Research

Denise Albanese

Research Interests: affect and politics; problems in mass culture and popular culture; science and technology studies; critical historicism and the contemporary moment; Shakespeare in public culture; Milton and early modern literature

Amal Amireh

Research Interests: middle eastern literature; world literature; postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality

Selected Publications

"Of Heroes and Men: the Crisis of Masculinity in the Post-Oslo Palestinian Narrative." In Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa. Mohja Kahf and Nadine Sinno, eds. University of Cairo Press, forthcoming.

“’They are not like your daughters or mine’: Spectacles of Bad Women from the Arab Spring.” In Bad Girls of the Arab World. Nadia Yacoub and Rula Quwas, eds. University of Texas Press, 2017.

“Nawal el Saadawi.” in Fifty One Key Feminist Thinkers. Lori J Marso, ed. Routledge, 2016.

“Activists, Lobbyists, and Suicide Bombers: Lessons from the Palestinian Women’s Movement.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. 32 (2): 2012.

“Afterword,” in Queer Politics and the Question of Israel/Palestine solicited for a special issue of GLQ: Gay and Lesbian Quarterly 16. 4. 2010.

“Palestinian Women’s Disappearing Act: The Suicide Bomber Through Western Feminist Eyes,” in Nation, Gender, and Belonging: Arab and Arab American Feminist Perspectives. Eds. Rabab Abdel Hadi, Evelyne al Sultani, and Nadine Naber. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2010

(co-editor). Comparative Literature Studies 47.4 (2010). Special issue: "Arabic Literature Now: Between Area Studies and the New Comparatism."

"Bearing Witness: The Politics of Form in Etel Adnan's Sitt Marie Rose." Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies 14.3 (2005): 251-63.

"Between Complicity and Subversion: Body Politics in Palestinian National Narrative." South Atlantic Quarterly 102 (2003): 745-70; repr. (with afterword) in Diversifying the Discourse: Florence Howe Award for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship, 1990-2004. Ed. Mihoko Suzuki and Roseanna Dufault. New York: Modern Language Association, 2006. 288-307.

“Writing the Difference: Feminists’ Invention of the ‘Arab Woman’ Interventions: Feminist Dialogues on Third World Women’s Literature and Film. Ed. Pishnupriya Ghosh and Brinda Bose. New York: Garland, 1996. 185-211.

(co-editor). Etel Adnan: Critical Perspectives on Her Life and Art. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002.

(co-editor). Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers. New York: Garland, 2000.

The Factory Girl and the Seamstress: Imagining Gender and Class in Nineteenth Century American Fiction. New York: Garland, 2000.

Amireh, Amal. “Framing Nawal El-Saadawi: Arab Feminism in a Transnational World.” Signs: Journal of Women and Culture 26 (2000): 215-248.

Amireh, Amal. “Writing the Difference: Feminists’ Invention of the ‘Arab Woman’ Interventions: Feminist Dialogues on Third World Women’s Literature and Film. Ed. Pishnupriya Ghosh and Brinda Bose. New York: Garland, 1996. 185-211.

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Eric Gary Anderson

Research Interests: American Indian literatures, Southern studies, Horror studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, American fiction from the beginnings to the 21st century,

Ann L Ardis

Research Interests: British modernism; technologies of culture; periodical press history; gender

Alexia Arthurs

Jennifer Atkinson

Research Interests: poetry, ecopoetics, eco-justice, recent and contemporary American poetry

Eric K. Auld

Research Interests: Composition, creative writing, humor writing

Tawnya Azar

Jim Blevins

Research Interests: morphology, syntax, quantitative linguistics, history of ideas

Courtney Angela Brkic

Research Interests: fiction, non-fiction and translation

Amanda Leigh Bryan

Research Interests: Postcolonial Studies, Anglophone Caribbean Studies, Sexuality Studies, Rhetorics of Belonging and Identity, Cultural and Visual Rhetoric, Spatial Theory, Women’s Studies, Masculinity Studies, Class Theory

Zofia Burr

Research Interests: African American literature; poetry

Hyunyoung Cho

Research Interests: Early Modern British Literature and Culture; Mobility and Family; Ecocriticism and the Late Renaissance; Plants and Insects in Early Modern Culture; Poetry and Early Modern Science

Keith Clark

Research Interests: 20th-Century African American Literature; African American Literary Masculinity Studies; Black LGBTQ+ Literature; African American Drama; Major Authors: James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, Ann Petry

Selected Publications

Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines: A Roadmap for Readers. Louisiana State UP, 2020.

Honorable mention (runner up), 2021 C. Hugh Holman Award for the best book in Southern Studies, Society for the Study of Southern Literature

The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry, Louisiana State UP, 2013.

Winner, College Language Association Creative Scholarship Award, 2014

Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson. U of Illinois P, 2002.

(ed.) Contemporary Black Men's Fiction and Drama. U of Illinois P, 2001.

“Rootlessness: Afro-Pessimism as Foundation in Paradise.” The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison. Ed. Kelly L. Reames and Linda Wagner-Martin. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 101-22.

Review of Darius Bost, Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence, GLQ, 28.2 (2022): 299-305.

Introduction, The Narrows by Ann Petry, 1953. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2017. vii-xxxvi.

“‘A Mighty Queer Place': Textual and Sexual Dis-Ease in Ann Petry’s Country Place,” African American Review (Summer 2016): 93-110.

Honorable Mention (2^nd place) in African American Review’s Weixlmann Prize Category
Nominated, 1921 Prize in American Literature, MLA’s American Literature Association

“Blues Brothers: Crosscurrents in Fences and A Streetcar Named Desire.” Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson. Ed. Sandra G. Shannon and Sandra L. Richards. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2016. 32-44.

