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

Editor. Contemplative Teaching and
     Learning in the Community College.
     New Directions for Community
     Colleges. (Jossey-Bass, forthcoming
     2010)
 

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, AACJC, 1992. 23-37.

Articles

With Barry Alford, "Let Them Eat Workforce
     Training." Dissident Voice,
     Dissidentvoice.com. July 29, 2009. 
     http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/07/let-
     them-eat-workforce-training/

"On Paying Attention: Flagpoles,Mindfulness,
     and Teaching Writing."  TETYC 36 
     (September 2008): 69 - 78.

Response to "The Waiting Self" and "TYCA to
    You"  (December 2007 TETYC issue).
    TETYC  36  Readers Write. (September
     2008): 81 - 82.

"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:

Against Schooling: Toward an Education that Matters,
       by Stanley Aronowitz. (Forthcoming TETYC)

Community College Faculty: At Work in the New
      Economy, by John S Levin, Susan Kater, and
      Richard L. Wagoner. TETYC 36 (May 2009):407-09.      

Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for
     Social Change, by Ira Shor. TETYC 21
     (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.