The English Literature department at Boise State University prepares students for a variety of futures by developing skills of critical inquiry, analytical reasoning, and oral and written communication, which are transferable to any profession. Faculty offer expertise in British and American literature, interdisciplinary humanities, and a range of genres including fiction, poetry, drama, and film. Faculty are committed to innovative, student-centered teaching and learning in a variety of formats including online, hybrid, and face-to-face instruction; internships and experiential learning; and student-faculty collaborative research.
Books from 2023
Families of the Heart: Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel, Ann Campbell
Afterword: On Exhuming an Early American Ecogothic, Tom J. Hillard
Building a Communication-Integrated Curriculum in Materials Science, Jennifer C. Mallette and Harold Ackler
A Source for ‘The Luck of Roaring Camp’, Tara Penry
Writing Dawn and Day in the Work of Mary Oliver and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jeff Westover
Submissions from 2022
“You Should Pray I Choose the Latter”: Rioting, Violence, & Jouissance, Gautam Basu Thakur
An Image for All: The Rhetoric for Writing Alt-Text, Sherena Huntsman
Plurilingualism for U.S. Writing Classrooms, Kay M. Losey and Gail Shuck
Plurilingual Pedagogies for Multilingual Writing Classrooms: Engaging the Rich Communicative Repertoires of U.S. Students, Kay M. Losey and Gail Shuck
Centering Equity and Inclusion in Engineering Collaboration and Writing, Jennifer C. Mallette
Expanding Expertise in Communication Science Through Public and Citizen Science, Jennifer C. Mallette
Variations in Project-Based Course Design, Eun Hye Son and Tara Penry
Submissions from 2021
The Haunted Playroom: Sex, Death, and Childhood in Ulysses, Lindsey A. K. Appell
Fanon’s "Zone of Nonbeing": Blackness and the Politics of the Real, Gautam Basu Thakur
Creating Presence Through Video in Teaching Shakespeare Online, Jennifer Black
Metaffective Fiction: Structuring Feeling in Post-Postmodern American Literature, Ralph Clare
Burying the Body: Pandemic and Public Health in Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, Tom J. Hillard
Sounding Two Notes: Re-Reading Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bishop, Cheryl Hindrichs
Publishing in the Teaching Linguistics Section of Language, Kazuko Hiramatsu and Michal Temkin Martinez
Addressing Workplace Accessibility Practices Through Technical Communication Research Methods: One Size Does Not Fit All, Sherena Huntsman
Northern Paiute, Ruth Hoodie Lewis and Timothy Thornes
Spaces of Resistance in Assia Djebar’s Ombre Sultane [A Sister to Scheherazade] and Femmes d’Alger dans Leur Appartement [Women of Algiers in Their Apartment], Reshmi Mukherjee
“Almost Unknown to the General Reader”: Biographical and Conceptual Contexts of Melville’s Marginalia in Thomas Warton’s The History of English Poetry, Steven Olsen-Smith, Cheyene Austin, and Denise Holbrook
From "No Name Woman" to Gu Liu Xin: Ghosts and Writing in The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Jeff W. Westover
Submissions from 2020
"A Strangeness Beyond Reckoning": The Animal as Surplus in Postcolonial Literature, Gautam Basu Thakur
Mind the Gap: Commentary on Session XXV, Gautam Basu Thakur
Postcolonial Lack: Identity, Culture, Surplus, Gautam Basu Thakur
Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII: Transference, Gautam Basu Thakur and Jonathan Dickstein
Beyond Reason: The Subject of Desire and Enjoyment in Populism, Gautam Basu Thakur and Meghant Sudan
Becoming Autotheory, Ralph Clare
Building Student Agency Through Contract Grading in Technical Communication, Jennifer C. Mallette and Amanda Hawks
Gender and Imagination: A Feminist Analysis of Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women without Men, Reshmi Mukherjee
Bannock (Fort Hall, Idaho), Tim Thornes
Duck Valley Reservation (Owyhee, Nevada), Tim Thornes
Fort Mcdermitt Reservation (Mcdermitt, Nevada), Tim Thornes
Kuiyuidɨkadɨ (Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada), Tim Thornes
Toidɨkadɨ (Cattail-Eaters) of Stillwater Marsh, Tim Thornes
Wadadɨka’a (Burns Paiute Reservation, Oregon), Tim Thornes
Yahooskin (Beatty, Oregon), Tim Thornes
Northern Paiute Texts: Introduction, Tim Thornes and Maziar Toosarvandani
A Credited Support Course: Corequisite Writing Course at Boise State University, Karen S. Uehling
Elizabeth Bishop's Perspectives on Marriage, Jeffrey Westover
Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 6-12: 7 Must-Make Moves to Transform How We Teach--and How Students Learn, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Rachel Bear, and Adam Fachler
Planning Powerful Instruction, Grades 2-5: 7 Must-Make Moves to Transform How We Teach--and How Students Learn, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Jackie Miller, Christopher Butts, and Adam Fachler
Submissions from 2019
The Emotional Work of Revision, Bruce Ballenger and Kelly Myers
The Trial of the (Eighteenth) Century: Active Learning and Moll Flanders, Ann Campbell
Metaffective Fiction: Structuring Feeling in Post-Postmodern American Literature, Ralph Clare
Pynchon on Film, Ralph Clare
Wallaceward the American Literature Survey Course Takes Its Way, Ralph Clare
Working Toward a Socially Just Future in the ELA Methods Class, Michelle Fowler-Amato, Kira LeeKeenan, Amber Warrington, Brady Lee Nash, and Randi Beth Brady
Censored Young Adult Sports Novels: Entry Points for Understanding Issues of Identities and Equity, James E. Fredricksen, Jason M. Thornberry, and Kristine Gritter
Gothic Nature Revisited: Reflections on the Gothic of Ecocriticism, Tom J. Hillard
"A Vision of Greyness": The Liminal Vantage of Illness in Heart of Darkness, Cheryl Hindrichs
