TV
2001-2005
VIETNAM AND OTHER AMERICAN FANTASIES. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. x1v+256 pages. Paperback, 2001. [Spanish edition: VIETNAM Y LAS FANTASIAS NORTEAMERICANAS. Translated by Mario Iribarren. Introduction by Pablo Pozzi. Buenos Aires: Final Abierto, 2008. 382 pages. 2nd Edition, Introduction by Eduardo Grüner. Buenos Aires: Final Abierto, 2012. 374 pages.][Cuban edition, Introduction by Jorge Hernández Martínez. Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2017. 317 pages.]
"Kicking the Denial Syndrome: Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods" in Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each Other). Ed. Mark C. Carnes. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 331-343.
"The War in American Culture about the Vietnam War" ("Xung Dot Trong Nen Van Hoa My Xung Quanh Van de Chien Tranh Viet Nam") in Tiep Can Duong Dai Van Hoa My: Contemporary Approaches to American Culture. Ed. Nguyen Lien and Jonathan Auerbach. Hanoi, 2001. 257-298.
"The Most Important Fish in the Sea," Discover, September 2001. 44-51.
("The Most Important Fish in the Sea" reprinted by California Fish (http://www.californiafish.org/menahden collapse.html). September 24, 2001)
"(The Most Important Fish in the Sea" reprinted by Coastal Conservation Association Virginia, September 2001 (http://www.ccavirginia.org/cca_va_html/menhadenDiscover.html)
"Interviews on Vietnam and Other American Fantasies : KVMR (Nevada City, CA), November 15, 2000; "Democracy Now," WBAI (New York) and Pacifica Radio Network, November 16, 2000; WORT (Madison, WI), November 20, 2000; I E Radio Network, November 21, 2000; "New York and Company," WNYC (New York), November 22, 2000; KPFA (Berkeley), November 28, 2000; Working Assets Radio, November 30, 2000; KPFK (Los Angeles), November 14, 2000, WUSB (Stony Brook, NY), December 11, 2000; KQED (San Francisco), January 8, 2001; "Public Interest," National Public Radio, January 12, 2001, KUCI (Irvine, CA), January 17, 2001; et al.
"The Vietnam War and the Culture Wars; Or, The Perils of Western Civilization," Popular Culture Association Convention, Philadelphia, April 13, 2001.
Programs on Bob Kerrey and the Vietnam War: Pacifica Radio Network, April 26, 2001; Radio France International, May 2, 2001; "Talk of the Nation," National Public Radio, May 2, 2001; "Talking History," National Public Radio, May 28, 2001; WORT (Madison, WI), June 5, 2001; WBAI (New York), June 20, 2001.
"The Vietnam War and the Culture Wars; Or, The Perils of Western Civilization," Popular Culture Association Convention, Philadelphia, April 13, 2001.
"Reading the Future," Keynote Address, New Jersey Council of Teachers of English, Newark, May 4, 2001.
On Cuba-US Relations, WPKN (Hartford), June 12, 2001.
"Teaching the Vietnam War," The William Joiner Center, University of Massachusetts, Boston, June 27, 2001.
"Agent Orange," Radio France International, July 2, 2001.
"Cluster Bomb," Democracy Now, Pacifica Radio, October 26, 2001.
"Teaching the Vietnam War During the 'War on Terrorism,'" American Studies Association Convention, November 11, 2001.
On Menhaden, WGBB, December 8, 2001.
("The Antiwar Movement We Are Supposed to Forget" reprinted in International Socialist Review, March-April 2002. 50-54.)
"The Science Fiction of Medicine," in No Cure for the Future: Disease and Medicine in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Gary Westfahl and George Slusser. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002. 9-22.
"Computers in Fiction," Computer Sciences. Ed. Roger R. Flynn. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2002.
(Chapter on "Bartleby" from The Wake of the Gods reprinted in Melville's Short Novels: Norton Critical Edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002, 176-185.)
"Nuclear War Literature," in Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Ronald Gottesman and Mauricio Mazón. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002.
"Missing in Action in the 21st Century" in Blackwell Companion to the Vietnam War. Ed. Marilyn Young and Robert Buzzanco. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002, 2006. 317-332.
"The Most Important Fish in the Sea," reprinted in The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Ed. Natalie Angier. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Fall 2002. 80-88.
