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Faculty Books

New Books

cover image of What the Poem WantsMichael Dennis Browne
What the Poem Wants: Prose on Poetry (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009)

cover image of To Be Certain of the DawnMichael Dennis Browne
To Be Certain of the Dawn (BIS Records, 2009)

cover image of Poetry & Cultural Studies: A ReaderMaria Damon
Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader, edited with Ira Livingston (University of Illinois Press, 2009)

cover image for Faith RunRay Gonzalez
Faith Run: Poems (University of Arizona Press, 2009)

cover image for Cool AuditorRay Gonzalez
Cool Auditor: Prose Poems (B.O.A. Editions, 2009)

cover image for Our Neck of the WoodsDan Philippon
Our Neck of the Woods: Exploring Minnesota's Wild Places, editor (University of Minnesota Press, 2009)

cover image for Shakespeare's Foreign WorldsJohn Watkins
Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age, authored with Carole Levin (Cornell University Press, 2009)

cover image for Shakepeare and the Middle AgesJohn Watkins
Shakespeare and the Middle Ages, edited with Curtis Perry (Oxford University Press, 2009)

 

Books, 1999-Present

Charles Baxter
The Soul Thief (Pantheon Books, 2008)
The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot (Graywolf, 2007)
Saul and Patsy (Pantheon, 2003)

Timothy Brennan
Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz (Verso, 2008)
Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right (Columbia University Press, 2006)
Music in Cuba, editor (University of Minnesota Press, 2001)

Michael Dennis Browne
What the Poem Wants: Prose on Poetry (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009)
To Be Certain of the Dawn, an oratorio with music by Stephen Paulus, recorded by Osmo Vanska and the Minnesota Orchestra (BIS Records, 2009)
Panthers (Indulgence Press, 2008)
Things I Can’t Tell You: Poems (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2005)
Give Her the River, picture book, paintings by Wendell Minor (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2004)
Greatest Hits, 1965-2000 (Pudding House Publications, 2001)

Evelyn Ch’ien
Weird English (Harvard University Press, 2004)

Thomas Clayton
"A Certain Text": Close Readings and Textual Studies on Shakespeare and Others; in Honor of Thomas Clayton (University of Delaware Press, 2002)

Lois Cucullu
Expert Modernists, Matricide, and Modern Culture: Woolf, Forster, Joyce (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)

Maria Damon
Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader, edited with Ira Livingston (University of Illinois Press, 2009)
pleasureTEXTpossession, with mIEKAL aND (Zasterle Press, 2005)
Literature Nation, with mIEKAL aND (Potes & Poets Press, 2003)

Andrew Elfenbein
Romanticism and the Rise of English (Stanford University Press, 2008)
Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role (Columbia University Press, 1999)

Genevieve Escure
Creoles, Contact and Language Change: Linguistic and Social Implications, edited with Armin Schwegler (John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2004)

Lianna Farber
An Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing: Value, Consent, and Community (Cornell University Press, 2005)

Shirley Garner
Is Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice, co-editor (New York University Press, 2000)

Ray Gonzalez
Faith Run: Poems (University of Arizona Press, 2009)
Cool Auditor: Prose Poems (B.O.A. Editions, 2009)
Renaming the Earth: Personal Essays (University of Arizona Press, 2008)
Consideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems (B.O.A. Editions, 2005)
The Religion of Hands: Prose Poems and Short Fictions (University of Arizona Press, 2004)
Human Crying Daisies: Prose Poems (Red Hen Press, November 2003)
The Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande: Poems (B.O.A. Editions, 2002)

Patricia Hampl
Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing A Life, edited with Elaine Tyler May (Borealis Books, 2008)
The Florist’s Daughter (Harcourt, 2007)
Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime (Harcourt, 2006)
I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory (W. W. Norton & Company, 2000)

Qadri Ismail
Abiding by Sri Lanka: On Peace, Place and Postcoloniality (University of Minnesota Press, 2005)

Calvin Kendall (Emeritus)
On Genesis: Bede, translated (Liverpool University Press, 2008)

Rebecca Krug
Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England (Cornell University Press, 2002)

Josephine Lee
Re/collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History, edited with Imogene Lim and Yuko Matsukawa (Temple University Press, 2002)

Toni A. H. McNaron (Emerita)
I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoir, revised, expanded edition (Feminist Press, 2001)

Nabil Matar
Europe Through Arab Eyes, 1578-1727 (Columbia University Press, 2008)
Britain and Barbary: 1589-1689 (University Press of Florida, 2005)
In the Lands of the Christians: Arabic Travel Writing in the 17th Century, edited and translated (Routledge, 2003)
Turks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery (Columbia University Press, 1999)

Ellen Messer-Davidow
Disciplining Feminism: From Social Activism to Academic Discourse (Duke University Press, 2002)

Valerie Miner (Emerita)
The Night Singers (Five Leaves Publications, 2004)
The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir (Michigan State University Press, 2001)

Dan Philippon
Our Neck of the Woods: Exploring Minnesota's Wild Places, editor (University of Minnesota Press, 2009)
Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice (University of Georgia Press, 2007)
Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement (University of Georgia Press, 2004)
The Friendship of Nature: A New England Chronicle of Birds and Flowers by Mabel Osgood Wright, edited (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)

Paula Rabinowitz
Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism (Columbia University Press, 2002)
They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary, Chinese translation (Yuan-Liou Publishing Co, 1999)

Peter Reed (Emeritus)
Kurt Vonnegut: Images and Representations, edited with Marc Leeds (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000)
Bagombo Snuff Box, editor (Putnam Publishing Group, 1999)

Marty Roth (Emeritus)
Drunk the Night Before: An Anatomy of Intoxication (University of Minnesota Press, 2005)

Jani Scandura
Down in the Dumps: Place, Modernity, American Depression (Duke University Press, 2008)
Modernism, Inc.: Body, Memory, Capital, edited with Michael Thurston (New York University Press, 2001)

Andrew Scheil
The Footsteps of Israel: Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England (University of Michigan Press, 2004)

Katherine Scheil
The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theatre (Bucknell University Press, 2003)

Julie Schumacher
Black Box (Delacorte, 2008)
The Book of One Hundred Truths (Delacorte, 2006)
The Chain Letter (Delacorte, 2005)
Grass Angel (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2004)

Geoffrey Sirc
Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition, authored with A. Wysocki, J. Johnson-Eilola, and C. Selfe (Utah State University Press, 2004)
English Composition as a Happening (Utah State University Press, 2002)

Madelon Sprengnether
Near Solstice: Mourning (West Town Press, 2009)
The Angel of Duluth: Prose Poems (White Pine Press, 2006)
Crying at the Movies: A Film Memoir (Graywolf Press, 2002)

David Treuer
The Translation of Dr. Apelles (Graywolf Press, 2006)
Native American Fiction: A User’s Manual (Graywolf Press, 2006)
The Hiawatha (Picador USA, 1999)

John Watkins
Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age, authored with Carole Levin (Cornell University Press, 2009)
Shakespeare and the Middle Ages, edited with Curtis Perry (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Representing Elizabeth in Stuart England: Literature, History, Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

Joel Weinsheimer
Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography by Jean Grondin, translator (Yale University Press, 2003)
Untimely Ripped (Authors Choice Press, 2002)
Hermeneutics, Religion, and Ethics by Hans Georg Gadamer, translator (Yale University Press, 2000)

George T. Wright (Emeritus)
Hearing the Measures: Shakespearean and Other Inflections (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002)
Aimless Life: Poems 1961-1995 (North Stone Editions, 1999)

John Wright
Shadowing Ralph Ellison (University Press of Mississippi, 2006)