English
Our faculty are active researchers in a variety of focus areas including medieval and Renaissance literature; contemporary literary theory; queer theory; semiotics and rhetorical theory; literary treatments of ethnicity; critical and literary theory; and book history and manuscript culture.
Submissions from 2025
Revealing the Invisibility of Whiteness in Literary Studies, Kourtney Senquiz
Submissions from 2024
The Well of Hopefulness: Gale Wilhelm, Radclyffe Hall, and the Rewriting of the Marriage Plot, Elizabeth Blake
Reshaping True Crime Stories from the Global Margins: Voicing the Less Dead, Francesca Borrione and Heather J. Macpherson
Leonora Sansay’s Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Frames of Personhood, Lisa Kasmer
Tell Me Where You Are -This Happens Everywhere: Representations of Femicide in Natalia Beristáin's 2022 Film Noise, Heather J. Macpherson
Unpublished Counterpublics: H. T. Tsiang’s Ellis Island Poems, Jeff Noh
Japanese Atmospheres and the Pleasures of Belonging: Winnifred Eaton and Sadakichi Hartmann, Spencer Tricker
Submissions from 2023
Introduction: Inclusion Is Hard, or Collaborating in Crip Time, Sonya Freeman Loftis, Mardy Philippian, and Justin Shaw
Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance, Justin Shaw, Sonya Freeman Loftis, and Mardy Philippian
Submissions from 2022
‘The Blank of What He Was’: Dryden, Newton, and the Discipline of Shakespeare’s White People, Justin Shaw
Submissions from 2020
Adaptive kinship: Jane Rule’s domestic geographies of care, Elizabeth Blake
Queering the marriage plot: Gale Wilhelm’s middlebrow modernism, Elizabeth Blake
Manuscript culture, Meredith Marie Neuman
Submissions from 2019
‘Tis Fearful Sleeping in a Serpent’s Bed’: Arden of Faversham and the Threat of the Petty Traitor, Dianne Berg
Domesticating Gertrude Stein, or, “banal queerness”: reading “Lifting Belly” alongside What Happened and A Play Called Not and Now, Elizabeth Blake
HHow to Live Safely in a Science Fictional America: Charles Yu’s Immigrant Utopianism, Betsy Huang
National Trauma and Romantic Illusions in Percy Shelley’s The Cenci, Lisa Kasmer
Submissions from 2018
Diversity and inclusion in higher education and societal contexts: International and interdisciplinary approaches, Sun Hee Kim Gertz, Betsy Huang, and Lauren Cyr
Negotiating diversity's discontents, Betsy Huang
Submissions from 2017
Introduction, Lisa Kasmer
Mansfield park and national (Be)longing, Lisa Kasmer
Traumatic tales: British nationhood and national trauma in nineteenth-century literature, Lisa Kasmer
Submissions from 2015
Popular genres and new media, Betsy Huang
Desiring machines, repellant subjects: A conclusion, David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, and Greta A. Niu
Techno-orientalism: Imagining Asia in speculative fiction, history, and media, David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, and Greta A. Niu
Submissions from 2013
Jeremiah's scribes: Creating Sermon literature in Puritan New England, Meredith Marie Neuman
The Versified Lives of Unknown Puritans, Meredith Marie Neuman
Submissions from 2010
Contesting genres in contemporary Asian American fiction, Betsy Huang
Submissions from 2005
Beyond narrative: The conversion plot of John Dane's a declaration of remarkable providences, Meredith Marie Neuman