"'I’m Not Sick,’ I Said. ‘I’m Wounded’": Disrupting Wounded Masculinity Through the Lyrical Spaces of War, Cheryl Hindrichs
Using Reflection to Facilitate Writing Knowledge Transfer in Upper-Level Materials Science Courses, Jennifer C. Mallette and Harold Ackler
Truck Driver Haikus, Dolors Miquel and Clyde Moneyhun
Breaking the Exclusionary Boundary Between User Experience and Access, Zsuzsanna B. Palmer, Sushil K. Oswal, and Sherena Huntsman
Administration, Emotional Labor, and Gendered Discourses of Power: A Feminist Chair’s Mission to Make Service Matter, Michelle Payne
Absurd Passion: Camusian Freedom and Revolt in "Cante Flamenco", Ruth Saxey Reese
Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature, Edward McLean Test
Repression, Renewal and 'The Race of Women' in H.D.'s Ion, Jeff Westover
Story, Discourse, and the Voice of the Other in W. S. Merwin’s The Folding Cliffs, Jeff Westover
“Where to Take Risks and Where to Lay Low”: Tensions Between Preservice Teacher Learning and Program Ideological Coherence, Thea Williamson and Amber Warrington
Books from 2018
The Curious Researcher: A Guide to Writing Research Papers, Bruce Ballenger
Lacan and the Nonhuman, Gautam Basu Thakur and Jonathan Michael Dickstein
Freedom and Formlessness: Ben Lerner’s 10:04 and the Affective Historical Present, Ralph Clare
The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace, Ralph Clare
Shared Landscapes, Contested Borders: Locating Disciplinarity in an MA Program Revision, Whitney Douglas, Heidi Estrem, Kelly Myers, and Dawn Shepherd
Reclaiming Writing Placement, Heidi Estrem, Dawn Shepherd, and Samantha Sturman
Teach Like a Gamer: Adapting the Instructional Design of Digital Role-Playing Games, Carly Finseth
"Perverse Nature": Anxieties of Animality and Environment in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly, Tom J. Hillard
The Fly and the Displaced Self: Affective Potential in the Epiphanic Moments of Mansfield, Woolf and Lawrence, Cheryl Hindrichs
The Professor: Room 433, Cheryl Hindrichs
Valuing Women’s Contributions: Team Projects and Collaborative Writing, Jennifer C. Mallette and Harold Ackler
Theory to Practice: Negotiating Expertise for New Technical Communicators, Jennifer C. Mallette and Megan Gehrke
Revolver: Stories, Heidi Naylor
At the Axis of Reality: Melville's Marginalia in The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Christopher Ohge, Steven Olsen-Smith, Elisa Barney Smith, Adam Brimhall, Bridget Howley, Lisa Shanks, and Lexy Smith
Bret Harte’s Oscar Wilde Tale, Tara Penry
Mark Twain and Robert B. Swain of San Francisco, Tara Penry
Generative Principles for Professional Learning for Equity-Oriented Urban English Teachers, Allison Skerrett, Amber Warrington, and Thea Williamson
Evidentiality in the Uto-Aztecan Languages, Tim Thornes
Faculty Development and a Graduate Course for Pre-Service and In-Service Faculty: Finding and Enacting a Professional Identity in Basic Writing, Karen S. Uehling
Finding Value in the Process: Student Empowerment Through Self-Assessment, Amber Warrington, Lauren Graeber, Holland White, and John Saxton
The Trailhead, Kerri Webster
Submissions from 2017
Return to the Typewriter, Bruce Ballenger
The Gestalt of Revision: Commentary on "Return to the Typewriter", Bruce Ballenger
Embodying Gender and Class in Public Spaces Through an Active Learning Activity: “Out and About in the Eighteenth Century", Ann Campbell
The End of Postmodernism, Ralph Clare
Looking Outward: Archival Research as Community Engagement, Whitney Douglas
Reading the "Book of Nature": Thomas Cole and the British Romantics, Samantha C. Harvey
Romanticism, Samantha C. Harvey
Expanding Efficiency: Women's Communication in Engineering, Jennifer C. Mallette
Writing and Women's Retention in Engineering, Jennifer C. Mallette
Acoustic and Aerodynamic Data on Somali Chizigula Stops, Michal Temkin Martinez and Vanessa Rosenbaum
Salt: Poems in Catalan, Ponç Pons and Clyde Moneyhun
Medical Imagery and Fragmentation: Modernism, Scientific Discourse, and the Mexican/Indigenous Body, 1870-1940s, Dora Alicia Ramírez
Losing a Vital Voice: Grief and Language Work, Racquel-María Sapién and Tim Thornes
On the Heterogeneity of Northern Paiute Directives, Tim Thornes
The Centrality of Seeing in Journey to Love, Jeffrey Westover
Books from 2016
The Curious Writer, Bruce Ballenger
Necroecology: Undead, Dead, and Dying on the Limits of the Colony, Gautam Basu Thakur
Postcolonial Theory and Avatar, Gautam Basu Thakur
Vernacular Objects | Indian Mutiny | Imperial Panic1, Gautam Basu Thakur
Understanding How Algorithms Work Persuasively Through the Procedural Enthymeme, Kevin Brock and Dawn Shepherd
Reading the 'Book of Nature': Emerson, the Hunterian Museum And Transatlantic Science, Samantha C. Harvey
Coleridge, Thoreau, and the Transatlantic "Riddle of the World", Samantha C. Harvey and Rochelle L. Johnson
Virginia Woolf and Illness, Cheryl Hindrichs
A University-Community College Collaborative Project to Create Co-Requisite Offerings and Reduce Remediation, Lori Chastaine Michas, Meagan Newberry, Karen S. Uehling, and Abigail L. Wolford
Metanoic Movement: The Transformative Power of Regret, Kelly A. Myers
Law and Sexuality in Tennessee Williams's America, Jacqueline O'Connor
Stephen Crane (1871-1900), Steven Olsen-Smith
From One Human to the Next: How Stories Might Save Our Lives, Stacie Lewton Rice
Scholastica Opines, Ruth Saxey-Reese
Selections from El Camino del Amor: Una Guía: A Prose Poem Cycle, Ruth Saxey-Reese
Building Relationships: Online Dating and the New Logics of Internet Culture, Dawn Shepherd
Health Conditions of Post-Resettlement African Refugees in Boise, Idaho, Mikal Smith, Pamela Springer, Terri Soelberg, Pat Lazare, and Michal Temkin-Martinez
Training African Refugee Interpreters for Health Related Research, Terri Soelberg, Michal Temkin-Martínez, Mikal Smith, and Pamela Springer
