“The Death of the Saturday Evening Post:  A Popular Culture Phenomenon," New Dimensions in Popular Culture.  Bowling Green, 1972.

"The Family Magazine and the American People," Journal of Popular Culture.  Spring, 1974.

            ...excerpted in The New Languages:  A Rhetorical Approach 
            to the Mass Media and Popular Culture.  Ohlgren and Berk,
            eds.  Prentice-Hall, Inc.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1977.

 "John Brunner's Short Fiction:  The More Things Change...,"  The
           Happening Worlds of John Brunner:  Critical Explorations in            Science Fiction.  Fort Washington, N.Y., 1975, Kennikat
           Press.  (this is a full chapter)

"Muddying the Water:  The Problem with Parameters,"  A paper
           presented to the Midwest Popular Culture Association,
           Chicago, Oct., 1974.

"Walrus is Greek for Corpse:  Rumor and the Death of Paul
          McCartney,"  Journal of Popular Culture.  10:1 (1976), 110-
         21, with Bird and Sears.

"New Americans by Glen A. Love,"  The Great Lakes Review.  Vol.
          8, No. 1 (Spring, 1982).

Honors Panel presentation on Huckleberry Finn, CMU, 1985.

Presentations for Michigan Public Library "Let's Talk About It" Series Association 1986, 1987.

"A Dialectical Approach to Moral Issues in the Prison English Classroom," Journal of Correctional Education, 4th Annual Special Issue, 1988. (June)

The Lonely Crowd.  David Riesman.  A Review and Contemporary Appraisal.  Salem Press, 1988

Editorial Consultant, Broadview Press.  Review of publication
           proposal for James Fenimore Cooper’s The Wing and Wing,
          1999.

Co-Author. Competitive Grant Application for 1999-2000 Goals
          2000 Grant Program–Cycle 9/Category One (with Mt.
          Pleasant Public Schools) Fall, 1999. (not funded)

“That Botts Business: Earthworm Tractors and Much More.”  Journal
         of Popular Culture.  35.4, 2002.

“What’s It Got To Do With Me?” Language Arts Journal of
         Michigan.18 (Fall, 2002).

 “The Best of Both Worlds: The Problem of John P. Marquand.” 
         Journal of Popular Culture. 38 (November, 2004).

External Reviewer for the Higher Doctorate: University of
          Strathclyde.  Review of submission by Margaret Elphinstone
          submitted and accepted. January, 2005.

“Prairie Realism.” Dictionary of Midwestern Literature.  This is a
         5000 word entry, both invited and refereed.                       Anticipated publication in 2008.  University of Kentucky Press.

"Realism & Naturalism in Midwestern Literature:  Dictionary of  Midwestern Literature.  This is a 6000 word entry, both invited and refereed.  Anticipated publication in 2008  University of Kentucky Press.

"Paul Laurence Dunbar:  A Man of His Times"  presented at National Conference of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, May 2006.  To be published in Midwestern Miscelleny, 2006.