Recent Publications

Articles and Chapters:

Simonsen, Rasmus. “Dark Avunculate: Shame, Animality, and Queer Development in Wilde’s ‘The Star-Child’.” Forthcoming in Children’s Literature 42 (2014).

Adams, Stephen. "Philip Freneau's Summa of American Exceptionalism: 'The Rising Glory of America' -- Without Brackenridge" in Texas Studies in Literature and Language. Forthcoming, December 2013.

Adams, Stephen. “Speaking as an American to Americans”: James Russell Lowell’s 'Harvard Commemoration Ode' and the Idea of Nationhood" in Christopher Hebert & Martin Griffin, eds., American Political Fictions. Forthcoming.

McDonald, Riley. "The Frame-Breakers: Thomas Pynchon's Posthuman Luddites." Canadian Review of American Studies. (Forthcoming)

Wenaus, Andrew, "Twilight of Information Illiteracy: Kenji Siratori's Asemic Cyberpunk." Foundation 113 (2013): 29-48.

Wenaus, Andrew, "‘Spells Out The Word of Itself, and Then Dispelling Itself’: The Chaotics of Memory and The Ghost of the Novel in Jeff Noon’s Falling out of Cars.” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 23.2 (2012): 260-284.

Northrup, Kostantina, "Lyric Scholarship in Controversy: Jan Zwicky and Anne Carson." Studies in Canadian Literature 37.1 (2012).
Rajan, Tilottama, "Excitability: The (Dis)Organization of Knowledge from Schelling’s First Outline (1799) to Ages of the World (1815)." Romanticism and Modernity. Ed. Thomas Pfau and Robert Mitchell. New York: Routledge, 2012. 47-64.

Rajan, Tilottama, "Romanticism and the Unfinished Project of Deconstruction."European Romantic Review, 23:3 (2012): 293-303.
Stuart, Thomas, "Recurring Dreams: Haunting Fantasy in John Fowles’ The Magnus" in "Curious, if True": The Fantastic in Literature edited by Amy Bright. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. pp. 243-269.
Wennekers, M. Eileen, "Genre, Non-correspondency, and the Fantastic Real in The Hound of the Baskervilles" in "Curious, if True": The Fantastic in Literature edited by Amy Bright. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. pp. 42-65.
Bullen, Ross, "Blood Money: Gresham's Law, Property, and Race in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses," in Canadian Review of American Studies, Vol 42, No. 2. University of Toronto Press, 2012, pp. 194-215.
Michael Groden and Vicki Mahaffey, "Silence and Fractals: 'The Sisters'," in Collaborative Dubliners: Joyce in Dialogue, edited by Vicki Mahaffey. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2012, pp. 23-47.

Paul Saint-Amour, Michael Groden, Carol Shloss, and Robert Spoo, "James Joyce: Copyright, Fair Use, and Permissions: Frequently Asked Questions," revised version, online: https://joycefoundation.osu.edu/joyce-copyright/fair-use-and-permissions (posted May 2012).

Taylor, Crystal (PhD VI). "Shadows and Mysteries: Illusions of Imagined Communities in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines."History, Narrative, and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction. Ed. Chitra Sankaran. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. 79-93.
Andrew Wenaus’ (PhD III) article “Fractal Narrative, Paraspace, and Strange Loops: The Paradox of Escape in Jeff Noon's Vurt” was recently published in Science Fiction Studies #113 = Volume 38.
Andrew Wenaus’ (PhD III) article “Rhizomatic Horror: Eclipsed Narrative and Experimental Weird Fiction in Steve Beard’s Digital Leatherette” was recently published in Extrapolation 53.1.

Timothy A. DeJong's (PhD III) article "Between the Is and the Is Not: Northrop Frye, Adaptation, and the Romantic Imagination" was recently published in ESC: English Studies in Canada, Vol. 37, Issue 2, June 2011. Click here for a preview.
Andrew Wenaus' (PhD III) article "You are Cordially Invited to a / CHEMICALWEDDING": Metamorphiction and Experimentation in Jeff Noon's Cobralingus, was recently published in Electronic Book Review.

Dr. Ross Bullen’s (PhD, 2009) essay, "'This Alarming Generosity': White Elephants and the Logic of the Gift" was published in the December 2011 issue of American Literature.

Books:

	Congratulations to Dr. Pauline Wakeham and co-editor Dr. Jennifer Henderson (Carleton University) on the publication of their new book: Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress (U of Toronto P), 2013.
	Congratulations to Dr. Richard Moll on the upcoming release of his book: Caxton, William. The Booke of Ovyde Named Methamorphose. Ed. Richard J. Moll. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies; Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2013.
	Congratulations to Rebecca Campbell (PhD 6) on the the forthcoming publication of her novel, The Paradise Engine from NuWest Press, May 2013.
	Congratulations to Dr. Peter Schwenger on the the release of his book, At the Borders of Sleep: On Liminal Literature from the University of Minnesota Press, December 2012.
	Congratulations to Dr. Anne McTaggart on the the release of her book, Shame and Guilt in Chaucer from Macmillan, October 2012.
	David Vichnar, David Spurr, and Michael Groden, eds., Praharfeast: James Joyce in Prague. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2012. Please see: http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/praharfeast.html.
	Dr. Thy Phu recently published her new book, Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture, Temple University Press (May 2012). Please find more information at: http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2162_reg.html
	Congratulations to Dr. Michael Buma on the May 2012 release of his new book called Refereeing Identity: The Cultural Work of Canadian Hockey Novels http://mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=2885 Mike Buma is both a former English student and now a prof for English and Kinesiology.
	Dr. Madeline Bassnett recently published her new book, Elegies. Her poems are about death and illness, but they are primarily texts of feeling: harrowing word-borne devices that wrest the perspective of emotion from experience. Professor Bassnett’s poems have appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, Room of One’s Own and echolocation. In 2010, she was shortlisted for the Winston Collins/Descant Prize. See http://www.froghollowpress.com/gallery/elegies-bassnett-cover.html.
	See grad student Dave Hickey's new children's book trailer, featuring Professor John Leonard as narrator: http://vimeo.com/30823608

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