Explore Graduate Publications

See below for a selection of published works from our graduate students and alumni. For more comprehensive information about our graduate alumni, please visit our Career Placement page.

You are currently viewing these books chronologically, with the most recent publications first.

Ava Chin
Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
Penguin Press, 2023
Douglas Manuel
Trouble Funk
Red Hen Press, 2023
Chris Abani
Smoking the Bible
Copper Canyon Press, 2022
Stacy Gnall
Dogged
University of Massachusetts Press, 2022
Genevieve Kaplan
Aviary
Veliz Books, 2020
Jennifer Dobbs
Necro Citizens
Hochroth Bielefeld, 2019
 Samuel Park
The Caregiver
Simon & Schuster, 2019
Jessica Plazza
Olivia Otter Builds Her Raft
Feminem, 2018
Alexia Lothian
Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility
NYU Press, 2018
Marci McMahon
Advancing Women in Academic STEM fields…
Information Age Publishing, 2018
Amaranth Borsuk
The Book
MIT Press, 2018
Jennifer Dobbs
Interrogation Room
White Pine Press (NY), 2018
John Bruns
Hitchcock’s People, Places, and Things
Northwestern University Press, 2019
Douglas Manuel
Testify
Red Hen Press, 2017
Peter O’Neil
Famine Irish and the American Racial State
Routledge, 2017
Erika Wright
Reading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Ohio University Press, 2016
Bonnie Nadazm
Lions
Black Cat, 2016
Chris Abani
The Secret History of Las Vegas
Penguin, 2014
Ava Chin
Eating Wildly
Simon & Schuster, 2014
Stephan Clark
Sweetness #9
Little Brown & Company, 2014
Stephen Park
The Pan American Imagination
University of Virginia, 2014
Richard Fliegal
Death of a Charity Girl
Chemsford Press, 2013
Nora Gilbert
Better Left Unsaid
Stanford, 2013
Genevieve Kaplan
Setting for the Scenes
Conclusive Editions, 2013
Marci McMahon
Domestic Negotiations
Rutgers, 2013
Tami Parr
Pacific Northwest
Oregon State, 2013
Jessica Piazza
Interrobang
Red Hen Press, 2013
Andrew Allport
The Body of Space in the Shape of the Human
New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2012
Amaranth Borsuk
Between Page and Screen
Siglio Press, 2012
Amaranth Borsuk
Handiwork
Slope Editions, 2012
Stephan Clark
Vladimir’s Mustache and Other Stories
Russian Information Services, Inc., 2012
Alexia Lothian
The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6
Aqueduct Press, 2012
Samuel Park
This Burns My Heart
Simon & Schuster, 2012
Shefali Rajamannar
Reading the Animal in Literature of the British RAJ
Palgrave MacMillan, 2012
Ned Schantz
Gossip, Letter, Phones
Oxford, 2012
Stacy Gnall
Heart First into the Forest  
Alice James Books, 2011
Genevieve Kaplan
In the Ice House
Red Hen Press, 2011
Katherine Karlin
Send Me Work
Northwestern, 2011
Unhae Langis
Passion, Prudence, and Virtue in Shakespearean Drama
Bloomsburry, 2011
Sun Hee Teresa Lee
How to Analyze the Films of Tim Burton
Abdo Publishing Company, 2011
Bonnie Nadazm
Lamb
Other Press, 2011
Laura Trombley
Mark Twain’s Other Woman
Knopf, 2011
Annalisa Zox-Weaver
Women Modernist and Fascism
Cambridge, 2011
Chris Abani
Sanctificum  
Copper Canyon Press, 2010
Amaranth Borsuk
Tonal Saw
The Song Cave, 2010
James Penner
Pinks, Pansies, and Punks
Indiana University, 2010
Amy Schroeder
The Sleep Hotel
Oberlin, 2010
Sean Zwagerman
Wit’s End
University of Pittsburgh, 2010
John Bruns
Loopholes
Transaction Publishers, 2009
Molly Engelhardt
Dancing out of Line
Ohio University, 2009
Peter O’Neill
The Black and Green Atlantic
Palgrave Macmillian, 2009
Chris Abani
The Virgin of Flames   
Penguin Books, 2008
Kent Baxter
The Modern Age
University of Alabama, 2008
Jennifer Dobbs
Paper Pavillion
White Pine Press, 2007
Laura Trombley
Mark Twain in the Company of Women
University of Pennsylvania, 1994

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