("The Most Important Fish in the Sea" reproduced in "Physical and Integrated Science," Powerweb. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. Fall 2002.)
("The Most Important Fish in the Sea" reproduced in "Oceanography 03/04," Powerweb. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. Fall 2002. )
"From Vietnam to Afghanistan," Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, February 10, 2002.
On Jack Henry Abbott, All Things Considered," National Public Radio, February 12, 2002. Archived at www.npr.org.
"Teaching 9/11: Contexts and Texts," Conference on September 11: One Year After, Museum of the City of New York, October 19, 2002.
"Teaching the Literature of the Vietnam War," Modern Language Association Convention, December 28, 2002.
1973-2002 : Editorial Board, Editorial Consultant, Science-Fiction Studies.
"The Quiet American's War on Terror," The Nation. February 3, 2003. 43-44.
"We'll Take Menhaden," Star-Ledger, March 16, 2003. Perspective section,1 and 6.
"Can Vietnam Awaken Us Again: Teaching the Literature of the Vietnam War," Radical Teacher, 66 (Spring 2003). 28-31.
("From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars" reprinted in The Arlington Reader: Canons and Contexts, Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom, Louise Smith, and Ning Yu. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. 514-530.)
("The Most Important Fish in the Sea" reprinted in Outlooks: Readings for Environmental Literacy, 2nd ed. Ed. Michael McKinney. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett, 2004. 19-23.)
"Under Attack for 150 Years," Clarion, Summer 2003, 10.
"`Peace Is Our Profession': The Bombers Take Over," in The Airplane and American Culture. Ed. Dominick A. Pisano. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2003. 333-356.
On War and Historical Memory, WUSB (Stony Brook, NY), January 13, 2003."Teaching in a Time of War Fever," Panel, Socialist Scholars Conference, March 15, 2003.
"Vietnam Again," Talkback, WBAI, April 23, 2003.
"Vietnam and Iraq," Pastors for Peace/IFCO, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, April 24, 2003.
"Teaching American Literature Post 9/11," Roundtable, American Literature Association, May 22, 2003.
Commentator, "The Cold War and American Memory," American Studies Association Convention, October 16, 2003.Keynote address, American Studies Association Secondary Educators' Luncheon, October 18, 2003.
"War Is Peace: Washington's Final Science Fiction Solution," Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature Discussion Group, Modern Language Association Convention, December 29, 2003.
"Bioterror Comes Home," Literature and Science Division, Modern Language Association Convention, December 30, 2003.
("The Most Important Fish in the Sea" reprinted in Outlooks: Readings for Environmental Literacy, 2nd ed. Ed. Michael McKinney. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett, 2004. 19-23.)
"Under Attack for 150 Years," Clarion, Summer 2003, 10.
"`Peace Is Our Profession': The Bombers Take Over," in The Airplane and American Culture. Ed. Dominick A. Pisano. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2003. 333-356.
"Menhaden: Our Most Precious Fish," The Sportsman's Magazine, February 2004, 24, 49. Reprinted in Rhode Island Saltwalter Anglers Association Newsletter, April 2004, 1, 37-39.
"Computers in Fiction" in Concise Encyclopedia of Computer Science. Ed. Edwin Reilly. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2004. 322-325.
("Animal Farm Unbound Or, What the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Reveals about American Literature" reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 141 [NCLC-141]. Farmington Hills, MI: The Gale Group, 2004.)
("From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars" reprinted in The Brief Arlington Reader: Canons and Contexts, Ed. Lynn Z. Bloom, Louise Smith, and Ning Yu. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. 384-400.)
"Billy Budd and Capital Punishment," San Francisco Opera 2004/2005 Yearbook. San Francisco, 2004. 32-35.
"Billy Budd, War, Empire, and Music," Billy Budd Program, San Francisco Opera 2004-2005 Season. San Francisco, 2004. xi-xii.
"Ralph Nader and the Progressive Agenda," TruthOut.org, October 17, 2004. http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101704F.shtml
"The American Prison and the Normalization of Torture" in Torture, American Style, ed. Margaret Power. November 28, 2004. http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/resources/torture/brucefranklin.html
"War is Peace: Washington's Final Science Fiction Solution," Fictions (Rome) III (2004), 13-20.
