Ariane Balizet
Associate Dean of Faculty & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Professor of English
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- "Fair Women, Red Hands, Black Will(s): Domestic Tragedy’s Racial Logic." Studies in the Literary Imagination 54.1 & 2 (2021 [published December 2023]): 41-56.
- “Teaching Romeo and Juliet in Plague-Time: A Trauma-Informed Approach.” Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation, Trauma and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences. Ed. Deborah Uman and Jennifer Flaherty. Arden Shakespeare, 2023 (17-33).
- “The Humorality of Toys and Games in Early Modern Domestic Drama.”Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance. Ed. Amy Kenny and Kaara Peterson. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, Palgrave Macmillan (2021): 167-187.
- Shakespeare and Girls' Studies. New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2020.
- “‘Amend thy Face’: Contagion and Disgust in the Henriad.” Contagion and the Shakespearean Stage. Ed. Mary Floyd-Wilson and Darryl Chalk. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, Palgrave Macmillan (2019): 127-45.
- Bhusal, A. (2019). Addressing FYC Instructors’ Lack of Technological Expertise in Implementing Multimodal Assignments. Marginalia in Modern Learning Contexts Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
- Bhusal, A. (2019). The Power of Visual Rhetoric for Social Change. The International Journal of Rhetoric and Social Sciences. 1(1).
- Bhusal, A. (2019). The Rhetoric of Racism in Society. Journal of Research Innovation. 9 (1).
- Oak Cradle. Shanti Arts, 2024. Link to Book
- "Six Feet Apart." Next Stage Press, 2022. Link to Play
- "Ode to the Backyard Dove." Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing, March 2022. Web.
- “Fixing What’s Broken on Monday Afternoon.” Anti-Heroin Chic, December 2021, https://heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/poetry-by-chantel-l-carlson. Web.
- “Pandemic Vibrations.” TEJASCOVIDO, edited by Laurence Musgrove, Spring 2020, https://www.tejascovido.com/blog/pandemic-vibration. Web.
- 2022, Primary Author, with Max Krochmal et al. Latinx Studies Curriculum in K-12 Schools: A Practical Guide. Forward by Jacinto Ramos, Jr. TCU Press. 198 pp.
- 2021, with Daniel Luis Archer. Introduction. "Latinidad, Memory, and Literature." 'Memory Studies and Latinidad,' Eds. David Colon and Daniel Luis Archer, Special Issue of JOLLAS: Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies 11.1 (Spring). University of Nebraska-Omaha. 1-12.
- 2021. "Locations of Contemporary Latina/o Poetry." The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Poetry. Ed. Timothy P. Yu. Cambridge UP. 48-60.
- 2018. “Making It Nuevo: Latina/o Modernist Poetics Remake High Euro-American Modernism.” The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature. Eds. John Morán González and Laura Lomas. Cambridge UP. 353-370.
- 2018. "Marginal Erotics: Roberto Tejada’s Sexiness.” American Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement. Eds. Claudia Rankine and Michael Dowdy. Wesleyan University Press. 380-397.
- Reviewed Elizabeth Stoddard's Two Men, edited by Jennifer Putzi. Book review in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Fall 2010)
- Editor. Bridges, ULM's Freshman Composition Handbook (Feb. 2003)
- Lysistrata on the Home Front: Locating Women's Reproductive Bodies in the WWI-Era Birth Strike. In Edinburgh Companion to Modernist Women's Print Media in Britain (1890s - 1920s). Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
- “Perverting the Postwar: Sexuality and State Violence in Women’s Literature.” Futility and Anarchy? British Literature in Transition, 1920-1940. Eds. Dougal McNeill and Charles Ferrall. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- “The Other Female Complaint: Online Narratives of Assisted Reproductive Therapy as Sentimental Literature.” Teacher, Scholar, Mother: (Re)Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy. Ed. Amy Young. Lexington Press, 2015 (251-66).
- When Sex Changed: Birth Control and Literature between the World Wars (Rutgers UP, 2013).
- “‘That Means Children to Me’: The Birth Control Movement in Nella Larsen’s ‘Quicksand.’” Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative. Eds. Angela Laflen and Marcelline Block. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. (156-77).
- “Orlando: A Fanfiction; Or, Virginia Woolf in the Archive of One’s Own.” Journal of Modern Literature (Forthcoming, July).
- “Hollywood Regionalism: What the Studio System Did with Gene Stratton-Porter’s Nature Novels.” Feminist Media Histories 6.2, Special Issue on Media and the Environment (April 2020): 16-42.
