PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
“Middle-Class Drag: A Performance Piece.” Blue, Too: more Writing By (for or about) Working-Class Queers. Wendell Ricketts, editor. Fourcats Press, 2014.
“Work is a War, or All Their Lives They Dug Their Graves.” Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature. Michelle Tokarczyk, editor. New York: Routledge, 2011.
“Louis Owens’ Representations of Working-Class Consciousness.” Reprinted in Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West. Reginald Dyck and Cheli Reutter, editors. New York: Palgrave, 2009.
“Middle-Class Drag.” Resilience: Queer Professors from the Working Class. Kenneth Oldfield and Richard Greggory Johnson, editors. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009.
“‘A state of courage and wisdom…not an uncontrollable participation in society’: Ana Castillo’s Novel of Feminist and Working-Class Resistance.” A Class of Its Own: Re-Envisioning American Labor Fiction. Laura Hapke and Lisa A. Kirby, editors. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
“Vietnamese Exile Writers: Displacement, Identity, The Past and the Future.” Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period. Aránzazu Usandizaga and Andrew Monnickendam, editors. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
“New Working-Class Studies in Higher Education.” New Working-Class Studies. John Russo and Sherry Lee Linkon, editors. Cornell University Press, 2005.
“‘Shotgun Strategies’: Working-Class Literature and Violence.” Critical Essays on the Works of American Author Dorothy Allison. Christine Blouch and Laurie Vickroy, editors. Lewiston, New York: 2005.
“A Waitress, A Hairdresser, and their Daughters who Became Professors.” With Carolyn Whitson. Those Winter Sundays: Female Academics and Their Working-Class Parents. Kathleen A. Welsch, editor. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2005.
“The State of Higher Education in California.” Radical Teacher 73, 2005: 15-20.
“Louis Owens’ Representations of Working-Class Consciousness.” Louis Owens: Literary Reflections on His Life and Work. Jacquelyn Kilpatrick, editor. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.
“Sexuality and Social Class in the 21st Century: a Review Essay.” Feminist Studies 30.1 Spring 2004.
“‘Little Miss Tough Chick of the Universe’: Farscape’s Inverted Gender Dynamics.” Action Chicks. Sherrie Inness, Editor. Palgrave Press, 2003.
“Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Literature in a Postcolonial Context.” Beyond the Borders: American Literature and Post-Colonial Theory. Deborah L. Madsen, editor. London: Pluto Press, 2003.
“Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t.” Academe 89:4, 2003. 8 citations.
“Rags to Riches to Suicide: Unhappy Narratives of Upward Mobility: Martin Eden, Bread Givers, Delia’s Song, Hunger of Memory.” College Literature. 29:4, 2002. 16 citations.
“Springsteen, Diallo, and the NYC: Police: An Intersection of Race, Gender and Class.” Race, Gender and Class. (Proceedings of the 2000 Race, Gender & Class Conference). 9:3, 2002.
“A Cross-Cultural Context for Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Writing.” Of Vietnam: Identities in Dialogue. Jane Winston and Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier, eds. Palgrave Press, 2001.
“Teaching Working Class Literature to Mixed Audiences.” Teaching Working Class. Sherry Linkon, editor. University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
“Towards a Theory of Working-Class Literature.” with Carolyn Whitson. Thought and Action, 15:1, 1999. .
“Cultural Borders: Working-Class Literature’s Challenge to the Canon.” The Canon in the Classroom. John Alberti, ed. NY: Garland, 1995.
“A Carpenter’s Daughter.” This Fine Place So Far From Home. C.L. Barney Dews and Carolyn Law, eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press 1995.
“Negotiating the Viet Nam War Through Permeable Genre Borders: Aliens as Viet Nam War Film; Platoon as Horror Film.” LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 5, 1994.
“Five U.S. Wars in Asia and the Representation of Asians.” Nobody Gets Off the Bus: Viet Nam Generation Kali Tal, ed. Burning Cities Press, 1994.
“Borrowing Books.” Journal of Women and Religion 12 (Winter 1993).
“Lower Class Voices and the Establishment: The Reception of Carolyn Chute.” American Letters and Commentary 5 (1993).
Contributor, Vietnam War Filmography. Jean-Jacques Malo and Tony Williams, eds. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993.
“‘Upward’ Mobility and the Working-Class Student.” Multicultural America. Betty Ch’maj,ed. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993.
“Blue Dragon, White Tiger: The Bicultural Stance of Vietnamese American Literature.” Reading the Literatures of Asian America. Shirley Lim and Amy Ling, eds. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1992.
