The English Department in Print

If you're looking for versatility and creativity all in one place, the English department is a good starting point. A list of faculty members' most recent publications indicates the diversity of their interests and talents.

Jonathan Alexander, ed.

Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others.

Harrington Park Press.

Stanley Corkin,

Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and U.S. History.

Temple University Press. (Corkin was also recently quoted in the

Cleveland Plain Dealer

for his opinion regarding a Sixth Circuit Sexual Harassment case. The defense argued that terms like “bitch” could be defined denotatively, and Corkin addressed the intent of such words and maintained that they would create a hostile work environment.)

James Cummins,

Then and Now.

Swallow Press/ Ohio University Press.

Thomas LeClair,

Passing On.

Greekworks Press.

Al Pionke,

Plots of Opportunity: Representing Conspiracy in Victorian England.

Ohio State University Press.

Gary Weissman,

Fantasies of Witness: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust.

Cornell University Press.

Don Bogen, whose third book of poetry,

Luster

, was published by Wesleyan University Press late in 2003, notes that the department has another impressive publications record-that of “the number of books of fiction and poetry our graduate students have been publishing lately-more than half a dozen in the last few years.”

Among the most notable of these is

The Bear Bryant Funeral Train

, a collection of short stories by Brad Vice, a recent PhD graduate who is assistant professor of English at Mississippi. Vice's work was awarded the Flannery O'Connor Prize and will be published next year by the University of Georgia Press.