- “‘Entre Nous’: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s Pre-World War II Fan Mail.” The Journal of Florida Literature 25 (2017).
- “Shelley’s Pauses: Systemic Change in Laon and Cythna,” Romantic Circles Praxis March 2016.
- “The National Tale and the Pseudonymous Author: Rosalia St. Clair’s Mobile Identity,” European Romantic Review 25:2 (2014) 181-199.
- “Romantic Nationalism and the British State” European Romantic Review 22:3 (2012) 271-6.
- British State Romanticism: Authorship, Agency, and Bureaucratic Nationalism, Stanford University Press, 2010.
- “A Nation Without Nationalism: The Reorganization of Feeling in Austen’s Persuasion,” Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 38:2 (Spring/Summer 2005), 214-234. [Published Fall 2006].
- “Epistolary Estrangement: Mission, Marriage, and Missives in the Cherokee Nation,” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 10.2 (2022): 205-327.
- “Sexual Violence and Indigenous Women: Rereading the Archive of Catharine Brown (Cherokee).” Gender in American Literature and Culture. Cambridge UP, 2021. 127-41.
- “Misattribution, Collaborative Authorship, and Recovery: The Legacies of Sarah Rogers (Mohegan), Phoebe Hinsdale Brown, and Elias Boudinot (Cherokee).” Women’s Studies 50.5 (2021): 552-571.
- Blackwell Companion to American Literature, Vol. I, Beginnings to 1820. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
- “Female Relationships in Susannah Rowson’s Sincerity: The Bechdel Test and American Literature Syllabi.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 34.1 (2017): 141-50
- Kenneth Burke’s Permanence and Change: A Critical Companion. Columbia: U of South Carolina P. 2018.
- “Critical Pedagogy: Dreaming of Democracy.” A Guide to Composition Pedagogies, 2nd ed. Ed. Gary Tate, Amy Rupiper Taggart, Kurt Schick, Brooke Hessler. New York: Oxford UP, 2013. 77-93.
- Invited chapter: “Finding the Time for Burke.” Burke in the Archives: Using the Past to Transform the Future of Burkean Studies. Ed. Dana Anderson and Jessica Enoch. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2013. 48-84.
- “Reading Helen Keller.” Women and Rhetoric between the Wars. Ed. Ann George, M. Elizabeth Weiser, and Janet Zepernick. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2013. 97-113.
- Women and Rhetoric between the Wars (co-edited with Elizabeth Weiser and Janet Zepernick). Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP (Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms series), 2013.
- Fate of the Flesh: Secularization and Resurrection in the Seventeenth Century, Fordham UP, 2021
- Shakespeare’s Anti-Politics: Sovereign Power and the Life of the Flesh, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
- Before Intimacy: Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England, University of Minnesota Press, 2006
Jill Havens
Senior Instructor, Director of Undergraduate Studies ,and Director of British and Postcolonial Studies
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- “A Gift, a Mirror, a Memorial: The Psalter-Hours of Mary de Bohun.” The Objects of Medieval Women: Essays in Honor of Carolyn P. Collette. Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury, eds. (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press, 2016).
- “Shading the Grey Area: Determining Heresy in Middle English Texts,” Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale. eds. Helen Barr and Anne Hutchison. Medieval Church Studies 4 (Leiden: Brepols, 2005).
- “A Narrative of Faith: Middle English Devotional Anthologies and Religious Practice,” Journal of the Early Book Society 7 (Summer 2004): 67-84.
- “As Englishe is comoun langage to oure puple: The Lollards and Their Imagined English Community,” Imagining a Medieval English Community. ed. Kathy Lavezzo (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2003).
- “A Curious Erasure in Walsingham’s Short Chronicle and the Politics of Heresy,” Fourteenth Century England II. ed. C. Given-Wilson (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2002).
Jason Helms
Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Digital Expression
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- “Play Smarter Not Harder: Developing Your Scholarly Meta.”Scholarly and Research Communication. 10:3, 2019. Online: https://src-online.ca/index.php/src/article/view/333
- “Making Rhizcomics: Methodologies for Digital Monographs.” Kairos, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2018. Online: https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/23.1/inventio/helms/index.html
- “Making Comics as Scholarship: A Reflection on the Process behind Digital Humanities Quarterly 9.4.” Kairos, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2018. Online: https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/23.1/inventio/salter-et-al/index.html (third author)
- “Potential Panels: Toward a Theory of Augmented Comics.” All the World’s a Link: Perspectives on Augmented Reality across Art, Industry, and Academia. Editors: Sean Morey and John Tinnell. Parlor Press, 2017.
