Faculty Bookshelf

Check out recent scholarship by the faculty of the Department of English at California State University, Bakersfield!

Monica Ayuso

"Toward a Broader Definition of the Unrealistic: Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God and Ernesto Quinonez's Tania." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 34, No. 3. (2023).
“The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat.” English Studies 103 (2022): 642 - 644.
"How Lucky for You That Your Tongue Can Taste the 'R' in 'Parsley'": Trauma Theory and the Literature of Hispaniola.” Afro-Hispanic Review 30 (2011): 47.
“A stereoscopic reading of Rosario Ferré’s “El cuento envenenado” and “The Poisoned Story”.” Translation and Interpreting Studies (2019).
“Toward Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Three Novels from Haiti.” Journal of Haitian Studies 22 (2016): 104 - 83.
“Virginia Woolf in Mexico and Puerto Rico.” Woolf Studies Annual 14 (2008): 1.

Emerson Case

"Reading, discussing, and sharing: Creation of a vibrant transnational online learning community through the International Book Club.” With Angieszka Kaczmarek and Sebastian Zatylny. Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, vol. 10, no. 1, 13 Mar. 2024, pp. 1–25.
"Risk in the Teaching and Learning of Speaking in Poland in the Early Covid-19 Pandemic Period." With Sebastian Zatylny. In Risk in Global Communication (Agnieszka Irena Kaczmarek, ed.), Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2022. pps. 33-50.
“Connecting Intensive English Program Students to Campus and Community through a Common Reader Program.” Proceedings of MAC 2018 in Prague. Prague, Czech Republic: MAC
Prague Consulting s.r.o., May 2018.
“Collaborating with Local High Schools: Your Senior Will Be My First Year Student.” In Lacy, Meagan (Ed.), The Slow Book Revolution: Creating a New Culture of Reading on College Campuses and Beyond. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2014.
“With a Village: Community One Book Partnership Ameliorates College Preparation Deficit.” With Sarah Philips. Imagine, Innovate, Inspire: The Proceedings of the ACRL 2013 Conference. Association of College & Research Libraries, March 29, 2013.
“Contextualizing Information Literacy Enrichment Through a Common Reader in a First-Year Experience Seminar.” With Sarah Philips. College & Undergraduate Libraries, Volume 20, Number 1, March 2013.
“Serving Generation 1.5: Academic Library Use and Students from Non-English Speaking Households.” With Curt Asher and Ying Zhong. College & Research Libraries, Volume 70, Number 3, May 2009.
“A Generation in Transition: A Study of the Usage and Attitudes Toward Public Libraries by Generation 1.5 Composition Students.” With Curt Asher. Reference & User Services Quarterly. Volume 47. Number 3, Spring 2008.
Making the Transition from an Intensive English Program to Mainstream University Classes: An Ethnographic Study. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. 2004.

Carol Dell'Amico

“Gender and Sexuality.” John Banville in Context. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025.
“Radical Vulnerability in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends.” New Hibernia Review 27 (3), 2023.
“Per Petterson’s Out Stealing Horses: On World Literature and the Logic of the Beneficiary.” CEA Critic 83 (1), 2021.
“Jean Rhys’s ‘Temps Perdi’: Space, Disability, and the Second World War.” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 16 (2), 2020.
Irish Migration Studies in Latin America. Guest Editor, 9 (3), 2020.
“John Banville and Benjamin Black: The Mundo, Crime, Women.” Éire Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies 49 (1-2), 2014.
“Anne Enright’s The Gathering: Trauma, Testimony, Memory.” New Hibernia Review 14 (3), 2010. *Reprinted, Gale Cengage, 2017.
Introduction. Bliss and other Stories by Katherine Mansfield. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006.
Colonialism and the Modernist Moment in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys. Routledge, 2005. *Reissued in paperback, Routledge, 2010, *solicited for the broader overseas market by Lambert Academic as Postcolonial Rhys: The Modernist Period, 2011.
Foreword. Nonfiction Classics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context and Criticism on Nonfiction Works. Vols. 1-2 (2001), vols. 3-4 (2002), vol. 5 (2003). Detroit, Mich: Thomson Gale, 2001-2003.
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf in Novels for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Novels. Ed. Elizabeth Thomason. Vol. 12. Detroit, Mich: Thomson Gale, 2001, pp. 148-167.
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf in Nonfiction Classics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context and Criticism on Commonly Studied Nonfiction Works. Vol. 2. Ed. Anne M. Hacht. Detroit, Mich: Thomson Gale, 2001, pp. 316-339.

