Publications

• Wanderwords: Language Migration in American Literature (New York: Bloomsbury 2014) ISBN 978-1-62892-163-2 Hb and e-book; pb 2016.


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  Alice Walker second edition (revised, extended and updated) (London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan 2011) ISBN 978-0-230-57589-9 PB. 978-0-2305-7588-2 HB.

  
  


• Alice Walker MacMillan Modern Novelists (Basingstoke: Palgrave/MacMillan 2000)


• Liberating Literature: Feminist Fiction in America (London and New York: Routledge 1994)

• Beginning Ethnic American Literatures (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2001) with Helena Grice, Candida Hepworth and Martin Padget ‘Introduction’ 1-10 and ‘African American Fiction’ 64-132.

 Book contributions

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  ‘Bharati Mukherjee’s English: the Multilingualism of an American Novelist’ in Jopi Nyman (ed.) Post-national Enquiries: Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars 2009) pp.170-90. ISBN 1-4438-0593-9 ‘Alice Walker’ in David Seed (ed.) A Companion to Twentieth Century United States Fiction (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2009) pp.489-96. ISBN 978-0-4051-4691-3

  
  


• ‘”The Approval of Headquarters”: Race and Ethnicity in English Studies’ in Martin Bulmer and John Solomos (eds) Ethnic and Racial Studies Today (London: Routledge 1999) 124-35.


• ‘Hollywood Romance in the AIDS Era: Ghost and When Harry Met Sally…’  in Lynne Pearce and Gina Wisker (eds) Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature  (London: Pluto Press 1998) 20-37.


• ‘“I’ve Got a Right to Sing the Blues”: Alice Walker’s Aesthetic’ in Richard King and Helen Taylor (eds) Dixie Debates: Perspectives on Southern Cultures (London: Pluto 1996) 51-66.


• ‘Feminism and Culture –the Movie: a  Critical Overview of Writing on Women and Cinema’ rpt. in Mary Evans (ed.) The Woman Question 2nd edition (London: SAGE 1994) 156-67.


• ‘”It’s My Party”: Fictions of the Sexual Revolution’ in Gina Wisker (ed.) It’s My Party: Reading Twentieth Century Women’s Writing (London: Pluto 1994) 28-43.


• ‘Feminist Criticism and the Case of Contemporary Feminist Fiction: Challenges to Theory’ in L.Brouwer et al. (eds) Beyond Limits: Boundaries in Feminist Semiotics and Literary Theory University of Groningen Press, Groningen, The Netherlands, 1990, 71-82.

 Refereed articles

• ‘”Your Own Goddamn Idiom:” Junot Díaz’ Translingualism’ for special issue on Translingualism of Studies in the Novel (in press)


• ‘Life in a Box: Gender, Migration and Language in the Bilingual Archive of Truus van Bruinessen, a Dutch –Canadian Housewife of the 1950s’ Tijdschrift voor Gender Studies  Vol. 19 No. 3 (2016) 301-20.


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  ‘Americanization Now and Then: the “nation of immigrants” in the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries’ Journal of American Studies Vol.50 No.2 (May 2016) pp.419-47.

  
  


• ‘When is an Immigrant’s Autobiography Not an Immigrant Autobiography? The Americanization of Edward Bok’ MELUS 38: 3 (Fall 2013) 1-18.


• ‘How to Read Michelle Obama’ in Obama and Race: History, Culture, Politics. Special issue guest-edited by Richard King Patterns of Prejudice 45: 1/2 February/May 2011 95-117. ISSN 0031-322X


• ‘Feminism and Culture: the Movie’ in Women: a Cultural Review, Vol. 2 No. 1 Spring 1991, 51-69.


• ‘Seizing Time and Making New: Feminist Criticism, Politics and Contemporary Feminist Fiction’ in Feminist Review No.31, Spring 1989, 94-106.

 Edited works

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  The French Atlantic, special issue of Atlantic Studies, 4.1 (March 2007) co-edited with Bill Marshall and David Murphy