Faculty Publications

• “Reconstructing Identity at the End of the World in Gianni Miraglia's Muori, Milano, muori! and Francesca Genti's La febbre” in Composite Identities: Percorsi tra cinema, teatro, letteratura, musica, scienze sociali e politiche, Edizioni Universitarie LED, 2023, pp. 95-105.
• "Homo Oeconomicus and the Limits of Storytelling: Italian Apocalyptic Fiction of the Long Downturn." Italian Culture. Vol. 39, 2021, pp. 1-22.
• "The Ethics of Story-telling: Strategies of Voice in Leonardo Sciascia’s Il consiglio d’Egitto."Italica, Vol. 96, Number 1, Spring 2019, pp. 52-70.
• "Between the Stage and the Street: Art and Artifice in Giordano Bruno’s Candelaio."Explorations in Renaissance Culture, Vol. 45, Number 2, Fall 2019, pp. 165-186.
• "Bodies in Space: Emplacement in Alice Rohrwacher’s Corpo celeste."The Italianist, Vol. 37, Issue 2, 2017, pp. 228-242.

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•  “Feminist Philosophy in Central America: Global Reflections and Contributions of Gioconda Belli and Rigoberta Menchú”. Co-written with Andrew Ryder. Istmo. Revista virtual de estudios literarios y culturales centroamericanos 50.1, 2026.
• “Bullets and Tattoos: War Artifacts and Prosthetics in the US Central American Literature of Salomón de la Selva and Héctor Tobar.” Co-written with Andrew Ryder. Latinx Literature in Transition. Edited by Marissa López and John Alba Cutler. Cambridge University Press (2025)
• “Ecology, Blackness and Poetry: National Epics of the Nicaraguan Revolution.” Co-written with Andrew Ryder. National Epics. Edited by David Wallace. Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming). 
• "Epistemes del cauce: para pensar y sentir con los ríos, sumersión en la poesía fluvial de dos mujeres indígenas latinoamericanas.” Co-written with María Ximena Postigo. Brill-Foro Hispánico. Special Issue: Ecopoesía, ecopoéticas y nuevas políticas ecológicas en el poema. Edited by Azucena Castro, Santiago Acosta and Nuno Marques. (Forthcoming 2026).
• “Creole Poetics of the Ocean: Carlos Rigby, Ecological Thought and Caribbean Diasporic Consciousness.” Central American Literature as World Literature. Literature as World Literature Series. Edited by Sophie Esch. Bloomsbury (2023).

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• Chen, G. & Springer, K. (2020). Teachers’ bicultural awareness in Chinese language education. In C. Shei, M. E. M. Zikpi, and D. Chao (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of Chinese language teaching (pp. 627-640). Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
• Chen, G. (2020). Performed culture in Chinese language education: A culture-based approach for U.S. collegiate context. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
• Chen, G. & Zhang, J. (2019). Challenges of employing VoiceThread to enhance U.S. collegiate Chinese language learners’ oral proficiency. Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology, 2(1), 1-16.
• Chen, G. (2018). Integrating culture into beginner-level Chinese language teaching. Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, 2(2), 94-103.
• Chen, G. (2017). Investigating the degree of humorous enjoyment in reading Chinese language errors. Chinese as a Second Language Research, 6(2), 203-224.

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• “Germany’s Ghosts: Female Embodiment and Emergent Anger in Petzold’s Barbara (2011) and Phoenix (2014).” Mut zur Wut. Nasty Women and Feminist Anger in the German Speaking World. Eds. Julia K. Gruber and Regina Range. Rochester, NY: Camden House, forthcoming.
• “Waiting to be Human: The Cruel Optimism of Christian Petzold’s Transit (2018).” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. 59.2 (forthcoming).
• “Queer Moments and Cruel Optimism in Evelyn Schmidt’s Das Fahrrad (The Bicycle, 1982).” Feminist German Studies. 37.2 (2021): 27-52.
• “Toward a Theory of the Tender Gaze: Affect, Critical Insight, and Empathy in Contemporary German Cinema.” The Tender Gaze: Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2021. 17-39.
• “Introduction.” The Tender Gaze: Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2021. 1-16. (with Jennifer Marston William).

