Faculty Publications

LILI WRIGHT

An engaging memoir from the road updates the tradition of the picaresquetraveler's tale. With unflinching honesty and refreshing wit, she captures the torn emotions, comic misfires, and inevitable trade-offs felt by young people everywhere Jacket Design by Margaret M. Schwabe Jacket Photograph by Peter Code Image bank Map Courtesy of Phillip's Maps, Lond. Scwabe

An engaging memoir from the road updates the tradition of the picaresquetraveler's tale. With unflinching honesty and refreshing wit, she captures the torn emotions, comic misfires, and inevitable trade-offs felt by young people everywhere

Jacket Design by Margaret M. Schwabe
Jacket Photograph by Peter Code
Image bank Map Courtesy of Phillip's Maps, Lond. Scwabe

BARBARA BEAN

These Gorgeous, sensuous stories explore the dark corners of the heart, where secrets and yearning reside. Characters long for one another, they find ways to reach out, sometimes they transgress. Always the results are surprising. Reading Dream House is like slipping with shocked joy into a dream, a place where every aspect of human life is charged with mystery and desire." -- Erin McGraw, author of Lies of theSaints

Jacket design by Laurie Dolphin
Published by University Press of Colorado (March 2001)

These Gorgeous, sensuous stories explore the dark corners of the heart, where secrets and yearning reside. Characters long for one another, they find ways to reach out, sometimes they transgress. Always the results are surprising. Reading Dream House is like slipping with shocked joy into a dream, a place where every aspect of human life is charged with mystery and desire." -- Erin McGraw, author of Lies of theSaints Jacket design by Laurie Dolphin Published by University Press of Colorado (March 2001)

TOM CHIARELLA

His first short story collectionFoley's Luck garneredcritical praise and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire and Story. A winner of a prestigiousNational Endowment for the Arts award. Published by Knopf (October 1992)

Characters need to speak to each other. Tom Chiarella shows you how. Whether it's an argument, a love scene, a powwow among sixth graders or scientists in a lab, this book demonstrates how to write dialogue that sounds authentic and original.
You'll learn ways to find ideas for literary discussions by tuning in to what you hear every day. You'll Learn to use gestures instead of speech, to insert silences that are as effective as outbursts, to add shifts in tone, and other strategies for making conversations more compelling. Nuts and bolts are covered, too--formatting, punctuation, dialogue tags--everything you need to get your characters talking.

Published by Story Press Books (1998)

Tom Chiarella is the serious amateur, the humbled hacker, and the appreciative fan all rolled into one. Golferseverywhere will identify withhis tales of low-grade frustration centered on a dimpled ball and a fairway filled with traps. But these affectionate, tee-in-cheek reminiscences and respectful rantings are balanced by memories of those sublime--and all to seldom--moments when the shot rises like a rocket, straight and true, carrying over a long stretch of treacherous real estate to settle at last onto the cool comfort of the green.

Published by Emmis Books (2004)
Dust jacket designed by Stephen Sulliva

His first short story collectionFoley's Luck garneredcritical praise and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire and Story. A winner of a prestigiousNational Endowment for the Arts award. Published by Knopf (October 1992) Characters need to speak to each other. Tom Chiarella shows you how. Whether it's an argument, a love scene, a powwow among sixth graders or scientists in a lab, this book demonstrates how to write dialogue that sounds authentic and original. You'll learn ways to find ideas for literary discussions by tuning in to what you hear every day. You'll Learn to use gestures instead of speech, to insert silences that are as effective as outbursts, to add shifts in tone, and other strategies for making conversations more compelling. Nuts and bolts are covered, too--formatting, punctuation, dialogue tags--everything you need to get your characters talking. Published by Story Press Books (1998) Tom Chiarella is the serious amateur, the humbled hacker, and the appreciative fan all rolled into one. Golferseverywhere will identify withhis tales of low-grade frustration centered on a dimpled ball and a fairway filled with traps. But these affectionate, tee-in-cheek reminiscences and respectful rantings are balanced by memories of those sublime--and all to seldom--moments when the shot rises like a rocket, straight and true, carrying over a long stretch of treacherous real estate to settle at last onto the cool comfort of the green. Published by Emmis Books (2004) Dust jacket designed by Stephen Sulliva

