Writings, Talks, & More old

Range

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.

1991-1995

("Fatal Fiction: A Weapon to End All Wars" [reprint] in The Nightmare Considered: Critical Studies of Nuclear War Literature. Ed. Nancy Anisfield. Bowling Green University Press, 1991, 5-14.)

("Bartleby" chapter of The Wake of the Gods reprinted in Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, 4th Edition. NY: HarperCollins, 1991.)

("Fantasies of Power" [edited reprint of "Fatal Fiction"] in Peace Review: The International Quarterly of World Peace, 3 (Winter/Spring, 1991), 4-9.)

Review of Declarations of Independence by Howard Zinn, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 47 (September 1991), 43-45.

"The Gulf War as American Science Fiction" (Pioneer Award Acceptance Speech), SFRA Newsletter, July/August 1991, 24-27; reprinted with corrections of misprinted passages, SFRA Newsletter, November 1991, 19-21.

"The POW/MIA Myth," The Atlantic Monthly, 268 (December 1991), Cover story, 45-81.

Visiting Lecturer, Meiji University (Tokyo), April 16-May 1, 1991.

"Traveling in Time with Mark Twain," American Literature Society of Japan, Tokyo Chapter, April 27, 1991.

"From Hiroshima to Baghdad; Or, What Herman Melville Teaches Us About the American Empire of Weapons," American Literature Society of Japan, Hiroshima Chapter, May 1, 1991.

"The Nixon Administration and the P.O.W. Issue," The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., June 20, 1991.

"The Gulf War as American Science Fiction," Pioneer Award Acceptance Speech, Science Fiction Research Association Annual Conference, Denton, Texas, June 29, 1991.

"Slavery and Empire: Melville's Benito Cereno," Melville Society Centennial Program, Schomburg Center, NYC, September 25, 1991.

"Home and Homelessness in Melville," Joseph S. Schick Lecture in Language, Literature, and Lexicography, Indiana State University, October 17, 1991.

"M.I.A.; or, Mythmaking in America," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, November 1, 1991.

"From Plantation to Penitentiary: Black Prison Literature," Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, December 28,1991.

Discussions of "The POW/MIA Myth" (Atlantic Monthly cover story): KMOX, St. Louis (November 29, 1991); WXYT, Detroit (November 29, 1991); KING Radio, Seattle (December 3); WBZ, Boston (December 6); WBEZ, Chicago (December 8); KFYI, Phoenix (December 12); Monitor Radio Network (taping, January 9, 1992)

M.I.A. OR MYTHMAKING IN AMERICA. New York: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1992. xiii+225 pages. Expanded edition (paperback), New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1993. xvii+252 pages.

("The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy" [slightly revised reprint] in Gender, Language, and Myth, Ed. Glenwood Irons. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992, 208-230.)

"Why White House Created POW/MIA Myth," San Jose Mercury News, March 6, 1992 (adapted from M.I.A. or Mythmaking In America).

"Perot Helped Set Up the POW Issue," Newsday and New York Newsday, May 28, 1992.

("How Perot, Nixon Exploited POW Issue," St. Louis Post Dispatch, July 7, 1992 [reprint of Newsday Op-Ed]).

"The Greatest Fantasy on Earth: The Superweapon in Fiction and Fact," The Celebration of the Fantastic. Ed. Donald Morse, Marshall Tymn, and Csilla Bertha. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 1992, 23-38.

(Introduction to Jack London's The Iron Heel [reprint], Northern Essex Review, Fall, 1992, 1-4.)

“Prisoners of Woe” (interview article by Delphine Taylor), Rutgers Magazine, Summer 1992, 17-21.

"Traveling in Time with Mark Twain," American Literature and Science. Ed. Robert J. Scholnick. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1992, 157-171.

("`Apparent Symbol of Despotic Command': Melville's Benito Cereno" [reprint] in Critical Essays on "Benito Cereno." Ed. Robert E. Burkholder. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1992. 50-57.)

"Past, Present, and Future Seemed One," Critical Essays on "Benito Cereno." Ed. Robert E. Burkholder. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1992. 230-246.

"Mythifying in Action: Who's Behind the M.I.A. Scam--& Why," The Nation, 255 (December 7, 1992), Cover Story, 685, 700-704.

(Japanese translation of "From Empire to Empire: Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor," Bungai Kenkyu [Studies in Literature], February 1992, 221-244.)

("The Myth of the Missing" [reprint] in Social Issues Resources Series, 1992-1993, Defense, Volume 4 [1994], Article 21.)

("The POW/MIA Myth," reprinted from The Atlantic Monthly, Vietnam News [Hanoi], April 3-17, 1992.)

