Patrick D. Murphy

Professor

pmurphy@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
407-823-0989
Office Hours: fall: mondays and wednesdays 1-2:30pm; Thursdays, 6:30-7:30pm; and by appointment
Campus Location: CNH307A

Education

Ph.D. in English from University of California at Davis (1986)
M.A. in English from California State University at Northridge (1983)
B.A. in History from UCLA (1973)

I was born in 1951 in a small town in Illinois, earned a B.A. in History from UCLA in 1973, an M.A. in English from California State University, Northridge, in 1983, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Davis, in 1986. I taught at Indiana University of Pennsylvania from the fall of 1987 through the summer of 2002, including a 10-month senior lecture/research Fulbright at the University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan. I joined the UCF English Department as Professor and Chair in August of 2002 and returned to full-time teaching in 2004. For more biographical details, as well as information on ecocriticism and climate change, go to http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~pmurphy.

Research Interests

Nature-oriented Literature
Contemporary Multicultural American Literature
Comparative Asian American and Asian Literatures
Modern American Poetry
Ecocriticism
science fiction
bodied subjecthood and identities
Bakhtinian dialogics

Recent Research Activities

Patrick D. Murphy has just completed an Afterword for the book Ecofeminism and Rhetoric, edited by Douglas Vakoch, and forthcoming from Berghahn Books.

He has completed an essay on "ecocritical dialogics" for an edited book, European Contrbutions to Ecocritical Theory, edited by Axel Goodbody of the UK and Kate Rigby of Australia, which is forthcoming in 2010 from the University of Virginia Press.He has completed an ecocritical essay on ecology and postcolonialism in the translated versions of Pablo Neruda's Canto General and Ernesto Cardenal's Cosmic Canticle, for an edited book, Postcolonial Green, edited by Alex Hunt and Bonnie Roos, forthcoming at the end of 2009 from the University of Virginia Press.His authored book, Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies, was published by Lexington Books of Rowman and Littlefield in May oof 2009.

He continues to work on rhetorical and narrative analyses of climate change texts and web sites and expects to expand that study to include web site design and usability in conjunction with a doctoral level course he is teaching for the Textsand Technology program in the fall of 2009.

In late October of 2009 he is leading a faculty research seminar sponsored by the Spanish Group for ecocritical research, based at the University of Alcala, Spain, in discussing Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible and delivering a paper providing an ecofeminist revisioning of the masculinist sublime.

Selected Publications

Books

Forthcoming Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies, Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2009.
American Students Write About College Life: Toward Responsive Reading, textbook, co-edited with Ikue Kina, Shin Yamashiro, and Masaomi Kobayashi, Eihosha Press (Tokyo), 2008.
Essentials of the Theory of Fiction, co-edited with Michael J. Hoffman, Duke University Press, 1988, revised and expanded second edition, 1996. 3rd revised edition, 2005.
A Place for Wayfaring: The Poetry and Prose of Gary Snyder, Oregon State University Press, 2000.
Farther Afield in the Study of Nature Oriented Literature, University Press of Virginia, 2000.
The Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook, edited, Fitzroy-Dearborn Publishing, 1998.
American Panorama: An English at Your Fingertips Reader, textbook, co-edited with the University of the Ryukyus Textbook Editorial Committee, Eihosha Press (Tokyo), 1998.
Ecofeminist Literary Criticism and Pedagogy, co-edited with Greta Gaard, co-authored introduction and authored essay, University of Illinois Press, 1998.
Literature, Nature, and Other: Ecofeminist Critiques, State University of New York Press, 1995.
Handbook of Chinese Popular Culture, co-edited with Dingbo Wu, Greenwood Press, 1994.
Understanding Gary Snyder, University of South Carolina Press, 1992.
Critical Essays on American Modernism, co-edited with Michael J. Hoffman, G.K. Hall, 1992.
Staging the Impossible: The Fantastic Mode in Modern Drama, edited, Greenwood Press, 1992.
Critical Essays on Gary Snyder, edited with introduction and original essay, G.K. Hall, 1991.
Science Fiction from China: Eight Stories, co-edited with Dingbo Wu, Praeger, 1989 , translated into Italian as L'Onda Misteriosa, Mondadori, 2006.
The Poetic Fantastic: Studies in an Evolving Genre, co-edited with Vernon Hyles, with an introduction, original essay, and reprinted essay, Greenwood Press, 1989.

