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.