Review of The Final Frontier: America, Science, and Terror by Dominick Jenkins, Science & Society, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Winter 2004-2005), 520-522.
"When Did the Vietnam War Begin?", American Historical Association, January 10, 2004.
"The Hidden History of the Antiwar Movement," New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Center, March 27, 2004.
"The Antiwar Movement We Are Not Supposed to Know About," New School University, March 30, 2004.
"When Did the Vietnam War Begin? And What Difference Does It Make?" Yeshiva University, April 22, 2004.
"Kerry and Vietnam," WRT (Madison, WI), September 14, 2004.
"Iraq and Vietnam," West Chester University (PA), October 12, 2004.
"History of the Vietnam War," Montclair Adult School, October 19, 2004.
"History of the Iraq War," Kean University, October 21, 2004.
"Billy Budd and Capital Punishment," San Francisco Opera 2004/2005 Yearbook. San Francisco, 2004. 32-35.
"Billy Budd, War, Empire, and Music," Billy Budd Program, San Francisco Opera 2004-2005 Season. San Francisco, 2004. xi-xii.
"Ralph Nader and the Progressive Agenda," TruthOut.org, October 17, 2004. http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101704F.shtml
"The American Prison and the Normalization of Torture" in Torture, American Style, ed. Margaret Power. November 28, 2004. http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/resources/torture/brucefranklin.html
"War is Peace: Washington's Final Science Fiction Solution," Fictions (Rome) III (2004), 13-20.
Review of The Final Frontier: America, Science, and Terror by Dominick Jenkins, Science & Society, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Winter 2004-2005), 520-522.
Review of Striper Wars: An American Fish Story by Dick Russell, American Scientist, September-October 2005, 461-462. http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/45920
("Kicking the Denial Syndrome: Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods" reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 211, 2005.)
"The World in a Prison: Beethoven's Fidelio," Fidelio Program, San Francisco Opera 2005-2006 Season. San Francisco, 2005. xvi-xviii.
"On the 30th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War," Radio France International, April 30, 2005.
"'Vietnam' in the New American Century," The British Academy, London, May 14, 2005.
"The Conservative Labyrinth in Recent US History" (Commentator), American Studies Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC, November 6, 2005.
"On Agent Orange and Torture," WBAI (NYC), November 14, 2005.
1996-2000
Interview on the literature of the Vietnam War, BBC, February 21, 1996 (taped for later broadcast).
"The Vietnam War and the Culture Wars," Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, Bowling Green State University, February 23, 1996."Science Fiction and the Culture Wars," International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Convention, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 23, 1996.
Keynote address, "Medicine Considered as Science Fiction," J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, University of California, Riverside, April 13, 1996.
Preface, St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers, 4th ed. Ed. Jay P. Pederson. Detroit: St. James Press, 1996.
THE VIETNAM WAR IN AMERICAN STORIES, SONGS, AND POEMS. (Collection.) Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1996. xii+347 pages.
Preface, St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers, 4th ed. Ed. Jay P. Pederson. Detroit: St. James Press, 1996.
("Introducing W. D. Ehrhart's Busted: A Vietnam Veteran in Nixon's America" [reprint], Viet Nam Generation 7 (1996, Numbers 1-2), 66-71.)
Review of The Tale of the Next Great War, 1871-1914, Edited by I. F. Clarke. Science-Fiction Studies 23 (July 1996), 287-288.
("Teaching Vietnam Today" [reprint], Primis Database. New York: McGraw-Hill, September 1996.)
("M.I.A.: `The Last Chapter'?" [adapted from M.I.A. Or Mythmaking in America, 1993 edition], in The United States and Viet Nam: From War to Peace. Ed. Robert M. Slabey. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1996. 76-90.)
(Korean translation of "Eternally Safe for Democracy: The Final Solution of American Science Fiction" in Contemporary World Literature [Seoul], Winter 1996. 88-109.)
Interview on the literature of the Vietnam War, BBC, February 21, 1996 (taped for later broadcast).
"The Vietnam War and the Culture Wars," Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, Bowling Green State University, February 23, 1996.
"Science Fiction and the Culture Wars," International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Convention, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 23, 1996.
Keynote address, "Medicine Considered as Science Fiction," J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, University of California, Riverside, April 13, 1996.
