Here are a few of the many books written or edited by English Department faculty and staff. If you have any additions or other changes to this list, please contact Libby Barna.
For more information about research being conducted by our faculty, please see the Department's Research page.
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Joe Amato
Finger Exorcised
Kenmore, NY: Blazevox Books, 2006.
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Cheryl Ball & James Kalmbach, eds.
RAW (Reading and Writing) New Media
Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2010.
Cheryl Ball & Kristin Arola
ix tech comm: visual exercises for technical
communication
Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2005.
Cheryl Ball
Picturing Texts: Instructors' Guide
New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2004.
Lee Brasseur
Visualizing Technical Information: A Cultural Critique
Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, 2003.
Christopher Breu
Hard Boiled Masculinities
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

Bob Broad
Organic Writing Assessment: Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action
Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2009.
Bob Broad
What We Really Value: Beyond Rubrics
in Teaching and Assessing Writing
Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2003.
Susan Burt
The Hmong Language in Wisconsin
Edwin Meullin Press, 2010.
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Julie Cheville
Minding the Body: What Student Athletes Know about Learning
Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2001.
Karen Coats
Looking Glasses and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire,
and Subjectivity in Children’s Literature
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2007.
Karen Coats, Anna Jackson, & Roderick McGillis, eds.
The Gothic in Children's Literature: Haunting the Borders
New York, NY: Routledge, 2007.
Karen Coats, Shelby Wolf, Patricia Enciso, and Christine Jenkins eds.
Handbook of Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature
New York, NY: Routledge, 2010.
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Christopher De Santis, ed.
Essays on Art, Politics, Race, and World Affais, vol. 9: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002.
Christopher De Santis, ed.
Fight for Freedom and Other Writings on Civil Rights, vol. 10: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001.
Christopher De Santis, ed.
Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
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Christopher De Santis, ed.
Langston Hughes: A Documentary Volume, vol. 315: Dictionary of Literary Biography
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005.
Kristin Dykstra, ed., trans.
Times's Arrest by Reina Mara Rodriguez
San Diego, CA: Factory School, 2005.
Kristin Dykstra, ed., trans.
Algo De Lo Sagrado / Something of the Sacred by Omar Perez
San Diego, CA: Factory School; Bilingual edition, 2007.
Kristin Dykstra & Nancy Gates Madson, trans.
Violet Island and Other Poems by Reina Maria Rodriguez
Los Angeles, CA: Green Integer, 2004.
Kristin Dykstra, trans.
Did You Hear about the Fighting Cat? by Omar Perez
Shearsman Books, 2010.
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Katherine E. Ellison
Fatal News: Reading and Information Overload in Early Eigteenth-Century Literature
New York, NY: Routledge, 2005.
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Kass Fleisher
Talking out of School: Memoir of an Educated Woman
Urbana-Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008.
Kass Fleisher
Dead Woman Hollow
State Univ of New York Pr., 2012.
Kass Fleisher
The Adventurous
New York, NY: Factory School, 2006.
Kass Fleisher
The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History
New York, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004.
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Gabriel Gudding
Rhode Island Notebook
Logan, UT: Dalkey Archive Press, 2006.
Gabriel Gudding
A Defense of Poetry
(Pitts Poetry Series)
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.
Gabriel Gudding
Congratulations on Being Here
(Pitts Poetry Series)
Paper Kite Press, 2010.
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Steve Halle
Map of the Hydrogen World
Cracked Slab Books, 2009.
Duriel E. Harris
Amnesiac: Poems
Sheep Meadow, 2009.
Duriel E. Harris
Speleology
a film by Duriel E. Harris and Scott Rankin, featuring poetry by Duriel E. Harris
Elizabeth Hatmaker
Girl in Two Pieces
BlazeVOX, 2010.
Elizabeth Hatmaker
Life As We Show It: Writing On Film
City Lights Publishers, 2009.
Cynthia Huff & Suzanne L. Bunkers, eds.
Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries
Amherst, MA: The University of Masschusetts Press, 1996.
Cynthia Huff, ed.
Towards a Geography of Women's Life Writing
and Imagined Communities
London and New York: Routledge, 2005.
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Julie Jung
Revisionary Rhetoric, Feminist Pedagogy, and Multigenre Texts
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University, 2005.
