Areas of Specialty:
- Post-WWII American literature and culture
- American Film and Television
- Cold War Studies
- American Studies, with an emphasis on the representation of race
Selected Publications:
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Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity.
UP Kansas, 2005.
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Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of
President Reagan's America.
Rutgers UP, 1997.
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Containment Culture: American Narrative, Postmodernism, and the Atomic
Age. Duke UP,
1995.
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Invisible Criticism: Ralph Ellison and the American Canon.
U Iowa P, 1988; paperback, 1991.
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(Editor.) May All Your
Fences Have Gates: Essays on the Drama of August Wilson. U Iowa P, 1994.
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"God's Law and the Wide
Screen: The Ten Commandments as Cold War 'Epic'." PMLA, May
1993, 415-430 (winner of the Modern Language Association 1993 William Riley
Parker Prize).
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"Reading the Body: Alice
Walker's Meridian and the Archeology of Self." Modern Fiction
Studies, Spring 1988, 55-67 (winner of 1988 "Margaret Church MFS
Memorial Prize").
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Poetry in: Georgia
Review, New England Review, Paris Review, Partisan Review, Shenandoah,
Sycamore Review.
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