Kim Flachmann

The Prose Reader: Essays for Thinking, Reading, and Writing, with Michael Flachmann (Prentice Hall/Pearson, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2020).
Mosaics: Reading and Writing Paragraphs (Pearson, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2020).
Mosaics: Reading and Writing Essays (Pearson, 2011, 2014, 2017).
Nexus: A Rhetorical Reader for Writers, with Michael Flachmann (Pearson, 2012, 2014).
“Pedagogies of Inclusive Excellence (PIE),” Strategies for Equity, CSUB (May 2024).
“Improving Equity through Writing Assignments: A Path to Student Success," Student Success Network (Mar 2023).
“Sealing our 50-Year Time Capsule,” CSUB (Nov 29, 2022).
“Adaptations and Successes: Insights from Teaching During the Pandemic,” Digital Learning Webinar, Pearson Publishing (Dec 7, 2021).
“Reading, Writing, Ready!” with Zulmara Cline and Chris Street, Leadership (May/June 2008).

Steve Frye

"'An Unknown Tongue': God, Complexity, and the Limits of Secular Epistemology in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies (Forthcmong Winter 2025).
Unguessed Kinships: Literary Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2023.
"Cormac McCarthy," Oxford Online Biblography. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022.
"McCarthy and the Nineteenth-Century: Melville, Dostoevsky, and the American Romance Tradition." Approaches to Teaching Cormac McCarthy. (Peebles, S. and West, B., eds). Modern Language Association. (2021).
Cormac McCarthy in Context. Cambridge University Press. (Editor and Contributor). 2020.
"Naturalism, Aesthetics, and the New Hollywood Cinema." Studies in American Naturalism. (Summer 2020).
"Naturalistm and the LIterature of the American West." Studies in American Naturalism. (Summer 2020).
Understanding Larry McMurtry. University of South Carolina Press. Understanding Contemporary American Literature Series. 2017.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West. Cambridge University Press. (Editor and Contributor). 2016.
The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy. Cambridge University Press. (Editor and Contributor). 2013.
"Melville and Metaphysics." Critical Insights: Herman Melville, EBSCO Publishing and Salem Press. (2013).
Crosscurrents: Reading in the Disciplines. With Eric Link. Pearson Education, 2012.
"Naturalism and Religion."The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism. Oxford University Press (2011).
Understanding Cormac McCarthy. University of South Carolina Press. Understanding Contemporary American Literature Series. 2009.
"Presley's Pretense: Irony and Epic Convention in The Octopus." American Literary Realism. (Spring 2007).