Hilary K. Justice
The Bones of the Others
Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2006.
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James Kalmbach
The Computer and the Page: Publishing, Technology,
and the Classroom
Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1997.
James Kalmbach & Cheryl Ball, eds.
RAW (Reading and Writing) New Media
Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2010.
Barton, Mathew, Kalmbach, James, Lowe, Charles, Eds.
The Writing Spaces Web Style Guide
Writing Spaces/Parlour Press, 2011.
Susan Kalter, Ed.
Twenty Thousand Mornings An Autobiography by John Jospeh Mathews
University of Oklahoma Press (April 6, 2012)
Susan Kalter
Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania, and the First Nations
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Susan Kalter
Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale
Lexington Books, 2009.
Kathryn Kerr
Coneflower
Urbana, IL: Tenement Press, 1977.
Kathryn Kerr
Equinox
The Red Herring Chapbook, 1979.
Kathryn Kerr
First Frost
Urbana, IL: Stormline Press, 1984.
Kathryn Kerr
Turtles All the Way Down
Finishing Line Press, 2010.
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Robert L. McLaughlin & Sally E. Parry
We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema during World War II
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
Robert L. McLaughlin, ed.
Innovations: An Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Urbana-Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1998.
Joan A. Mullin & Carol Peterson Haviland, eds.
Who Owns This Text?: Plagiarism, Authorship,
and Disciplinary Cultures
Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2009.
Joan A. Mullin, Pamela B. Childers, and Eric H. Hobson
ARTiculating Teaching Writing in a Visual World
Boynton/Cook, 1998.
Joan A. Mullin (Author, Editor), Ray Wallace (Editor)
Intersections: Theory-Practice in the Writing Center
Boynton/Cook, 1998.
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Janice Neuleib & Maurice Scharton
Things Your Grammar Never Told You (2nd Ed.)
Boston, MA: Longman, 2001.
Janice Neuleib, Kathy Cain, & Stephen Ruffus
The Mercury Reader
Needham, MA: Pearson, 2011.
Janice Neuleib & Maurice Scharton
Inside Out: A Guide to Writing
Conway, AR: Allyn & Bacon, 1992.
Janice Neuleib, ed.
Illinois English Bulletin
Conway, AR: Allyn & Bacon, 1993.
Janice Neuleib
The Pearson Introduction to Literature
New Jersey, NJ: Pearson, 2005.
Janice Neuleib, Elaine Dion, & Ruth Fennick
Writing with the Masters: From Interests and Abilities
Terrence, CA: Frank Schaffer Publications, 1995.
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Sally E. Parry, ed.
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2008.
Sally E. Parry, ed.
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2007.
Sally E. Parry, ed.
The Minnesota Stories of Sinclair Lewis
Minnesota, MN: Borealis Books, 2005.
Sally E. Parry
Go East, Young Man: Sinclair Lewis on Class in America
New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2005.
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Paula Ressler
Dramatic Changes: Talking about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity with High School Students through Drama
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Drama, 2002.
Amy Robillard & Rebecca Moore Howard, eds.
Pluralizing Plagiarism: Identities, Contexts, Pedagogies
Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2008.
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Rebecca Saunders
Lamentations and Modernity in Literature, Philosophy, and Culture
New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Lisya Seloni, Marcia Farr, & Juyoung Song, eds. Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education: Language, Literacy, and Culture
Routledge, 2009.
Jan Susina
The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature
Rotledge, 2009.
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Torri L. Thompson, ed.
Early Modern Marriage and its Dissolution
London: Pickering and Chatto Publications, 2005.
Torri L. Thompson, ed.
The Purification of Women in Early Modern England
London: Pickering and Chatto Publications, 2005.
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Roberta Seelinger Trites
Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2007.
Roberta Seelinger Trites & Betsy Hearne, eds.
A Narrative Compass: Women’s Scholarly Journeys
Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
Roberta Seelinger Trites
Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression
in Adolescent Literature
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2004.
Roberta Seelinger Trites
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1997.
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Ollie O. Oviedo, Joyce R. Walker, Byron Hawk, eds.
Digital Tools in Composition Studies
Hampton Press, 2010.
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Kristin H. Zona
Marrianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson:
The Feminist Poetics of Self Restraint
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2002.