Cummings, Abbott and Costello: How "Who's on First?" Can Help Students Understand "anyone lived in a pretty how town", Jeff Westover
Signifyin(g) Metamorphosis in Thylias Moss's Slave Moth, Jeffrey Westover
The Mother's Mark on the Daughter's Speech, Jeffrey Westover
Recognising the Power of Pleasure: What Engaged Adolescent Readers Get from Their Free-Choice Reading, and How Teachers Can Leverage This for All, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
The Power of Pleasure Reading: What We Can Learn from the Secret Reading Lives of Teens, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Michael W. Smith
The Ethics of Plain Language: A Technical Communicator's Perspective, Russell Willerton
Books from 2015
Bitter Green, Martin Corless-Smith
Promoting Teacher Presence: Strategies for Effective and Efficient Feedback to Student Writing Online, Stephanie Cox, Jennifer Black, Jill Heney, and Melissa Keith
Disciplinary and Professional Identities are Constructed Through Writing, Heidi Estrem
Threshold Concepts and Student Learning Outcomes, Heidi Estrem
Writing is a Knowledge-Making Activity, Heidi Estrem
What New Writing Teachers Talk About When They Talk About Teaching, Heidi Estrem and E. Shelley Reid
Theorycrafting the Classroom: Constructing the Introductory Technical Communication Course as a Game, Carly Finseth
Shake It Up After-School: Service Learning, Shakespeare, and Performance as Interpretation, Matthew C. Hansen
Into Active Voice: Seeking Agency Through Collaborative Scholarship, Melissa Keith, Jennifer Black, Stephanie Cox, and Jill Marie Heney
Five poems from Witch in Mourning, Maria-Mercè Marçal and Clyde Moneyhun
Fractures: A Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery (Volume 5), Mike Markel
Integrating Information Literacy, the POGIL Method, and iPads Into a Foundational Studies Program, Carrie Moore, Jennifer Black, Barbara Glackin, Margie Ruppel, and Elaine Watson
Anna Deavere Smith and Her West Wing Residencies, Jacqueline O'Connor
Melville in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates, Steven Olsen-Smith
Recovering Melville’s Hand: An Inaugural Report on Digital Discovery and Analysis at Melville’s Marginalia Online, Steven Olsen-Smith
St. Brendan Celebrates, Ruth Saxey-Reese
Specific Exceptions Driving Variation: The Role of Orthography in Modern Hebrew Spirantization, Michal Temkin Martinez and Ivana Müllner
Snow Angels, Mitch Wieland
Let Them Read Trash!, Jeffrey Wilhelm
They Read What They Need, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Michael W. Smith
Plain Language and Ethical Action: A Dialogic Approach to Technical Content in the Twenty-First Century, Russell Willerton
Books from 2014
The Curious Writer, Bruce Ballenger
Participation and Collaboration in Digital Spaces: Connecting High School and College Writing Experiences, Rachel Bear, Heidi Estrem, James E. Fredricksen, and Dawn Shepherd
Fictions Inc. : The Corporation in Postmodern Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture, Ralph Clare
The Politics of Boredom and the Boredom of Politics in The Pale King, Ralph Clare
Relentless Engagement with State Educational Policy Reform: Collaborating to Change the Writing Placement Conversation, Heidi Estrem, Dawn Shepherd, and Lloyd Duman
Before the West was West: Critical Essays on Pre-1800 Literature of the American Frontiers, Amy T. Hamilton and Tom J. Hillard
When You Find Us We Will Be Gone: Stories, Christopher Linforth
Targeting Writing Interventions to Emotional Processing Level: A Factorial Experimental Design, Cheryl J. Maddalena, Ruth Saxey-Reese, and Elizabeth Lester Barnes
Three-Ways: A Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery (Volume 4), Mike Markel
Best Practices for Working Effectively with Your Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR), Roger Munger
Narrativa Oscura: The Open Question of Tennessee Williams's "One Arm", Jacqueline O'Connor
Contrast and Contradiction: The Emergent West in Crèvecoeur’s Regional Theory, Tara Penry
"Under All the Laws, Natural, Human, and Divine": Reinterpreting La Leyenda Negra's Colonial Purpose, Dora Ramirez-Dhoore
Wild Negotiations: Dolores Del Río's Filmic Identity in 1940s Cinema, Dora Ramirez-Dhoore
Media, Mimesis, and the Figure of the Orphan in William Carlos Williams’s Life Along the Passaic River, Jeffrey Westover
Teacher-Writers: Then, Now, and Next, Anne Elrod Whitney, Troy Hicks, Leah Zuidema, James E. Fredricksen, and Robert P. Yagelski
Understanding Teachers’ Writing: Authority in Talk and Texts, Anne Elrod Whitney, Leah A. Zuidema, and James E. Fredricksen
Learning to Love the Questions, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
The Activist Learner: Inquiry, Literacy, and Service to Make Learning Matter, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Whitney Douglas, and Sara W. Fry
Don't Underestimate the Power of Pleasure Reading, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Michael W. Smith
Reading Unbound: Why Kids Need to Read What They Want- and Why We Should Let Them, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Michael W. Smith, and Sharon Fransen
Naked Me, Christian Winn
Submissions from 2013
Configuring the Other: The Detective and the Real in Satyajit Ray's Chiriakhana, Gautam Basu Thakur
Reading Bhabha, Reading Lacan: Preliminary Notes on Colonial Anxiety, Gautam Basu Thakur
The Menon-Žižek Debate: “The Tale of the (Never-marked) (But secretly coded) Universal and the (Always marked) Particular . . .”, Gautam Basu Thakur
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Falconry Manuals: Technical Writing with a Classical Rhetorical Influence, John T. Battalio
Clandestine Marriage and Frances Burney’s Critique of Matrimony in Cecilia, Ann Campbell
