Recent Faculty Publications

When not teaching and mentoring students, BYU English professors spend a good portion of their time researching and publishing in their particular subdisciplines. Over the past five years, English Department faculty members have published scores of articles and the following books:

Gloria Cronin, ed. (with Alan L. Berger), Encyclopedia of Jewish-American Literature (Facts on File, 2009)

Jay Fox, comp. and ed., Into the Luminous Tide: Pacific Poems by Vernice Wineera (Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature, 2009)

Lance Larsen, Backyard Alchemy (University of Tampa Press, 2009)

Dennis Perry (with Carl H. Sederholm), Poe, the “House of Usher,” and the American Gothic (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009)

Phillip Snyder, ed. (with Lu Ann Taylor Snyder), Post-manifesto Polygamy: The 1899-1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen, and Avery Woodruff (Utah State University Press, 2009)

Bruce Young, Family Life in the Age of Shakespeare (Greenwood, 2009)

Frank Christianson, Philanthropy in British and American Fiction: Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot and Howells (Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2007)

Gregory Clark, Rhetorical Landscapes in America: Variations on a theme from Kenneth Burke (University of South Carolina Press, 2004)

Jesse Crisler, Frank Norris: A Life (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2006)

Jesse Crisler and Chris Crowe (eds.), How I Came to Write: LDS Authors for Young Adults (BYU, 2007)

Jesse Crisler, Jay Fox, and Steven Walker (eds.), Eugene England: Essays on Values in Literature (BYU, 2006)

Gloria Cronin (ed.), Conversations with Robert Penn Warren (Univ. of Mississippi Press, 2005)

Gloria Cronin (ed.), Jewish American and Holocaust Literature: Representation in the Postmodern World (State Univ. of New York Press, 2004)

Chris Crowe, More Than a Game: Sports Literature for Young Adults (Scarecrow, 2004)

Chris Crowe, Mississippi Trial, 1955 (Speak/Penguin, 2003)

Chris Crowe, Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case (Fogelman/Penguin, 2003)

Chris Crowe, Up Close: Justice Thurgood Marshall (Viking, 2008)

Ed Cutler, Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism (Univ. Press of New England, 2003)

Deborah Dean, Genre Theory: Teaching, Writing, Being (National Council of Teachers of English, 2008)

Deborah Dean, Bringing Grammar to Life (International Reading Association, 2007)

Deborah Dean, Strategic Writing: The Writing Process and Beyond in the Secondary English Classroom (National Council of Teachers of English, 2006)

Eric Eliason, The J. Golden Kimball Stories (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2007)

Jay Fox and Robert Means, Arthur Symons, Critic among Critics: An Annotated Bibliography (ELT Press, 2007)

Claudia Harris, Four Plays by the Charabanc Theater Company: Reinventing Woman's Work (Colin Smythe, 2007)

Kimberly Johnson, A Metaphorical God: Poems (Persea, 2008)

Kimberly Johnson, ed. (with Michael C. Schoenfeldt and Richard Strier), Divisions on a Ground: Essays on English Renaissance Literature in Honor of Donald M. Friedman (George Herbert Journal Special Studies and Monographs, 2008)

Lance Larsen, In All Their Animal Brilliance (Univ. of Tampa Press, 2005)

Keith Lawrence (ed.), Recovered Legacies: Authority And Identity In Early Asian American Literature (Temple Univ. Press, 2005)

Suzanne Lundquist, Native American Literatures: An Introduction (Continuum, 2004)

Nicholas Mason (ed.), Blackwood's Magazine 1817-25: Selection's from Maga's Infancy (Pickering and Chatto, 2006)

Nicholas Mason, ed. (with Matthew Mason), The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson, by Edward Kimber (Broadview, 2008)

David Paxman, Voyage into Language: Space and the Linguistic Encounter, 1500-1800 (Ashgate, 2003)

Dennis Perry, Hitchcock and Poe: The Legacy of Delight and Terror (Scarecrow, 2004)

Jill Rudy (ed.), The Marrow of Human Experience: Essays on Folklore by William A. Wilson (Utah State Univ. Press, 2006)

John Talbot, The Well-Tempered Tantrum (David Robert Books, 2004)

Douglas Thayer, Hooligan: A Mormon Boyhood (Zarahemla, 2007)

Douglas Thayer, The Tree House (Zarahemla, 2008)

Douglas Thayer, The Conversion of Jeff Williams (Signature, 2003)

Jacqueline Thursby, Funeral Festivals in America: Rituals for the Living (Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2006)

Jacqueline Thursby, Story: A Handbook (Greenwood, 2006)

Jacqueline Thursby, Foodways and Folklore: A Handbook (Greenwood, 2008)

Matthew Wickman, The Ruins of Experience: Scotland's "Romantick" Highlands and the Birth of the Modern Witness (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)