- Rhizcomics: Rhetoric, Technology, and New Media Composition. Digital Monograph scheduled to be published by the University of Michigan Press and Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. January 20, 2017. https://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/books/rhizcomics_drc/
- White Sororities and the Cultural Work of Belonging. Routledge University Press, December 2023.
- Persuasive Acts: Women's Rhetorics in the Twenty-first Century. Co-edited with Shari Stenberg. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.
- “Including Conservative Women’s Rhetorics in an ‘Ethics of Hope and Care.’” Rhetoric Review 34.4 (2015): 391-408.
- “Missing.” [creative nonfiction] Puerto del Sol 49.1, Fall 2013. 57-70.
- Reclaiming the Rural: Essays on Literacy, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy. Co-edited with Kim Donehower and Eileen E. Schell. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
- “The Pre-Poetess History of Michael Field: Troubling Poetess History.” VictorianReview Forum, 2022.
- “Andrew Lang’s Discursive Cosmopolitanism in Longman’s Magazine.” Studies in Scottish Literature 48.1 (2022), 16-24.
- Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776-1920 : An Anthology, co-edited with Sarah R. Robbins, TCU, and Andrew Taylor, Edinburgh University; Associate Editors Heidi Hakimi-Hood and Adam Nemmers. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
- Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture series, 2022.
- “ Vernon Lee: Slow Serialist and Journalist at the Fin de Siècle.” Victorian Literature and Culture 50.1 (Fall 2021), 173-202.
- Boakye, S.J. (Manuscript in Preparation to be Submitted to Composition Studies). Transnational Students and Racism: Using Critical Race Theory to Harness Student Rhetorical Agency in the Rhetoric and Composition Class
- Torto, R.T., Boakye, S.J., Otchere, G., Yeboah, N.A., Owusu-Peprah, J. (2016). An Exploration of the Correlation between First Year Students' Performance in Communicative Skills and their Performance in English in the WASSCE. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies (4) 1.
- Boakye, S.J. (2014). “‘Our democracy has been tested to the utmost limit’: An exploration of the use of assertives in Ghanaian presidential inaugural addresses”. Language, Discourse and Society 3 (1), 68-87.
Carmen Kynard
Professor and Lillian Radford Chair of Rhetoric and Composition
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- Craig, Todd and Carmen Kynard. “Sista Girl Rock: Women of Color and Hip Hop Deejaying as Raced/Gendered Knowledge and Language.” reprinted in Todd Craig's "K for the Way": DJ Rhetoric and Literacy for 21st Century Writing Studies
- Kynard, Carmen. “'Oh No She Did NOT Bring Her Ass Up in Here with That!' Racial Memory, Radical Reparative Justice, and Black Feminist Pedagogical Futures." College English, vol 85, no 4, 2023, pp. 318-345. (winner of 2023 Richard Ohmann Award)
- Kynard, Carmen. "Fakers and Takers: Disrespect, Crisis, and Inherited Whiteness in Rhetoric-Composition Studies." Composition Studies, vol 50, no 3, 2022, pp. 131–136.
- Kynard, Carmen. “Black Digital-Cultural Imaginations: Black Visuality and Aesthetic Refuge in the M4BL Classroom.” Enculturation.net, https://enculturation.net/black_digital_culture_imaginations, 24 Mar 2022.
- Kynard, Carmen. “‘Chile, A Fox Be Just a Fox’: Black Girlhood Narratives as Rhetorical and Curricular Intervention in College Instruction.” Purposeful Teaching and Learning in Diverse Contexts: Implications for Access, Equity and Achievement. Eds., Darrell Hucks, Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Victoria Showunmi, Suzanne C. Carothers, Chance W. Lewis. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing (part of series: Contemporary Perspectives on Access, Equity, and Achievement edited by Chance W. Lewis), 2022. 387-397.
- Another Last Day
- Feverland: A Memoir in Shards
- The Wish Book
- Happy: A Memoir
- Fancy Beasts
- “Redesigning Writing Outcomes.” WPA: Writing Program Administration. Forthcoming Fall 2016.
- “They Could Be Our Students: The TCU Writing Major.” Co-authored with Brad Lucas, Charlotte Hogg, Ann George, and Joddy Murray. Writing Majors: Eighteen Program Profiles. Greg Giberson and Lori Ostergaard, eds. Logan: Utah State U P, 2015. 137-49.
- “Design Thinking and the Wicked Problem of Teaching Writing.” Computers and Composition. 33 (2014): 1-12.