Articles/Essays

Forthcoming "Bakhtinian Dialogics," European Contributions to Ecocritical Theory, Ed. Axel Goodbody and Kate Rigby, University of virginia Press, forthcoming 2010.
Forthcoming Afterword, Ecofeminism and Rhetoric, ed. Douglas Vakoch, Berghahn Books, forthcoming 2009.
Forthcoming "The Poetic Politics of Inhabitation in Neruda's Canto General and Cardenal's Cosmic Canticle," Postcolonial Green, ed. Alex Hunt and Bonnie Roos, forthcoming 2010 from the University of Virginia Press.
"Subjects, Identities, Bodies, and Selves: Siblings, Symbiotes, and the Ecological Stakes of Self Perception," Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies No. 21 (2009): 121-35.
"The Confluence of Hwa Yol Jung's Ethics and North American Environmental Literature," Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung, ed. Jin Young Park, Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2009.
"Whose Planet Is It, Anyway Environmentalism and Science Fiction," The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, ed. Sherryl Vint, et al, Routledge, 2009.
"Engineering Planets, Engineering Ourselves: The Ethics of terraforming and Areofroming in an Age of Climate Change," inaugural issue, Journal of Ecocriticism (Canada) 1.1 (2009): 54-59. http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/index.
"Terraculturation, Political Dissolution, and Myriad Reorientations," Tamkang Review 39.1 (December 2008): 3-18.
"The Varieties of Environmental Literature in North America," Teaching North American Environmental Literature, ed. Fred Waage, et al, MLA, 2008. 24-36.
Gary Snyder." Twentieth-Century American Nature Poets, ed. J. Scott Bryson and Roger Thompson. Dictionary of Literary Biography, V. 342. Gale, 2008. 307-21.
Hurricanes and Hubris," Words on Water, ed. Maureen Devine and Christa Grewe-Volp, Wissenschaftliche Verlag Trier, 2008.
"Nature in the Contemporary American Novel," English and American Literary Studies (Shanghai) 6 (2007): 145-68.
"Grounding Anotherness and Answerability Through Allonational Ecoliterature Formations,"Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism, ed. Sylvia Mayer and Catrin Gersdorf, Rodopi, 2006. 414-35.
"Scenarios of Disaster: Crying Wolf, Scaring Away the Elephants, and Heading 'Em off at the Pass," Tamkang Review 37.1 (2006): 43-56.
"Susan Fenimore Cooper and Rural Hours," translated into Korean by Dong-oh Choi as part of "Ecoconsciousness of the 19th Century 's Women Writers: Cultural Criticism and Alternative Society in the Works of Dorothy Wordsworth, Susan F. Cooper and Bettina von Arnim," Modern Studies in English Language & Literature, journal of The Modern English Society of Korea, 50.1 (February 2006): 21-27, 38-42.
"Grounding Anotherness and Answerability Through Allonational Ecoliterature Formations,"Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism, ed. Sylvia Mayer and Catrin Gersdorf, Rodopi, 2006. 414-35.
"Paradise/Pair o' Dice: Contradictory Characteristics, Counterindications, and the Contingencies of Environmental Justice in Real and Virtual Terrains for Tomorrow's College Students," Tamkang Review 34.3-4 (2004): 5-27.
"For the Land, Not the State: Post-National Multicultural Literature." The Okinanwan Journal of American Studies 1.1 (2004): 1-6.
"The Non-alibi of Pragmatic Utopianism and Wild Variability; or, Optimistic Variations on a Science Fiction Theme," Tamkang Review 34.3-4 (2004): 243-53.
"Nature Nurturing Fathers in a World Beyond Our Control," Eco-Man: New Perspectives on Masculinity and Nature, ed. Mark Allister, University of Virginia Press, 2004. 196-210.
"Ranging Widely to Find Home," special issue, "Teaching Environmental Literature, Academic Exchange Quarterly 7.4 (Winter 2003): 53-57.
