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Our faculty members have expertise that spans the fields of literary and cultural studies, rhetoric and writing studies, and creative writing and make contributions within both historical and contemporary contexts of American, British, Native American, and global literary and cultural studies; the writing of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction; the study of rhetorical theory and practice; and film and digital production. Together, our professors have contributed extensive scholarly research by publishing over 90 books.

10 Years of Publications

The Hungry and
the Haunted


Rilla Askew Bio

Belle Pointe Press

Libels & Theater in Shakespeare's England:
Publics, Politics, Performance


Joseph Mansky Bio

Cambridge University Press

Literary Studies and Well-Being


Ronald Schleifer Bio

Bloomsbury

The Love Songs of
W.E.B. Du Bois


Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Bio

Harper Collins

Postcolonial
Animalities


Amit R. Baishya Bio

Routledge

Literary Black Power in the Caribbean:
Fiction, Music, and Film


Rita Keresztesi Bio

Routledge

Eyes Bottle Dark
with a Mouthful of Flowers


Jake Skeets Bio

Milkweed Press

The Quebec Connection:
A Poetics of Solidarity in Global Francophone Literatures


Julie-Françoise Tolliver

University of Virginia Press

Culture and Cognition:
The Boundaries of Literary
and Scientific Inquiry


Ronald Schleifer Bio
Robert Con Davis Bio

Cornell University Press

Digitizing Medieval Manuscripts:
The St. Chad Gospels,
Materiality, Recoveries,
and Representation


Bill Endres Bio

ARC Humanities Press

Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers:
African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War


Cedric R. Tolliver

University of Michigan Press

Contemporary Literature
from Northeast India:
Deathworlds, Terror and Survival


Amit R. Baishya

Routledge

Parting Words:
Victorian Poetry and
Public Address


Justin A. Sider

University of Virginia Press

Most American:
Notes from a
Wounded Place


Rilla Askew

University of Oklahoma Press

Northeast India:
A Place of Relations


Amit R. Baishya

Cambridge University Press

Rhetoric and
Writing Studies
in the New Century:
Historiography,
Pedagogy, and Politics


Roxanne Mountford

Southern Illinois Press

Reframing the Relational:
A Pedagogical Ethic
for Cross-Curricular
Literacy Work


Sandra L. Tarabochia

NCTE Press

Back to the Blanket:
Recovered Rhetorics
and Literacies in
American Indian Studies


Kimberly Weiser-Weryackwe

University of Oklahoma Press

The Western in
the Global South


Rita Keresztesi

Routledge

Red Scare Racism and
Cold War Black Radicalism


James Zeigler

University Press of Mississippi

Earlier Publications

Progressive Traditions, Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture book cover. Written by Joshua B. Nelson.

Title: Progressive Traditions: Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture
Author: Joshua B. Nelson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press


Pain and Suffering book cover. Written by Ronald Schleifer.

Title: Pain and Suffering
Author: Ronald Schleifer
Publisher: Routledge

The Social Life of Illumination book cover. Co-Edited by Joyce Coleman.

Title: The Social Life of Illumination: Manuscripts, Images, and Communities in the Late Middle Ages
Co-Editor: Joyce Coleman
Publisher: Brepols


Kind of Kin book cover. Written by Rilla Askew.

Title: Kind of Kin
Author: Rilla Askew
Publisher: Harper Collins

Red Dirt Women book cover. Authored by Susan Kates.

Title: Red Dirt Women: At Home on the Oklahoma Plains
Author: Susan Kates
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press


The Chief Concern of Medicine book cover. Co-authored by Ronald Schleifer.

Title: The Chief Concern of Medicine: The Integration of the Medical Humanities and Narrative Knowledge into Medical Practices
Co-Author: Ronald Schleifer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Modernism and Popular Music book cover. Written by Ronald Schleifer.

Title: Modernism and Popular Music
Author: Ronald Schleifer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press


Intangible Materialism book cover. Written by Ronald Schleifer.

TitleIntangible Materialism: The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Language
Author: Ronald Schleifer
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press


Women's Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition book cover. Co-written by Roxanne Mountford.

Title: Women's Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition
Co-Author: Roxanne Mountford
Publisher: Routledge


Harpsong book cover. Written by Rilla Askew.

Title: Harpsong
Author: Rilla Askew
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press


Red Clay Suite book cover. Written by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

Title: Red Clay Suite
Author: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press

Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France book cover. Written by Joyce Coleman.

TitlePublic Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France
Author: Joyce Coleman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press


Strangers at Home book cover. Written by Rita Keresztesi.

Title: Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars
Author: Rita Keresztesi
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

The Gendered Pulpit book cover. Authored by Roxanne Mountford.

Title: The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching in American Protestant Spaces
Author: Roxanne Mountford
Publisher: Sourthern Illinois University Press


Outlandish Blues book cover. Written by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

Title: Outlandish Blues
Co-Author: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press


Fire in Beulah book cover. Written by Rilla Askew.

TitleFire in Beulah
Author: Rilla Askew
Publisher: Penguin Random House


Activist Rhetorics and American Education book cover. Written by Susan Kates.

Title: Activist Rhetorics and American Higher Education 1885-1917
Author: Susan Kates
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press

Analogical Thinking book cover. Authored by Ronald Schleifer.

Title: Analogical Thinking: Post-Enlightenment Understanding in Language, Collaboration, and Interpretation
Author: Ronald Schleifer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press


The Gospel of Barbecue book cover. Written by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

Title: The Gospel of Barbecue
Author: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Publisher: The Kent State University Press


Modernism and Time book cover. Written by Ronald Schleifer.

Title: Modernism and Time: The Logic of Abundance in Literature, Science, and Culture, 1880-1930
Author: Ronald Schleifer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The Mercy Seat book cover. Written by Rilla Askew.

TitleThe Mercy Seat
Author: Rilla Askew
Publisher: Penguin Random House


Rhetoric and Death book cover. Written by Ronald Schleifer.

Title: Rhetoric and Death: The Language of Modernism and Postmodern Discourse Theory
Author: Ronald Schleifer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

A.J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning book cover. Authored by Ronald Schleifer.

Title: A.J. Greimas and the Nature of Meaning: Linguistics, Semiotics and Discourse Theory
Author: Ronald Schleifer
Publisher: Routledge