English Department faculty research contributes to fostering a respect for difference within curriculum, scholarship, and community. Research inquiry includes topics in literature, creative writing, composition and rhetoric, technical and professional communication, linguistics, film, English education, and theory and criticism.
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Submissions from 1998
Defoe and the Black Legend: The Spanish Stereotype in A New Voyage Round the World, Kathryn Rummell
Submissions from 1997
The Gift, Kevin Clark
The Steeple, Kevin Clark
Moses and Machiavellism, Steven Marx
Submissions from 1996
Margaret's Face, Kevin Clark
Progeny: Propero's Books, Genesis and The Tempest, Steven Marx
Submissions from 1995
Stature, Kevin Clark
The End, Kevin Clark
Twelve, Kevin Clark
Mason & Dixon on the Line: A Reception Study, Douglas Keesey
Holy War in Henry Fifth, Steven Marx
Submissions from 1994
The Price, Kevin Clark
"The Wife's Went Bazook" Comedic Feminism in the Poetry of Ruth Stone, Kevin Clark
Northrop Frye's Bible, Steven Marx
Submissions from 1993
James Dickey's To the White Sea: A Critical Controversy, Douglas Keesey
The Ideology of Detection in Pynchon and DeLillo, Douglas Keesey
A Problem in Rhetoric: Teaching Writing with Western Culture, Steven Marx
Submissions from 1992
Review: Learning to Read the Mother Tongue: On Sandra Gilbert's "Blood Pressure", Kevin Clark
The Face of Mr. Flip: Homophobia in the Horror of Stephen King, Douglas Keesey
Shakespeare's Pacifism, Steven Marx
The Prophet Disarmed: Milton and the Quakers, Steven Marx
Submissions from 1990
John Ashbery's "A Wave": Privileging the Symbol, Kevin Clark
Vineland in the Mainstream Press: A Reception Study, Pynchon Notes, Douglas Keesey
Submissions from 1989
The Politics of Doubling in "Mortality and Mercy in Vienna", Douglas Keesey
Beyond Hibernation: Ralph Ellison's 1982 Version of Invisible Man, Steven Marx