Review of Randall Kenan (ed.), The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings by James Baldwin, Resources for American Literary Study, 35 (September 2012): 714-17

"Que(e)rying the Prison-House of Black Male Desire: Homosociality in Ernest Gaines' 'Three Men.'" African American Review (Summer 2006): 239-55.

"Are We Family? Pedagogy and the Race for Queerness." Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Ed. E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2005. 266-75

"'From a Thousand Different Points of View': The Multiple Masculinities of Ann Petry's 'Miss Muriel'". Ann Petry's Short Fiction: Critical Essays. Ed. Hazel Arnett Ervin and Hilary Holladay. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. 79-96.

(co-ed., with Stephanie Brown). "Black Literary Masculinities." Special section of Callaloo 26.3 (Summer 2003).

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David Powers Corwin

Research Interests: LGBTQ+ Studies; friendship studies; television studies; trauma rhetoric; gender and sexuality in Appalachia; role of gender equity centers in higher education

Albert J Defazio

Research Interests: Hemingway, Composition

Timothy Denevi

Research Interests: Nonfiction; Essay

Sharon Doetsch-Kidder

Research Interests: Social movements, race and ethnic studies in the U.S., theories of genders and sexualities, oral history, feminist pedagogy, mindfulness education, and the globalization of liberal arts education

Michael Don

Research Interests: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Literary Editing

Isidore K Dorpenyo

Research Interests: Writing and Rhetoric: International technical communication, professional and technical communication, social justice, public intellectualism, rhetoric of technology, technology and elections, politics, biometric technology, and localization.

Caitlin Dungan

Research Interests: Digital rhetoric, empathy and video games, intersections of queer theory and video games, performativity and embodiment in gaming, the queer history of horror

Selected Publications

Dissertation - “There’s no Way She’s Straight”: Towards a Heuristic of Positive Queer Representation in Gaming

Abstract:
While the current trend in queer gaming studies is shifting away from queer content towards an idea of how gaming itself is queer, operationalizing the term “queer” to suggest “outside of default expectations or parameters,” there is still a great deal to be learned from exploring the canonically queer content that already exists in video games. Operating under the assumption that there is a positive correlation between representation in media for marginalized identities and the social normalizing and tolerance of those identities, the primary research questions are: What aspects of performative queer coding may help queer players to positively identify with a character? Are these aspects conscious on the part of game programmers, or does this connection have more to do with queer literacies of subtext in media? And finally, if we can identify what queer players found positive in a character, can we use that information to purposefully replicate it in future games without being reductive?

The game Mass Effect was chosen as a case study due to its enduring popularity among queer gamers. Transcriptions from both the cisgender/heterosexual romance path as well as the queer romance path were gathered and analyzed using several coding lenses from Rhetorical Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis. Results of these analyses indicate that the potential reason queer gamers felt well represented was due to a relative equality of content and agency for the player character between the two paths, as well as an adherence to performative cues that have been cited as indicators of queer identity. Findings from this study show that it is possible to showcase queerness in characters regardless of sexuality, which has positive implications for the inclusion of overlooked queer identities in gaming, including asexual or nonbinary.

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Idée Edalatishams

Research Interests: Corpus Linguistics, Multilingual Learners' Academic Communication and Identity, L2 Pronunciation.

Eric Eisner

Research Interests: 18th and 19th century British literature and culture, esp. Romanticism; lyric poetry; history of reading; literary and cultural theory

Hatim El-Hibri

Research Interests: Film and Media: global media and television studies, Middle East and Arab media studies, visual culture studies, urban studies, infrastructure studies, critical theory, media history and theory, cultural studies

Laura A Ewing

Research Interests: Intercultural technical communication, digital communication, professional and technical writing

Douglas Eyman

Research Interests: Classical and contemporary rhetorical theory, digital rhetoric, composing with AI, digital scholarship and electronic publication, web authoring and design, technical and scientific writing

Selected Publications

Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice. (2015). University of Michigan Press, Digital Culture Books series, http://www.digitalculture.org/books/digital-rhetoric/

Play/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing, Games. (2016). co-edited with Andrea Davis. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press.

(2023 – In Press) Before Wireless Networks: Foundational Works in Computers and Writing. In Deborah Holdstein, (Ed.), Lost Texts in Rhetoric and Composition. MLA Press.

(2022) Everything is Rhetoric: Design, Editing, and Multimodal Scholarship, with Cheryl Ball. In Greg Giberson, Megan Schoen, & Christian Weisser, (Eds.), Editors in Writing: Behind the Curtain of Scholarly Publishing in Writing Studies (pp. 164-180). Utah State University Press.

(2021) Ethos and Interaction in Elder Scrolls Online, with Wendi Sierra. In Matthew S. S. Johnson, Richard Colby, & Rebekah Colby Playing with the Rules: The Ethics of Playing, Researching, and Teaching Games in the Writing Classroom (pp. 213-241). Palgrave Macmillan.

(2019) Text/Design/Code – Advice on developing and producing a scholarly webtext. In John Gallagher & Danielle DeVoss, (Eds.), Explanation Points: Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition (pp. 206-209). Fort Collins: University of Colorado Press.

(2018) Text, design, code: Digital rhetoric in academic and professional writing. In Shirley Logan and Wayne Slater, (Eds.), Perspectives on Academic and Professional Writing in an Age of Accountability (pp. 221-233). Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

(2018) The rise of multimodal languages in academic publishing. with Cheryl Ball and Andrew Morrison. In Mary Jane Curry and Theresa Lillis, (Eds.), Global Academic Publishing: Policies, Practices, and Pedagogies (pp. 117-136). Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters Publishing.

