2011-2015

WAR STARS: THE SUPERWEAPON AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. x+256 pages. Paperback edition, 1990. Revised and expanded edition, Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. xii+280 pages. [WAR STARS: GUERRA, CIENCIA FICCIÓN Y HEGEMONÍA IMPERIAL. (Spanish edition.) Translated by Mario Iribarren. Introduction by Andrés Criscaut. Buenos Aires: Final Abierto, 2011. 462 pages.] [Japanese edition, Translated by Nobuo Kamioka (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2011.] [Cuban edition, forthcoming, 2018, Instituto Cubano del Libro.]

Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written By Himself: A New Critical Edition by Angela Y. Davis. African American Review, Vol. 44, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Summer 2011. 298-300.

“The Most Important Fish in the Sea,” Saltwater Anglers of Bergen County, February 15, 2011.

Invited Testimony on HB1142, Environment Committee, Maryland House of Delegates, March 16, 2011.

“The Case of Stanford,” “Academic Freedom and the 1960s” Conference, NYU, April 1, 2011.

Keynote, Nor’east.Com Fishing Seminar Series, Oakdale, New York, April 9, 2011.

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.]

“Billy Budd: A Tale of Four Centuries” in Demands of the Dead: Executions, Storytelling, and Activism in the United States,, Ed. Katy Ryan (University of Iowa Press, 2012). 113-134.

“The Flight of the Young Chicken-Hawk: How Mitt Romney Dodged the Draft,” Counterpunch, Vol. 19, No. 8, April 16-30, 2012. 1-2. http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/07/how-mitt-dodged-the-draft/

“How America’s Fictions of Future War Have Changed the World” in Future Wars: The Anticipations and the Fears. Ed. David Seed. (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012). 32-49.

“Menhaden: The Most Important Fish in the Bay,” Documentary film based on The Most Important Fish in the Sea, including interview with H. Bruce Franklin. LinkTV: Earth Focus Episode 40, May 29, 2012. http://news1.linktv.org/videos/menhaden-the-most-important-fish-in-the-bay

“Menhaden Catch Limits Vital to Ecosystem, Economy,” Asbury Park Press, December 7, 2012. http://www.app.com/article/20121208/NJOPINION03/312080012/FRANKLIN-Menhaden-catch-limits-vital-ecosystem-economy?odyssey=nav%7Chead&nclick_check=1

“Missing in Action in the 21st Century” in Four Decades On: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War. Ed. Scott Laderman and Edwin Martini (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013). 259-296.

(“Missing in Action in the 21st Century,” excerpted, The Veteran, Spring 2013 (Vol. 43, Number 1), 8-9.)

(“Komputery z Fantastyki,” [Polish translation of “Computers in Fiction”], Science Translations, May 2013). http://cheap.de/science/komputery-z-fantastyki

“Vietnam, Star Trek, and the Real Future” in Star Trek and History. Ed. Nancy Reagin. (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2013). 87-108.

“The Weapons of Science Fiction and the Pax Americana,” Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, March 28, 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxzJfMEZcO0

Interview about Assata Shakur, NBC Channel 4 News, May 2, 2013.

“Wars and the Environment,” Norfolk Academy, Virginia, November 7, 2013.

Chair, “Keywords for American Studies, War, and Peace,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, November 23, 2013.

“New World Imaginations and Deceptions: Greg Grandin’s The Empire of Necessity,” Los Angeles Review of Books, January 12, 2014. http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/new-world-imaginations-deceptions

“Reimaging Vietnam,” Yellow Peril! A Critical Archive of Images, Documents, Essays, ed. John Kuo, Wei Tchen, and Dylan Yeats (NY: Asian/Pacific/American Institute and Verso Press, 2014). 313-316.

“American Memory of the Vietnam War in the Epoch of the Forever War,” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 16, 2014. http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/americas-memory-vietnam-war-epoch-forever-war

“Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and American Militarism; Or, How We Lost World War II,” Review essay on Paul Ham’s, Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath, Los Angeles Review of Books, August 3, 2014. http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/hiroshima-nagasaki-american-militarism

“Maximum Security Nation,” Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County, January 19, 2014.

“Menhaden Fisheries–The Most Valuable Fish in the Sea?”, 19th Annual Summit on Environmental Law & Policy, Tulane Law School, February 21, 2014.

“The Final Solution: American Superweapons,” “Yellow Peril: Detoxifying Fear,” The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, March 7, 2014.

“Where Have All the Weakfish Gone and What Can We Do To Bring Them Back,” Hudson River Fishermen’s Association, Ridgefield Park, NJ, March 11, 2014.

“American Memory of the Vietnam War in the Epoch of the Forever War,” Keynote Address, A3M Reunion, Stanford/Palo Alto, May 17, 2014.

“Our Collapsing Marine Ecology,” Manasquan Fishing Club, Manasquan, NJ, June 6, 2014.

“The Collapse of the Chesapeake Bay and the Disappearance of Weakfish,” Saltwater Anglers of Bergen County, June 17, 2014.

Foreword to Passing Time by W. D. Ehrhart. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995. (Japanese translation forthcoming, Toyko: Tosui-Shobo, 2015.)

“Pay Per Vote: The Wave of the Future,” Counterpunch, January 25, 2015. http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/26/pay-per-vote-the-wave-of-the-future

Japanese Translation of Foreword to W. D. Ehrhart’s Passing Time, Tokyo: Tosui-shobo, 2015.

“Of Television in the 1960s: Star Trek, Vietnam, and the Transformation of America,” Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek, ed. Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. 13-24.

“Prison Literature, Then and Now,” American Book Review, Vol. 36, #3, March/April 2015.

“American Prisons: The Caging of Human Rights,” Mehr News Agency (Tehran), July 5, 2015.

“Menhaden and the Need for Ecosystem Management,” Underwater Naturalist, Vol. 36, Fall 2015, 8-15.