EUGENE GLORIA

His collection of poems, Drivers at the Short-Time Motel, was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa for the 1999 National Poetry Series and was published by Penguin Books. Published by Penguin Books (June 2000) Cover painting by Richard Diebenkorn Eugene Gloria's Drivers at the Short-Time Motel is propelled by an imagistic sincerity and paced lyricism. Each poem seems to embody the plain-spoken as well as the embellishments that we associate with classical and modern Asian poetry. Though many of the poems address the lingering hurt of cultural and economic imperialism, worlds coexist in the same skin through magical imagery. Gauged by a keen eye, history is scrutinized, but through a playful exactness. These wonderful poems are trustworthy." --Yusef Komunyaaka --Published by Penguin Books (March, 2006) Cover painting by El Greco "Gloria gets better and better. His new work practices a profound care for the particulars of an individual life and the world at large, integrating the values of philosophical inquiry, reverie, and imagination. Poem after poem enacts a yearning for a wider and deeper sense of human belonging, using language that has all the luminosity and intensity of a spiritual pilgrimage, and the melancholy of racial, cultural, and spiritual alienation. These elegant, intelligent, and passionate poems hurt and reward us." --Li-Young Lee

His collection of poems, Drivers at the Short-Time Motel, was selected by Drivers at the Short Time Motel Yusef Komunyakaa for the 1999 National Poetry Series and was published by Penguin Books.

Published by Penguin Books (June 2000)
Cover painting by Richard Diebenkorn

Eugene Gloria's Drivers at the Short-Time Motel is propelled by an imagistic sincerity and paced lyricism. Each poem seems to embody the plain-spoken as well as the embellishments that we associate with classical and modern Asian poetry. Though many of the poems address the lingering hurt of cultural and economic imperialism, worlds coexist in the same skin through magical imagery. Gauged by a keen eye, history is scrutinized, but through a playful exactness. These wonderful poems are trustworthy." --Yusef Komunyaaka

Hoodlum Birds --Published by Penguin Books (March, 2006)
Cover painting by El Greco

"Gloria gets better and better. His new work practices a profound care for the particulars of an individual life and the world at large, integrating the values of philosophical inquiry, reverie, and imagination. Poem after poem enacts a yearning for a wider and deeper sense of human belonging, using language that has all the luminosity and intensity of a spiritual pilgrimage, and the melancholy of racial, cultural, and spiritual alienation. These elegant, intelligent, and passionate poems hurt and reward us." --Li-Young Lee

WAYNE GLAUSSER

Locke and Blake:
A Conversation across
the Eighteenth Century

Locke and Blake is a composite critical biography of two giants of 18th-century culture. Organized by topics of cultural significance for the period, it weaves together two lives, focusing on critical topics as opposed to biographical details, in order to illuminate ideas of Locke and Blake and the cultural contexts and transformations of the "period" they shared. Glausser begins each chapter by sketching a biographical connection between the two men, which in turn leads to a broader discussion of textual as well as cultural significance. From their shared experience of having had paintings stolen by a friend, for instance, Glausser details the two men's angry responses and then explores the larger social issue of private property at each end of the 18th century. Other points of correspondence include mothers and lovers, charges of sedition, medicine and the body, slavery, and printing. Glausser's new approach to the lives and ideas of Locke and Blake offers a more balanced treatment of their relationship than has been available in the past. Through this juxtaposition and re-thinking of the two traditional "antagonists" of the period, he moves beyond adversarial caricatures of temperament, faculty, ideology, and intention and illuminates both the century and the two intellectual giants who stood at either end of it.

Published by University Press of Florida
(February 1998)

Locke and Blake: A Conversation across the Eighteenth Century Locke and Blake is a composite critical biography of two giants of 18th-century culture. Organized by topics of cultural significance for the period, it weaves together two lives, focusing on critical topics as opposed to biographical details, in order to illuminate ideas of Locke and Blake and the cultural contexts and transformations of the "period" they shared. Glausser begins each chapter by sketching a biographical connection between the two men, which in turn leads to a broader discussion of textual as well as cultural significance. From their shared experience of having had paintings stolen by a friend, for instance, Glausser details the two men's angry responses and then explores the larger social issue of private property at each end of the 18th century. Other points of correspondence include mothers and lovers, charges of sedition, medicine and the body, slavery, and printing. Glausser's new approach to the lives and ideas of Locke and Blake offers a more balanced treatment of their relationship than has been available in the past. Through this juxtaposition and re-thinking of the two traditional "antagonists" of the period, he moves beyond adversarial caricatures of temperament, faculty, ideology, and intention and illuminates both the century and the two intellectual giants who stood at either end of it. Published by University Press of Florida (February 1998)