“The Unheard: Vietnamese Voices in the Literature Curriculum.” Understanding Others: Cultural and Cross Cultural Studies and the Teaching of Literature. Joseph Trimmer and Tilly Warnock, eds. National Council of Teachers of English, 1992.
“‘I Never Really Became a Woman Veteran...Until I Saw the Wall’: A Review of Oral Histories and Personal Narratives by Women Veterans of the War.” Vietnam Generation 1 (3-4), 1989.
Poetry:
“School Is,” “Sixties Generation,” “The Day After September 11, 2001.” Volpert, Megan, ed. This Assignment Is So Gay. Little Rock, Arkansas: Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013. Named one of the top 10 LGBTIQ books of the year by the American Library Association; finalist for a Lamba Literary Award, best anthology category.
“Performance Art.” Honorable Mention, Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award, 2013.
“Mutanabi Street Book Mart Bombing,” “The Greatest Magic Act of All,” The Camarillo Review, July, 2012.
“The Greatest Magic Act of All,” Honorable Mention, Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award, 2012.
“Shaping,” Labor 5:2, Summer 2008
“Fingers,” hardpan, March, 2007
“Mission to Mars,” “Fourth Grade Field Trip,” In The Grove, 2005
“For Emily, Many Years Too Late,” “Years Later, in Another City I Still Think of Her,” “Lost Love,” Journal of Lesbian Studies 8(3/4) 2004. Published simultaneously in Lesbian Ex-Lovers. Jacqueline Weinstock and Esther Rothblum, eds. Binghampton, New York: Harrington Park Press, 2004.
Excerpts from Viet Nam and California reprinted in Maxing Hong Kingston, The Fifth Book of Peace. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Featured Poet in the Spring/Summer 2002 issue of In The Grove, with the following poems published: “Born to Run,” “Passing,” “Bosnian Refugee, Barcelona,” “The Girl in the Picture,” and “The Week After Sept. 11, 2001.”
“High School: San Martin.” Identity Lessons. Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan, eds. Penguin, 1999.
Edited Works:
Guest Editor, special issue of western working-class literature, Western American Literature, 40:4, 2006.
Guest Editor, “Smart Kids” special issue of the minnesota review, 61-62, Spring/Summer 2004.
With Lisa Orr and Linda Strom, Working Class Lives and Cultures, a special issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly , Spring 1998, 26:1-2.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
“Middle-Class Drag: A Performance Piece.” Blue, Too: more Writing By (for or about) Working-Class Queers. Wendell Ricketts, editor. Fourcats Press, 2014.
“Work is a War, or All Their Lives They Dug Their Graves.” Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature. Michelle Tokarczyk, editor. New York: Routledge, 2011.
“Louis Owens’ Representations of Working-Class Consciousness.” Reprinted in Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West. Reginald Dyck and Cheli Reutter, editors. New York: Palgrave, 2009.
“Middle-Class Drag.” Resilience: Queer Professors from the Working Class. Kenneth Oldfield and Richard Greggory Johnson, editors. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009.
“‘A state of courage and wisdom…not an uncontrollable participation in society’: Ana Castillo’s Novel of Feminist and Working-Class Resistance.” A Class of Its Own: Re-Envisioning American Labor Fiction. Laura Hapke and Lisa A. Kirby, editors. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
“Vietnamese Exile Writers: Displacement, Identity, The Past and the Future.” Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period. Aránzazu Usandizaga and Andrew Monnickendam, editors. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
“New Working-Class Studies in Higher Education.” New Working-Class Studies. John Russo and Sherry Lee Linkon, editors. Cornell University Press, 2005.
“‘Shotgun Strategies’: Working-Class Literature and Violence.” Critical Essays on the Works of American Author Dorothy Allison. Christine Blouch and Laurie Vickroy, editors. Lewiston, New York: 2005.
“A Waitress, A Hairdresser, and their Daughters who Became Professors.” With Carolyn Whitson. Those Winter Sundays: Female Academics and Their Working-Class Parents. Kathleen A. Welsch, editor. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2005.
“The State of Higher Education in California.” Radical Teacher 73, 2005: 15-20.
“Louis Owens’ Representations of Working-Class Consciousness.” Louis Owens: Literary Reflections on His Life and Work. Jacquelyn Kilpatrick, editor. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.
“Sexuality and Social Class in the 21st Century: a Review Essay.” Feminist Studies 30.1 Spring 2004.
“‘Little Miss Tough Chick of the Universe’: Farscape’s Inverted Gender Dynamics.” Action Chicks. Sherrie Inness, Editor. Palgrave Press, 2003.
“Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Literature in a Postcolonial Context.” Beyond the Borders: American Literature and Post-Colonial Theory. Deborah L. Madsen, editor. London: Pluto Press, 2003.
“Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t.” Academe 89:4, 2003. 8 citations.
“Rags to Riches to Suicide: Unhappy Narratives of Upward Mobility: Martin Eden, Bread Givers, Delia’s Song, Hunger of Memory.” College Literature. 29:4, 2002. 16 citations.
“Springsteen, Diallo, and the NYC: Police: An Intersection of Race, Gender and Class.” Race, Gender and Class. (Proceedings of the 2000 Race, Gender & Class Conference). 9:3, 2002.
“A Cross-Cultural Context for Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Writing.” Of Vietnam: Identities in Dialogue. Jane Winston and Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier, eds. Palgrave Press, 2001.
“Teaching Working Class Literature to Mixed Audiences.” Teaching Working Class. Sherry Linkon, editor. University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
“Towards a Theory of Working-Class Literature.” with Carolyn Whitson. Thought and Action, 15:1, 1999. .
“Cultural Borders: Working-Class Literature’s Challenge to the Canon.” The Canon in the Classroom. John Alberti, ed. NY: Garland, 1995.
“A Carpenter’s Daughter.” This Fine Place So Far From Home. C.L. Barney Dews and Carolyn Law, eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press 1995.
“Negotiating the Viet Nam War Through Permeable Genre Borders: Aliens as Viet Nam War Film; Platoon as Horror Film.” LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 5, 1994.
“Five U.S. Wars in Asia and the Representation of Asians.” Nobody Gets Off the Bus: Viet Nam Generation Kali Tal, ed. Burning Cities Press, 1994.
“Borrowing Books.” Journal of Women and Religion 12 (Winter 1993).
“Lower Class Voices and the Establishment: The Reception of Carolyn Chute.” American Letters and Commentary 5 (1993).
Contributor, Vietnam War Filmography. Jean-Jacques Malo and Tony Williams, eds. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993.
“‘Upward’ Mobility and the Working-Class Student.” Multicultural America. Betty Ch’maj,ed. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993.
“Blue Dragon, White Tiger: The Bicultural Stance of Vietnamese American Literature.” Reading the Literatures of Asian America. Shirley Lim and Amy Ling, eds. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1992.
“The Unheard: Vietnamese Voices in the Literature Curriculum.” Understanding Others: Cultural and Cross Cultural Studies and the Teaching of Literature. Joseph Trimmer and Tilly Warnock, eds. National Council of Teachers of English, 1992.
“‘I Never Really Became a Woman Veteran...Until I Saw the Wall’: A Review of Oral Histories and Personal Narratives by Women Veterans of the War.” Vietnam Generation 1 (3-4), 1989.
Poetry:
“School Is,” “Sixties Generation,” “The Day After September 11, 2001.” Volpert, Megan, ed. This Assignment Is So Gay. Little Rock, Arkansas: Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013. Named one of the top 10 LGBTIQ books of the year by the American Library Association; finalist for a Lamba Literary Award, best anthology category.
“Performance Art.” Honorable Mention, Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award, 2013.
“Mutanabi Street Book Mart Bombing,” “The Greatest Magic Act of All,” The Camarillo Review, July, 2012.
“The Greatest Magic Act of All,” Honorable Mention, Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award, 2012.
“Shaping,” Labor 5:2, Summer 2008
“Fingers,” hardpan, March, 2007
“Mission to Mars,” “Fourth Grade Field Trip,” In The Grove, 2005
“For Emily, Many Years Too Late,” “Years Later, in Another City I Still Think of Her,” “Lost Love,” Journal of Lesbian Studies 8(3/4) 2004. Published simultaneously in Lesbian Ex-Lovers. Jacqueline Weinstock and Esther Rothblum, eds. Binghampton, New York: Harrington Park Press, 2004.
Excerpts from Viet Nam and California reprinted in Maxing Hong Kingston, The Fifth Book of Peace. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Featured Poet in the Spring/Summer 2002 issue of In The Grove, with the following poems published: “Born to Run,” “Passing,” “Bosnian Refugee, Barcelona,” “The Girl in the Picture,” and “The Week After Sept. 11, 2001.”
“High School: San Martin.” Identity Lessons. Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan, eds. Penguin, 1999.
Edited Works:
Guest Editor, special issue of western working-class literature, Western American Literature, 40:4, 2006.
Guest Editor, “Smart Kids” special issue of the minnesota review, 61-62, Spring/Summer 2004.
With Lisa Orr and Linda Strom, Working Class Lives and Cultures, a special issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly , Spring 1998, 26:1-2.