("POW/MIA: 'The Last Chapter'?," Reprinted as special Double Issue 87 and 88 of Indochina Newsletter, 1997.)
(Introduction to Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man [reprint] in Readings on Herman Melville. Ed. Bonnie Szumski. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1997. 111-123.)
"Slavery and Empire: Melville's Benito Cereno," in The Evermoving Dawn: Essays in Celebration of the Melville Centennial. Ed. John Bryant and Robert Milder. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1997. 147-161.
"Billy Budd and Capital Punishment: A Tale of Three Centuries," American Literature, 69 (June 1997), 337-359.
Review of The Street and Other Stories and Cage Eleven: Writings from Prison by Gerry Adams. Book World, The Washington Post, August 31, 1997.
(Korean translation of "From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars" in CONTEMPORARY WORLD LITERATURE [Seoul], Fall 1997. 83-101.
Review of Sentenced to Death: The American Novel and Capital Punishment by David Guest. American Literature, 69 (December 1997), 865-866.
Interview on Vietnam's Foreign Relations, Radio France International (Paris), February 20, 1997 (taped for later broadcast).
Interview on the POW/MIA issue, WORT (Madison, WI), April 29, 1997.
Interview on Vietnam and Agent Orange, Radio France International (Paris), June 26, 1997.
PRISON WRITING IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA. (Anthology.) New York: Penguin Books, 1998. xviii+366 pages.
Review essay on Yesterday Will Make You Cry by Chester Himes. The Nation, February 16, 1998, 28-31.
Review of Crime and Punishment in America by Elliott Currie. Book World, The Washington Post, February 22, 1998.
("The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy" [revised] in The Fantastic Other: An Interface of Perspectives. Ed. Brett Cooke, George Slusser, and Jaume Marti-Olivella. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1998. 165-186.)
"Pedagogy and Political Practice: What's at Stake in Literary Study?", Socialist Scholars Conference, March 21, 1998.
"Prison Writing in 20th-Century America," Brecht Forum, NYC, September 17, 1998. Labyrinth Books, NYC, October 8, 1998.
"Education, Not Incarceration," Critical Resistance Conference, University of California, Berkeley, September 26, 1998.
"Clark Clifford," Interview, KPFA (Berkeley), October 10, 1998.
"The American Prison and Its Literature," City University of New York Graduate School, October 20, 1998. Sarah Lawrence College, October 29, 1998.
"Melville as 20th-Century Rebel," Melville Society Annual Meeting, Modern Language Association Convention, December 28, 1998.
"Literature of the American Prison," American Studies Association Convention, November 21, 1998.
"Prisons and Repression," Manifestivity, Cooper Union, October 31, 1998.
Board of Advisory Editors, Series of Working Papers on Historical Systems, Nations, and Peoples, 1998-2005.
Advisory Board, LEVIATHAN: A JOURNAL OF MELVILLE STUDIES, 1998-.
"Burning Illusions: The Napalm Campaign" in Against the Vietnam War. Ed. Mary Susannah Robbins. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999. 62-75.
"Kurt Vonnegut Since 1982," SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS. Ed. Richard Bleiler. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. 858-862.
(Review of Crime and Punishment in America by Elliott Currie reprinted in Prison Legal News, 10 [September 1999], 8-9.)
"The Legitimacy of the Fantastic" (Guest Scholars Panel), International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Annual Convention, March 20, 1999.
Interview on Vietnam and Agent Orange, Radio France International (Paris), July 7, 1999.
"The War in American Culture about the Vietnam War," Hanoi National University, Vietnam, October 13, 1999.
"The Vietnam War, the Culture Wars, and the CUNY Wars; Or, The Perils of Western Civilization," City University of New York, November 16, 1999.
"The Antiwar Movement We Are Supposed to Forget," University of Rhode Island, November 30, 1999.
VIETNAM AND OTHER AMERICAN FANTASIES. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. x1v+256 pages. Paperback, 2001. [Spanish edition: VIETNAM Y LAS FANTASIAS NORTEAMERICANAS. Translated by Mario Iribarren. Introduction by Pablo Pozzi. Buenos Aires: Final Abierto, 2008. 382 pages. 2nd Edition, Introduction by Eduardo Grüner. Buenos Aires: Final Abierto, 2012. 374 pages.] [Cuban edition, Introduction by Jorge Hernández Martínez. Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2017. 317 pages.]