"The POW/MIA Myth," Colgate University, January 25, 1992.

Discussions of M.I.A. or Mythmaking In America: WBEZ, Chicago (January 20, 1992); WHDH, Boston (January 26); KXLY, Spokane (January 28); WOSU, Columbus, OH (January 28); "Prime Time," Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (taping, February 4); "Sonya Live," CNN (February 6); "New York and Company," WNYC, New York (February 11); "Talk of the Nation," National Public Radio (February 11); KDKA, Pittsburgh (February 11); Wisconsin Public Radio (taping, February 13); WBZ, Boston (February 20); WABC, New York (February 21); WRC, Washington (February 23); WHHM-TV, Washington (February 25); WTOP, Washington (February 26); WAMU, Washington (February 27); ABC Radio News (February 27); Fox TV, Washington (February 28); Border's Books, Rockville, Maryland (February 28); ABC Radio (March 3); CNBC-TV Network (March 3); KPFA, Berkeley (March 13); KRON-TV, San Francisco (taping, March 13); Modern Times Books, San Francisco (March 13); Cody's Books, Berkeley (March 14); WWNZ, Orlando, Florida (March 14); Kepler's Books, Menlo Park (March 15); KARO-AM, Seattle (March 16); KGO-AM, San Francisco (March 16); KLIF-AM, Dallas (March 17); KTVU-TV, Oakland (March 17); KNBR-AM, San Francisco (taping, March 17); Copley Radio Network (taping, March 18); WFMT, Chicago, interviewed by Studs Terkel (taping, March 18); WGN-AM, Chicago (March 18); Sun Radio Network (March 24); WNIS, Norfolk (March 24); WLW, Cincinnati (March 26); American Forum Network (March 26); KLBG, Austin (March 27); KVEN, Ventura (March 27); WKIP, Poughkeepsie (April 2); KTMS, Santa Barbara (April 3); KABC, Los Angeles (taping, April 3); WOAI, San Antonio (April 3); KDKA, Pittsburgh (April 4); WOAI, San Antonio (April 7); WJR, Detroit (April 9); WRIF, Detroit (April 12); Jewish Community Center, Bayonne (April 14); Monitor Radio (taping, April 16); WICN, Worcester, MA (taping, April 16); WBZ-AM, Boston (April 16); KSL, Salt Lake City (April 20); WFTL, Ft. Lauderdale (April 21); KMOX, St. Louis (April 21); KWHY-TV, Los Angeles (taping, April 24); KCIN, Victorville, CA (May 3); Texas State Network (May 8); KING, Seattle (May 8); WPTF, Raleigh (May 11); CILQ, Toronto (May 12); WKBN, Youngstown (May 12); WHYY, Philadelphia (May 18); WBAI, New York (May 20); WGNU, St. Louis (May 21); WPVI-TV, Philadelphia (May 25 and May 28); WBAI, New York (May 28); WMAJ, State College, PA (May 29); WHAS, Louisville (June 1); WBAI, New York (June 2); WILL, Urbana, IL (June 3); KKCM, Shakopee, MN (June 3); Dan Rather,CBS News (June 4 and 5); Monitor Radio (June 16); WBAI, New York (June 17); WOIA, San Antonio (June 19); WNYC, New York (June 19); KDKA, Pittsburgh (June 20); WRC, Washington (June 21); CJAD, Montreal (June 22); WXYT, Detroit (June 22); WBAI, New York (June 23; July 14); WOR, New York and national (June 24); KDKA, Pittsburgh (June 24); WRKO, Boston (June 25); KING, Seattle (June 26); KPFK, Los Angeles (June 28; June 29); KMOX, St. Louis (July 6); WSB, Stony Brook, NY (July 6); KNSS, Wichita (July 7); Australian Broadcasting Corporation-TV (July 14); NBC Nightly News (July 24); KKUP, San Jose (July 26; October 7); McCaughlin Show, CNBC-TV (August 4); Charlie Rose Show, WNET-TV and the Education Channel (August 4); C-SPAN (September 1); "The Real Story," CNBC-TV (September 21); KDKA, Pittsburgh (September 22); "Sonya Live," CNN (September 23); WBAI, New York (September 24; September 28; October 23; December 7); "World News This Morning," ABC-TV (September 25); Voice of America (taping, September 25); Independent Broadcasters Network (September 29); Wisconsin Public Radio (September 29); Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA (November 7); WQBK, Albany (November 13); WOIA, San Antonio (November 25); WBZ, Boston (December 8); KTKK, Salt Lake City (December 10); Der Spiegel TV, Germany (January 3, 1993); KPFA, Berkeley (January 13); WBAI, New York (January 19, April 20; June 1); KRLD, Dallas, and Texas Network (February 11); WXYT, Detroit (April 13); "CNN & Company" (April 13); Radio France International (April 16); Vietnam Veterans of America, National Cable TV (taped, May 15); New Hampshire Public Radio (taped, July 15); Monitor Radio International (July 19); KGNU, Boulder (July 21); CAUT, Toronto (September 13; December 28); Texas Radio Network (December 30); CTN Cable TV (Feb. 4, 1994); KDKA, Pittsburgh (May 30)

