Faculty Publications

Our faculty are active scholars who publish on many aspects of American Studies. Below you'll find a non-exhaustive list of publications from current faculty and post-doctoral fellows.

Molly Ball

  • “Ambivalent Advances: Narrative Progress as Violence in Susanna Rowson’s Reuben and Rachel.” Legacy, A Journal of American Women Writers. 39.2 (2022): 1-23.
  • “The Business of Marriage, Pluralized: Mormonism and Money in Button’s Inn,” in Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion Tourgée, Eds. Sandra Gustafson and Robert Levine. Fordham UP. (2022): 138-150.
  • “Localizing American Studies: Mapping Nationality.” Early American Literature 52.3 (2017): 691-707.
  • “On Making the Present Past: Non-Generational Temporality in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 62.3 (2016): 245-268.

Bianet Castellanos

  • M. B. Castellanos. 2017. Special Forum "Settler Colonialism in Latin America," American Quarterly, 67(4). 
  • M. B. Castellanos. 2017. "Rewriting the Mexican Immigrant Narrative: Situating Indigeneity in Maya Women's Stories." For Special Issue "Critical Latinx Indigeneities," eds. Maylei Blackwell and Luis Urrieta. Latino Studies 15(2): 219-241. 
  • M. B. Castellanos, L. Gutiérrez Nájera, and A. Aldama, eds. 2012. Comparative Indigeneities of the Américas: Towards a Hemispheric Approach. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
  • M. B. Castellanos. 2015. “Idealizing Maya Culture: The Politics of Race, Indigeneity, and Immigration among Maya Restaurant Owners in Southern California.” In Special Issue, “Reframing Immigration in the Américas,” Enrique C. Ochoa, Gilda L. Ochoa, Suyapa G. Portillo, eds. Diálogo Journal 18(2): 67-78.

Brenda Child

  • My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation (MHS Press, 2014) Prizes: National American Indian Book Award; Best Book in Midwestern History: Award of Merit from the American Association of State and Local History
  • Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education (with Brian Klopotek, SAR Press, 2014)
  • Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community (Viking/Penguin, 2012)

Kale Fajardo

  • K. Fajardo. "Decolonizing Manila-Men and St. Malo, Louisiana: A Queer Postcolonial Asian American Critique" in Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora. Martin F. Manalansan IV and Augusto Espiritu, Eds. New York University Press, 2016. 

David Karjanen

  • D. Karjanen. The Servant Class City: Urban Revitalization Versus the Poor in San Diego. University of Minnesota Press. 
  • D. Karjanen. The Limits to Quantitative Thinking: Engaging Economies on the Unemployed. In Anthropologies of Unemployment: New Perspectives on the Work and its Absence, Carrie Lane Chet and Jong Burn Kwon eds. Cornell University Press. 34-52. 
  • D. Karjanen. Morality, Normativity, and Economic Development in Slovakia. Studies of Transition States and Societies, 7(1), 2015, 27-40. 

Elliott Powell 

  • Review of Resilience and Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism by Robin James. Winchester: Zero Books, 2015. philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism, Vol. 7 No. 1 (Winter 2017): 179-185.