"'Doctor' Frankenstein and 'Scientific' Medicine" in Teaching Literature and Medicine, Edited by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins and Marilyn Chandler McEntyre. New York: Modern Language Association, 2000. 218-225.
"The War in American Culture about the Vietnam War," Vietnam Social Sciences (Hanoi), 76, #2, 2000. 16-27.
("The POW/MIA Myth" reprinted in The Vietnam War, ed. Walter L. Hixson. Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing, 2000. 189-210.)
Review of Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing by Bell Gale Chevigny. American Literature, September 2000.
"Computers in Fiction" in Encyclopedia of Computer Science. 4th edition. Ed. David Hemmindinger, Anthony Ralston, and Edwin Reilly. New York: Macmillan, 2000. 704-708. (Polish translation: http://cheap.de/science/komputery-z-fantastyki ; Romanian translation: http://www.rightfiles.com/edu/computers-in-fiction.html ) "Missing in Action in the 21st Century," in "The Legacy of Vietnam," special issue of The Long Term View, 5. (Summer 2000). 39-52.
"Kicking the Denial Syndrome: Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods" in Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each Other). Ed. Mark C. Carnes. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 331-343.
"The Antiwar Movement We Are Supposed to Forget" (adapted from Vietnam and Other American Fantasies), Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2000, Review Cover Story, B7-B10. Reprinted in The Touchstone, X, No. 5 (November/December 2000): www. rtix.com/touchstone/nov00/7/anti.htm.
"The American Prison in the Culture Wars," Workplace, December, 2000.
"We Have Seen the Future . . .," Panelist, Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, April 1, 2000.
"The Vietnam War: 25 Years Later," Working Assets Radio Network, April 25, 2000.
"The Vietnam War: 25 Years Later," National Urban Radio Network, April 26, 2000.
"The Vietnam War Today," KZMR (Sacramento), April 27, 2000; WORT (Madison, WI), May 1, 2000; KPFA (Los Angeles), May 1, 2000.
Keynote address, Veterans for Peace annual convention, Arlington, VA, August 12, 2000.
Interview on DNA testing legislation, KPFK (Los Angeles), August 31, 2000.
"Science Fiction: Or, Is Rational Religion Possible?" Center for Inquiry of New York/New Jersey, Seacaucus, NJ, September 30, 2000.
"History and Identity in the United States: The Vietnam War," paper read (could not attend) at "Remembering and Forgetting in Germany, the United States, and Japan," Seminar of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Berlin, October 9, 2000.
"American Studies in Vietnam," Panelist, American Studies Association Convention, Detroit, October 12-14, 2000.
Interview on Presidential pardons," KPFK (Los Angeles), December 22, 2000.
"The American Prison in the Culture Wars," Radical Caucus, Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC, December 27, 2000.
"From Plantation to Penitentiary to the Prison-Industrial Complex: Literature of the American Prison," Black American Literature and Culture Division, Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC, December 30, 2000. Polish translation
"Interviews on Vietnam and Other American Fantasies : KVMR (Nevada City, CA), November 15, 2000; "Democracy Now," WBAI (New York) and Pacifica Radio Network, November 16, 2000; WORT (Madison, WI), November 20, 2000; I E Radio Network, November 21, 2000; "New York and Company," WNYC (New York), November 22, 2000; KPFA (Berkeley), November 28, 2000; Working Assets Radio, November 30, 2000; KPFK (Los Angeles), November 14, 2000, WUSB (Stony Brook, NY), December 11, 2000; KQED (San Francisco), January 8, 2001; "Public Interest," National Public Radio, January 12, 2001, KUCI (Irvine, CA), January 17, 2001; et al.
Advisory Board, Viet Nam Generation, 1994- 2000.
Biographical information: Who's Who in America; Who's Who in the World; Outstanding People of the 20th Century; Outstanding Scholars of the 20th Century; Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century; Contemporary Authors; 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century; Dictionary of International Biography; One Thousand Great Scholars; et al.
1981-1985
AMERICAN PRISONERS AND EX-PRISONERS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THEIR WRITINGS, 1798-1981. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1982. ix+53 pages.