"Nature Is Everywhere," translated into Korean by Dong-oh Choi, Studies on Literature and Environment (Korea) 1 (2002): 223-31 (actually published March 2003).
"The Complexity of Simplicity," Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse, Tamkang Review 32.3-4 (Sp-Su 2002): 25-46.
Ecofeminist Dialogics." Abridged Ch. One, Literature, Nature, and Other, The Green Studies Reader, ed. Laurence Coupe, Routledge, 2000. 193-97.
"The Non-Alibi of Alien Scapes: SF and Ecocriticism," Beyond Nature Writing, ed. Karla Armbruster and Kathy Wallace, University Press of Virginia, 2000. 263-78.
"The Tremendous Power of a Quiet Nudge: Birch Browsings in the Seminar Room," Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and American Nature Writing, ed. Charlotte Zoe Walker, Syracuse University Press, 2000. 240-47.
"Mythic and Fantastic: Gary Snyder's 'Mountains and Rivers without End,'" Extrapolation 26 (1985): 290-99. Rptd. In Contemporary Literary Criticism, v. 120, ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter and Timothy J. White, Gale Group, 1999. 318-22.
"Anotherrness and Inhabitation in Recent Multicultural American Literature," Writing and the Environment, ed. Richard Kerridge and Neil Sammells, Zed Books, 1998. 40-52.
"Environmental Ethics, Environmental Justice, and Multicultural American Literature," Fiction and Drama (Taiwan) 10 (1998): 41-53.
"Wendell Berry," Post-War Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors, ed. Theo D'haen, Martinus Nijhoff uitgevers, 35th supplement, 1997. 14 pp.
"Ecofeminism and Postmodernism: Agency, Transformation, and Future Possibilities," "Women, Ecology and the Environment" special issue, National Women’s Studies Association Journal 9.3 (1997): 41-59.
"Horrific Humor: The Use of Comic Structure and Humor in Aliens," co-authored with Eric Paul Shaffer, Dark Fantastic: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, ed. C.W. Sullivan III, Greenwood Press, 1997. 151-60.
"Cities and Sites of Contradictions: Contemporary Chinese American Poetry," Tamkang Review (Taiwan), 28.1 (Autumn 1997): 49-75.
"Commodification, Resistance, Inhabitation, and Identity in the Novels of Linda Hogan, Edna Escamill, and Karen Tei Yamashita," Phoebe: A Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory and Aesthetics 9.1 (1997): 1-10.
"Environmental Literature: Beyond Nature Writing and the Fiction of Nonfictionality," ASLE--Japan Newsletter, translated into Japanese, 1997.
Gary Snyder," American Nature Writers, 2 v., ed. John Elder, Scribner's, 1996. 829-46.
"Gary Snyder," Post-War Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors, ed. Theo D'haen, Martinus Nijhoff uitgevers, 32nd supplement, 1996. 18 pp.
"Ground, Pivot, Motion: Ecofeminist Theory, Dialogics, and Literary Practice," Ecofeminism special issue, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 6 (1991): 145-61. Rptd. in Ecological Feminist Philosophies, ed. Karen J. Warren, Indiana University Press, 1996. 228-43.
"American Multiculturality: The Voices and Texts of Social Diversity and the Challenges of Teaching Them," Southern Review (Okinawa) No. 11 (1996): 51-85.
"Conserving Natural and Cultural Diversity: The Prose and Poetry of Pat Mora," MELUS 21.1 (1996): 59-69.
"'The Whole Wide World Was Scrubbed Clean": The Androcentric Animation of Denatured Disney," From Mouse to Mermaid, ed. Elizabeth Bell, et al, Indiana University Press, 1995. 125-36.
"Robinson Jeffers, Gary Snyder, and the Problem of Civilization," Robinson Jeffers and a Galaxy of Writers, ed. Wm. B. Thesing, University of South Carolina Press, 1995. 93-107.