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• “Entre las dos Coreas: la formulación de la identidad (trans)nacional de la comunidad “coreana” de Cuba en Jerónimo (2019).” Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. Volume 11, Issue 2, 2024.
• “Gestación y encarnación del horror: el cuerpo femenino como instrumento monstruoso en el cine de Balagueró.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. Vol 22, 2018. 227-242.
• “Monstruos (Re)productions: Mothering Patriarchy on the Spanish Horror Screen.” in Tracing the Borders of Spanish Horror Cinema and Television. Jorge Mari, Ed. New York: Routledge, 2017. 53-66.
• “Entrevista a Daniel Quirós: la novela negra hispana en el siglo XX o el espacio rural centroamericano frente a los retos de la globalización.” with Agustín Cuadrado. Letras Hispanas. 13, 2017.
• “El capricho de la razón: Goya en Burdeos de Carlos Saura.” Crítica Hispánica. Vol. XXXVIII. No. 1, 2016. 95-111.

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• “Le droit à l’éducation: comment l’école de la République l’offre à ses élèves issus de l’immigration” In  Heurs et malheurs du système éducatif en France. Edited by Marie-Christine Weidmann Koop. The French Review Book Series, A publication of the American Association of Teachers of French, 2018.
• “Reaching Out To A Refugee Community Through Service-Learning in Third-Year Composition and Introduction to Reading.” in Étudiants Sans Frontières: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in French. Jacqueline Thomas. A publication of the American Association of Teachers of French. 2012.
• “Opening Doors with French in Elementary School Programs for Special Needs Children and Bilingual Education” in Étudiants Sans Frontières: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in French. Jacqueline Thomas. A Publication of the American Association of Teachers of French. 2012.
• Using New Media and Web 2.0 Tools To Elicit Creativity and Writing Proficiency, and showcase Our Students’ Work. American Association of Teachers of French National Bulletin, (Fall 2012).
• Refugee Children in Fort Worth.  Profiles of Service : Community Involvement & Service-Learning.  Issue # 4. (7). Fall 2011-Spring 2012.

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• “Gauging Trustworthiness in the Intercalated Novels of the 1605 Quijote” Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. 45.2 (2025): 101-122.
• “Juan Lorenzo Palmireno and the Practical Application of Humanistic Study.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 101.2 (2024): 105-116.
• “Theory of Mind in Early Modern Spanish Manuals of Courtly Conduct.” Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature. Ed. Isabel Jaén and Julien Simon. Oxford University Press, 2016. 164-180.
• “The Hand as Metaphor in Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 93.2 (2016): 99-112.
• “Tracing Transoceanic Intertextualities in More’s Utopia (1516), González de Mendoza’s Historia de China ((1585), and Fernández de Lizardi’s El Periquillo Sarniento (1816).”  eHumanista 27 (2014): 300-314.

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• “Racial Identity in the 1930s Urban Landscape in the Novels of Jorge Amado, José Lins do Rego and Lúcio Cardoso.” African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue, edited by Y. Agawu-Kakraba and K. Aggor, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, pp. 59 – 77.
• “Federico Gauffin’s En tierras de Magu Pela (1932): A Modernist Bildungsroman, an Intertextual Dialogue with Guiraldes and Arlt, and a Reaction to the Nationalist Project.” Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, vol. 95, no. 10, 2018, pp. 1123–1138.
• “Work, Art, and Bourgeois Myths in Roberto Arlt’s Aguafuertes porteñas.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies: Hispanic Studies and Researches on Spain, Portugal, and Latin America 86 (2009): 809-27.
• “Roberto Arlt’s Alter-travelogue against the Backdrop of Rio de Janeiro.” A Contracorriente: A Journal on Social History and Literature in Latin America 6.2 (2009): 122-43.
• “Writing, Public Opinion, and National Identity in the Crônicas of Olavo Bilac,” Hispanófila 153 (2008): 79-95.