Indentured Servitude as Colonial America's "Semi-Slavery Business" in Sally Gunning's Bound, Ann Campbell
Worlds of Wordcraft: The Metafiction of Kurt Vonnegut, Ralph Clare
Your Loss Is Their Gain: The Corporate Body and the Corporeal Body in Richard Powers's Gain, Ralph Clare
Herrick's Wild Civility, Martin Corless-Smith
Experience Over All: Preservice Teachers and the Prizing of the 'Practical', Anne Elrod Whitney, Elsie L. Olan, and James E. Fredricksen
Collaboration: Talk. Trust. Write., Jim Fredricksen
Transatlantic Transcendentalism: Coleridge, Emerson, and Nature, Samantha Harvey
From Salem Witch to Blair Witch: The Puritan Influence on American Gothic Nature, Tom J. Hillard
Practical Strategies for Technical Communication, Mike Markel
The Broken Saint: A Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery, Mike Markel
"Cursed Soul," "Shards," "Night in Marburg", Clyde Moneyhun
El Llibre d'Amic e Amat (The Book of the Lover and the Beloved), Clyde Moneyhun
"Obituary" and "Palinurus", Clyde Moneyhun
Walser, the Walker, Clyde Moneyhun
Living in Subalternity: The Becoming of the Subaltern in Bessie Head’s A Woman Alone, A Gesture of Belonging, and When Rain Clouds Gather, Reshmi Mukherjee
The Muslim Refugee Family: On the Way to Citizenship, Heidi Naylor
Documentary Trial Plays in Contemporary American Theater, Jacqueline O'Connor
Teaching and Assessing Research Strategies in the Digital Age: Collaboration Is the Key, Thomas Peele, Melissa Keith, and Sara Seely
A Motorcar Runs Through It: Imagining the Unwritten Western Book, Tara Penry
When Students Write Literary History: Regionalism, Populism, and Literary Value in a Gold Rush Magazine, Tara Penry
What is ESL?, Gail Shuck
The Common Core: New Standards, New Teaching, Michael W. Smith, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, and James Fredricksen
Causation as "Functional Sink" in Northern Paiute, Tim Thornes
Functional-Historical Approaches to Explanation: In Honor of Scott DeLancey, Tim Thornes, Erik Andvik, Gwendolyn Hyslop, and Joana Jansen
Enriching Comprehension with Visualization Strategies: Text Elements and Ideas to Build Comprehension, Encourage Reflective Reading, and Represent Understanding, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Teaching White Papers Through Client Projects, Russell Willerton
How the Axe Falls: A Retrospective on Thirty-Five Years of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Performance, Linda Marie Zaerr
Books from 2012
The Curious Researcher: A Guide to Writing Research Papers, Bruce Ballenger
Extractions [short story], Amanda Bennett
The Politics of Boredom and the Boredom of Politics in David Foster Wallace's The Pale King, Ralph Clare
What New Writing Teachers Talk About When They Talk About Teaching, Heidi Estrem and E. Shelley Reid
So, What's the Story?: Teaching Narrative to Understand Ourselves, Others, and the World, James E. Fredricksen, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, and Michael W. Smith
Before the West was West: Rethinking the Temporal Borders of Western American Literature, Amy T. Hamilton and Tom J. Hillard
Reading "Moments of Being" Between the Lines of Bach’s Fugue: Lyric Narrative in Virginia Woolf's "Slater’s Pins Have No Points", Cheryl Hindrichs
The Caress is a Letter of Instruction, Adrian Kien
Deviations: A Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery, Mike Markel
Technical Communication, Mike Markel
Response to Doug Hesse's "The Place of Creative Writing in Composition Studies", Clyde Moneyhun
Tutoring Teachers, Clyde Moneyhun and Patti Hanlon-Baker
Live Oak, with Moss : A Restorative Edition, Steven Olsen-Smith
The Inscription of Walt Whitman's "Live Oak, with Moss" Sequence: A Restorative Edition, Steven Olsen-Smith
Negotiating Conflicting Rhetorics: Rancheras and Documentary in the Classroom, Dora Ramirez-Dhoore
The Effects of Writing Pedagogy Education on Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Approaches to Teaching Composition, E. Shelley Reid, Heidi Estrem, and Marcia Belcheir
Oh, Yeah?!: Putting Argument to Work Both in School and Out, Michael W. Smith, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, and James E. Fredricksen
African American Sonnets: Voicing Justice and Personal Dignity, Jeffrey Westover
Deepening Comprehension with Action Strategies: Role Plays, Text-Structure Tableaux, Talking Statues, and Other Enactment Techniques that Engage Students with Text, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Essential Questions, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Improving Comprehension with Think-Aloud Strategies: Modeling What Good Readers Do, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
A Call for Action: Building Bridges Between Literacy In School and Out, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Michael W. Smith
Get it Done!: Writing and Analyzing Informational Texts to Make Things Happen, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Michael W. Smith, and James E. Fredricksen
Performance and the Middle English Romance, Linda Marie Zaerr
Books from 2011
Crafting Truth: Short Stories in Creative Nonfiction, Bruce Ballenger
The Curious Writer, Bruce Ballenger
When Nostalgia is the Scent We Follow, Bruce Ballenger
Teaching Literature to Adolescents, Richard Beach, Deborah Appleman, Susan Hynds, and Jeffrey Wilhelm
The Strange and Surprising World of Curriculum Reform and Its Consequences for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ann Campbell
How Educators Use Policy Documents: A Misunderstood Relationship, James E. Fredricksen
Tapping the Power: Writing to Learn Language, Content, and Process, Jim Fredricksen and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Coleridge's American Revival, Samantha Harvey
Volt: Stories, Alan Heathcock
"Falling out of a Picture": The Australian Landscape in D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo, Cheryl Hindrichs