"Prolegomena for an Ecofeminist Dialogics," translated into Korean by Heesu Chung and Hongsang Yeo, Bakhtin and Cultural Theory, ed. Hongsang Yeo, Seoul: Literature and Intelligence Press, 1995, 381-407.
"Voicing Another Nature," A Dialogue of Voices: Feminism and Bakhtin, ed. Karen Hohne and Helen Wussow, University of Minnesota Press, 1994. 59-82
"Penance or Perception: Spirituality and Land in the Poetry of Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry," Sagetrieb 5.2 (1986): 61-72. Rptd. in Earthly Words: Essays on Contemporary American Nature and Environmental Writers, ed. John Cooley, University of Michigan Press, 1994. 237-49.
"Rethinking the Relations of Nature, Culture, and Agency," Environmental Values (U.K.) 1.4 (1992): 311-20.
"Suicide, Murder, Culture and Catastrophe: Joanna Russ’s We Who Are About To....," State of the Fantastic: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Fantastic Literature and Film, ed. Nicholas Ruddick, Greenwood Press, 1992. 121-31.
"Prolegomenon for an Ecofeminist Dialogics," Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic Voice, ed. Dale Bauer and Susan Jaret McKinstry, State University of New York Press, 1991. 39-56.
"Coyote Midwife in the Classroom: Introducing Literature with Feminist Dialogics," Practicing Theory in Introductory College Literature Courses, ed. James Cahalan and David Downing, NCTE, 1991. 161-76.
"Reducing the Dystopian Distance: Pseudo-Documentary Framing in Near Future Fictions," Science-Fiction Studies 17 (1990): 25-40.
"Robinson Jeffers's Heroes: Divided and Resisting," Quarry West No.27 (1990): 96-100.
"Somagrams in an Other Tongue: Patricia Hampl's 'Resort,'" Women’s Studies 19 (1990): 45-54.
"Beyond Humanism: Mythic Fantasy and Inhumanist Philosophy in the Long Poems of Robinson Jeffers and Gary Snyder," American Studies 30 (1989): 53-71.
"The High and Low Fantasies of Feminist (Re)Mythopoeia," Mythlore 60 (1989): 26-31.
"The Verse Novel: A Modern American Poetic Genre," College English 51 (1989): 57-72.
"De/Reconstructing the 'I': PostFANTASTICmodernist Poetry," Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 1.4 (1988): 39-48.
"The Realities of Unreal Worlds: King’s The Dead Zone, Schmidt’s Kensho, and Lem’s Solaris," Spectrum of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Sixth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, ed. Donald Palumbo, Greenwood Press, 1988. 175-83.
"Sex-Typing the Planet: Gaia Imagery and the Problem of Subverting Patriarchy," Environmental Ethics 10 (1988): 155-68.
"The Dialogical Voices of Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology," Studies in the Humanities 15 (1988): 13-32.
"Reclaiming the Power: Robinson Jeffers’s Verse Novels," Western American Literature 22 (1987): 125-48.
"Dialogics and Didacticism: John Brunner’s Narrative Blending," Science-Fiction Studies 14 (1987): 21-33.
"The Fantastic Experience in Poetry: Or, The Monsters are There, Where are the Critics?" Extrapolation 28 (1987): 23-36.
"B. Traven: Anarchist from the Jungle," B. Traven: Life and Work, ed. Ernst Shürer and Philip Jenkins, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986. 216-25.
Illumination and Affection in the Parallel Plots of 'The Rich Boy' and 'The Beast in the Jungle,'" Papers on Language & Literature 22 (1986): 406-16.
"C.S. Lewis’s Dymer: Once More With Hesitation," CSL: Bulletin of the New York C.S. Lewis Society 17.8 (1986): 1-8.
"Robinson Jeffers’ Macabre and Darkly Marvelous Double Axe," Western American Literature 20 (1985): 195-209.
"Two Different Paths in the Quest for Place: Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry," American Poetry 2 (1984): 60-68.

