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    • Literacy in a Long Blues Note
    • Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama
    • A Fire to Light Our Tongues
    • Hollow Palaces
    • Haunted Property
    • American Literary Cultures
    • Sacred Rhetorical Education in 19th Century America
    • Modernism in the Green
    • A Long, Long Way
    • Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature
    • The Courage to See
    • The Evil Twins of American Television
    • Harvest Bells
    • Letters of a Long Name
    • Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
    • Reforming Women
    • Thomas Hoccleve
    • Mark Twain Under Fire
    • Building Natures
    • Understanding Marilynne Robinson
    • Living with the Living Dead
    • The Life Group
    • Then Winter
    • Building Jerusalem
    • The Divine Face in Four Writers
    • Seamus Heaney: An Introduction
    • Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain's Age of Print
    • Housework and Gender in American Television
    • The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes
    • Entertaining Judgment
    • Seamus Heaney's Regions
    • Elegy on Kinderklavier
    • Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White
    • Mapping Christian Rhetorics
    • The Tulip-Flame
    • The Glyph and the Gramophone
    • The Prodigal
    • Beyond the Pulpit
    • The Reconstruction of Mark Twain
    • Sylvia Plath's Fiction

Publications

Literacy in a Long Blues Note
Literacy in a Long Blues Note
by Coretta M. Pittman

An analysis of the literary strategies wielded by Black women during the oppressive Jim Crow years. University Press of Mississippi, 2022.

Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama
Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama
by Richard Rankin Russell

Analyzes profound implications of place in Friel’s five best-known and critically acclaimed plays. Syracuse University Press, 2022.

A Fire to Light Our Tongues
A Fire to Light Our Tongues
by Elizabeth Joan Dell and Donna Walker-Nixon

This anthology offers readers creative works by Texas writers as they wrestle with evolving systems of belief or nonbelief. Texas Christian University Press, 2022.

Hollow Palaces
Hollow Palaces
by Kevin Gardner and John Greening

A collection of modern country house poems from over 160 distinguished poets. Liverpool University Press, 2021.

Haunted Property
Haunted Property
by Sarah Gilbreath Ford

A critical examination of the role of property in gothic literature depicting slavery. University Press of Mississippi, 2020.

American Literary Cultures
American Literary Cultures
by Elizabeth J. Dell and Joe B. Fulton

This reader traces the diverse heritages and global impulses that shaped America. Baylor University Press, 2020.

Sacred Rhetorical Education in 19th Century America
Sacred Rhetorical Education in 19th Century America
by Michael-John DePalma

Studies the rhetorical pedagogy of Austin Phelps, the prominent preacher and professor of sacred rhetoric. Routledge, 2020.

Modernism in the Green
Modernism in the Green
by Julia E. Daniel and Margaret Konkol

Examines manifestations of public green spaces in modern literature. Routledge, 2020.

A Long, Long Way
A Long, Long Way
by Greg Garrett

Considers the role that cinematic narrative and religious tradition can play in healing racial dynamics. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature
Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature
by Tim DeJong

Examines how modernist works express optimism about the future based on a belief in the social power of art. Routledge, 2020.

The Courage to See
The Courage to See
by Greg Garrett and Sabrina Fountain

Daily devotional pairing literary passages with scripture and prayer. Westminster John Knox Press, 2019.

The Evil Twins of American Television
The Evil Twins of American Television
by Kristi Rowan Humphreys

Examines gender and the twinning trope in over fifty years of television. Lexington Books, 2019.

Harvest Bells
Harvest Bells
by Kevin J. Gardner

A collection of previously undiscovered poems by Sir John Betjeman. Bloomsbury Press, 2019.

Letters of a Long Name
Letters of a Long Name
by Ginger Hanchey

Interlinked poems of love for a hospitalized infant. Finishing Line Press, 2019.

Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
by Joshua King and Winter Jade Werner

Interdisciplinary collection examines how religion was debated and deployed in the nineteenth century. Ohio State University Press, 2019.

Reforming Women
Reforming Women
by Lisa J. Shaver

Examines the emergence of a distinct women's rhetoric in the American Female Moral Reform Society. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.

Thomas Hoccleve
Thomas Hoccleve
by Sebastian J. Langdell

A new assessment of Thomas Hoccleve's role as a religious author and poetic mediator. Liverpool University Press, 2018.

Mark Twain Under Fire
Mark Twain Under Fire
by Joe B. Fulton

How and why Mark Twain has been "under fire" from the advent of his career to the present day. Camden Press, 2016. Boydell & Brewer, 2018.

Building Natures
Building Natures
by Julia E. Daniel

How modern poetry engages with constructed green spaces in America. University of Virginia Press, 2017.