Charles MacQuarrie

“Work-in-Progress–—Language, Culture, and Heritage: The VR Experience The Book of Distance and Teaching the Family Folklore Project.” With R. Tatro-Duarte. 7th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN), 2021
The Medieval Cultures of the Irish Sea and the North Sea: Manannán. and his Neighbors. Charles MacQuarrie, Joseph Nagy (eds). Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2019.
“The Isle of Man in Medieval Gaelic literature,” Vol 3 of the New History of the Isle of Man. (University of Liverpool). Aug 2015.
The Waves of Manannan. Isle of Man: Lily Publications, 2013.
“Celticity in the works of William Shakespeare: ‘Heavens defend me from that Welsh fairy, lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!' Celts and Their Cultures at Home and Abroad: A Festschrift for Nalcolm Broun, pp. 149–167. (2013)
Handbook for Doing Grammar, fourth edition. Oxford UP, 2010.
“Recognizing gods in guises. Identity, performance, and performative reading in O’Donnell’s kern.” CSANA Yearbook 2010. Colgate University Press.
"Yoknapatawpha County and 'Cracker Culture: A Study of the 'Celtic' Component in Faulkner's Mythical South," published in English and Japanese by the Faulkner Journal of Japan (University of Tokyo). June 2005.
The Biography of the Irish God of the Sea. Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales: Edwin Mellen, 2004.
From Manannán to Bercilak: The Green Knight and the Gaelic Otherworld God in Disguise.” The Journal of Manx Studies/ Studeyrys Manninagh.1.3. (2003).
“Insular Celtic Tattooing: History, Myth, and Metaphor” in Written On the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History,” edited by Jane Caplan. Reaktion Books, 2000. 32-45. Hardback and paperback Published by Princeton University Press, 2000.

Adam Schuster

“Synthesizing Sounds: Vibration, Poetry, and Belonging in Sun Ra’s Space Age.” JMMLA: Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (forthcoming).
“‘Boundaries Bind Unbinding’: Jazz and Cold War Cosmopolitanism in the Margins of Langston Hughes’s Ask Your Mama.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 46, no. 1, March 2021.
“Comics and Stuff: Why Popular Culture Matters,” Moderator: A Conversation with Henry Jenkins III and Ramzi Fawaz, University of Wisconsin-Madison (October 2021).
“Improper Archives: Big Bill Broonzy and the Revised Musical Record.” The Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (June 2019).

Dan Stockwell

“The impact of analyzing young adult literature for racial identity / social justice orientation with interdisciplinary students.” With R. S. Savitz and L. Roberts. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 52(4), 264–289, 2022.
“Student voice is power: Incorporating critical witness and testimony in middle school classrooms.” With R. S. Savitz. In J. Dehart., C. Meyer., & K. Walker (Eds.), Connecting theory and practice in middle school literacy: Critical conversations (pp. 25–41). Routledge.
Teaching for CHANGE in Secondary ELA Classrooms. Session presentation at California Association of Teachers of English Annual Conference in Los Angeles, CA, March 1, 2024.
Social justice pedagogies in social studies and English language arts instruction. With E. McDonald. Paper presentation at Journal of Language and Literacy Education (JoLLE) Winter Conference in Athens, GA, February 6, 2021.
Video essays and digital literacies. Session presentation at the Building Bridges Annual Conference in Bakersfield, CA, April 12, 2024.
Learning from moments of wobble: Pushing through tensions to provide critical literacy instruction. Paper Presentation at Literacy Research Association Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA, November 29, 2023.

Matthew Woodman

"Park Fire Minor Arcana.” (Winner of 2024 Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize). Puerto del Sol, vol. 60, no. 1, Spring 2025. Forthcoming.
Writing Covid. Contributing Editor. 2022.
“Rufino Tamayo’s Prometheus Bringing Fire to Mankind.” UNESCO Art Collection: Selected Works, 2021, pp. 52-54.
This Is Not Your Moon. Holding for Dissolve Press, 2020.
“Decolonization.” Storm Cellar, vol. 7, no. 2, 2019.
“Reason to Believe” and “Geography Lessons.” Shut Down Strangers and Hot Rod Angels: An Anthology Inspired by the Music of Bruce Springsteen, edited by Jessie Lynn McMains, Bone & Ink Press, 2019, pp. 82, 153.
“Spectral Bird” and “Woman with Bird Cage.” Sugar House Review, vol. 19, 2019, p. 53.
“Ode to a Roadrunner.” Weaving the Terrain: 100-Word Southwestern Poems, edited by David Meischen and Scott Wiggerman. Dos Gatos Press, 2018, p. 10.