- “Assessing Multimodal Composing in a Senior Seminar in English.” CCTE Studies 77 (2012): 67-75
- “‘Growing Smarter Over Time’: An Emergence Model of Administering a New Media Writing Studio.” Computers and Composition. 29.1 (2012): 51-62.
- “Armed Propaganda and the Ethics of Horrorism: Tactical Communiques from the Weather Underground.” Tactical Approaches to Technical Communication, edited by Hilary A. Sarat-St. Peter and Miles Kimball, SUNY Press, 2024. [forthcoming]
- “The Twilight of the Methodology Course, or How I Learned to Tell the Tale and Leave It.” Mentorship/ Methodology: Reflections, Praxis, and Futures, edited by Leigh Gruwell and Charles Lesh, Utah State University Press, 2024.
- “Are We Overlooking (and Underselling) the Writing Capstone Course?” Composition Studies , vol. 48, no. 3, 2021, pp. 76-97 [with Timothy Ballingall]
- “Insurgent Circulation, Weaponized Media: Waging the Late Sixties War Within.”Rhet Ops: Rhetoric and Information Warfare, edited by Jim Ridolfo and William Hart-Davidson. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019, pp. 90-104.
- “‘The Man’ and the Moon: Black Power, 1968, and Going After Cacciato.” Critical Insights: Tim O’Brien, edited by Robert C. Evans, Critical Insights Series, Salem Press, 2015, pp. 136-53.
- Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire,Rutgers University Press, 2022. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/played-out/9781978824249
- “Black Millennial Satire” from “African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century” Post45 (Online Journal) https://post45.org/2021/06/black-millennial-satire/ 6/22/21
- “Netflix's New Dave Chappelle Special '8:46' is No Laughing Matter.” Think: Opinion, Analysis, Essays. 15 June 2020. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/netflix-s-new-dave-chappelle-special-8-46-no-laughing-ncna1231065.
- “Introduction: Black Masculinities and the Matter of Vulnerability” in Black Scholar 49.2, 2019. 1-10. Co-written with Darius Bost and La Marr Bruce.
- “Protest Pedagogy: The Politics of Centering an Unapologetic Blackness in the Neo-Liberal University” Journal of Prose Studies History, Theory, Criticism 9/9/19.
Stacie McCormick
Associate Professor and Co-director of African American and Africana Studies & CRES Department Chair
View Recent Publications
- “Introduction: Toni Morrison’s Artistic Cosmology and Enduring Legacy.” Toni Morrison and Adaptation Special Issue – Co-Edited with Rhaisa Williams. College Literature, 47(4), 2020.
- “Birthrights and Black Lives: Narrating and Disrupting Perverse Inheritances.” Women Studies Quarterly, 48(1&2), 2020, pp. 201-217.
- Staging Black Fugitivity. Black Performance and Cultural Criticism. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press. 2019.
- "'Stories that Never Stop': Fugitivity and Neo-Slave Performance" Modern Drama, 62(4), 2019, 517-538.
- “August Wilson and the Anti-spectacle of Blackness and Disability in Fences and Two Trains Running.” College Language Association Journal, vol. 61, no. 1-2, 2018, pp. 65-83.
- Gender and Space in British Literature, 1660-1820. Editors, Mona Narain and Karen Gevirtz. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Press, 2014.
- “History and Myth: Rewinding the Past in Salman Rushdie’s “The Prophet’s Hair” and The Moor’s Last Sigh,” Critical Insights: Salman Rushdie. Ed. Bernard F. Rodgers. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2013. 44-60.
- “Eighteenth-Century Indians’ Travel Narratives and Cross-Cultural Encounters with the West,” Literature Compass 9:2 (2012): 151-165.
- “Dean Mahomet’s Travels, Border Crossings and the Narrative of Alterity.” Studies in English Literature (SEL) 49:3 (2009): 693-716.
- “Colonial Desires: The Fantasy of Empire and Elizabeth Hamilton’s Translations of the Letters of a Hindoo Rajah.” Studies in Romanticism (SIR) 45:4 (2006): 585-98.
- The Be-Everything! Brothers: A Novella. Alternating Current Press. Winner of the Electric Book Award.
- "Four Corners," Blackbird, Issue 20.2 (2021)
- "A Shambles," Michigan Quarterly Review, (2020)
- These Are Our Demands (short fiction collection).