(2016) Digital rhetoric as evolving field: Traditional and contemporary practices. Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, Culture, 23: http://enculturation.net/looking-back-and-looking-forward

(2016) From player to maker: The value of rhetoric in an age of ubiquitous gaming. (2016). PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, 21: 45-57.

(2016) History of a Broken Thing: The Multi-Journal Special Issue on Electronic Publication. with Cheryl Ball. In Bruce McComiskey (Ed.), Microhistories of Composition (pp. 117-136). Utah State University Press.

(2016) Introduction: Networks of Gaming and Writing. In Douglas Eyman and Andrea Davis, (Eds.), Play/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing, Games, (pp. 1-22). Parlor Press.

(2015) Digital Humanities Scholarship and Electronic Publication. with Cheryl Ball. In Jim Ridolfo & Bill Hart-Davidson (Eds.), Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities (pp. 65-79). University of Chicago Press. Winner of the 2015 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award.

(2014) Composing for Digital Publication: Rhetoric, Design, Code. with Cheryl Ball. Composition Studies, 42.1: 114-117.

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Brian Fitzpatrick

Research Interests: Workplace writing, writing transfer, writing in the disciplines, online and hybrid pedagogy

Kevin M. Flanagan

Research Interests: British film and television, adaptation studies, composition, British cultural studies, film and television directors, media history, arts documentary

Karen Foltz

Donald R Gallehr

Research Interests: brain research and the teaching of writing; portfolio assessment; writing and meditation

Benjamin Gatling

Research Interests: narrative, performance, the ethnography of communication, Persianate oral traditions, Islam, Central Asia and the Middle East

Lisa Gilman

Research Interests: Folklore, music, dance, public humanities, performance studies, African Studies, women's and gender studies, migration, war, politics and culture, ethnographic fieldwork, filmmaking, digital storytelling.

Leslie Goetsch

Research Interests: Theories and best practices of writing instruction Composition theories

Ariel M Goldenthal

Research Interests: Hybrid teaching and learning

Stephen Goodwin

Research Interests: fiction; non-fiction; online writing and publishing

McKinley Green

Research Interests: Professional and Technical Writing, Rhetoric and Composition, Queer Rhetorics, HIV/AIDS, Health Communication, Risk Communication

Anna Sophia Habib

Research Interests: multilingual writing, second language writing, translingualism, trauma studies, feminist rhetorics/rhetorical feminism

Tamara Harvey

Research Interests: early American literature, early modern women's writing, feminist theory

Selected Publications

Books

(co-editor, with Debra Bergoffen, Paula Ruth Gilbert, and Connie L. McNeely). Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women's Lives, Human Rights. London: Routledge, 2011.

Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008.

(co-editor, with Greg O'Brien). George Washington's South. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2004.

Articles

“Sarah Wentworth Morton.” In Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Ed. Jackson Bryer. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

"Worldmaking and Ambition in History Poems by Early American Women: The Examples of Anne Bradstreet and Sarah Wentworth Morton." Companion to American Poetry. Edited by Mary McAleer Balkun, Jeff Gray, and Paul Jaussen. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2022. 7-17.

"Gender." New Histories of American Puritan Literature. Edited by Kristina Bross and Abram Van Engen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 189-210.

“Settlement Literatures Before and Beyond the Stories of Nations.” Blackwell Companion to American Literature, Vol. 1. Edited by Susan Belasco, Theresa Strouth Gaul, Linck Johnson, and Michael Soto. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. 34-50.

“Before the Poetess: Women’s Poetry in the Early Republic.” A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry. Edited by Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 37-52.

With Joan Bristol. “Creole Civic Pride and Positioning ‘Exceptional’ Black Women.” Women’s Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire. Edited by Mary McAleer Balkun and Susan Imbarrato. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 47-61.

"Seventeenth-Century Pansapphism: Comparing 'Exceptional Women' of the Americas and Europe." Approaches to Teaching Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Edited by Emilie Bergmann and Stacey Shlau. New York: Modern Language Association, 2007. 112-18.

"'My Goods Are True': Tenth Muses in the New World Market." Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies. Edited by Mary Carruth. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. 13-26.

"'Now Sisters . . . impart your usefulness and force': Anne Bradstreet's Feminist Functionalism in The Tenth Muse (1650)." Early American Literature 35.1 (2000): 5-28.

"'Taken from her Mouth': Narrative Authority and the Conversion of Patience Boston." Narrative 6.3 (1998): 256-70.

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Paul Haspel

Research Interests: Chesapeake Bay regional literature and culture; film studies

Anthony Dyer Hoefer

Research Interests: Literature and culture of the U.S. South; race, religion, and literature; ecocriticism and environmental justice.

Billy Howell

Research Interests: Fiction, Memoir, Political Theory, Psychoanalysis

Jessica Hurley

Research Interests: Speculative fiction and sci-fi; environmental humanities; C20/21 multi-ethnic American literatures; Indigenous and postcolonial literatures; science and technology studies; gender and sexuality studies.

Tania Rachel James

Research Interests: Fiction

Rosemary Jann

Research Interests: nineteenth-century British literature, history of science, interdisciplinary and cultural studies

Sarah Johnson

Research Interests: Writing and rhetoric: composition pedagogy, mindfulness meditation, writing centers, antiracist writing assessment, translingualism.

Joyce P. Johnston

Research Interests: Digital intellectual property, online civility, online instructional design, oral response to student writing

Selected Publications

"Can Facebook Steal My Stuff? Your Students' Intellectual Property Rights on Social Media." Computers in Libraries. Vol. 40, No. 3. April 2020. Pp. 32-36.