"English as an Institution: The Role of Class," English Literature--Opening Up the Canon: Selected Papers From the English Institute, 1979. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981, pp. 92-106.
“The Victim as Criminal and Artist,” inside/out: Prose and Poetry from America’s Prisons, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring 1981), 1, 12, 13.
Introduction to The Iron Heel by Jack London. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1981.
"Prison Literature," WLIB (N.Y.), April 15, 1981.
"America as Science Fiction," Newark Public Library, May 30, 1981.
"America as Science Fiction: 1939," J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, University of California, Riverside, February 21, 1981.
"Don't Look Where We're Going: Visions of the Future in Science Fiction Films, 1970-1981," J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, University of California, Riverside, February 28, 1982.
The Teacher of the Year Award, Alumni Association, Newark College of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, 1981.
Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at Rutgers University, 1981.Review of War in Melville's Imagination by Joyce Sparer Adler, The Minnesota Review, Fall, 1981, pp. 147-150.
"America First," New Boston Review, 6 (December, 1981), pp. 8-12.
"Teaching the Vietnam War in the 1980s," Chronicle of Higher Education, November 4, 1981. Reprinted in the Chicago Tribune, November 7, 1981. Unauthorized abridged version published in Vietnam: Anthology and Guide to a Television History, Edited by Steven Cohen. New York: Alfred E. Knopf, 1983, 1st and 2nd printings, pp. 444-447. Subsequent printings contain full authorized text.
THE VICTIM AS CRIMINAL AND ARTIST: LITERATURE FROM THE AMERICAN PRISON. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1978. xxvi+337 pages. Paperback (revised and expanded) edition published as PRISON LITERATURE IN AMERICA: THE VICTIM AS CRIMINAL AND ARTIST. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1982. xxx+303 pages. [Annotated bibliography published as companion volume.] Third edition, revised and expanded, including "Annotated Bibliography of Literature by American Prisoners, 1798-1988," New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. xxxvi+341 pages.
AMERICAN PRISONERS AND EX-PRISONERS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THEIR WRITINGS, 1798-1981. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1982. ix+53 pages.
"Weapons in Space," Beyond, January, 1982, pp. 6, 7, 16.
"Debt Peonage: The Highest Form of Imperialism?", Monthly Review, 33 (March, 1982), pp. 15-31.
"America as Science Fiction: 1939," Science-Fiction Studies, 9 (March, 1982), pp. 38-50. Also in Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction And Fantasy, Edited by George Slusser, Eric Rabkin, and Robert Scholes. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. Pp. 70-80.
"Genius and Supergenius" (Review of Robert A. Heinlein, Friday), New York Times Book Review, July 4, 1982.
"Hard Cell," The Village Voice, July 27, 1982, pp. 35-36.
Review essay on Norman Spinrad, The Iron Dream, Frederik Pohl, Starburst, Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite, and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Escape Attempt, Book World, July 25, 1982.
"On the Rewriting of History," Monthly Review, 34 (November, 1982), pp. 40-47.
("Melville in a World of Pagan Gods," Critical Essays on Herman Melville's Typee, Edited by Milton Stern. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1982. Pp. 166-172. Slightly revised reprint from The Wake of the Gods.)
"Don't Look Where We're Going: Visions of the Future in Science Fiction Films, 1970-1982," Science-Fiction Studies, X (March, 1983), pp. 70-80. Also in Shadows of the Magic Lamp, Edited by George Slusser, Eric Rabkin, and Robert Scholes. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985. Pp. 73-85.
("Visions of the Future in Science Fiction Films from 1970 to 1982" [reprint] in Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema. Ed. Annette Kuhn. London and New York: Verso, 1990. 19-31.)
"Kurt Vonnegut Since 1982," SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS. Ed. Richard Bleiler. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. 858-862.
"Don't Look Where We're Going: Visions of the Future in Science Fiction Films, 1970-1981," J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, University of California, Riverside, February 28, 1982.
"The Manifest Destiny of American Science Fiction," Division on Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature, Modern Language Association Convention, December 29, 1982.
THE WAKE OF THE GODS: MELVILLE'S MYTHOLOGY. Stanford University Press, 1963. xii+240 pages. Second (revised) edition and paperback edition, 1966. Third (revised) edition, 1983.