Late Modernism, 1928-1945: Criticism and Theory, Cheryl Hindrichs
The Spaces of Irish Drama: Stage and Place in Contemporary Plays, Helen Lojek
Monitoring Changes to Federal Health IT Privacy Policy: A Case Study in Punctuated Equilibrium, Mike Markel
Language of Desire, Heidi Naylor
Revolver, Heidi Naylor
We: Yin and Yang: A Note, Heidi Naylor
Performing the Law in Contemporary Documentary Theater, Jacqueline O'Connor
Book History Comes West, Tara Penry
The Literate West of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals, Tara Penry
The Rhetoric of Aztlán: HB 2281, MEChA and Liberatory Education, Dora Ramirez-Dhoore
Infusing Young Adult Literature into High School English, Bruce Robbins
On the Interaction of Variation and Exceptionality in Modern Hebrew Spirantization, Michal Temkin Martinez
"A Dish Fit for the Gods": Mexica Sacrifice in De Bry, Las Casas, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Edward M. Test
Amerindian Eden: The Divine Weekes of Du Bartas, Edward Mac Test
Competing Forms of Representation and the Figure of the Orphan in William Carlos Williams’s Depression-Era Passaic, Jeffrey Westover
'My Sense of Property’s / Adrift’: Attitudes Toward Land, Property and Nation in the Poetry of Lorine Niedecker, Jeffrey Westover
Let's Get Boys Reading and Writing: An Essential Guide to Raising Boys Achievement, Jeffrey Wilhelm
Knowing and Becoming: Teaching and Reading Literature as a Process of Transformation, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom: Being the Book and Being the Change, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Bruce Novak
Evaluating Applications for an Informal Approach to Information Design: Readers Respond to Three Articles About Nursing, Russell Willerton and Mary Hereford
Submissions from 2010
Theories of Intelligence, Bruce Ballenger
English Fragments : A Brief History of the Soul, Martin Corless-Smith
Students' Texts Beyond the Classroom: Young Scholars in Writing's Challenges to College Writing Instruction, Doug Downs, Heidi Estrem, and Susan Thomas
Building Conscious Competence: Reading Our Students, Sharing Our Practice, James E. Fredricksen
Once a Struggling Student…, Sara Winstead Fry and Kim DeWit
“O brave new world”: Service-Learning and Shakespeare, Matthew Hansen
"Find Our Own Way for Ourselves": Orlando as an Uncommon Reader in the Critical Theory Classroom, Cheryl Hindrichs
Letters from Frank: A Playwright Reflects on His Work, Helen Lojek
Big Sick Heart: A Detectives Seagate and Miner Mystery, Mike Markel
Technical Communication, Mike Markel
Performance Evaluation as Faculty Development, Clyde Moneyhun
Green Writing Curriculum: Showing Your Students How to Make a Difference, Roger Munger
Writing Lab Reports, Roger Munger
Using Writing to Make a Difference in Your Community, Roger Munger and Jane DeChambeau
Teaching the Temporal Dimensions of Service-Learning, Roger Munger and S. Sturman
Herman Melville’s Copy of Thomas Beale’s The Natural History of the Sperm Whale and the Composition of Moby-Dick, Steven Olsen-Smith
Sentiment and Style, Tara Penry
The Chinese in Bret Harte’s Overland: A Context for Truthful James, Tara Penry
Dissecting Environmental Racism: Redirecting the Toxic in Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood and Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, Dora Ramirez-Dhoore
The Gummy Bears Speak: Articulating Identity in Sandra Cisneros’s ‘Never Marry a Mexican', Dora Ramirez-Dhoore
Bringing Filmmaking into the English Language Arts Classroom, Bruce Robbins
What’s My Line? Considering the Teacher Educator's Role When Action Research is Added to Student Teaching, Bruce Robbins
Language Identity, Agency, and Context: The Shifting Meanings of "Multilingual", Gail Shuck
Fresh Takes on Teaching Literary Elements: How to Teach What Really Matters About Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme, Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Making New World Publics: Botanical Studies in Sixteenth-Century Europe, Edward Mac Test
The Lonely Polygamist: A Novel, Brady Udall
Langston Hughes's Counterpublic Discourse, Jeff Westover
Inquiring Minds Learn to Read, Write, and Think: Reaching All Learners through Inquiry, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Peggy Jo Wilhelm
Submissions from 2009
The Journey is the Destination: The Place of Assessment in an Activist Writing Program, Linda Adler-Kassner and Heidi Estrem
The Curious Researcher: A Guide to Writing Research Papers, Bruce Ballenger
The Curious Writer, Bruce Ballenger
Success in Distance Education: Do Learning Styles and Multiple Formats Matter?, John Battalio
Organic Writing Assessment: Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action, Heidi Estrem
Talking About Teaching: Establishing Trust Amidst Uncertainty, James E. Fredricksen
Spring Drive: A North Country Tale, Chuck Guilford
“Deep Into That Darkness Peering”: An Essay on Gothic Nature, Tom J. Hillard
Feminist Optics and Avant-Garde Cinema: Germaine Dulac's "The Smiling Madame Beudet" and Virginia Woolf's "Street Haunting", Cheryl Hindrichs
Reading the Other, Editing the Self: Mentoring in Woolf and Welty, Cheryl Hindrichs
The Ms of My Kin, Janet A. Holmes
Anti-Employer Blogging: An Overview of Legal and Ethical Issues, Mike Markel
Exploiting Verbal-Visual Synergy in Presentation Slides, Mike Markel
Time and Exigence in Temporal Genres, Mike Markel
Designed to Succeed: Strategies for Building an Effective Proposal Management Internship Program, Roger Munger
The Green Communicator: Eco-Friendly Practices for the Small Business Office, Roger Munger
Boys and Literacy: Complexity and Multiplicity, Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Seeds of Sacrifice: Amaranth, the Gardens of Tenochtitlan and Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Edward Mac Test