Republished with permission in the Proceedings of the Innovate Learning Summit 2020. Nov. 2020.
Featured article. Reprinted with permission in The Informed Librarian Online, May 2020.

Intellectual Freedom Blog. American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom. Available http://www.oif.ala.org/oif/

“Fostering Intellectual Freedom in a Post-Truth Year.” 28 November 2016
“Free Speech vs. Campus Safety: The Disinvitation Dilemma.” 21 October 2016
“Is Free Basics Internet Access Really Worth It?” 17 October 2016
“Turning Undergrads into Independent Learners” 25 August 2016
“Facebook Gets One Right: Opening the Internet to the Blind” 31 March 2016
“Common Sense Media: Promoting Family Values or Dictating Them?” 28 March 2016
- Cited in Halpers, T. (2016, 19 April). Reader’s advisory: Use more than one source. The Lion, the Witch and the Bookcase. Available: https://libchronicles.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/readers-advisory-use-more-than-one-source/
- Cited in Bernardi, T. (2016, 16 April). Reviews and Common Sense Media. ALSC Blog. Available: http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2016/04/reviews-common-sense-media/

“A One-Year Review of the Right to be Forgotten; Implications for Academia.” Proceedings of the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2015. July 2015. Pp. 110-117. Available: http://www.editlib.org/pv/151371/

"The Good, the Bad and the University: Digital Intellectual Property Flashpoints for 2014" in Proceedings for the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2014.

Public and Persona: Constructing an Online Voice for Professionals presented at the International Conference of Technology, Knowledge and Society in Bilbao, Spain, and appearing in Volume 7 of the Society's journal in November 2011.

"The Beginnings of Science Writing in America: The Declaration of Independence as a Report of Experimental Research" in The International of Science in Society 2009.

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Deborah Kaplan

Research Interests: Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, British drama and performance, feminist theory and criticism

David Kaufmann

Research Interests: contemporary poetry; Critical Theory; Visual art and Art History;

Sally Keith

Research Interests: poetry

Matt Kelley

Research Interests: phonetics, spoken word recognition, computational methods, speech perception, speech acoustics, automatic speech recognition, speech technology

Michelle LaFrance

Research Interests: Feminist research/feminist rhetoric, creative nonfiction, community writing, writing across the curriculum/in the disciplines, ethnography, writing program administration and pedagogy

Selected Publications

LaFrance, Michelle and Melissa Nicolas. Institutional Ethnography as Writing Studies Practice. (WAC Clearinghouse, Practice in Perspective Series, Under Contract 2023).

LaFrance, Michelle and Jay Hardee. “The Irreverent Rhetorician Vlogs It Out: A Case Study of Creative Play for Graduate Student Writers (in Experimental Form).” (JAELP: Journal for the Assembly of Expanded Perspectives on Learning, special issue on Creative Writing Pedagogies, Fall 2022.)

LaFrance, Michelle. “I Walk Among the Living and the Dead.” (for Journal of Multimodal Literacies, special issue on Care Work and COVID, Fall 2022)

LaFrance, Michelle, Beth Caravella, David Corwin, Sarah Johnson, Tom Polk, Robyn Russo, and Lacy Wooten. “Feminist Fingerprints and Composition Research: An Analysis of Research Trends from 2007 to 2016 in Four Top Tier Composition Journals.” (College Composition and Communication, June 2021).

LaFrance, Michelle. Institutional Ethnography: A Theory of Practice for Writing Studies Researchers. (2019.) Utah State University Press/University of Colorado.

LaFrance, Michelle and Wardle, Elizabeth. "The 21^st Century Feminist WPA," Journal of Writing Program Administration (June 2019).

LaFrance, Michelle and Alisa Russell. “Preparing Leaders Familiar with WAC-Contexts: Research Methods Course/Program Review as PhD Student Mentoring Opportunity.” WACJournal (Winter 2018/2019.)

Corbett, Steven J. and Michelle LaFrance. Peer Review and Peer Response: A Critical Sourcebook. Bedford/St. Martins. (2017.)

Anicca Cox, Timothy R. Dougherty, Seth Kahn, Michelle LaFrance, and Amy Lynch-Biniek “The Indianapolis Resolution: Responding to 21st Century Exigencies/Political Economies of Composition Labor.” College Composition and Communication, Special Issue: Political Economies. 68.1 (2016): 38-67.

LaFrance, Michelle. “An Institutional Ethnography of Information Literacy: Critical Challenges for a First Year Writing Program.” Journal of Writing Program Administration. 39.2 (2016): 105-22.

LaFrance, Michelle. “Making Visible Labor Issues in Writing Across the Curriculum: A Call for Research.” Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty. Fall 2015, 18.3. A13-A17.

Corbett, Steven J., Michelle LaFrance, and Teagan E. Decker, ed. Peer Pressure, Peer Power: Theory and Practice in Peer Review Response for the Writing Classroom. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2014.

Corbett, Steven J., Michelle LaFrance, Cara Lane, and Janice Fournier. “Mapping, Re-Mediating, and Reflecting on Writing Process Realities: Transitioning from Print to Electronic Portfolios in First-Year Composition.” ePortfolio Performance Support Systems: Constructing, Presenting, and Assessing Portfolios in the Academy and Workplace. Ed. Katherine Wills and Richard Rice. Fort Collins: WAC Clearinghouse and Anderson, South Carolina: Parlor Press, 2014. 181-203.

Benson, Nancy, Steven J. Corbett, Anicca Cox, Will Higgins, Robin Kish, Michelle LaFrance, and Katy Whittingham. “Rethinking First-Year English as First Year WAC: A Writing About Writing Approach.” Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing 1.1 (September 2013). 1-16. .

