Publications

"If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failure that any finished works of art implies." -John Dos Passos

Co-Editor with Barry Alford. The Politics of
      Writing in the Two-Year College.
      Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2001.

Editor. Maintaining Faculty Excellence. New
     Directions for Community Colleges. Vol. 
     79. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.

Book Chapters
 

With Barry Alford. "Introduction." In The
      Politics of Writing in the Two-Year
      College. 2001. v-viii.

With Barry Alford. "Scholarship, Tenure, and
      Composition Studies in the Two-Year
      College." In Academic Advancement in
      Composition Studies. Ed. Richard C.
      Gephardt and Barbara Genelle Smith 
     Gephardt. New Jersey: Lawrence
      EarlBaum, 1997. 57-70.

"(Re)Viewing Faculty Training and
      Development." In Two-Year College
      Students: Essays for a New Century. Ed.
      Mark J. Reynolds. Urbana: NCTE, 1994.
      196-211.

"Empowering Faculty as Teacher-
     Researchers." In Fostering a Climate for
     Faculty Scholarship in Community,
     Technical, and Junior Colleges. Ed.
     George B. Vaughan and James C. Palmer.
     Washington, DC, AACJA, 1992. 23-37.

Articles

"On Paying Attention: Flagpoles,
       Mindfulness, and Teaching Writing"
       (Forthcoming TETYC September 2008)

Response to "The Waiting Self" and "TYCA to You"  (December 2007 TETYC issue)
     (Forthcoming TETYC September 2008)

"The Practitioner as Classroom
      Researcher." Literacy Network: A
       Journal of Literacy Networks 1.2 (May
       1995): 55- 67.

"A Profile of Community College English
      Faculty and Curriculum." Community
     College Review 22.3 (December 1994):
     37-54.

“A Profile and Perspective of Part-Time Two-Year College English Faculty.” TETYC 21.4 (Dec. 1994): 277-87.

“Addressing the Poltiical Agenda of Teacher-Research.” TETYC 19.2 (May 1992): 103-.4.

Nist, Elizabeth A, Helon Howell Raines, and Keith Kroll. “Empowering Writing in the Margins: A Search for Community College Voices.” Writing Ourselves into the Story. Ed. Susan Hunter. Carbondale: SIU Press, 1992.

“The Man from Motor City: Loren D
      Estleman.” The Armchair Detective
     Winter 1991: 4-11

“Using Reader Response in an American Literature Course.” The Whole Language Catalog. Ed. Kenneth S Goodman, Lois Bridges Bird, and Yetta M Goodman. New York: American School Publisher, 1991. 113.

“An Interivew with Loren D. Estleman.” Western Ohio Journal 10.1 (Sept. 1989): 9-14.

“Talking About Two Frontier.” The Bloomsbury Review July-Aug. 1989: 18-19.

“Insitutional Incentive for Professional
      Publication.” TETYC 16.2 (June 1989):
      81-82.

“Institutional Incentive for Professional Publication: Community College Staff Development.” Community College Humanities Review 10 (1989): 48-50.

“Henry W. Allen (Will Henry/‌Clay Fisher): A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources.” Bulletin of Bibliography 44.4 (Dec. 1987): 219-31.

with Dan Pearce. “Len Fulton.” Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1985. By Gale research. Ed. Jean Ross. Detroit: Gale, 1987. 286-94.

“Index to James I McClintock’s White Logic.”
     Jack London Newsletter 19.2 (July-Aug.
     1986): 47-54

“Henry W. Allen (Will Henry/‌Clay Fisher).”
      Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook
     1985. Ed. Jean Ross. Dictionary of
      Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1986.
      319-28.

Community College Staff Development: Institutional Incentive for Professional Publication. Austin, TX: Innovation Abstracts, February 3, 1989.

"Building Communities: Joining the
      Community of Professional Writing
      Teachers." Teaching English in the Two-
     Year College 17 (May 1990): 103-08.

with Lisa A. Wininger.  The 1982 Jack London Biographical Calendar. Davis, California. 1981.

Reviews:

Community College Faculty: At Work in the New
      Economy, by John S Levin, Susan Kater, and
      Richard L. Wagoner. (Forthcoming in TETYC)

Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for
     Social Change, by Ira Shor. TETYC 21.3
     (Oct. 1993): 237.

 The Quest for Quality: The Challenge of Undergraduate Education in the 1990s, by Lewis B Mayhew. TETYC 18.4 (Dec. 1991): 298-99.

The Modern American Novel 1914-45“ A
      Critical History, by Linda Wagner-Martin.
      TETYC 18.2 (May 1991): 153-54.

Will Henry/‌Clay Fisher, by Robert L Gale.
     North Dakota Quarterly 53.3 (Summer
     1985): 191-92.