Understanding Marilynne Robinson
Understanding Marilynne Robinson
by Alex Engebretson

A comprehensive study of the award-winning Midwestern author of fiction and nonfiction. University of South Carolina Press, 2017.

Living with the Living Dead
Living with the Living Dead
by Greg Garrett

The zombie apocalypse as an archetypal narrative for the contemporary world. Oxford University Press, 2017.

Then Winter
Then Winter
by Chloe Honum

Intimate poems that cut through the climate of silence surrounding mental illness and treatment. Bull City Press, 2017.

The Life Group
The Life Group
by Maura Jortner

A captivating YA thriller: one missing girl, one radical church, one day with a sister determined to solve her disappearance. Lakewater Press, 2017.

Building Jerusalem
Building Jerusalem
by Kevin J. Gardner

An anthology of poems by post-war authors that capture British nostalgia for parish churches. Bloomsbury, 2016.

The Divine Face in Four Writers
The Divine Face in Four Writers
by Maurice Hunt

Traces the influence of Christian and Classical prototypes in ideas and depictions of the divine face. Bloomsbury, 2015.

Seamus Heaney: An Introduction
Seamus Heaney: An Introduction
by Richard Rankin Russell

This study helps readers better understand the life and major works of Seamus Heaney. Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain's Age of Print
Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain's Age of Print
by Joshua King

A study of print-mediated spiritual communion in Britain during the nineteenth century. Ohio State University Press, 2015.

Housework and Gender in American Television
Housework and Gender in American Television
by Kristi Rowan Humphreys

Examines representations of housework in sixty popular television shows of the 1950s-1980s. Lexington Books, 2015.

The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes
The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes
by Hope Johnston

Christine de Pizan's landmark defense of women, written in French, edited side-by-side with an English translation from Henry VIII's reign. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015.

Entertaining Judgment
Entertaining Judgment
by Greg Garrett

Rich ground for creative expression exists in the search for answers to the question: What lies in store for us after we die? Oxford University Press, 2015.

Seamus Heaney's Regions
Seamus Heaney's Regions
by Richard Rankin Russell

Regional voices that inspired Heaney offer a unified understanding of his body of work. Winner of the 2014 Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award. University of Notre Dame Press, 2014.

Elegy on Kinderklavier
Elegy on Kinderklavier
by Arna Bontemps Hemenway

Stories that explore the profound effects of what it is to lose and be lost. Winner of the 2015 PEN/Hemingway Award. Sarabande Books, 2014.

Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White
Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White
by Sarah Gilbreath Ford

Oral storytelling in the works of black and white Southern writers. University of Alabama Press, 2014.

Mapping Christian Rhetorics
Mapping Christian Rhetorics
by Michael-John DePalma and Jeffrey M. Ringer

Original research on the intersections of rhetoric and Christianity from prominent and emerging scholars. Routledge, 2015.

The Tulip-Flame
The Tulip-Flame
by Chloe Honum

Award-winning first book by Chloe Honum, finalist for 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Poetry. Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2014.

The Glyph and the Gramophone
The Glyph and the Gramophone
by Luke Ferretter

Complete analysis of D.H. Lawrence as a religious man, thinker and artist from 1915 onward. Bloomsbury, 2013.

The Prodigal
The Prodigal
by Greg Garrett and Brennan Manning

Powerful contemporary retelling of the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Zondervan, 2013.

Beyond the Pulpit
Beyond the Pulpit
by Lisa J. Shaver

Rhetorical opportunities in the 19th century Methodist church increased women's presence in the public sphere. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.

The Reconstruction of Mark Twain
The Reconstruction of Mark Twain
by Joe B. Fulton

Bold new assessment of the work of one of America's most celebrated writers. Louisiana State University Press, 2011.

Sylvia Plath's Fiction
Sylvia Plath's Fiction
by Luke Ferretter

First study devoted to Sylvia Plath's fiction. Edinburgh University Press, 2010.

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      • A Long, Long Way
      • Hope and Aesthetic Utility in Modernist Literature
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      • The Evil Twins of American Television
      • Harvest Bells
      • Letters of a Long Name
      • Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
      • Reforming Women
      • Thomas Hoccleve
      • Mark Twain Under Fire
      • Building Natures
      • Understanding Marilynne Robinson
      • Living with the Living Dead
      • The Life Group
      • Then Winter
      • Building Jerusalem
      • The Divine Face in Four Writers
      • Seamus Heaney: An Introduction
      • Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain's Age of Print
      • Housework and Gender in American Television
      • The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes
      • Entertaining Judgment
      • Seamus Heaney's Regions
      • Elegy on Kinderklavier
      • Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White
      • Mapping Christian Rhetorics
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