LaFrance, Michelle and Melissa Nicolas. “What’s Your Frequency?: Preliminary Results of a Survey on Faculty and Staff Perspectives on Their Work in Writing Centers.” Writing Lab Newsletter 38.5-6. (January/February 2013). 10-13.

LaFrance, Michelle and Melissa Nicolas. “Institutional Ethnography as Materialist Framework for Writing Program Research and the Faculty-Staff Work Standpoints Project.” College Composition and Communication. 64.1 (2012): 130-150.

Steven J. Corbett and Michelle LaFrance. “From Grammatical to Global: The WAC/Writing Center Connection.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal 6.2 (Spring 2009). n.pg.

Tatum, Clifford and Michelle LaFrance. “The Case of Neoliberalism: Wikipedia as a Distributed Knowledge Laboratory.” E-Research: Transformations in Scholarly Practice. Ed. Nicholas Jankowski. New York: Routledge, 2009. 310-327.

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Debra Lattanzi Shutika

Research Interests: Contemporary Irish Folklore, Sense of Place, Appalachian Studies, Transnational Migration

Heidi Y. Lawrence

Research Interests: Medical rhetoric and medical humanities, vaccine controversy, professional and technical communication, public rhetoric, rhetoric of science and technology

Selected Publications

Monograph

Lawrence, Heidi Yoston. Vaccine Rhetorics. The Ohio State University Press. In press, available Spring 2020.

https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814214336.html

Public Scholarship

"Vaccine Dissent and the Challenges of Solidarity in a Pandemic" Newsweek, co-authored with Bernice L. Hausman: https://www.newsweek.com/vaccine-dissent-challenges-solidarity-pandemic-opinion-1508501

"This Doctor is Suggesting COVID-19 Lockdowns are a Conspiracy to Take Away Your Freedom" (quoted in) Buzzfeed, by Anne Helen Petersen: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/annie-bukacek-montana-coronavirus-covid-lockdown-protests

Articles on Health and Medicine

Cuellar, Alison, Leah M. Adams, Lilian de Jonge, Virginia Espina, Laurette Espinoza, Sarah F. Fischer, Cara L. Frankenfeld, Denise A. Hines, Olga Kornienko, Heidi Y. Lawrence, Niloofar Ramezani, Ziaul H. Rana, Matthew E. Rossheim, Jerome L. Short, Eric N. Waithaka, Alyssa N. Wilson, Lawrence Cheskin. "Protocol for the Mason: Health Starts HereProspective Cohort Study of Young Adult College Students." BMC Public Health. (2021) 21:897. 1-15.

Gallagher, John, and Heidi Y. Lawrence. “Rhetorical Appeals and Tactics in New York Times Comments About Vaccines: Qualitative Analysis.” Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). Impact Factor=5.03. 22.12 (2020): 1-9. DOI: 10.2196/19504

Lawrence, Heidi Y. and Bonnie Stabile. “Collaborative Paths and Contexts: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Rhetoric of Medical and Health Policy.” World Medical and Health Policy 11.4 (2019): 334-337. *Guest co-editor for this special issue

Hausman, Bernice, Heidi Y. Lawrence, Susan Marmagas, Clare Dannenberg, and Lauren Fortenbery. “H1N1 Vaccination and Health Beliefs in a Rural Community in the Southeastern United States: Lessons Learned.” Critical Public Health. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2018.1546825

Lawrence, Heidi Y. “When Patients Question Vaccines: Considering Vaccine Communication through a Material Rhetorical Approach.” Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, 1.1-2 (2018): 161-178.

Lawrence, Heidi Y.“Fear of the Irreparable: Narratives in Vaccination Rhetoric.” Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 6.3 (Winter 2016): 205-209.

Scott, Jennifer Bracken, Kristin Kondrlik, Heidi Y. Lawrence, Susan Popham, and Candice Welhausen. “Rhetoric, Ebola, and Vaccination: A Conversation Among Scholars.” POROI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention11.2 (Dec. 2015): 1-26.

Lawrence, Heidi Y.“Healthy Bodies, Toxic Medicines: Vaccination Beliefs and the Rhetorics of Health, Illness, and the Body.” Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. 87.4 (December 2014): 423-437.

Lawrence, Heidi Y., Bernice L. Hausman, and Clare J. Dannenberg. “Reframing Medicine’s Publics: The Local as a Public of Vaccine Refusal.” Journal of the Medical Humanities35.2 (June 2014): 111-129.

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Susan Lawrence

Research Interests: Writing center theory and practice, research methods, discourse analysis

Steph Liberatore

Research Interests: Creative Nonfiction, Writing Pedagogy, and Composition

Samaine Lockwood

Research Interests: nineteenth-century American literature; gender and sexuality studies; research methods; queer theory

Cynthia Lukyanenko

Research Interests: child language acquisition, morphology, morphosyntax, language variation, real-time language comprehension

Rachael Graham Lussos

Research Interests: medical rhetoric, health communication, proposal writing, activism, multimodal composition

Selected Publications

Lawrence, H. Y., Fernandez, L., Lussos, R. G., Stabile, B., & Broeckelman-Post, M. (2019). Communicating campus sexual assault: A mixed methods rhetorical analysis. Technical Communication Quarterly. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/10572252.2019.1621386

Lussos, R. (2019). Quantifying chronic pain: A mixed-methods analysis of chronic pain sufferers’ public and private discourse. The Journal of Pain, 20(4), S60.

St.Amant, K. (2018). Contextualized time and kairotic care in health and medicine (R. G. Lussos, Interviewer). Technoculture. Retrieved from https://tcjournal.org/vol8/contextualized-time

Lussos, R. G. (2018). Have your epideictic rhetoric, and eat it, too. The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics (JOMR), 2(1).

