Publications
This book introduces the Bible as one of the greatest works of world literature. Luke Ferretter provides a comprehensive history of the field, alongside detailed readings of the texts of the Bible and the most influential theories in the area.
Routledge - 2025
Twin sisters team up—despite drastically different personalities—to save their family from a bitter witch’s curse in this rich and atmospheric middle grade novel. Holiday House - May 2025
Tracing the origins of how we think about strangers to the Victorian period, Strangers and the Enchantment of Space in Victorian Fiction, 1830– 1865 explores the vital role strangers had in shaping social relations during the cultural transformations of the Industrial Revolution, transportation technologies, and globalization. Routledge - Jan 2025
An anthology of Lake District poetry.
Waterland Books Jan 2025
At the Garden’s Dark Edge is a collection of a hundred of Thwaite’s poems, selected from a span of more than sixty years, exploring his major themes and recurring topics--among them, the consolations of domestic life, the pleasures of language and creativity, and the many humans and other animals in his life. Baylor University Press - Dec 2024
After a teen had her innocence stolen from her ten years ago at the county fair, she returns to steal it back, not realizing all the forces at play then and now. ELJ Editions - 2024
Greg Garrett offers a curated introduction of James Baldwin’s works, themes, and life for new readers and longtime fans, exploring essential novels, drama, nonfiction, and archival material. A 2023 Best Book from Spirituality and Practice. Orbis Press - 2023
This collection of essays centralizes the study of religious persuasion and pluralism, considers religion’s place in U.S. society, and expands the study of rhetoric and religion in generative ways. Southern Illinois University Press - Nov 2023
Guiding readers through the diverse forms of natural theology expressed in seventeenth-century English literature, Katherine Calloway reveals how, in ways that have not yet been fully recognized, authors such as Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Cavendish, Hutchinson, Milton, Marvell, and Bunyan describe, promote, challenge, and even practice natural theology in their poetic works. Cambridge University Press - Oct 2023
Over 130 Norfolk inspired poems in 7 sections: Coast, Broads and Rivers, Norwich and County Towns, History and People, Rymes, Epitaphs and Limericks, Churches and Houses and Landscape. Waterland Books - June 2023
Contraflow takes a completely new approach to the subject of Englishness, and in this stimulating and entertaining anthology two poetic currents flow against each other, so that different decades merge, well-known stanzas brushing shoulders with more neglected verse. Renard Press - Aug 2023
This collection brings together essays that uses appropriations of Shakespeare to theorize the complex spectrum between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation. Routledge - 2023
After being abandoned by her mother in a most unusual place, a defiant heroine sticks to her plan for staying hidden—even though getting caught could mean saving her life. Holiday House, 2023.
Veteran TV journalist Calvin Jones travels to Paris, where he negotiates love, friendship, and despair in award-winning novelist Greg Garrett’s Bastille Day. Paraclete Press, 2023.
A representative selection of one of the UK’s most prolific and respected poets, comprised of nearly 300 poems. Baylor University Press, 2023.
An analysis of the racework done by adaptations of, references to, and engagements with (i.e. reanimations of) Shakespeare’s Othello in an era in which American society was encouraged to not see and think about race.
Edinburgh University Press - 2022
Using Gloria Anzaldúa's theories of conocimiento as a critical lens, the authors examine several literary works including Side by Side / Lado a lado; They Call Me Güero; Land of the Cranes; Efrén Divided; and Gabi, a Girl in Pieces.
University of New Mexico Press - May 2022
Assesses Joyce’s employment of the Lukan Good Samaritan parable in relation to his short fiction and Ulysses. Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
An analysis of the literary strategies wielded by Black women during the oppressive Jim Crow years. University Press of Mississippi, 2022.
Analyzes profound implications of place in Friel’s five best-known and critically acclaimed plays. Syracuse University Press, 2022.
A study of the way chance encounters in magazines shaped literary Modernism, with chapters on Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
This anthology offers readers creative works by Texas writers as they wrestle with evolving systems of belief or nonbelief. Texas Christian University Press, 2022.
A collection of modern country house poems from over 160 distinguished poets. Liverpool University Press, 2021.
A critical examination of the role of property in gothic literature depicting slavery. University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
This reader traces the diverse heritages and global impulses that shaped America. Baylor University Press, 2020.
Studies the rhetorical pedagogy of Austin Phelps, the prominent preacher and professor of sacred rhetoric. Routledge, 2020.
Examines manifestations of public green spaces in modern literature. Routledge, 2020.
Considers the role that cinematic narrative and religious tradition can play in healing racial dynamics. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Examines how modernist works express optimism about the future based on a belief in the social power of art. Routledge, 2020.
Daily devotional pairing literary passages with scripture and prayer. Westminster John Knox Press, 2019.
Examines gender and the twinning trope in over fifty years of television. Lexington Books, 2019.
A collection of previously undiscovered poems by Sir John Betjeman. Bloomsbury Press, 2019.
Interlinked poems of love for a hospitalized infant. Finishing Line Press, 2019.
Interdisciplinary collection examines how religion was debated and deployed in the nineteenth century. Ohio State University Press, 2019.
Examines the emergence of a distinct women's rhetoric in the American Female Moral Reform Society. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019.
A new assessment of Thomas Hoccleve's role as a religious author and poetic mediator. Liverpool University Press, 2018.
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.
How modern poetry engages with constructed green spaces in America. University of Virginia Press, 2017.
A comprehensive study of the award-winning Midwestern author of fiction and nonfiction. University of South Carolina Press, 2017.
The zombie apocalypse as an archetypal narrative for the contemporary world. Oxford University Press, 2017.
Intimate poems that cut through the climate of silence surrounding mental illness and treatment. Bull City Press, 2017.
A captivating YA thriller: one missing girl, one radical church, one day with a sister determined to solve her disappearance. Lakewater Press, 2017.
An anthology of poems by post-war authors that capture British nostalgia for parish churches. Bloomsbury, 2016.
Traces the influence of Christian and Classical prototypes in ideas and depictions of the divine face. Bloomsbury, 2015.
This study helps readers better understand the life and major works of Seamus Heaney. Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
A study of print-mediated spiritual communion in Britain during the nineteenth century. Ohio State University Press, 2015.
Examines representations of housework in sixty popular television shows of the 1950s-1980s. Lexington Books, 2015.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oral storytelling in the works of black and white Southern writers. University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Original research on the intersections of rhetoric and Christianity from prominent and emerging scholars. Routledge, 2015.
Award-winning first book by Chloe Honum, finalist for 2015 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Poetry. Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2014.
Complete analysis of D.H. Lawrence as a religious man, thinker and artist from 1915 onward. Bloomsbury, 2013.
Powerful contemporary retelling of the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Zondervan, 2013.
Rhetorical opportunities in the 19th century Methodist church increased women's presence in the public sphere. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
Bold new assessment of the work of one of America's most celebrated writers. Louisiana State University Press, 2011.
First study devoted to Sylvia Plath's fiction. Edinburgh University Press, 2010.