"Star Trek in the Vietnam Era," Smithsonian Institution, February 29, 1992.

Keynote Address, Conference on Images of War in Literature, the Media, and Society, Colorado Springs, March 6, 1992.

"POWs: Imaginary Beings as Fiction, Film, and Myth," Popular Culture Association Convention, Louisville, Kentucky, March 20, 1992.

"From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars," Special Presentation, American Studies and MELUS Conference, UCLA, April 24, 1992.

"The POW/MIA Myth," State University of New York, Binghamton, October 1, 1992.

"The POW/MIA Myth," College at Oneonta, State University of New York, October 15, 1992.

"The POW/MIA Issue Then and Now," New York University, October 20, 1992.

"The POW/MIA Myth," University of California at Irvine, November 6, 1992.

"The Political and Cultural History of the POW/MIA Issue," Permanent Mission of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the United Nations, October 29, 1992.

Panel on "Star Trek and the Sixties" Exhibit, Chesapeake Bay American Studies Association, National Air and Space Museum, November 21, 1992.

"The POW/MIA Myth," Lehigh University, November 24, 1992.

Advisory Curator, "Star Trek and the Sixties" (Exhibit), National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, February 27, 1992-January 1993. Also at American Natural History Museum--Hayden Planetarium (New York), July 9, 1993-March 6, 1994.

M.I.A. OR MYTHMAKING IN AMERICA. New York: Lawrence Hill & Co., 1992. xiii+225 pages. Expanded edition (paperback), New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1993. xvii+252 pages.

"The Myth of the Missing," The Progressive, 57 (January, 1993), 22- 25.

("The Myth of the Missing" [reprint] in This World, San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner, January 24, 1993, 11-13.)

"MIAs in Vietnam: Government Cover-Up or Government-Created Hoax?" Extra, January/February 1993, 20-21 (transcript of interview on "CounterSpin" national radio program).

"M.I.A.sma," The Nation, 256 (May 10, 1993), 616-617.

"John Wayne's World" (Review essay on Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Slotkin), In These Times 17 (August 9, 1993), 34-36.

"Writers with Convictions" (interview and excerpts from Prison Literature in America), Fortune News, 26 (November 1993), 9, 10, 13.

Review of Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749 by I. F. Clarke, Science-Fiction Studies, 20 (November 1993), 476-477.

"Deconstructing the POW/MIA Myths" (interview), Lies of Our Times, 4 (December 1993), 10-13.

"Of Victims and Heroes in Vietnam" (Review Essay on Then the Americans Came: Voices from Vietnam by Martha Hess and Voices of the Vietnam POWs by Craig Howes), The Progressive, 57 (December 1993), 37-41.

"In His Own Words," The Nation, 257 (December 6, 1993), 680.

"What King Would Have Said," Philadelphia Inquirer, December 7, 1993. Reprinted in People's Weekly World, December 18, 1993. Reprinted in The Quad, West Chester, PA, February 8, 1994. Reprinted in Fortune News, February 1994.

Review of Committing Journalism: The Prison Writings of Red Hog by Dannie Martin and Peter Sussman, Book World, The Washington Post, December 26, 1993.

Social Consequences, University of Massachusetts at Boston, March 11, 1993.

"Star Trek in the Vietnam Era," International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 19, 1993.

"POW/MIA: Myth and History," Socialist Scholars Conference, NYC, April 11, 1993.

"Why the Myth of Live POWs Has Possessed America," City College of New York, April 29, 1993.

"P.O.W.-M.I.A.: Politics, Myth, and Media," Society of Professional Journalists, New Jersey Chapter, New Brunswick, April 29, 1993.

"From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars," Humanities Center, University of Georgia, October 7, 1993.

Chair of Session, "Constructing the Future: Nature, Technology, Media(tion), and Contradiction," American Studies Association Annual Convention, Boston, November 6, 1993.

"`The Final Chapter'?," Conference on the United States and Vietnam: From War to Peace, University of Notre Dame, December 3, 1993.

