost Girl

Tiphanie Yanique

I Am the Virgin Islands
Land of Love and Drowning: A Novel
Wife
Monster in the Middle: A Novel
Portal

Daniel Bosch

Octaves
Crucible

Jim Grimsley

Forgiveness (James A. Michener Fiction Series)
Mr. Universe
Jesus Is Sending You This Message: Stories
My Drowning
Dream Boy
Comfort & Joy
Boulevard
Kirith Kirin
Winter Birds
The Ordinary
The Last Green Tree

John E. Sitter

The Poetry of Pope's Dunciad
Arguments of Augustan Wit (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought, Series Number 11)
Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England
The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Mark Bauerlein

Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (Critical Authors and Issues)
Civil Rights Chronicle (The African-American Struggle for Freedom)
The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don 't Trust Anyone Under 30)
Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906
Handbook of Literary Terms: Literature, Language, Theory
Handbook of Literary Terms: Literature, Language, Theory 3rd Edition
Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (Critical Authors and Issues)
Handbook of Literary Terms: Literature, Language, Theory (2nd Edition)
Whitman and the American Idiom

Frances Smith Foster

Love and Marriage in Early African America (New England Library Of Black Literature)
Witnessing Slavery: The Development Of Ante-Bellum Slave Narratives (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader
Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746–1892 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
Still Brave: The Evolution of Black Women's Studies
'Til Death Or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in African America
The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Teaching with the Norton Anthology of African American Literature
Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph: Three Rediscovered Novels

Frances Smith Foster (Editor)

La Familia en Africa y la Diaspora Africana : Estudio Multidisciplinar / Family in Africa and the African Diaspora : A Multidisciplinary Approach

Laura Otis

Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)
Organic Memory: History and the Body in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Texts and Contexts)
Refiner's Fire
Clean
The Memory Hive: A Novel
Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel
Muller's Lab
Auf Wiedersehen: A Novel
Lacking in Substance
The Tantalus Letters: A Nove
Vacation Stories: FIVE SCIENCE FICTION TALE
Membranes: Metaphors of Invasion in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Science, and Politics (Medicine and Culture)
Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century (Studies In Literature And Science)
Rethinking Thought

Ronald Schuchard

The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats: Volume III: 1901-1904 (Yeats Collected Letters Series)
The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume IV: 1905-1907 (Yeats Collected Letters Series)

Rosemarie Garland Thomson

About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times
Re-presenting Disability
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Disability
Freak Inheritance: Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance
Staring: How We Look

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities

Walter Reed

Meditations on the hero: A study of the romantic hero in nineteenth-century fiction
An exemplary history of the novel: The Quixotic versus the picaresque
Dialogues of the Word: The Bible as Literature According to Bakhtin