Publications by the English Department faculty members are collected here.

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Submissions from 2023

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Feminist Ethnographic Case Study: Financial/Emotional Stressors of Parenting Trans-Children, Kay Siebler

Submissions from 2022

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Bonnets, braids, and big afros: the politics of Black characters’ hair, Kay Siebler

Submissions from 2019

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Why There Is No Language of Comics, Frank Bramlett

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Black Feminists in Serialized Dramas: The Gender/Sex/Sexuality/Race Politics of Being Mary Jane and Scandal, Kay Siebler

Submissions from 2018

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Linguistic Discourse in Web Comics: Extending Conversation and Narrative into Alt-Text and Hidden Comics, Frank Bramlett

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Exporting America via Leipzig, Germany: Tauchnitz Editions and the International Popularization of American Literature, Charles Johanningsmeier

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Student-Centered Pedagogy in the Chinese Classroom: Let’s Talk About Sexual Empowerment, Kay Siebler

Submissions from 2017

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World War I, Anti-German Hysteria, the “Spanish” Flu, and My Ántonia, 1917–1919, Charles Johanningsmeier

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Boxed Wine Feminisms: the Rhetoric of Women’s Wine Drinking in the Good Wife, Tammie M. Kennedy

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Oxymoronic Whiteness: From the Whitehouse to Ferguson, Tammie M. Kennedy, Joyce Irene Middleton, and Krista Ratcliffe

Submissions from 2016

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Comics and Linguistics, Frank Bramlett

Submissions from 2015

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Making and Breaking the Superhero Quotidian: How All-Star Superman Embodies and Revises the Everyday, Frank Bramlett

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Review of Social Class in Applied Linguistics by David Block, Frank Bramlett

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The role of culture in comics of the quotidian, Frank Bramlett

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Community Chairs as a Catalyst for Campus Collaboration in STEM, Neal Grandgenett, David Boocker, Hesham Ali, Angela M. Hodge, Brian Dorn, and Christine E. Cutucache

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Comics and Composition, Comics as Composition: Navigating Production and Consumption, Tammie M. Kennedy, Jessi Thomsen, and Erica Trabold

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A Luminous Haze; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Plagiarism, Todd Richardson

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Which Side are You On? The Worlds of Grant Morrison, Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Adnan Mahmutovic, and Frank Bramlett

Submissions from 2014

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Editorial Cartoons: Is Michael Sam gay? or is he black?, Frank Bramlett

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How do comics artists use speech balloons?, Frank Bramlett

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How do song and speech go together in comics panels?, Frank Bramlett

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What's so feminist about garters and bustiers? Neo-burlesque as post-feminist sexual liberation, Kay Siebler

Submissions from 2013

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Are comics predictive, or do they simply follow the society they’re produced in?, Frank Bramlett

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Are more countries on their way to having a culture of comic book readers?, Frank Bramlett

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Does Swamp Thing have a penis?, Frank Bramlett

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How do comics talk about love?, Frank Bramlett

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How do Southern, racial, and sexual identities mix?, Frank Bramlett

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Is there a new kind of hero in comics?, Frank Bramlett

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What are the properties of editorial cartoons that heal?, Frank Bramlett

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What roles might linguistic arbitrariness play in Krazy Kat?, Frank Bramlett

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Which is Frank’s favorite post by Roy?, Frank Bramlett

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Of Nazis, False-bottomed Suitcases, and Paperback Reprints: Der Tod kommt zum Erzbischof (Death Comes for the Archbishop) in Germany, 1936−1952, Charles Johanningsmeier

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Serialization, Ethnographic Drag, and the Ineffable Authenticity of Nikki S. Lee, Todd Richardson

Submissions from 2012

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Are Rage Comics Really Comics?, Frank Bramlett

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Does Alan Moore Have the (Untranslatable) Approach to Translation?, Frank Bramlett

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Does Mooch the Cat speak French?, Frank Bramlett

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How Do the Absurd and the Realistic Blend in Comic Strips?, Frank Bramlett

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How do we read comics of the quotidian? (Part III of a Series), Frank Bramlett

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How Do We Read Comics of the Quotidian? (Part II of a Series), Frank Bramlett

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How Do We Read Comics of the Quotidian? (Part I of a Series), Frank Bramlett

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How Will We Manage the Alt Text?, Frank Bramlett

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What can found art teach us about comics?, Frank Bramlett

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When is a (comic book) house a (comic book) home?, Frank Bramlett

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Transgender Transitions: Sex/Gender Binaries in the Digital Age, Kay Siebler

Submissions from 2011

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How Do Comics Artists Create Sound Effects in Spanish and English?, Frank Bramlett

Submissions from 2010

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The Confluence of Heroism, Sissyhood, and Camp in The Rawhide Kid: Slap Leather, Frank Bramlett

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The Moderating Roles of Gender and Anti-Gay Prejudice in Explaining Stigma by Association in Male Dyads, Stephen D. Jefferson and Frank Bramlett

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Reading, Writing, and Thinking about Disability Issues, Tammie M. Kennedy and Tracey Menten

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Far from the Truth: Teaching the Politics of Sojourner Truth's “Ain't I a Woman?”, Kay Siebler

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Transqueer Representations and How We Educate, Kay Siebler

Submissions from 2007

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Review of Creating Language Crimes: How Law Enforcement Uses (and Misuses) Language By Roger W. Shuy, Frank Bramlett

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Nine-Mile Prairie, Lisa Knopp

Submissions from 2004

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Redefining Intimacy: Carver and Conversation, Frank Bramlett and David Raabe

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Review of Moving Out: A Nebraska Woman's Life, Susan Naramore Maher

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A Charismatic Iranian American Engineer, Jane Meehan

Submissions from 2003

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A Different Kind of Bilingüismo, Frank Bramlett

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Cartoons and Pronoun Trouble, Frank Bramlett

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Name Trouble - Part One, Frank Bramlett

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Name Trouble - Part Two, Frank Bramlett

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Review of Masquerade and Identities: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, and Marginality by Efrat Tseëlon, Frank Bramlett

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Sentence Forms' and Corporate Responsibility, Frank Bramlett

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So What's Your Point? Relevancy in Conversation, Frank Bramlett

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What are Conversation Systems?, Frank Bramlett

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What Are Functional Shifts?, Frank Bramlett

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What Part English, What Part Spanish?, Frank Bramlett

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What Really Makes a Word, Frank Bramlett

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Y'all Better Ask Somebody, Frank Bramlett

Submissions from 2002

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Review of Mediated discourse: The nexus of practice. London: Routledge by Ron Scollon, Frank Bramlett

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Review of Progay/Antigay: The Rhetorical War Over Sexuality by Ralph R. Smith and Russell R. Windes, Frank Bramlett

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Slang: Awful Spector of Sloth?, Frank Bramlett

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Teackerly A cts of Transgression: How Fem inist Educators are Changing Composition, Kay Siebler

Submissions from 2001

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Review of English grammar: prescriptive, descriptive, generative, performance by Kathryn Riley and Frank Parker, Frank Bramlett

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Review of English syntax: From word to discourse by Lynn M. Berk, Frank Bramlett

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Household Words, Lisa Knopp

Submissions from 1999

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Discourse knowledge and activity type in social service interview openings: ‘Okay Miss Debby Girl tell me what’s going on.’, Frank Bramlett

Submissions from 1998

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Flight Dreams, Lisa Knopp

Submissions from 1996

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Tips for the Academic Teacher Working with Nonnative Speakers of English, Sue Lee and Frank Bramlett

Submissions from 1990

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Milton and the Fascists, David Boocker