Lussos, R. G. & Fernandez, L. (2018). Assault and accusation without agents: Verb voice in media narratives of campus sexual assault. Journal of Mason Graduate Research (JMGR), 5(2).

Holmes, S. & Lussos, R. G. (2018). Cultivating metanoia in Twitter publics: Analyzing and producing bots of protest in the #gamergate controversy. Computers and Composition.

Lawrence, H., Lussos, R. G., & Clarke, J. (2017). Rhetorics of proposal writing: Lessons for pedagogy in research and real-world practice. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication (JTWC). Advance online publication.

Lussos, R. G. (2017). Twitter bots as digital writing assignments. PraxisWiki, 22(2).

Lussos, R. G. (2017, March). Keith Wailoo. Pain: A Political History. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. $29.95. pp. 284. Paper. ISBN: 9781421413655. [Review of the book Pain: A political history, by K. Wailoo]. World Medical & Health Policy, 9, 1.

Lussos, R. G. (2016, September). The multiperspectival rhetorical situation as a method for rhetorical analysis and communication development. Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication. Article No. 46.

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Michael G Malouf

Research Interests: Modernism; Postcolonialism; Anglophone novel, drama, and poetry, spec. Irish, Caribbean, British literature; literary theory, cultural studies, petroculture & theories of energy transition; History of English, Global English literary criticism

Jonathan M. Marine

Research Interests: Writing Engagement, Pedagogic Theory, Graffiti Rhetorics

Robert I Matz

Research Interests: Early modern literature, Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, gender and sexuality

Leeya Mehta

Research Interests: Nationalism, intergenerational trauma, and breaking cycles of violence through individual and civic agency. Mehta's column, The Company We Keep, on the reading and writing life, appears in the Independent, exploring the life of social justice and the contemporary imagination.

Selected Publications

Select fiction, non fiction and poetry:

Poetry collection: A Story of the World Before the Fence, Finishing Line Press, Nov 2020
Poems appear in The Penguin Book of Indian Poets: ed. Jeet Thayil, Penguin Random House, Apr 2022
Poetry appears in Future Library: Contemporary Indian Writing: eds. Anjum Hasan, Sampurna Chattarji, Red Hen Press, 2022
Poetry appears in Converse: Contemporary English Poetry, 2022
Short Story: ‘How does one make a woman like that happy?” in Furious Gravity, an anthology of DC women writers (Politics & Prose, American University), 2020; see online interview feature and read online version here
‘Immortal Attraction’ appears in The Third Eye, an anthology of speculative fiction (Graphic India), 2022
All of Me and other poems republished: Chandrabhaga #16, 2018
‘Tokyo Tour’ in Why Nicht? Austria, Nov 2018
Featured poet: Beltway Poetry Quarterly, previously unpublished poems include, Waiting, Earth & The Years. Home, a previously published poem in Origins Journal, is also included. Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Volume 19:2, April 1, 2018
Poem: Women at the Peace Memorial / Hiroshima appeared in Plume 6 a print anthology, March 2018
Nudes I and Nudes II in Plume Poetry, plumepoetry.com, #80, March 2018
An International Publication Award, Atlanta Review: Poems Refugees circa 926, Dec 2017
Recording: 4^th Street Plaza in Gargoyle CD #67, Dec 2017
Close to the end appears in District Lines 4 (Politics and Prose anthology of DC writers), Jan 2017
Fourth Street Plaza, National Gallery of Art, and II Courthouse, Washington DC in Vinyl Poetry, Sept 2016
Refugees was a Finalist, 18^th Annual Arts and Letters Rumi Prize for Poetry, June 2016
2016 Readers’ Choice Award Winners Chapbook from District Lit with Black dog on the Anacostia, April 2016
Black dog on the Anacostia, in District Lit, Fall 2015
Home /Tokyo, in Origins Journal, Volume 2:2 Issue: Shame, Fall, 2015
Metal Anniversary, in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Volume 16:1, January 2015
The Abduction in The Beloit Poetry Journal, Volume 64:3, Spring 2014
Poetry Collection: The Towers of Silence, Aark Arts (UK, India, USA), 2004
Watching the Fifth War (reprint), in Eclipse, Michigan, 2004
The Woman who Willed Her Son to Die, in The Reader, UK Issue 14, Jan 2004
Watching the Fifth War, in International Gallerie, July 2002

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Teresa L Michals

Research Interests: history of children's literature; eighteenth-century British literature; disability studies

Katherine M. Miscavige

Carol Mitchell

Research Interests: linguistics; Caribbean literature; science and technology; world literature;

Alexander Monea

Research Interests: Internet Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, AI / Machine Learning, Big Data, Image Recognition, Computer Vision

Kyoko Mori

Research Interests: non-fiction and fiction

Robert L Nadeau

Research Interests: 20th-century American literature, science and literature, history of science, economics and the environment

Vivek Narayanan

Research Interests: Poetry, World Poetry, Translation, Epic, Performance, Critical Writing on Indian and African Poetry in English, Interdisciplinary Practice & Theory

Kara Oakleaf

Eric Pankey

Research Interests: Poetry Writing, Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Christopher Pizzino

Research Interests: Contemporary Literature; History and Theory of the Novel; Image Theory; Film and Television Studies; Comics Studies

E Shelley Reid

Research Interests: faculty development, composition and rhetoric, writing program administration, writing pedagogy education

Selected Publications

Lukes, Laura L. and E. Shelley Reid. “Rebuilding a Teaching Conference in a Pandemic: User-Centered Guiding Principles and Lessons Learned.” To Improve the Academy 39.3 (Spring 2021): n.p. https://www.toimprovetheacademy.org/

Reid, E. Shelley. “Defining Dispositions: Mapping Student Attitudes and Strategies in College Composition.” Contemporary Perspectives on Cognition and Writing, edited by Patricia Portonova, J. Michael Riffenberg, and Duane Roen, WAC Clearinghouse Press, 2017, pp. 291-312.