Presiding, Melville Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, December 28, 1993.

Script consultant, Sugarloaf Films, 1993.

President, Melville Society, 1993.

"Star Trek in the Vietnam Era," Science-Fiction Studies, 21 (March 1994), 24-34.

"From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars," Georgia Review, 48 (Spring 1994), 47-64.

"From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars" [slightly revised version of Georgia Review essay] in Seeing through the Media: The Persian Gulf War. Ed. Susan Jeffords and Lauren Rabinovitz. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994. 25-43.

President’s Address, Melville Society Extracts, March 1994, 14-15.

("Star Trek in the Vietnam Era," [condensation], Locus, October 1994, 43-45.)

"Facing the Death Penalty in the United States," Fortune News, October 1994, 6, 15.

(M.I.A. Or Mythmaking in America, pp. 11-23, reprinted as Indochina Newsletter, Issue 85 [1994, No. 2].)

"Plausibility of Denial," Review essay on In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien, The Progressive, December 1994, 40-44.

("POW/MIA: The Numbers Game," excerpt from M.I.A. Or Mythmaking in America, reprinted as Indochina Newsletter, Issue 86 [1994, No. 3].)

"Busted"; Or, The Strange Case of W. D. Ehrhart," Sixties Generations Conference, Western Connecticut State University, November 5, 1994.

"Literature of the Vietnam War," Wisconsin Public Radio for National Public Radio, taped November 8, 1994.

Advisory Board, Viet Nam Generation, 1994- 2000.

FUTURE PERFECT: AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION OF THE 19TH CENTURY. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1966. xiii+401 pages. Second (revised) edition, 1968. Paperback edition (Galaxy Books, Oxford University Press), 1968. Expanded and revised edition (hardback and paperback), Oxford University Press, 1978. xiii+404 pages. 4th edition, expanded and revised, Rutgers University Press, 1995. 400 pages.

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.

Review essay on Prisoners of Hope by Susan Katz Keating, The Nation, January 2, 1995, 22-24.

("A History of Literature by Convicts in America," Prison Literature in America, pp. 124-172, reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (TCLC 54). Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.)

Review essay on Prisoners of the Japanese by Gavan Daws and Inside Hanoi's Secret Archives by Malcolm McConnell, Book World, The Washington Post, January 22, 1995, 4, 12.

("Star Trek in the Vietnam Era" [revised reprint], Film & History, 24 [February-May 1995], 36-46.)

Foreword to Busted by W. D. Ehrhart. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.

Foreword to Vietnam-Perkasie by W. D. Ehrhart. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995.

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

("`The Last Chapter'?" [Adapted from M.I.A. Or Mythmaking in America] in Vietnam and America: A Documented History. Editedby Marvin E. Gettleman, Jane M. Franklin, Marilyn Young, and H. Bruce Franklin. Revised and expanded edition, New York: Grove/Atlantic, 1995. 500-515.)

(Chapter on "Bartleby" from The Wake of the Gods reprinted in Short Story Criticism. New York: Gale Research, 1995, 335-339.)

"Only the Hardware Is Erotic," review essay on 1945 by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, The Nation, August 14/21, 1995, 174-175.

"Teaching the Vietnam War in the 1990s," Educational Resources Information Center, U.S. Department of Education, 1995.

("From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars" [reprint] in The Norton Reader, Ninth Edition. Edited by Linda H. Peterson, et al., New York: W. W. Norton, 1995, 850-867; Shorter Edition, 487-504.)

“La mente como campo de batallo,” (Interview) Ñ, Clarin, Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 3, 2010. http://www.revistaenie.clarin.com/notas/2010/04/03/_-02171995.htm

"U.S.-Vietnam Relations" (interview), Radio France International, January 27, 1995.

"Women's Work: Science Fiction by American Women in the 19th Century," International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Convention, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 16, 1995.

"Fantasy as History," International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Convention, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, March 18, 1995.

"The United States and Vietnam" (interviews), WBAI (New York), April 4, May 1, July 12, December 5, 1995.

Chair of Session, "The Vietnam War: Teach Our Children Well," Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference, Philadelphia, April 15, 1995.

"Teaching the Vietnam War in the 1990s," Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference, Philadelphia, April 15, 1995.

Interview on the Vietnam War in American culture, Radio France International (Paris), April 27, 1995.

Interview on the POW/MIA Issue, Radio France International (Paris), July 17, 1995.

"The Last Chapter?", Conference on "The Legacy of Vietnam," University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 16, 1995.

1986-1990

Guest Editor and Introduction, Nuclear War and Science Fiction, Special Issue of Science-Fiction Studies, 13 (July 1986).