VANESSA DICKERSON

"A highly original and very informative collection of essays that theorizes the complicated intersection of the black female body and its Western symbolic meanings. The collection is essential for anyone interested in the tensions between post-structuralist and humanist understandings of subject formation, social agency, and performative identity." --Claudia Tate, Princeton University

"A highly original and very informative collection of essays that theorizes the complicated intersection of the black female body and its Western symbolic meanings. The collection is essential for anyone interested in the tensions between post-structuralist and humanist understandings of subject formation, social agency, and performative identity."
--Claudia Tate, Princeton University

DEBORAH R. GEIS

Edited by
Deborah R. Geis
Associate Professor of English and
author of Postmodern Theatric (k)s: Monologue in Contemporary American Drama

Ten scholars explore many aspects of Art Spiegelman's two-volume illustrated novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale, including Spiegelman's use of animal characters, the influence of other "comix" artists, the role of the mother and its relation to gender issues, the use of repeating images such as smoke and blood, Maus's place among Holocuast testimonials, it's appropriation of cinematic technique, its use of language and styles of dialect, and the implications of the work's critical and commercial success.

Published by The University of Alabama Press
Published by Rutgers University Press (2001)
Cover photo Bill Gaskins Cover design: Trudi Gershenov

Photo by Stephanie Diani
Published by The University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor (2008)
ISBN: 978-0-472-06946-0

The latest addition to the Michigan Modern Dramatists series offers an indispensable guide to Park's dramatic works, taking a close look at her major plays and placing them in context. Deborah R. Geis traces the evlution of Parks's art from her earliest experiemental pieces to the hugely popular Topdog/Underdog to her wide-ranging forays into fiction, music, and film .

Edited by Deborah R. Geis Associate Professor of English and author of Postmodern Theatric (k)s: Monologue in Contemporary American Drama Ten scholars explore many aspects of Art Spiegelman's two-volume illustrated novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale, including Spiegelman's use of animal characters, the influence of other "comix" artists, the role of the mother and its relation to gender issues, the use of repeating images such as smoke and blood, Maus's place among Holocuast testimonials, it's appropriation of cinematic technique, its use of language and styles of dialect, and the implications of the work's critical and commercial success. Published by The University of Alabama Press Published by Rutgers University Press (2001) Cover photo Bill Gaskins Cover design: Trudi Gershenov Photo by Stephanie Diani Published by The University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor (2008) ISBN: 978-0-472-06946-0 The latest addition to the Michigan Modern Dramatists series offers an indispensable guide to Park's dramatic works, taking a close look at her major plays and placing them in context. Deborah R. Geis traces the evlution of Parks's art from her earliest experiemental pieces to the hugely popular Topdog/Underdog to her wide-ranging forays into fiction, music, and film .

RICK HILLIS

Photo by Richard Clements Jacket design by Margot Barbour Published by University of Pittsburgh Press In addition to his many published stories, including work in best Canadian Stories, Descant, Prism International, and the Alaska Quarterly Review, he is the author of the 1988 poetry collection, The Blue Machines of Night "A wonderful book . . . in the rarified company of the best of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff, without imitating any of them . . . Five or six of these stories are worth the price of five or six entire collections of stories." --Russell Banks

Photo by Richard Clements
Jacket design by Margot Barbour
Published by University of Pittsburgh Press

In addition to his many published stories, including work in best Canadian Stories, Descant, Prism International, and the Alaska Quarterly Review, he is the author of the 1988 poetry collection, The Blue Machines of Night

"A wonderful book . . . in the rarified company of the best of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff, without imitating any of them . . . Five or six of these stories are worth the price of five or six entire collections of stories."
--Russell Banks