Reid, E. Shelley. “On Learning to Teach: Letter to a New TA.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 40.2 (Spring 2017): 129-145.

Reid, E. Shelley. “Peer Review for Peer Review’s Sake: Resituating Peer Review Pedagogy.” Peer Pressure, Peer Power: Collaborative Peer Review and Response for the Writing Classroom. Ed. Steven J. Corbett, Michelle LaFrance, and Teagan Decker. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2014. 217-231.

Reid, E. Shelley, Heidi Estrem, and Marcia Belchier.“The Effects of Writing Pedagogy Education on Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Approaches to Teaching Composition.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 36.1 (Fall 2012): 32-73.

Winner, the Kenneth Bruffee Award for Best Article in WPA: Writing Program Administration, 2012-2013.

Estrem, Heidi, and E. Shelley Reid. “What New Writing Teachers Talk About When They Talk About Teaching.” Pedagogy 12.3 (Fall 2012): 447-478.

Selected for and reprinted in The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2013. Ed. Steve Parks et al. Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2015. 292-329.

Reid, E. Shelley. “Ten Ways To Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Students.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2. Ed. Charlie Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2010. 3-23. <https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/writingspaces2/reid--ten-ways-to-think.pdf>

Reid, E. Shelley. “Teaching Writing Teachers Writing: Difficulty, Exploration, and Reflection.” College Composition and Communication 61.2 (December 2009): 376 [W197-W221].

Reid, E. Shelley. “Mentoring Peer Mentors: Program Design and Mentor Education in the Composition Program.” Composition Studies 36.2 (Fall 2008): 51-80.

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Benjamin Renne

Sarah E Rickless (formerly Baker)

Selected Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Uncovering Challenges and Pedagogical Complications in Dissertation Writing and Supervisory Practices: Findings from a Multi-method Study of Doctoral Students and Advisers. Rogers, Paul, Zawacki, Terry Myers, & Baker, Sarah E. in Graduate Writing Support: Research, Pedagogy, and Program Design. Eds. Steve Simpson, Michelle Cox, Nigel Caplan, & Talinn Phillips. University of Michigan Press, 2015 (in press)

Voices at the Table: Balancing the Needs and Wants of Program Stakeholders to Design a Value-added Writing Assessment Plan. Zawacki, Terry Myers, Reid, E. Shelley, Zhou, Ying, & Baker, Sarah E. (2009, December 3). Across the Disciplines [Special issue on Writing Across the Curriculum and Assessment], http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/assessment/zawackietal.cfm

Written Communication Assessment Update 2007-10, In Focus (Mason Office of Institutional Assessment), 2010

Reviews: The Academic Writer’s Workbook, Sage Publications (2011); Bedford Guide for Writing Tutors, Fourth Edition, Bedford/St. Martins (2008)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Blurring the Lines: What the National Writing Project Model Can (Continue To) Teach College WAC, International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, 2016 (forthcoming)

Using Theory Shifting to Construct a Sustainable Program Narrative, International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, 2014

Pilot Writing Fellows Program for Business Communication and Multilingual Writers, International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, 2014

The Shifting Landscape of Graduate Student Writing in and across Disciplines, Writing Research Across Borders Conference, 2014

Narratives of Leadership in Internationalized Higher Education, NAFSA Region VIII Conference, 2013

Symbiosis Under Scrutiny: The Strength of WAC Agency, International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, 2010

Sustaining Faculty Integration of New Technologies: The TAC/WAC Learning Communities at George Mason University, Educause Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, 2009

A Wiki on Every Desktop, International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, 2008

“Will My Story Bring Change…?” Reflections by Non-Native Student-Writers Help Reinvent the U.S. Academy, Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2008

Visual Praxis across the Disciplines, George Washington University Graduate Symposium, 2007

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Suzanne Rigdon

Marguerite Rippy

Research Interests: Classic cinema, Orson Welles and the origins of "truthiness" in performance, transindigenous adaptations of Shakespeare, and performing gendered and racialized sexualities from Shakespeare to Hollywood.

Sharon Roth

Mark S Rudnicki

Research Interests: 19th and 20th Century Philosophy, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, 20th Century Polish Literature, particularly Witkacy

Amelia Rutledge

Research Interests: medieval literature, science fiction, fantasy, literature and the arts, children's literature

Kristin Samuelian

Research Interests: British literature and culture of the long nineteenth century, nineteenth-century British novel, materialist approaches to literature.

Catherine E. Saunders

Research Interests: 19th-century American literature, with particular focus on works by women and African-Americans and the novel; American antislavery literature; digital humanities; open educational resources; writing in and about the disciplines.

James E Savage

Research Interests: multilingual education, metacognition, language justice, memory and media, qualitative research

Jessica Scarlata

Research Interests: global and transnational cinema; incarceration and security; diaspora and migration; violence and human rights; colonialism; Indian, Irish, and Latin American film; race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality

Sylvia L.R. Schreiner

Research Interests: Syntax, morphology, semantics, language documentation and revitalization; Scottish Gaelic, St. Lawrence Island / Siberian Yupik; aspect, tense, mood, modality; Distributed Morphology; roots and categories; nominals and nominal functional structure.

Susan R Shreve

Research Interests: fiction

Peter Streckfus

Research Interests: Poetry

Art Taylor

Research Interests: short stories; crime, mystery, and suspense fiction; book reviews.