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• “Total Mobilizations, Stasis and Resistance in Alonso Ruizpalacios’s Güeros”. Special Number, Cinema and Infrapolitics. Periphērica. 3.2 (2025): 246-279.
• "Pornographic Economies: Metaphoricity in Alan Pauls's Historia del dinero." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 58.3 (2024): 907-929.
• "Technological Landscapes: Anthropocene and Technics in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama." Ciberletras. 50, January (2024): 95-112.
• "Broken Topographies: Criminal Enframing and the Migration Genre in Diego Quemada-Díez’s La jaula de oro." Chasqui: Revista de Literatura Latinoamerciana. 52.1 (2023): 143-165.

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• Teixeira, Esther. “Ifigenia (1924) de Teresa de La Parra y La última niebla (1933) de María Luisa Bombal­: entre el legado femenino, la infertilidad libertadora y el movimiento digital contemporáneo #tradwife.” Hispanófila, forthcoming.
• Teixeira, Esther. "Prostitución, colonización crítica y revolución teórica: La reflexión de Gabriela Leite y demás trabajadoras sexuales organizadas y el canon." A Contracorriente, vol. 22, no. 3, Spring 2025, pp. 112–141. Full text available at Academia.edu
• Laura Murray, Esther Teixeira, and Meg Weeks. Introduction. Daughter, Mother, Grandmother and Whore: The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a Puta, translated by Meg Weeks, Duke University Press, Durham and London, in press, September 2024. Full introduction available at Academia.edu
• Ciriza, María del Puy and Teixeira, Esther. “On Interdisciplinary Presentism in Hispanic Studies: Notes on Service Learning with the Latino Community” Hispania, 104.1 (2021): 27-30. Full text available at Academia.edu
• Teixeira, Esther."A narrativa de prostitutas por um viés literário: contraste entre as obras de Bruna Surfistinha e Gabriela Leite". In Climent-Espino, Rafael and Michel Mingote, Eds. Perspectivas críticas da literatura brasileira no século XXI: prosas e outras escrituras. São Paulo: EDUC [Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo], 2021. pp. 81-98. Full text available at Academia.edu 

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• “Interview with Mack Goldsbury.” Cadence: The Independent Journal of Creative Improvised Music. Vol. 38, No. 1AE (2012). 180-200. Print.
• Glenn, Jerry and Jeffrey Todd. Paul Celan: Die zweite Bibliographie. Monograph published online in December 1998 at the Paul Celan Home Page, maintained at University of Wisconsin, Madison at http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/german/celan until 2007, then at http://asweb.artsci.uc.edu/german/celan/celanbibliography.htm until February 2014. Currently unavailable online.
• “Die Stimme, die nie verklingt. Ernst Robert Curtius’ abgebrochenes und fortwährendes Verhältnis zum George-Kreis.” Wissenschaftler im George-Kreis. Bernhard Böschenstein et al., eds. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2005. 195-208. Print.
• “Stefan George and Two Types of Aestheticism.” A Companion to the Works of Stefan George. Jens Rieckmann, ed. Rochester: Camden House, 2005. 127-143. Print.
• “‘Poetry is Praise.’ Beobachtungen zu Stefan Georges Dichtung.” Castrum Peregrini 52, 258-59 (2003). 45-66. Print.

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• “Eating Faulkner Eating Baudelaire: Multiple Rewritings and Cultural Cannibalism,” The Faulkner Journal (25.1) 65-84.
• Rewriting Rome in post-1945 German-language Literature: Examining Image, Norm, Habitus, Tertium comparationis,” ACROSS Languages and Literature (6:1) 79-93.
• “The Deukalion and Pyrrha Myth in Paul Celan and Christoph Ransmayr,” German Life and Letters April (56:2) 142-155.

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• Chen, G. & Zhang, J. (2019). “Challenges of employing VoiceThread to enhance U.S. collegiate Chinese language learners’ oral proficiency.” Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology, 2(1), 1-16.

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