CSB/SJU Recent English Faculty Publications

  

2010

"Brokeback Mountain and the History of the Future of the Normal"
By Luke Mancuso

Citation: 
Mancuso, Luke.  "Brokeback Mountain and the History of the Future of the Normal."  Coming Out to the Mainstream:  Queer Cinema in the 21st Century.  Ed. JoAnne Juett and David Jones. 
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.

For the link, click here.

2009

 

"The New James Bond and Globalization Theory, Inside and Out"
By Steven Thomas

Description:  Popular cinema reflects a paradigm shift from an internationalist perspective to a globalist perspective.  Steven W. Thomas' article uses the history of the Bond film as a teaching tool for thinking about this paradigm shift and for illustrating the recent theoretical and philosophical conversations about the nature of globalization.

The full article can be found in issue 78 (2009) of the film journal CineAction.
Citation:  "The New James Bond and Globalization Theory, Inside and Out," CineAction 78 (2009).

Listen to "Tongues of Fire"  
     by Ozzie Mayers

To read text, click here.

Headwaters: a CSB/SJU faculty Journal
     (Fall, 2009, No. 26, 2009, pg. 56-61): "Tongues of Fire."  
Citation:  "Tongues of Fire," Headwaters 26 (2009).

Going Blind: A Memoir
by Mara Faulkner
A Memoir and meditation on blindness.

For more information on Going Blind, including a copy of the first chapter, visit the book's home page at SUNY Press.
July 2009
Suny Press Page

"Stillbirth: A Psalm for Holy Week."
    
by Mara Faulkner

Faulkner, Mara. "Stillbirth: A Psalm for Holy Week." Ed. Jim
     Perlman. Blessed on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and 
     Gratitude
. Ed. Deborah Cooper, Mara Hart, and Pamela
     Mittelfehldt. Holy Cow!, 2009. Print.

 The Bracelet
Author: Betsy Johnson-Miller                                                                 

Description: The adventure begins when fourteen-year-old Litney Way finds an unusual bracelet at a garage sale. To her shock and surprise, inside the bracelet's box is a note . . . from her own mother! The bracelet leads Litney on an adventure she never could have imagined. Who would have thought a fourteen-year-old could fight evil and save her world? Who would have thought a bracelet would be the key to everything?

May 2009
Description taken from: North Star Press

 Making "Young Hamlet"
     by Matthew Harkins

"Rather than portray an archetypal contest between the young and the old or portray Hamlet's developmental progression from youth to maturity, the play examines the production and application of these categories as political phenomena..." 

See full article in the current issue of Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Spring 2009, vol. 49, no. 2.  PDF version also available.
Citation:  "Making 'Young Hamlet'," Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 49 (2009).

"Mercantilism." Africa and the Americas: Culture,
Politics, and History: A Multidisciplinary

2008

 Encyclopedia, vol. 2. Ed. Richard Juang and
Noelle Morrissette. Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2008. 746-8

The new encyclopedia Africa and the Americas includes an article
on "Mercantilism" by faculty member Steven Thomas.