Carlos Santana: A Biography, Norman Weinstein
Wallace Stevens’ Savage Commonplace, Jeffrey Westover
God's Dogs: A Novel in Stories, Mitch Wieland
Inquiring Minds: Learn to Read and Write: 50 Problem-Based Literacy & Learning Strategies, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Peggy Jo Wilhelm, and Erika Boas
The True Adventures of a Texas Sharecropper Kid, Lonnie L. Willis
When Silence Plays Vielle: The Metaperformance Scenes of Le Roman de Silence in Performance, Linda Marie Zaerr
Submissions from 2008
Our Mornings with Murray, Bruce Ballenger
Reconsiderations: Donald Murray and the Pedagogy of Surprise, Bruce Ballenger
Punitive Subplots and Clandestine Marriage in Eliza Haywood’s The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, Ann Campbell
Making Pedagogy Our Business: Strengthening the Ties Between English Education and Composition-Rhetoric, Heidi Estrem
Ethical Autonomy as a Characteristic of Effective Government Writing, Mike Markel
The Role Visualization Strategies Play in Struggling Readers’ Engagement, Comprehension and Response to Text, or “Wait, You Mean it’s Supposed to Make Sense Every Time You Read?”, Mary Massie, Karen Boran, and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Green Printing: A Guide to Environmentally Responsible Printing, Roger Munger
V: Designing Documents and Understanding Visuals: Supplement to Accompany Handbooks by Diana Hacker, Roger Munger
Preparing Future Leaders: Project-Management Strategies for Service Learning, Roger Munger and Amanda Gutowski
Captain John Smith, Steven Olsen-Smith
Classroom Filmmaking: A Learning Experience, Bruce Robbins and Don Evans
A Stylistic Analysis of Le Roman de Silence, Mary Ellen Ryder and Linda Marie Zaerr
Before Sundance: How Nell Shipman Made Her 'Little Dramas of the Big Places', Tom Trusky
James Castle: His Life & Art, Tom Trusky
From Community College to Urban University: Beginning Writing Instruction for Diverse Students at Boise State University, Karen Uehling
You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Proceeding with Caution: A Case Study of Engineering Professionals Reading White Papers, Russell Willerton
Writing Toward Readers' Better Health: A Case Study Examining the Development of Online Health Information, Russell Willerton
Songs of Love and Love of Songs: Music and Magic in Medieval Romance, Linda Marie Zaerr
Submissions from 2007
Reading Practices in the Writing Classroom, Linda Adler-Kassner and Heidi Estrem
Interaction Online: A Reevaluation, John T. Battalio
The Limits of "Laudable Action": Women's Marital Choice in John Shebbeare's The Marriage Act, Ann Campbell
Magdalen or Harlot?: Satire, Sentiment, and the Fallen Woman in William Dodd’s The Sisters, Ann M. Campbell
Growing Pains: The Writing Major in Composition and Rhetoric, Heidi Estrem
Breakfast with Sylvia, Kevin Kiely
This Page Intentionally Left Blank: Janet Holmes Formats Dickinson, Jonathan Morse and Janet A. Holmes
Go Green: Making the Case for Eco-Friendly Printing at Your Organization, Roger Munger
Including Service Learning in the Tech-Comm Course, Roger Munger
A One-Woman Riot: Brooklyn 1991 & Los Angeles 1992, Jacqueline O'Connor
Facts on Trial: Documentary Theatre and Zoot Suit, Jacqueline O'Connor
The Annotated Bibliography, Michelle Payne
The Essay Exam Handbook, Michelle Payne
The Literature Review, Michelle Payne
The Writing Portfolio, Michelle Payne
Queer Popular Culture: Literature, Media, Film, and Television, Thomas Peele
The D&D Boys: What’s Wrong With This Picture?, Bruce Robbins and Maggie Chase
Getting it Right: Fresh Approaches to Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Correctness, Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Creating a Statement of Guidelines and Goals for Boise State University's Basic Writing Course: Content and Development, Karen S. Uehling
Experimenting with the Performance of Medieval Narrative, Evelyn Birge Vitz and Linda Marie Zaerr
INQUIRY Starts Here, Jeff Wilhelm
Engaging Readers and Writers with Inquiry: Promoting Deep Understandings in Language Arts and the Content Areas with Guiding Questions, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Meeting the Challenge: Creating Engaging and Powerful Contexts for Literacy Learning, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Thoughts on the Twenty-First Century Classroom, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Making it Matter Through the Power of Inquiry, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Michael W. Smith
Writing White Papers in High-Tech Industries: Perspectives from the Field, Russell Willerton
Books from 2006
The Curious Reader: Exploring Personal and Academic Inquiry, Bruce Ballenger and Michelle Payne
Teaching a Distance Education Version of the Technical Communication Service Course: Timesaving Strategies, John T. Battalio
Teaching Literature to Adolescents, Richard Beach, Deborah Appleman, Susan Hynds, and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Tristram Shandy and the Seven Years' War: Beyond the Borders of the Bowling Green, Ann Campbell
H.D.’s Palimpsest: The Work of the "Advance-Guard" in a History of Trauma, Cheryl Hindrichs
F2F, Janet A. Holmes
Safe Harbor and Privacy Protection: A Looming Issue for IT Professionals, Mike Markel
Participating in a Technical Communication Internship, Roger Munger
Williams and the Grotesque, Jacqueline O'Connor, Philip Kolin, Brian Parker, and Annette Saddik
‘Live Oak, with Moss,’ ‘Calamus,’ and ‘Children of Adam’, Steven Olsen-Smith
Updating Your Training Materials, Lori L. Pennington and Roger Munger
Hemingway's Italy: New Perspectives, Rena Sanderson
Combating Monolingualism: A Novice Administrator’s Challenge, Gail Shuck
Racializing the Nonnative English Speaker, Gail Shuck
What Research Tells Us About Teaching Grammar, Michael W. Smith and Jeff Wilhelm
