CSB/SJU English Faculty Publications

 

"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.

  

 

 

"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).

 

Africa and the Americas

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

 

 

How to Get Greener Books
     by Cynthia N. Malone

Professors can help the publishing business be more environmentally aware...
April 2008. See full article published in: The Chronicle of Higher Education

 

 

A Companion to Walt Whitman

Edited by Donald Kummings
with a chapter by Luke Mancuso

 

 

  

Featuring Chapter 18
Civil War: Luke Mancuso

Description:
Comprising more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America's greatest poets.

Timed to contribute to the year-long celebration of the 150th anniversary of the original publication of Whitman's masterpiece, Leaves of Grass (First Edition, 1855). Makes the best and most up-to-date thinking on Whitman available to students. Designed to make readers more aware of the social and cultural contexts of Whitman's work, and of the experimental nature of his writing. Includes contributions devoted to specific poetry and prose works, a compact biography of the poet, and a bibliography.

March 2006
This description was taken from Blackwell Publishing.

To see the Table of Contents, click here.