HARRY BROWN

What does it mean to be a "mixed-blood," and how has our understanding of this term changed over the last two centuries? What processes have shaped American thinking on racial blending? Why has the figure of the mixed-blood, thought too offensive for polite conversation in the nineteenth century, become a major representative of twentieth-century native consciousness? In "Injun Joe's Ghost," Harry J. Brown addresses these questions within the interrelated contexts of anthropology, U.S. Indian policy, and popular fiction by white and mixed-blood writers, mapping the evolution of "hybridity" from a biological to a cultural category. Brown traces the processes that once mandated the mixed-blood's exile as a grotesque or criminal outcast and that have recently brought about his ascendance as a cultural hero in contemporary Native American writing. Because the myth of the demise of the Indian and the ascendance of the Anglo-Saxon is traditionally tied to America's national idea, nationalist literature depicts Indian-white hybrids in images of degeneracy, atavism, madness, and even criminality. A competing tradition of popular writing, however, often created by mixed-blood writers themselves, contests these images of the outcast half-breed by envisioning "hybrid vigor," both biologically and linguistically, as a model for a culturally heterogeneous nation. "Injun Joe's Ghost" focuses on a significant figure in American history and culture that has, until now, remained on the periphery of academic discourse. Brown offers an in-depth discussion of many texts, including dime novels and Depression- era magazine fiction, that have been almost entirely neglected by scholars. This volume also covers texts such as the historical romances of the 1820s and the novels of the twentieth-century "Native American Renaissance" from a fresh perspective. Investigating a broad range of genres and subject over two hundred year of American writing, "Injun Joe's Ghost" will be useful to students and professionals in the fields of American literature, popular culture, and native studies. Injun Joe's Ghost Published June 1, 2004 by University of Missouri Press ISBN 0-8262-1530-0 Videogames challenge our notions of identity, creativity, and moral value, and provide a powerful new avenue for teaching and learning. This book is a rich and provocative guide to the role of interactive media in cultural learning. The book searches for specific ways to interpret videogames in the context of human experience and in the field of humanities research. It also shows how videogames have become a powerful form of political, ethical, and religious discourse, and how they have already influenced the way we teach, learn, and create. Brown discusses the major trends in game design, the public controversies surrounding videogames, and the predominant critical positions in game criticism. The book speaks to all educators, scholars, and thinking persons who seek a fuller understanding of this significant and growing cultural phenomenon.

What does it mean to be a "mixed-blood," and how has our understanding of this term changed over the last two centuries? What processes have shaped American thinking on racial blending? Why has the figure of the mixed-blood, thought too offensive for polite conversation in the nineteenth century, become a major representative of twentieth-century native consciousness?
In "Injun Joe's Ghost," Harry J. Brown addresses these questions within the interrelated contexts of anthropology, U.S. Indian policy, and popular fiction by white and mixed-blood writers, mapping the evolution of "hybridity" from a biological to a cultural category. Brown traces the processes that once mandated the mixed-blood's exile as a grotesque or criminal outcast and that have recently brought about his ascendance as a cultural hero in contemporary Native American writing.

Because the myth of the demise of the Indian and the ascendance of the Anglo-Saxon is traditionally tied to America's national idea, nationalist literature depicts Indian-white hybrids in images of degeneracy, atavism, madness, and even criminality. A competing tradition of popular writing, however, often created by mixed-blood writers themselves, contests these images of the outcast half-breed by envisioning "hybrid vigor," both biologically and linguistically, as a model for a culturally heterogeneous nation.

"Injun Joe's Ghost" focuses on a significant figure in American history and culture that has, until now, remained on the periphery of academic discourse. Brown offers an in-depth discussion of many texts, including dime novels and Depression- era magazine fiction, that have been almost entirely neglected by scholars. This volume also covers texts such as the historical romances of the 1820s and the novels of the twentieth-century "Native American Renaissance" from a fresh perspective. Investigating a broad range of genres and subject over two hundred year of American writing, "Injun Joe's Ghost" will be useful to students and professionals in the fields of American literature, popular culture, and native studies.
Injun Joe's Ghost
Published June 1, 2004
by University of Missouri Press
ISBN 0-8262-1530-0

Harry's Video Game bookcover

Videogames challenge our notions of identity, creativity, and moral value, and provide a powerful new avenue for teaching and learning. This book is a rich and provocative guide to the role of interactive media in cultural learning. The book searches for specific ways to interpret videogames in the context of human experience and in the field of humanities research. It also shows how videogames have become a powerful form of political, ethical, and religious discourse, and how they have already influenced the way we teach, learn, and create. Brown discusses the major trends in game design, the public controversies surrounding videogames, and the predominant critical positions in game criticism. The book speaks to all educators, scholars, and thinking persons who seek a fuller understanding of this significant and growing cultural phenomenon.

