Articles in Professional Journals

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"Alfred Kazin on John O'Hara: A Critical Grudge." Notes on Contemporary Literature 28(May 1998): 5-8.

“Assessing the Assessments: An Informal Survey of Five Decades of Comment on the Works of James Purdy.” Hyperion [Special Issue Devoted to James Purdy] Dec. 2009. [Invited]

“`Blooming Mr Boom’: An Explication of the First Four Sentences of the Eumaeus Episode of Ulysses.” The Journal of Imagism Fall 1998: 41-59. [Refereed]

“The Divinity and the Absurdity of Speaking the Unspeakable: James Purdy’s I Am Elijah Thrush. Hyperion [Special Issue Devoted to James Purdy] Dec. 2009. [Invited]

"Goodfellas and Scar Lovers" [on Harry Crews and Martin Scorcese]. Notes on Contemporary Literature 24,3(May 1994): 10-12.

“James Purdy: Leaving Is Like Staying, But Only If You’ve Left.”  Ohioana Quarterly  38(Spring 2005): 6-12. [Solicited]

“Many Kinds of Wars, or the Continuing Absence of a Certain Kind of Peace: The Novels of Robert Stone.” Journal of Contemporary Literature 1,2 (Dec. 2009): .

“Mosquito Bites and Computer Bytes: Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome.” Notes on Contemporary Literature [Special Issue on Cyberfiction.]  30,4(Fall 2000): 9-12.

"A Note on Two Poems by Sharon Olds." Notes on Contemporary Literature 26,2(Mar. 1996): 6-7. [Cited and quoted in Thomas, Lorenzo.  “Poetry: The 1940s to the Present.”  American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 1996.  Ed. David J. Nordloh.  Durham, NC: Duke U P, 1998.]

"Observation into Insight: The Poetry of Carol Frost." Indian Review of World Literature in English Jan. 2008.

“The Outer Banks: Poems of Muriel Rukeyser and W.D. Ehrhart.”  North Carolina Literary Studies  14(2005): 31-42. [Refereed]

“Playland, by John Gregory Dunne.”  Notes on Contemporary Literature 35,1(Nov. 2004): [in press].

“Questions of and beyond Style: The Language(s) of Mahasweta Devi’s “Breast Giver” and the Critical Appraisals of Her Literary Work and Reputation”  1(June 2009): 1-11.

"A Rhetorical Analysis of Fund-Transfer-Scam Solicitations." Cercles 14(Dec. 2005: 129-141. [Refereed]

“Those Who Overstate the Lessons of the Past Are Condemned to Draw Erroneous Conclusions.” Journal of Space and Culture Special Issue on New Orleans and Other Urban Calamities.  9,1(2006): [in press]. [Refereed]

“Using Political Cartoons as the Basis for an English Comp Research Paper: Analyzing the  Failure of Yet Another Clever Idea.” CEA Forum 34,2(Summer-Fall 2005). [Refereed]

“Writing in the Ghost of Gary Cooper: The Novels and Novelizations of Michael Avallone.” Anachronist (2005): [in press]. [Refereed]