Conference Papers/Presentations

"Ecological Applications of Mikhail Bakhtin's Theory of Dialogics," Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China, April 13, 2009.
"Practicing Ecocriticism in Literary and Cultural Studies," Zhejiang Normal University, Jinan, China, April 16, 2009.
"Varieties of Environmental Literature in North America," Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China, April 15, 2009.
Keynote Address, "Climate Change, Cultural Contexts, and Classroom Discourse," International Symposium on Culture, Discourse, and Language Teaching," Zhejiang Normal University, Jinan, China, April 16-19, 2009.
"Time it Right to Rebalance Worlds: Ecological Restoration and Unintended Consequences in Karen Travisss Wsshar Wars Series," International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, March, 2009.
Keynote Address, "Terraculturation, Political Dissolution, and Myriad Reorientations," The Fourth Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse, Tamshui, Taiwan, May 23-24, 2008
"The Sublime Challenge of Climate Change: Terraforming the Planet, Terraforming Ourselves," 29th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, March 19-23, 2008.
Keynote Address, "Subjects, Identities, Bodies, and Selves: Configuring the Figurations of Ecological Fictions," Nature Matters: Materiality and the More-than-Human in Cultural Studies of the Environment” International Conference, York University, Toronto, October 2007
"Engineering Others, Engineering Ourselves: The Ethics of Terraforming and the Defining of Life in Recent Science Fiction," ASLE Conference, Spartanburg, SC, May 2007.
Workshop Leader, "International Literature and Ecocritical Theory," ASLE Conference, Spartanburg, SC, May 2007.
"Practicing Ecocriticism in Literary and Cultural Studies," lecture at Shantou Normal University, Jinan, China, April 9, 2007
"Roots, Shoots, Rocks and Streams: The Three Worlds of Literary Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism," lecture at Shanghai Normal University, April 5, 2007, and at Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China, April 11, 2007
"Teaching Asian American Literature: The Challenges of Multigenres, Multigenerations, and Interethnicity," lecture at Shantou University, Shantou, China, April 3, 2007
Keynote Address, "Nature in the Contemporary American Novel," English and American Literature International Symposium, Shanghai International Studies University, April 6-7, 2007
"Hurricanes and Hubris," international lecture, presented by invitation at Bath Spa University, University of Bath, and London Metropolitan University, England; also presented at Alps-Adriatic University and Karl Franzen University, Austria, April-May, 2006
"Multitasking and Multiplaying: The Contingent Contemporaneity of Iconographic Reading, Instant Messaging Multiplicity, Hypertext Fiction Indeterminacy, and Simulation Game Self-Fashioning," "Nature in the Contemporary American Novel," and "Grounding Anotherness and Answerability Through Allonational Ecoliterature Formations," Tamkang Visiting Chair Lectures, Taiwan, May 17, 18, and 19, 2005
"Nature in the Contemporary American Novel," lecture at Providence University, National Sun Yat-Sen University, and National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, May 23, 24, and 26, 2005
"Toward Ecocriticism," Shantou University, Shantou, China, 9 December 2003
Keynote Address, "Paradise/Pair o' Dice: Contradictory Characteristics, Counterindications, and the Contingencies of Environmental Justice in Real and Virtual Terrains for Tomorrow's College Students," The Second Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse, Tamkang University, Tamshui, Taiwan, 5-6 December 2003
"The Complexity of Simplicity," Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse, Tamkang University, Taiwan, October 2000
"Introduction to Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature," Meio University, Okinawa, July 1998
"Cultural Diversity, Biological Diversity, and Nature in Literature Around the World," ASLE-Japan Business Meeting, Kyoto, May 1998
"Region, Place, Community, and Self: Multicultural Literature's Implications for American Studies," Ryukyu American Studies and USIS-Sponsored Fulbright Lecture, Okinawa, May 1998
"Cities and Sites of Contradictions: Contemporary Chinese American Poetry," Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan; National Cheng Kung University, Taipan, Taiwan, March 1998
"Environmental Ethics, Environmental Justice, and Multicultural American Literature," Tohoku Lecture Series on American Studies, Sendai, Japan, March 1998
"Feminism, Ecology, and Postmodernism," Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan; National Cheng Kung University, Taipan, Taiwan; National Sun Yet Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, March 1998
"Woman and Nature: An Ecofeminist Perspective," Providence University Renaissance Festival, Taichung, Taiwan, March 1998
"Cultural Diversity, Biological Diversity, and Nature in Literature Around the World," Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taiwan, February 1998
"Postcolonial Theory and the Particularities of Okinawan/Ryukyuan/Japanese Identity," University of the Ryukyus Okinawa-American Relations Research Group, February 1998
"Trends in U.S. Literature: Environmentalism and Feminism in Literary Criticism," Nagoya University, November 1997
"Edges, Centers, and Ecotones: Issues of Literature Surveys and Historical Coverage," American Literature Society of Okinawa, October 1997
"Environmental Literature: Some Thoughts on Nature Writing and the Fiction of Nonfictionality," University of Hiroshima, October 1997
"'Location, Location, Location': The Situated Diversity of Planetary Literature," Plenary Presentation, Literature and Environment Conference, Swansea, England, March 1997
"American Literature of Nature: An Introduction," undergraduate lecture, Aoyama Gakuin University, Atsugi Campus, Tokyo, and Ferris Women's College, Yokohama, Japan, May 1996
"American Multiculturality: The Voices and Texts of Social Diversity and the Challenges of Teaching Them," University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan, May 1996
"Curricular Reform in the United States: Models, Problems and Prospects for Japan," USIS Nagoya American Center, Japan, May 1996
"Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism, and Postmodernism: Agency, Transformation, and Future Possibilities," Chu-Shikoku American Literature Society, Hiroshima, Japan, May 1996
"Ecofeminism: An Introduction and Analysis with Emphasis on Its Implications for Literary Study," English Department, Hiroshima University, Japan, May 1996
"Environmental Literature: Beyond Nature Writing and the Fiction of Nonfictionality," Association for the Study of Literature and Environment--Japan Annual Meeting, Aoyama Gakuin University, Shibuya Campus, Tokyo, Japan, May 1996
"The Impact of Theory on Curricular Change in American Universities," English Department, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, October 1990
Keynote Address, "'A Mountain Always Practices in Every Place': Gary Snyder's Climbing Over Transcendence," Fu Jen University Second International Conference on Literature and Religion, Taipei, September 1990