Istvan Csicsery-Ronay

This book contains all the articles on Philip K. Dick published in Science-Fiction Studies through 1991--with the term "article" defined broadly enough to include notes, reviews, and letters to the editor. Coyright 1992 by SF-TH Inc. ISBN 0-9633169-1-5 Cover design by Percolator Published by Minnesota Press, 2007 ISBN 978-0-8166-4974-7 Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams Edited by: Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., professor of English at DePauw University Christopher Bolton, assistant professor of Japanese at Williams College Takayuki Tatsumi, professor of English at Keio University in Tokyo Since the end of the Second World War--and particularly over the past decade--Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual, from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira and Ghost in the Shell of the 1980s and 1990s, while little attention has been paid to a vibrant tradition of prose science fiction in Japan. Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams remedies this neglect with a rich exploration of the genre that connects prose science fiction to contemporary anime. Covering a remarkable range of texts--from the 1930s fantastic detective fiction of Yumeno Kyusaku to the cross-culturally produced and marketed film and video game franchise Final Fantasy--this book firmly establishes Japanese science fiction as a vital and exciting genre. Published by Weslyan University Press distributed by University Press of New England (September 2008) “Csicsery-Ronay brings together a wealth of material to demonstrate the transformative power of the ‘seven beauties.’ Highly recommended for all readers interested in the ways in which science fiction relates to our past, present, and possible futures.”—N. Katherine Hayles, author of Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary “This remarkable book is full of fascinating ideas, resolutely stripped of academic jargon, and a worthy addition to the growing body of work devoted to deciphering the ancient ancestry and the many-faceted aesthetic of science fiction.”—Gwyneth Jones, author of Bold as Lov

This book contains all the articles on Philip K. Dick published in Science-Fiction Studies through 1991--with the term "article" defined broadly enough to include notes, reviews, and letters to the editor.

Coyright 1992 by SF-TH Inc.
ISBN 0-9633169-1-5

Cover design by Percolator
Published by Minnesota Press, 2007
ISBN 978-0-8166-4974-7 Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams

Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams
Edited by:
Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., professor of English at DePauw University
Christopher Bolton, assistant professor of Japanese at Williams College
Takayuki Tatsumi, professor of English at Keio University in Tokyo

Since the end of the Second World War--and particularly over the past decade--Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual, from Gojira (Godzilla) and Astro Boy in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira and Ghost in the Shell of the 1980s and 1990s, while little attention has been paid to a vibrant tradition of prose science fiction in Japan. Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams remedies this neglect with a rich exploration of the genre that connects prose science fiction to contemporary anime. Covering a remarkable range of texts--from the 1930s fantastic detective fiction of Yumeno Kyusaku to the cross-culturally produced and marketed film and video game franchise Final Fantasy--this book firmly establishes Japanese science fiction as a vital and exciting genre. Istvan's Seven Beauties

Published by Weslyan University Press
distributed by University Press of New England
(September 2008)

“Csicsery-Ronay brings together a wealth of material to demonstrate the transformative power of the ‘seven beauties.’ Highly recommended for all readers interested in the ways in which science fiction relates to our past, present, and possible futures.”—N. Katherine Hayles, author of Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary

“This remarkable book is full of fascinating ideas, resolutely stripped of academic jargon, and a worthy addition to the growing body of work devoted to deciphering the ancient ancestry and the many-faceted aesthetic of science fiction.”—Gwyneth Jones, author of Bold as Lov

Joe Heithaus

Published by San Francisco Bay Press (2008)
ISBN: 978-1-60461-007-9

The Airpoets formed as part of an international collaboration. Their poems were selected for the Indianapolis International Airport's new Midfield Terminal public-art project.

"Rivers, Rails, and Runways introduces the work of five distinctive voices from the Heartland. Rooted in Indiana, the poems capture the lure of the landscape and its relevance to each poet's journey. Pulsating throughout are the authors' personal histories and meditations. Notable for its thematic range, the anthology gains its strength from a juxtoposition of styles, each elegant and attuned to the rhythms of everyday life." -- Carloyn Kreiter-Foronda, Poet Laureate of Virginia, 2006-2008

Published by San Francisco Bay Press (2008) ISBN: 978-1-60461-007-9 The Airpoets formed as part of an international collaboration. Their poems were selected for the Indianapolis International Airport's new Midfield Terminal public-art project. "Rivers, Rails, and Runways introduces the work of five distinctive voices from the Heartland. Rooted in Indiana, the poems capture the lure of the landscape and its relevance to each poet's journey. Pulsating throughout are the authors' personal histories and meditations. Notable for its thematic range, the anthology gains its strength from a juxtoposition of styles, each elegant and attuned to the rhythms of everyday life." -- Carloyn Kreiter-Foronda, Poet Laureate of Virginia, 2006-2008