Going with the Flow: How to Engage Boys (and Girls) in Their Literacy Learning, Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Polygamyland, Tom Trusky
The Age for Drama, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
What Teachers Need to Know About Motivation, Jeff Wilhelm and Michael W. Smith
Books from 2005
The Curious Writer, Bruce Ballenger
Maneuvering the Labyrinth of University Affiliation: A Symposium, R. M. Berry, Alan Davis, Stephanie G'Schwind, Janet A. Holmes, Salima Keegan, Don Lee, April Ossmann, and Mary Rockcastle
James Stevens, James H. Maguire
The Rhetoric of Misdirection in Corporate Privacy-Policy Statements, Mike Markel
Document-Based Cases for Technical Communication, Roger Munger
The Tenure and Promotion Process: STC Opportunities Available and Missing, Roger Munger
Service Learning in the Technical Communication Course, Roger Munger, Lori Pennington, and Charlotte Gunn
Instructor's Manual to Accompany The Curious Writer, Michelle Payne and Bruce Ballenger
Using The Original Approach to Teach Shakespeare, Bruce Robbins
Boys and Reading: It's More Complicated than You Think, Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Postcard from Albania, Tom Trusky
Pals Forever: Me, Bobby Fisher and the Hardy Boys, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Paying Attention: The Legacy of Louise Rosenblatt, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Asking the Right Questions: Literate Lives of Boys, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Michael W. Smith
The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell: Performance and Intertextuality in Middle English Popular Romance, Linda Marie Zaerr
Books from 2004
The Curious Writer, Bruce Ballenger
Addressing Plagiarism in a Technical Communication Course, Roger Munger
From ‘Home Place’ to the Asylum: Confining Spaces in A Streetcar Named Desire, Jacqueline O'Connor
Moving into the Rooming House: Interiority and Stage Space in Tennessee Williams's Fugitive Kind and Vieux Carre, Jacqueline O'Connor
Manly Domesticity on the Gold Rush Frontier: Recovering California’s Honest Miner, Tara Penry
Sentimental Eco-Memoir: Refuge, Hole in the Sky, and the Necessary Reader, Tara Penry
"Tennessee's Partner" as Sentimental Western Metanarrative, Tara Penry
Multinational Data-Privacy Laws: An Iintroduction for IT Managers, Elizabeth Perkins and Mike Markel
Conversational Performance and the Poetic Construction of an Ideology, Gail Shuck
"I Just Like Being Good at It": The Importance of Competence in the Literate Lives of Young Men, Michael Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Closing the Reading Gender Gap, Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
On the Experience of Writing: The Title Fight, Michael W. Smith and Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
The Flow of River Writing: Framing a Creative Nonfiction Class, Karen S. Uehling
The Colonial Moment: Discoveries and Settlements in Modern American Poetry, Jeffrey W. Westover
Boys and Books: Bringing Them Together, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Inquiring Minds Use Technology!, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
On the Experience of Writing Action Strategies, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Reading is Seeing: Learning to Visualize Scenes, Characters, Ideas, and Text Worlds to Improve Comprehension and Reflective Reading, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Walking a Tightrope: What Research on Boys and Literacy Says About No Child Left Behind, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm and Michael W. Smith
Music and Magic in Le Bel Inconnu and Lybeaus Desconus, Linda Marie Zaerr
Books from 2003
The Curious Writer, Bruce Ballenger
The Curious Reader: Exploring Personal and Academic Inquiry, Bruce Ballenger and Michelle Payne
Information Design: Strategies to Make Your Proposal Reader Friendly, Roger Munger
The Hymn in Moby-Dick: Melville's Adaptation of "Psalm 18", Steven Olsen-Smith
Letters from God's Country: Nell Shipman, Selected Correspondence & Writings, 1912-1970, Tom Trusky and Alan Virta
Creating a Statement of Guidelines and Goals for Boise State University’s Basic Writing Course: Content and Development, Karen S. Uehling
Big Stuff at the Middle Level: The Real World, Real Reading, and Right Action, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Poetry Doing Hard and Healthy Work: A Poetpourri of Ideas from the Maine Writing Project, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Medieval and Modern Deletions of Repellent Passages in Medieval Texts, Linda Marie Zaerr
Submissions from 2002
A Methodology for Streamlining Historical Research: The Analysis of Technical and Scientific Publications, John T. Battalio
Extensible Markup Language: How Might It Alter the Software Documentation Process and the Role of the Technical Communicator?, John T. Battalio
Special Language in Shoshoni Poetry Songs, Jon P. Dayley
Temporal Analysis: A Primer Exemplified by a Case from Prehospital Care, C. Geisler and Roger Munger
Deep Linking: An Ethical and Legal Analysis, Mike Markel
Technical Communicators Beware: The Next Generation of High-Tech Recruiting Methods, Roger Munger
Workplace-Classroom Collaborations: A Role for Service Learning in Proposal Development, Roger Munger
Hemingway's Literary Sisters: The Author Through the Eyes of Women Writers, Rena Sanderson
Women in Fitzgerald's Fiction, Rena Sanderson
Submissions from 2001
Learning to Trust the Twelfth Picture on the Roll, Bruce Ballenger
The Importance of Writing Badly, Bruce Ballenger
Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities: An Introduction for Web Developers, Jeff Carter and Mike Markel
Newe Hupia: Shoshoni Poetry Songs, Beverly Crum, Earl Crum, and Jon P. Dayley