Miscellaneous Publications

"Gary Snyder," "Turtle Island," "Riprap," and "Milton by Firelight" in Encyclopedia of Beat Literature, ed. Kurt Hemmer, Facts on File, 2007. 214-15, 276-78, 287-90, 321-24.
Science Fiction from China, co-edited, translated into Italian as L'Onda Misteriosa, Milano: Mondadori, 2006.
Preface. La loca de Gandoca /The Madwoman of Gandoca. Anacristina Rossi. Trans. Terry J. Martin. Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. i-iii.
"Gary Snyder" and "Materialism," Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact, ed. Wm. T. Lawlor, ABC-CLIO, 2005. 218-19, 330-36.
"Joy Harjo," "Ishimure Michiko,""Minakata Kumagusu,""Pat Mora," and "Simon Ortiz," Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, ed. Bron Taylor and Jeffrey Kagan, Thoemes Continuum, 2005.
Foreword. Guicang Li, Red Dragons in the Land of Oz: The Literature of Chinese American Identity, Tunnel Press, 2003. i-v.
"A Few Words from a Fulbrighter on General Education," translated into Japanese by Chine Sonoi, University of the Ryukyus Education Center Newsletter, No. 2 Spring 1999.
"The Left Hand of the Pilgrim: Joanna Russ's Contributions to Criticism," New York Review of Science Fiction No.18 (Feb 1990): 1, 3-6.
"'Gender Politics': Epithet or Accolade? Or, Feminist SF and the Case of Joanna Russ," New York Review of Science Fiction No.10 (June 1989): 1, 3-5.