This is my book: Don DeLillo: Balance at the Edge of Belief. New York: Peter Lang, 2004
It’s pretty much for English majors, grad students, and Don DeLillo scholars.
Here are some of my web-accessible academic journal publications:
“Magic Words: Students Learning and Teaching Writing in First Year Seminar,” with Abbie Nicoloff, Jess Burgess, Amelia Coplen, and Kevin Olson (undergraduates), Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education (January 2012)
“Preventing Plagiarism, Promoting Honor; Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Online Discussions,” CTL: Currents in Teaching and Learning, vol.2, no. 2 (spring 2010): 54-63
“War on Terror: Amending Monsters After 9/11,” Humanities Review, vol. 6, no. 2 (spring 2008): 165-176
“Preach What You Practice: Zen, Paradox, and a Few Kind Words for Writing Center Tutors,” Writing Lab Newsletter, vol. 32, no. 9 (May 2008): 10-13
“Subversion: Teaching a Blue Novel in a RedState,” Academic Exchange Quarterly, vol. 10, no.1 (spring 2006): 71-75
“The Fiction of Self-destruction: Chuck Palahniuk, Closet Moralist,”Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature, vol.2, no.2 (fall/winter 2005): 3-24
Here are a few non-academic online pieces:
“Chuck Palahniuk Mows the Lawn” and “Raymond Carver Mad Libs,” Yankee Pot Roast
Review of Jane Smiley’s Moo
“Meeting Don DeLillo,” Don DeLillo Society Newsletter, Vol. 4, nos. 1-2, June 2011
Here are some other academic journal articles that I wrote. They’re not available online, but many library databases are able to access them.
“The Terms of the Contract: Rock and Roll and the Narrative of Self-destruction in Don DeLillo, Neal Pollack, and Kurt Cobain,” Studies in Popular Culture, vol. 30, no. 1 (fall 2007): 87-104
“Blue Angels Meet Dying Animals: Textual and Sexual Subversion in the Clinton-era Academic Novel,” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 37, no.2 (fall 2004): 11-25
“Teaching Style as Content: Some Sentence-level Revision Strategies for First-year Composition,” Minnesota English Journal, vol. 32, no. 1 (fall 2003): 74-85
“Recycling Authority: Don DeLillo’s Waste Management,” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 42, no. 4 (summer 2001): 384-401
“Proust, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic Albertine: Voice and Fragmentation in The Captive,” Studies in 20th Century Literature vol. 24, no.2 (summer 2000): 271-282
And here are book chapters that I wrote, not available online:
“We Have to Go Back: Lost after 9/11,” Looking for Lost: Critical Essays on the Enigmatic Series. Ed. Randy Laist. MacFarlane, 2011. 230-242
“With Us or Against Us: Chuck Palahniuk’s 9/11,” Reading Chuck Palahniuk: American Monsters and Literary Mayhem. Eds. Cynthia Kuhn and Lance Rubin. Routledge, 2009. 103-115
“X-estential X-Men: Jews, Mutants, and the Literature of Struggle,” X-Men and Philosophy. Eds. Rebecca Housel and J. Jeremy Wisnewski. Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. Wiley, 2009. 38-49
“White Teacher, Black Writers, White Students: Colorblindness and Racial Consciousness in Teaching African American Literature,” Teaching Race in the Twenty-First Century: College Professors Talk About Their Fears, Risks, and Rewards. Ed. Lisa Guerrero. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 137-150
“The Fiction of Self-destruction—Chuck Palahniuk, Closet Moralist,”You Do Not Talk About Fight Club. Ed. Read Schuchardt. BenBella Books, 2008. 13-33
“Fear Factor: Reality Television, the Rhetoric of Pornography, and Red State America,” PopPorn: The Proliferation of Pornography in American Culture. Eds. Ann C. Hall and Mardia Bishop. Westport: Praeger Press, 2007: 99-110
“Tutoring Taboo: A Reconsideration of Style in the Writing Center,” Refiguring Prose Style: Possibilities for Writing Pedagogy. Eds. Thomas Pace and T.R. Johnson, Logan:UtahState UP, 2005. 215-226
“The Aesthetics of Waste in Underworld,” Don DeLillo. Bloom’s Major Novelists. Ed. Harold Bloom,Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2003. 142-144