- “A Damn Sight,” Conjunctions 62: Exile: 281-295 (2014)
- Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Rhetoric as a Vehicle of Social Order in the Garuda Purana. Alternative Sources for Rhetorical Traditions. Edited by Hui Wu, & Tarez Samra Graban. Southern Illinois University Press. (accepted)
- Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Service Learning as a Vehicle of Genuine Learning, Reciprocity, and Critical Thinking: An International Intern’s Critical Reflection.” Community Literacy Journal. (provisionally accepted pending revisions)
- Tinoco, Lizbett, Louis A. Herman, Shuv Raj Rana Bhat and Alison Wells Zepeda. “International Writing Tutors Leveraging Linguistic Differences at a Hispanic-Serving Institution’s Writing Center.” The Peer Review, 4(2), 2020.
- Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Orientalist Representation of Nepali People, Culture and Landscape: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Kincaid’s Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya.” SCHOLARS: Journal of Arts & Humanities, 1, 2019. p. 24-40.
- Rana Bhat, Shuv Raj. “Exploring Nontraditional Rhetoric: Voicing the Voiceless through Nativization of Traditional Rhetoric.” Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies, 4(2), 2017. p. 617-638.
- Robbins, Sarah Ruffing. “Elaine Goodale Eastman’s Yellow Star as Counter-Narrative for American Indian History-Telling.” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 23.1 (2024): 26-48.
- Robbins, Sarah Ruffing. “Teaching Charles Alexander Eastman’s ‘The North American Indian’ in Dialogue with Elaine Goodale Eastman’s Yellow Star.” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 23.1 (2024): 107-114.
- Robbins, Sarah Ruffing. “Locating Phillis Wheatley through Transatlantic, Intertextual Teaching.” Symbiosis: A Journal of Transatlantic Literary & Cultural Relations 26.1 (Spring 2022): 1-24.
- Robbins, Sarah Ruffing. “Pandemic Pedagogy: Lessons from Nineteenth-Century. Sentimentalism—Historicizing Empathy, Embracing Feeling, and Personalizing Disease in the Covid Era.” ESQ 67.1 (2021): 723-48.
- Robbins, Sarah Ruffing. “Tom F. Wright’s Transatlantic Rhetoric as an American Studies Teaching Resource.” Journal of American Studies 55.4 (October 2021): 984-89.
Curt Rode
Senior Instructor and Associate Director of the Center for Digital Expression
View Recent Publications
- “The Elusive Particular” and “Tub” (poems) The Prose-Poem Project 1.2 (Fall 2010)
- “A Kiss as a Key” (poem). The Mayo Review (2009)
- “Not Like This. Not Alone” (poem). The Los Angeles Review (Winter 2009)
- Ireland and the New Journalism, co-edited with Michael de Nie (Palgrave, 2014)
- Women, Press, and Politics during the Irish Revival (Syracuse, 2007)
- Maud Gonne’s Irish Nationalist Writings (Irish Academic Press, 2004)
- “Melodrama, Purimspiel, and Jewish Emancipation.” Victorian Literature and Culture 47.2 (2019): 1-41. (2020 Nineteenth Century Studies Association Best Article Prize)
- “Victorian London’s Black Playwrights.” Nineteenth Century Contexts1 (2024): 89-97.
- “The Littleness of Little Dorrit.” Review of English Studies (RES) 74.316 (October 2023), 697–713.
- Victorians on Broadway: Literature, Adaptation, and the Modern American Musical. University of Virginia Press, 2020 (SCMLA Book Award, 2021; a Top 40 Academic Best Seller in music and art by Library Journal in March 2021; named a “Must Read” summer theater book by Playbill in July 2020)
- Performing the Victorian: John Ruskin and Identity in Theater, Science, and Education. Ohio State University Press, 2007
- “Archie got hot: How embracing the queer art of failure allows The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina to open up new ways of representing queerness.” Riverdale: A Land of Contrasts, University of Fraser Valley, forthcoming.
- “An Uber Ride with Dolly Parton,” Limp Wrist Magazine, forthcoming, Fall 2021(online)
- “The Green,” Hobart, August 2020 (online)
- “To the Person I Was Then, Living in Someone Else’s House,“ Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight, 2019 (online)
- “After the Angel of Ginsberg’s Whitman,” and “Sticks,” Stay Thirsty Poets, vol. 1, 2019
- 2021 “Boats of Transmotion and Indigenous Presence in Gerald Vizenor’s Treaty Shirts and Chien-hsiang Lin’s Kawut na Cinat’kelang” (Assembling the Big Boat) (R&R)
- 2005 “你可能會笑出來：傑若維茲諾《廣島舞伎》中的全喜劇論述” [That the People Might Laugh: Comic Holotropes in Gerald Vizenor’s Hiroshima Bugi] 中外文學 [Chung-wai Literary Review] 33.8 (2005): 155-75.