Humanophone, Janet A. Holmes
Ethics in Technical Communication: A Critique and Synthesis, Mike Markel
On the Write Track: 21 Strategies to Prepare Clear & Accurate Documentation, Roger Munger
Powerful Presentations: PowerPoint Tips to Help You Deliver Understandable, Memorable Presentations, Roger Munger
Quilting Essays, Quilting Selves, Michelle Payne
Good Fences, Good Neighbors, Bruce Robbins
Weaving Workplace Writing into the English Classroom, Bruce Robbins
Linda Hasselstrom: The Woman Rancher as Nature Writer, Rena Sanderson
Basic Writing's Past, Present, and Future: A Discussion of Problems and Possibilities, Karen Uehling
Submissions from 2000
A Strange Unaccountable Something: Historicizing Sexual Abuse Essays, Michelle Payne
Bodily Discourses: When Students Write About Abuse and Eating Disorders, Michelle Payne
Books from 1999
Beyond Note Cards: Rethinking the Freshman Research Paper, Bruce Ballenger
Distance Education and the Myth of the New Pedagogy, Mike Markel
Written Communication, Mike Markel
Extending a Hand to Our Stakeholders: Examining the Risks of Service-Learning Courses in Technical Communication Programs, Roger Munger
Bringing Workplace Literacy into the Classroom, Bruce Robbins, Angela Harvey, Ruthanne Beddoe, Pam Walker, Dedra Scoville, Vicki Malan, and Bernice Scarborough
Bankers and Blue-Chippers: An Account of -er Formations in Present-Day English, Mary Ellen Ryder
Books from 1998
Essays in the Study of Scientific Discourse: Methods, Practice, and Pedagogy, John T. Battalio
The Rhetoric of Science in the Evolution of American Ornithological Discourse, John T. Battalio
Additional Verse by Hilaire Belloc: An Edition, Mike Markel
Testing Visual-Based Modules for Teaching Writing, Mike Markel
Foregrounding the Background, Bruce Robbins
Worth the Effort, Bruce Robbins
Gender and Modernity in Transnational Perspective: Hugo Münsterberg and the American Woman, Rena Sanderson
A Nonsynchronous Model for the Performance of the Middle English Tail-Rhyme Stanza with Vielle, Linda Marie Zaerr
Submissions from 1997
Methods of Memory: On Native American Storytelling, Bruce Ballenger
Ethics and Technical Communication: A Case for Foundational Approaches, Mike Markel
Suicide and Literary Biography: The Case of Hemingway, Richard K. Sanderson and Rena Sanderson
Books from 1996
Discovering the Writer Within: 40 Days to More Imaginative Writing, Bruce Ballenger and Barry Lane
The Interplay Between Narrative, Education, and Exposition in an Emerging Science, John T. Battalio
Design and Document Quality: Effects of Emphasizing Design Principles in the Technical Communication Course, Mike Markel and Kevin S. Wilson
Diccionario Tz'utujil, Francisco Pérez Mendoza, Miguel Hernández Mendoza, and Jon Philip Dayley
Staffing the Drama Program: An Alternative View, Bruce Robbins
Vaporizing Classroom Walls: The Writing Workshop Goes Electric, Bruce Robbins and Kris Fischer
Teachers as Writers: Tension Between Theory and Practice, Bruce W. Robbins
Growing Into Leadership: Profiles from a "Good" Department, Bruce Robbins and Driek Zirinsky
Hemingway and Gender History, Rena Sanderson
Older and Younger Adults Writing Together: A Rich Learning Community, Karen Uehling
Willy Slater's Lane, Mitch Wieland
Fiddling with the Middle English Romance: Using Performance to Reconstruct the Past, Linda Marie Zaerr
Submissions from 1995
Using Design Principles to Teach Technical Communication, Mike Markel
The Honors Portfolio: One Case of Departmental Innovation, Bruce Robbins and Driek Zirinsky
Mystical Meaning: The Bell Founder’s Window at York Minster, Linda Marie Zaerr
Submissions from 1994
Writing in the Technical Fields: A Step-by-Step Guide for Engineers, Scientists, and Technicians, Mike Markel
The Teacher's Role in Teaching Shakespeare, Bruce Robbins
The Middle Ages, Stanley F. Steiner and Linda Marie Zaerr
Vision and Revision: A Reader for Writers, Karen S. Uehling
Cil d'aval et cil d'amont: Borderlands and the Woman Jogleor in Aucassin et Nicolette, Linda Marie Zaerr
Submissions from 1993
An Ethical Imperative for Technical Communicators, Mike Markel
Induction, Social Constructionism, and the Form of the Science Paper, Mike Markel
Techniques of Developing Forecasting Statements, Mike Markel
Psycholinguistic Theory and Modern Performance: Memory as a Key to Variants in Medieval Texts, Mary Ellen Ryder and Linda Marie Zaerr
Starting Out or Starting Over: A Guide for Writing, Karen S. Uehling
Books from 1992
Old English Glossary, Jon P. Dayley
Current Research in Technical Communication: Effects of Paragraph Length on Attitudes Toward Technical Writing, Mike Markel, Monica Vaccaro, and Thomas Hewett
It's Not that Simple: Some Teachers as Writers, Bruce Robbins
Blowing the Bridge: Essays on Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls, Rena Sanderson
Jerome of Moravia's First Fiddle Tuning as an Individualized Modal Framework, Linda Marie Zaerr
Submissions from 1991
A Basic Unit on Ethics for Technical Communicators, Mike Markel
Criteria Development and the Myth of Objectivity, Mike Markel
Playwriting: Not Just For Dramatists, Bruce Robbins
A Modern Mephistopheles: Louisa May Alcott's Exorcism of Patriarchy, Rena Sanderson
Submissions from 1990
Voz y Ergatividad en Idiomas Mayas, Jon P. Dayley
Sir Launfal: Performance as Interpretation of Late Medieval English Romance, Linda Marie Zaerr
"The Tournament of Tottenham": Music as Enhancement of the Prosody, Linda Marie Zaerr and Joseph Baldassarre
Books from 1989
Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Dictionary, Jon P. Dayley
Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Grammar, Jon P. Dayley
Duke or Duck: Reading the Stories in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis, Linda Marie Zaerr
Harp in the Hall: Performance as an Aid to Teaching Romance Literature, Linda Marie Zaerr