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PhD Student Publications

Steve Almquist

Almquist, Steve. "Not Quite the Gabbling of 'a thing most brutish: Caliban's Kiswahili in Aime Cesaire's ‘A Tempest’." Callaloo 29 (2006): 587-633.

Gunnar Benediktsson

Benediktsson, G. (2001). "Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions by Maurice Manning." Black Warrior Review 28(1): 187-190.

Benediktsson, G. (2001). Letter to Haraldur Bessason. Bréf til Haralds: til hei?urs Harladi Bessasyni sjötugum, 14 apríl, 2001. Reykjavik, Iceland, Ormstunga: 178-187.

Benediktsson, G. (2001). "Poems from The Outliers." The Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 20: 25-28.

Benediktsson, G. (2002). "Patriarchy." Climate Controlled: An Online Anthology. A. Monson.

Benediktsson, G. (2003). Weirdo. Week's End. U.S.A., WSUI: 6min.

Benediktsson, G. (2005). Hero of the Play by Richard Harrison. DIAGRAM, DIAGRAM 5.4.

Benediktsson, G. (2005). "Mechanistics." DIAGRAM 5(3).

Benediktsson, G. (2005). Peter Markus, The Singing Fish, Calamari Press, 2005. DIAGRAM. 5.

Benediktsson, G. (2006). "Jane Unrue, Atlassed, Triple Press 2006." DIAGRAM 5(6).

Benediktsson, G. (2006). Maybe Lois is Right: We're Better Off Without Superman. Iowa City Press-Citizen. Iowa City.

Benediktsson, G. (2006). United 93 Signifies What? Iowa City Press-Citizen. Iowa City, IA.

Benediktsson, G. (2006). 'V for Vendetta': The Revolution is not at hand, but. Iowa City Press-Citizen. Iowa City: 11.

Benediktsson, G. and G. Jorundsdottir (May 2005). Videy, near Reykjavik, Iceland, hutt 2.3 (photograph)

J.P. Craig

Craig, J.P. essay "Whitman and Hegel" under review at Studies in American Culture

Craig, J.P. “Flower Odors” [poem] published in 5_trope, Summer 2002 issue.

Craig, J.P. Rev. of The American Poetry Wax Museum: Reality Effects, 1940-1990, by Jed Rasula. Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 19 (2000): 83-84.

Craig, J.P. Rev. of Wittgenstein’s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary, by Marjorie Perloff. Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 19 (2000): 84-85.

Craig, J.P. “What Falls Outside the Frame” and “Coming Home” [poems]. Outerbridge 27.1 (1998): 38-39.

Craig, J.P. “Interview with Eavan Boland.” Verse 13.1 (1995): 36-46.

Craig, J.P. “An Interview with Michael Palmer.” River City 14.2 (1994): 96-110.

Craig, J.P. “A Conversation with Charles Simic.” Artful Dodge 24/25 (1993): 17-28. 

Jessica DeSpain

DeSpain, Jessica. “A Book Arts Pilgrimage: Arts and Crafts Socialism and the Kelmscott Chaucer.” The Journal of William Morris Studies. 15.4 (2004): 75-90.

Douglas Dowland

Dowland, Douglas. "'Macrocosm of Microcosm Me': Steinbeck's Travels with Charley: In Search of America." LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 16(3), 311-332.

Stacy Erickson

Erickson, Stacy. “The Faerie Queene.” “Astrophel and Stella.” “Delia.” “The Knight’s Tale.” “Gl’Ingannati.” Headnotes and commentary on Shakespeare’s key sources for The Shakespeare Collection, a searchable database for students and scholars (Thomson/Gale, 2006)

Erickson, Stacy. “Comedy of errors #7.” “Smock Alley Comedy of Errors.” “Henry VIII #3.” “Henry VIII #8” “Henry VIII #19.” King Henry the English #110.” “Much Ado About Nothing #271.” “Much Ado About Nothing #284.” “Twelfth Night #391.
Captions and commentary on seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century Shakespeare promptbooks from the Folger Shakespeare Library Collection and the Harvard Theatre Collection for The Shakespeare Collection, a searchable database for students and scholars (Thomas/Gale, 2006)

Carolyn Hall

Hall, Carolyn. "An Elaborate Pretense for the Major: Making Up the Face of the Postbellum Nation." Legacy 22 (2005): 144-57.

Joyce Kelley

Kelley, Joyce. “ ‘Nooks and corners which I enjoy exploring’: Investigating the Relationship Between Vita Sackville-West’s Travel Narratives and Woolf’s Writing.” Woolf and the Art of Exploration: Selected Papers from the Fifteenth International Conference on Virginia Woolf (2006): 140-149.

Kelley, Joyce. “Increasingly ‘Imaginative Geographies’: Excursions into Otherness, Fantasy, and Modernism in Early Twentieth Century Women's Travel Writing.” Journal of Narrative Theory 35.3 (Fall 2005): 357-372.

Matt Miller

Miller, Matt. “The Cover of the First Edition of Leaves of Grass.” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 24:2 (Fall/Winter 2006-2007): in press.

Miller, Matt. “The Talbot Wilson Notebook of Walt Whitman.” Double Room (online, with accompanying typographic transcription) Issue 3 (Fall/Winter 2003).

Miller, Matt. “An Interview with James Galvin.” The Writers’ Chronicle 35:1 (2003): 33-40.

Miller, Matt. “An Interview with Cal Bedient.” Denver Quarterly 39:2 (2004): 94-107; reprinted by Poetry Daily (online).

Miller, Matt. Rev. of Corruption, by Srikanth Reddy. Double Room (online) Issue 4 (Spring/Summer 2004).

Miller, Matt. Rev. of Spell, by Dan Beachy-Quick. Iowa Review 35:2 (2005): 163-166.

Eve Rosenbaum

Rosenbaum, Eve. "Bais Yaakov Girl." Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives. Albany: SUNY Press, 2003.

Rosenbaum, Eve. "Reason." The Cortland Review 31 (Spring 2006) < http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/31/rosenbaum.html>

Rosenbaum, Eve. "Singing the Revolution: Walt Whitman and His American Heroes." American Spirit 139 (November/December 2005), 46-48.

Rosenbaum, Eve. "The Word." The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism. Ed. Leslie Heywood. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005.

Ania Spyra

Spyra, Ania. “Zbigniew Mentzel Wszystkie jezyki ‘wiata, (All the Languages of the
World) a review” World Literature Today, July-August 2006. 68-69.

“Is Cosmopolitanism Not For Women? -- Migration in Qurratulain Hyder's
Sita Betrayed and Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines.” Frontiers: A
Journal of Women Studies
27.2. 2006. 1-26.

Keith Wilhite

Wilhite, Keith. “John Cheever’s Shady Hill, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Suburbs.” Studies in American Fiction 34 (2006):215-239.

Wilhite, Keith. “His Mind Was Full of Absenses: Whitman at the Scene of Writing.” ELH 71 (2004): 921-948.

Wilhite, Keith. “Depictions of the Suburbs in Midwestern Literature.” Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Forthcoming 2007).

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