English Faculty Publications

Articles

Root, Robert L., Jr. "The Nonfiction Motive." Writing on the Edge 18:1 (Fall 2007): 29-33.
Root, Robert L., Jr. "A Double Life." Writing on the Edge 16:2 (Spring 2006): 69-81.
Root, Robert L., Jr. "Roundtable, Research in Nonfiction." Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction 9:1 (Spring 2007): 145-164.
Weinstock, Jeffrey. "The Crowd Within: Poe's Impossible Aloneness." The Edgar Allan Poe Review VII.2 (Fall 2006): 50-64.
Weinstock, Jeffrey. "Queer Haunting Spaces: Madeline Yale Wynne's 'The Little Room' and Elia Wilkinson Peattie's 'The House That Was Not'"." American Literature 79.3 (Sept. 2007): 501-26.

Books

Berk, Ari. The Secret History of Giants. Sommerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2008.
Berk, Ari, and Dunn, Carolyn. Coyote Speaks: Wonders of the Native American World. New York: Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2008.
Berk, Ari. How to be a Viking. Dorking, U.K.: Templar, 2008.
Berriman, Elizabeth, Editor. Never Enough. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2008.
Eke, Maureen Ngozi, and Azodo, Ada Uzoamaka. Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Film. Trenton, N. J: Africa World Press, 2007.
Fanning, Robert . American Prophet. Marick Press, 2009.
McDermott, Kristen, Editor. Masques of Difference: Four Court Masques by Ben Jonson. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2007.
Obuchowski, Mary DeJong. Field o' My Dreams: The Collected Poems of Gene Stratton-Porter. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2007.
Patterson, Daniel. Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
Root, Robert L., Jr., Editor. Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
Root, Robert L., Jr., editor, and Steinberg, Michael. The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction. New York: Longman, 2007.
Root, Robert. The Nonfictionist's Guide: On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., August 2008.
Root, Robert L., Jr. The Nonfictionist's Guide: On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.
Root, Robert, L., Jr. After Isabella: Notes on Coming to Colorado. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.
Torgerson, Eric. The Man Who Loved Rilke. Greensboro, NC: March Street Press, 2008.
Weinstock, Jeffrey. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. London: Wallflower Press "Cultographies" series, 2007.
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew, and Magistrale, Tony. Approaches to Teaching Poe's Prose and Poetry. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2008.
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. Reading Rocky Horror: The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Popular Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.
Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. Taking South Park Seriously. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008.

Book Chapters

Weinstock, Jeffrey. Goth: Undead Subculture: Goth/Fetish. Duke UP, 2007.

Weinstock, Jeffrey. Reading the Films of Stephen King: Maybe It Shouldn't Be a Party: Kids, Keds, and Death in Stephen King's 'Stand By Me' and 'Pet Sematary'. Palgrave, 2008.

Weinstock, Jeffrey. Popular Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Literacy Marketplace: Female Authored Gothic Tales in the Nineteenth-Century Popular Press. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

Weinstock, Jeffrey. Death Becomes Her: Queer Specters of Rose Terry Cooke and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.

Book Reviews

Tall, Deborah. A Family of Strangers. Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction:

Reviewed by: Root, Robert L., Jr on Spring 2008

Newitz, Annalee. Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Culture. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

Reviewed by: Weinstock, Jeffrey on Winter 2007

Lloyd-Smith, Allan. American Gothic Fiction: An Introduction. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Winter 2007.

Reviewed by: Weinstock, Jeffrey on Winter 2007

Conferences

Alton, Anne Hiebert. Transformations: From Influence to Inspiration" - Keynote Address. New Orleans - Phoenix Rising Conference: May, 2007.
McDermott, Kristen. "Milk and blood, dew and flood": Female Sexuality, Food, and Folklore in Jonson. Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, IL: April, 2008.
Root, Robert A., Jr. The Coast of Acadia. Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Spartansburg, SC: June 15, , 2007.
Root, Robert A., Jr. Interrogating the Equation. University of Iowa NonfictioNow Conference, Iowa City, IA: November 3, , 2007.
Root, Robert L., Jr. Where Writing Comes From. Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, New York, NY: February 2, , 2008.
Root, Robert L., Jr. The Nonfiction Motive. Conference on College Composition and Communication - New York, NY: March, 2007.
Weinstock, Jeffrey. Voices From the Dead: Posthumous Fantasy and Cultural Critique. International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts: March, 2007.

External Grants

Alton, Anne Hiebert, and Patricia Benson. Strategies in Action (Reading Across the Curriculum and Writing to Learn). Michigan Department of Education: 2006-07 year grant, $29,999.

Other Creative Publications

Blake, Allegra. "poems: "Dead Letter Office" "Psalm"." Poetalk (2007): Blake, Allegra. "Poem: "Hymn"." miller's pond (2007): Blake, Allegra. "Poem: "perfidy"." New Orleans Review (Fall/Winter 2006): Blake, Allegra. "Poem: "Flying Below Radar"." Hubbub Volume 23 (Spring 2007): Blake, Allegra. "Poems: "Wheels on Fire," ". . .Prognostications," "Wolfgang Jefferson Layheart," and "Photo: Cabin, January 7th, 1996"." New Orphic Review (BC Canada) , Posted: January 2007. Blake, Allegra. "Poem: "Life Without Herb"." The Oak (January 2007): Blake, Allegra. "Poems: "The River Nowhere on this Earth" and "psalm II"." Blind Man's Rainbow (Winter Issue 2007): www.theblindpress.com, Posted: January 2007. Blake, Allegra. "Poems." FreeFall (American & Canadian Issues) (Spring 2006): , Posted: Spring 2006. Blake, Allegra. "Poems." Blue Unicorn Triquarterly Spring 2006Fanning, Robert, and Fanning, Robert, and Fanning, Robert, and Fanning, Robert. "The Prophet in Flight." Failbetter (2008): www.failbetter.com, Posted: July, 2008. Fanning, Robert, and Fanning, Robert, and Fanning, Robert, and Fanning, Robert. "The Prophet and the Summer Fair." Failbetter (2008): www.failbetter.com, Posted: July, 2008. Root, Robert L., Jr. "Terra Cognita." Colorado Review (Summer 2008): Root, Robert L., Jr. "The Pattern of Life Indelible." Ecotone: Reimagining Place (Winter/Spring 2006): 152-167. Root, Robert L., Jr. "Interview with William deBuys." Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (Fall 2008): Seaton, Sandra The Bridge Party play (2007):