{"id":1439,"date":"2022-12-02T18:39:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T02:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/engl\/?page_id=1439"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:54:12","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/engl\/graduate\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Explore Graduate Publications<\/h3>\n

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\u00a0Career Placement<\/a>\u00a0page.<\/p>\n

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Ava Chin
\nMott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming<\/em>
\nPenguin Press, 2023<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Douglas Manuel
\nTrouble Funk<\/em>
\nRed Hen Press, 2023<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Chris Abani
\nSmoking the Bible<\/em>
\nCopper Canyon Press, 2022<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Stacy Gnall
\nDogged<\/em>
\nUniversity of Massachusetts Press, 2022<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Genevieve Kaplan
\nAviary<\/em>
\nVeliz Books, 2020<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Jennifer Dobbs
\nNecro Citizens<\/em>
\nHochroth Bielefeld, 2019<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u00a0<\/span>Samuel Park
\nThe Caregiver<\/em>
\nSimon & Schuster, 2019<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Jessica Plazza
\nOlivia Otter Builds Her Raft<\/em>
\nFeminem, 2018<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Alexia Lothian
\nOld Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility <\/em>
\nNYU Press, 2018<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Marci McMahon
\nAdvancing Women in Academic STEM fields…<\/em>
\nInformation Age Publishing, 2018<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Amaranth Borsuk
\nThe Book<\/em>
\nMIT Press, 2018<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Jennifer Dobbs
\nInterrogation Room<\/em>
\nWhite Pine Press (NY), 2018<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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John Bruns
\nHitchcock\u2019s People, Places, and Things<\/em>
\nNorthwestern University Press, 2019<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Douglas Manuel
\nTestify<\/em>
\nRed Hen Press, 2017<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Peter O\u2019Neil
\nFamine Irish and the American Racial State<\/em>
\nRoutledge, 2017<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Erika Wright
\nReading for Health: Medical Narratives and the Nineteenth-Century Novel<\/em>
\nOhio University Press, 2016<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Bonnie Nadazm
\nLions<\/em>
\nBlack Cat, 2016<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Chris Abani
\nThe Secret History of Las Vegas<\/em>
\nPenguin, 2014<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Ava Chin
\nEating Wildly<\/em>
\nSimon & Schuster, 2014<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Stephan Clark
\nSweetness #9<\/em>
\nLittle Brown & Company, 2014<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Stephen Park
\nThe Pan American Imagination<\/em>
\nUniversity of Virginia, 2014<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Richard Fliegal
\nDeath of a Charity Girl<\/em>
\nChemsford Press, 2013<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Nora Gilbert
\nBetter Left Unsaid<\/em>
\nStanford, 2013<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Genevieve Kaplan
\nSetting for the Scenes<\/em>
\nConclusive Editions, 2013<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Marci McMahon
\nDomestic Negotiations<\/em>
\nRutgers, 2013<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Tami Parr
\nPacific Northwest<\/em>
\nOregon State, 2013<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Jessica Piazza
\nInterrobang<\/em>
\nRed Hen Press, 2013<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Andrew Allport
\nThe Body of Space in the Shape of the Human <\/em>
\nNew Issues Poetry and Prose, 2012<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Amaranth Borsuk
\nBetween Page and Screen<\/em>
\nSiglio Press, 2012<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Amaranth Borsuk
\nHandiwork<\/em>
\nSlope Editions, 2012<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Stephan Clark
\nVladimir\u2019s Mustache and Other Stories<\/em>
\nRussian Information Services, Inc., 2012<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Alexia Lothian
\nThe WisCon Chronicles Vol. 6<\/em>
\nAqueduct Press, 2012<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Samuel Park
\nThis Burns My Heart <\/em>
\nSimon & Schuster, 2012<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Shefali Rajamannar
\nReading the Animal in Literature of the British RAJ<\/em>
\nPalgrave MacMillan, 2012<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Ned Schantz
\nGossip, Letter, Phones<\/em>
\nOxford, 2012<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Stacy Gnall
\nHeart First into the Forest \u00a0<\/em>
\nAlice James Books, 2011<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Genevieve Kaplan
\nIn the Ice House<\/em>
\nRed Hen Press, 2011<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Katherine Karlin
\nSend Me Work<\/em>
\nNorthwestern, 2011<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Unhae Langis
\nPassion, Prudence, and Virtue in Shakespearean Drama<\/em>
\nBloomsburry, 2011<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Sun Hee Teresa Lee
\nHow to Analyze the Films of Tim Burton<\/em>
\nAbdo Publishing Company, 2011<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Bonnie Nadazm
\nLamb <\/em>
\nOther Press, 2011<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Laura Trombley
\nMark Twain\u2019s Other Woman<\/em>
\nKnopf, 2011<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Annalisa Zox-Weaver
\nWomen Modernist and Fascism<\/em>
\nCambridge, 2011<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Chris Abani
\nSanctificum \u00a0<\/em>
\nCopper Canyon Press, 2010<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Amaranth Borsuk
\nTonal Saw<\/em>
\nThe Song Cave, 2010<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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James Penner
\nPinks, Pansies, and Punks<\/em>
\nIndiana University, 2010<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Amy Schroeder
\nThe Sleep Hotel<\/em>
\nOberlin, 2010<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Sean Zwagerman
\nWit\u2019s End<\/em>
\nUniversity of Pittsburgh, 2010<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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John Bruns
\nLoopholes<\/em>
\nTransaction Publishers, 2009<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Molly Engelhardt
\nDancing out of Line<\/em>
\nOhio University, 2009<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Peter O\u2019Neill
\nThe Black and Green Atlantic<\/em>
\nPalgrave Macmillian, 2009<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Chris Abani
\nThe Virgin of Flames \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>
\nPenguin Books, 2008<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Kent Baxter
\nThe Modern Age <\/em>
\nUniversity of Alabama, 2008<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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Jennifer Dobbs
\nPaper Pavillion<\/em>
\nWhite Pine Press, 2007<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Laura Trombley
\nMark Twain in the Company of Women<\/em>
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania, 1994<\/h6>\n<\/td>\n
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