Nic Pizzolatto

Publsihed by MacAdam/Cage (2006) ISBN #1-59692-168-4 Book and jacket design byDorothy Carico Smith Set in a variety of Southern landscapes, these nine startling storeis excavate the ambiguous terrain of the human heart. Pizzolatto finds beauty in loneliness as his characters attempt to bridge the gulfs between themselves and others, past and present, and, sometimes, the even wider chasms that separate them from their true selves. In this stunning debut, a base-jumping, samurai park ranger parachutes off the St. Louis arch. A stained-blass artist struggles over his masterpiece for a castle in Southern Missouri and learns through great loss what his true subject will be. A schoolteacher searches for her missing son, her only clue a mysterious, paint-smeared stencil he left behind. And, in the title story, which first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, an orpahned young man and his former high school football coach set out to kidnap the coach's daughter from Los Angeles and bring her back to East Texas. With a forceful and compassionate voice, Pizzolatto places us at the crossroads of memory and desire, longing and loss, somewhere between here and the Yellow Sea.

Publsihed by MacAdam/Cage (2006) Nic Pizzolatto photo
ISBN #1-59692-168-4
Book and jacket design byDorothy Carico Smith

Set in a variety of Southern landscapes, these nine startling storeis excavate the ambiguous terrain of the human heart. Pizzolatto finds beauty in loneliness as his characters attempt to bridge the gulfs between themselves and others, past and present, and, sometimes, the even wider chasms that separate them from their true selves.

In this stunning debut, a base-jumping, samurai park ranger parachutes off the St. Louis arch. A stained-blass artist struggles over his masterpiece for a castle in Southern Missouri and learns through great loss what his true subject will be. A schoolteacher searches for her missing son, her only clue a mysterious, paint-smeared stencil he left behind. And, in the title story, which first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, an orpahned young man and his former high school football coach set out to kidnap the coach's daughter from Los Angeles and bring her back to East Texas.

With a forceful and compassionate voice, Pizzolatto places us at the crossroads of memory and desire, longing and loss, somewhere between here and the Yellow Sea.

Greg Schwipps

Photo by Alissa Schwips Cover photo by Richard Fields Published by Ghost Road Press ISBN #978-0-9816525-5-9 "What This River Keeps bears comparison to the best work of Steinbeck--in this case we're given the vivid portrayal of the common working men and women of rural Indiana juxtaposed against great forces, without pity or hope, but without true defeat, thought they may well lose all in the end. Schwipps also gives us, in full measure, the ancient father and son story, reinvented and made new; the complications of family; the friendship between men; the ong tested love between married people; the discovery of the responsibilities of love; the love and care of the land; the love of a river; the keen life of the outdoors; the close attention to the earth in its seasons and myriad variousness. This is a very fine first novel. I read it complelled and fascinated to the last word" --Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong.

Photo by Alissa Schwips

Cover photo by Richard Fields
Published by Ghost Road Press
ISBN #978-0-9816525-5-9

"What This River Keeps bears comparison to the best work of Steinbeck--in this case we're given the vivid portrayal of the common working men and women of rural Indiana juxtaposed against great forces, without pity or hope, but without true defeat, thought they may well lose all in the end. Schwipps also gives us, in full measure, the ancient father and son story, reinvented and made new; the complications of family; the friendship between men; the ong tested love between married people; the discovery of the responsibilities of love; the love and care of the land; the love of a river; the keen life of the outdoors; the close attention to the earth in its seasons and myriad variousness. This is a very fine first novel. I read it complelled and fascinated to the last word" --Kent Haruf, author of Plainsong.

English department

Faculty Publications

LILI WRIGHT

An engaging memoir from the road updates the tradition of the picaresquetraveler's tale. With unflinching honesty and refreshing wit, she captures the torn emotions, comic misfires, and inevitable trade-offs felt by young people everywhere

Jacket design by Laurie Dolphin Published by University Press of Colorado (March 2001)

His first short story collectionFoley's Luck garneredcritical praise and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire and Story. A winner of a prestigiousNational Endowment for the Arts award. Published by Knopf (October 1992)

EUGENE GLORIA

VANESSA DICKERSON

Edited by Deborah R. Geis Associate Professor of English and author of Postmodern Theatric (k)s: Monologue in Contemporary American Drama

RICK HILLIS

Photo by Richard Clements Jacket design by Margot Barbour Published by University of Pittsburgh Press