"America as Science Fiction: 1939," Science-Fiction Studies, 9 (March, 1982), pp. 38-50. Also in Coordinates: Placing Science Fiction And Fantasy, Edited by George Slusser, Eric Rabkin, and Robert Scholes. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983. Pp. 70-80.
"Teaching the Vietnam War in the 1980s," Chronicle of Higher Education, November 4, 1981. Reprinted in the Chicago Tribune, November 7, 1981. Unauthorized abridged version published in Vietnam: Anthology and Guide to a Television History, Edited by Steven Cohen. New York: Alfred E. Knopf, 1983, 1st and 2nd printings, pp. 444-447. Subsequent printings contain full authorized text.
"Unreeling the Future," American Film, 8 (March, 1983), pp. 46-49, 75-76. (Published under the title "Future Imperfect.")
"The Critical Task of Science Fiction Criticism," Science Fiction Research Association Newsletter, 115 (October 1983), pp. F-R. (Pilgrim Award Acceptance Speech.)
"The Criticism of Science Fiction: In and Out of the Academy," Lunacon, March 20, 1983.
"On the Sixties," Suburban Cablevision, May, 1983.
"The Critical Task of Science Fiction Criticism" (Acceptance Speech, Pilgrim Award Banquet), Science Fiction Research Association Convention, June 11, 1983.
"America as Science Fiction: The Futures Exchange," Keynote Address, Convention of the Canadian Association for American Studies, October 27, 1983.
"At the Nexus of Empires: Billy Budd, Sailor," Columbia University Seminar in American Civilization, November 17, 1983.
"Nuclear War and Science Fiction," Swarthmore College, October 14, 1983.
COUNTDOWN TO MIDNIGHT. (Collection of science fiction about nuclear weapons, with historical introduction and biographical, critical, and bibliographic materials.) New York: Daw Books, New American Library, 1984. 287 pages.
"From Empire to Empire: Billy Budd, Sailor," in Herman Melville: Reassessments, Edited by A. Robert Lee. London: Vision Press, 1984; New York: Barnes and Noble, 1984. Pp. 199-216.
"Don't Worry, It's Only Science Fiction," Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 8 (December, 1984), pp. 26-39.
"A History of the Movement Against the War," Indochina Newsletter, Issue 30 (November-December, 1984), pp. 1-4.
"Orwell and the Sources of Anti-Utopia" in 1984: Orwell as Prophecy, Edited by Richard Waldron. Trenton: New Jersey State Museum, 1985, 23-37.
"From Empire to Empire," Columbia University Circle, September 20, 1984.
Keynote Address, Conference on Facing Nuclear Holocaust, American Studies Program, Temple University, October 13, 1984.
"The Death Penalty in the United States," Mason Gross Lecture of the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, October 24, 1984.
VIETNAM AND AMERICA: A DOCUMENTED HISTORY. Co-edited with historical introductions and notes co-authored with Marvin E. Gettleman, Jane M. Franklin, and Marilyn Young. New York: Grove Press, 1985; 1988. xvi+524 pages. Revised and expanded edition, New York: Grove/Atlantic, 1995. xv+560 pages.
"Mark Twain and Science Fiction" (review essay), Science-Fiction Studies, 12 (March 1985), 88-90.
"Orwell and the Sources of Anti-Utopia" in 1984: Orwell as Prophecy, Edited by Richard Waldron. Trenton: New Jersey State Museum, 1985, 23-37.
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Guelph, March 18-20, 1985.
"On Teaching the Vietnam War," KPFA (Berkeley), July 24, 1985.
Interview, KGO-AM (West Coast), July 24, 1985.
"Vietnam and America" (with Jane Franklin), KPFA (Berkeley), August 12, 1985; KGO-AM (West Coast), August 15, 1985; KRQR (San Francisco), August 24 and 25, 1985.
"The Arms Race: Who Wins, Who Loses," AFL-CIO Labor Leadership Institute, October 30, 1985.
"Vietnam and America" (with Marvin Gettleman, Jane Franklin, and Marilyn Young), WBAI, November 11, 1985.
"Strange Scenarios: Science Fiction, Star Wars, and the Theory of Alienation," Literature and Science Division, Modern Language Association Convention, December 28, 1985.