Selected Publications

BOOKS

The Boy Detective & The Summer of '74 and Other Tales of Suspense, Crippen & Landru, 2020.
On The Road with Del & Louise: A Novel in Stories, Henery Press, Fall 2015: winner, Agatha Award, Best First Novel, 2015; finalist, Anthony Award and Macavity Award, Best First Novel, 2016

SHORT STORIES

“A Close Shave,” Morning of the Killers, edited by E.A. Aymar and Sarah M. Chen(Down & Out Books,forthcoming)
“Hard Return,” Crime Travel, edited by Barb Goffman (Wildside Press, December 2019, forthcoming)
“Better Days,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May/June 2019
“English 398: Fiction Writing Workshop: Notes from Class & A Partial Draft by Brittany Wallace, Plus Feedback, Conference & More,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July/August 2018: finalist, Edgar Award for Best Short Story, 2019; finalist, Agatha Award for Best Short Story, 2018
“Sunday Morning, Saturday Night,” Down & Out: The Magazine, Spring 2018
“Fairy Tales,” Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Fall 2017
“A Necessary Ingredient,” Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books, 2017: finalist, Agatha Award for Best Short Story, 2017; finalist, Anthony Award for Best Short Story, 2018; finalist, Macavity Award for Best Short Story, 2018
“The Great Detective Reflects,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, November 2016
“Parallel Play,” Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning, Wildside Press, 2016: winner, Agatha Award for Best Short Story, 2016; finalist, Anthony Award for Best Short Story, 2017; winner, Macavity Award for Best Short Story, 2017; finalist, Thriller Award for Best Short Story, 2017
“Commission,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May 2015
“The Odds Are Against Us,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, November 2014: winner, Agatha Award, Best Short Story, 2014; winner, Anthony Award, Best Short Story, 2015; finalist, Macavity Award, Best Short Story, 2015
“Premonition,” Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays. Wildside Press, 2014: finalist, Agatha Award, Best Short Story, 2014
“Precision,” Gargoyle, Summer 2014
“Ithaca 37,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, September/October 2013
“The Care and Feeding of Houseplants,” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March/April 2013: winner, Agatha Award, Best Short Story, 2013; winner, Macavity Award, Best Short Story, 2014; finalist, Anthony Award for Best Short Story, 2014
“When Duty Calls,” Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder, Wildside Press, 2012: Derringer Award, Best Long Story, 2013; finalist, 2012 Agatha Award for Best Short Story and 2013 Macavity Award for Best Short Story; reprinted in The Crooked Road, Volume 3 (2013)

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Susan Tichy

Research Interests: poetry; war poetry; visual poetry; mixed form (prose & poetry); poetry's intersections with walking art and land art;

stvn h. weinberger

Research Interests: phonetics, phonology, second language acquisition, speech accents, alien language

Stefan Wheelock

Research Interests: late eighteenth century/early nineteenth century black antislavery writing with a particular emphasis on slave narrative autobiography, early black polemic, and their contributions to Atlantic political and intellectual currencies

Gregg Wilhelm

Courtney Adams Wooten

Research Interests: Writing Program Administration, Feminist Rhetorics, Composition

Alok Yadav

Research Interests: Restoration and 18th-Century British literature; nationalism, imperialism, and literary culture; postcolonial and world literature, esp. South Asian; anthologies of African American writing

Lijun Zhang

Research Interests: Material Culture, Folk Arts and Crafts, Folklife, Heritage, Museums, Tourism, Oral Narrative, Ethnographic Fieldwork, China, East Asia

Selected Publications

Books

Zhang, Lijun and Ziying You, editors. 2019. Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [in English] link

MacDowell, Marsha and Lijun Zhang, editors. 2016. Quilts of Southwest China. Nanning: Guangxi People’s Press and distributed by Indiana University Press. [in English and Chinese] link

Articles and Book Chapters

Zhang, Lijun, Jason Baird Jackson, C. Kurt Dewhurst, and Jon Kay. 2022. “Basketry Among Two Peoples of Northern Guangxi, China.” Asian Ethnology 81, no. 1&2: 239-272. [in English]

Jackson, Jason Baird, Lijun Zhang, Wuerxiya. 2021. "Material Culture and Heritage Safeguarding in Southwest China: A Report on a Symposium Organized by the International Folklore Studies Center." Museum Anthropology Review 15, No. 2: 114-121. [in English]

Zhang, Lijun. 2021. “新冠肺炎疫情下的美国公共民俗学实践” [The Practice of Public Folklore in the United States in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic.] 民间文化论坛 [Folk Culture Forum.] (2): 5-15. [in Chinese]

Jackson, Jason Baird, Johannes Müske, and Lijun Zhang. 2020. "Innovation, Habitus, and Heritage: Modeling the Careers of Cultural Forms Through Time." Journal of Folklore Research 57, no. 1: 111-36. [in English]

Jason Baird Jackson, Johannes Müske, and Lijun Zhang. 2019. “创新、惯习与遗产：关于文化形式历史发展进程的理论模型” [Innovation, Habitus, and Heritage: Modeling the Careers of Cultural Forms through Time.] 民间文化论坛 [Folk Culture Forum.] 254: 5-15.[in Chinese]

Zhang, Lijun. 2019. “Institutional Practice of Heritage-making: The Transformation of Tulou from Residential Home to UNESCO World Heritage Site” in Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice. Lijun Zhang and Ziying You, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.[in English]

Zhang, Lijun and Ziying You. 2019. “Introduction: History and Trends of Chinese Folklore Studies” in Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice. Lijun Zhang and Ziying You, eds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [in English]

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