"Strange Scenarios: Science Fiction, the Theory of Alienation, and the Nuclear Gods," Science-Fiction Studies, 13 (July 1986), 117-128.

Review of Critique of Commodity Aesthetics by Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Criticism, 27 (Fall 1986), 480-483.

"Vietnam and America" (with Jane Franklin), WFMU, January 22, 1986.

"Loomings," Melville Section, Northeast Modern Language Association, April 4, 1986.

"The Myth of the Superweapon in American Culture," News/Sun-Sentinel, March 15, 1987, pp. 1G, 3G, 6G.

"Fantasies of Power: The Superweapon in American Culture," University of Miami, February 19, 1987.

"Writing from America's Prisons," Center for American Culture Studies, Columbia University, April 6, 1987.

"Nuclear Culture: Popular Perspectives," Commentator, American Studies Association International Convention, November 22, 1987.

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.

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.]

"Theodore Sturgeon: 'Thunder and Roses'" in The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology. NY: Harper & Row, 1988.

("Animal Farm Unbound" [reprint] in Modern Critical Interpretations: Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, edited by Harold Bloom. New Haven: Chelsea House, 1988, 29-44.)

Review of Nuclear Fears: A History of Images by Spencer R. Weart, Science, 240 (May 20, 1988), 1051-52.

Review essay on The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam by James William Gibson, American Quarterly, 40 (Fall 1988), 422-28.

"Nuclear Promise/Threat," The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. NY and London: Viking/Penguin, 1988, 336-38.

"The Superweapon and American Culture," Newark Museum, March 8, 1988.

"The Bomber, the Bomb, and the Screen," Conference on the War Film: Contexts and Images, University of Massachusetts at Boston, March 24, 1988.

"Teaching the Vietnam War," Socialist Scholars Conference, New York, April 10, 1988.

"Urban Violence in Recent Science Fiction" (Panelist), J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, University of California, Riverside, April 15, 1988.

Keynote Address, "Science Fiction, Hiroshima, and the Baruch Plan," J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, University of California, Riverside, April 16, 1988.

"Domesticating the Bomb: Nuclear Weapon in Testament and the Fiction of Judith Merril, Helen Clarkson, Kate Wilhelm, and Carol Amen," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, October 30, 1988.

"From Outsider to Insider: Melville's Narrative Strategies," Melville Society Annual Meeting, Modern Language Association Convention, December 28, 1988.

"The Bomb in the Home," Special Session, "Nuclear Texts for the English Class," Modern Language Association Convention, December 28, 1988.

Discussions of War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination: WFAD, Vermont (November 29, 1988); KLBJ-AM Austin, TX (November 29, 1988); KING-AM, Seattle, WA (December 2, 1988); WBZ-AM, Boston (December 4, 1988); WBAI-FM, New York (December 7, 1988); International Media Service, national syndication on 200 radio stations (taped in December 1988); "Consider the Alternatives," national syndication on 140 radio stations (taped in December 1988); "Ask Washington," National Chamber of Commerce TV, national syndication on 130 TV stations (taped in December 1988); Copley News Service, syndicated to 1300 radio stations (December 22, 1988); WBEZ, Chicago (January 3, 1989); WGN-AM, Chicago (January 4, 1989); WHP, Harrisburg, PA (January 11, 1989); KPFA-FM, Berkeley (January 13 and 18, 1989); KALW, San Francisco (taping, January 13,1989); Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco (January 13, 1989); "Radio for Peace," Costa Rica (taping, January 14, 1989); Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica (January 15, 1989); KPFK-FM, Los Angeles (taping, January 16, 1989); ABC-AM Network, two-hour live broadcast from Los Angeles (January 17, 1989); KGIL-AM, San Fernando Valley (January 17, 1989); KGO- AM, San Francisco (January 18, 1989); KCSM-FM, San Mateo, CA (January 19); Kepler's Bookstore, Menlo Park, CA (January 19); Cody's Bookstore, Berkeley (January 20); KLAX-FM, Berkeley (taping, January 21); KFI-AM, Los Angeles (January 24); WNWS-AM, Miami (January 26); KLBJ-AM, Austin, TX (January 30); WPVI-TV, Channel 6, Philadelphia (January 31); KFRU-AM, Columbia, Missouri (February 9); QIK-FM, Calgary, Alberta (February 14); KQED, San Francisco (February 23); WTOP, Washington (March 3); WABC, New York (March 7); WPTF, Raleigh, NC (March 28); WHYY, Philadelphia (May 9).

("What Are We to Make of J. G. Ballard's Apocalypse?" [reprint] in Short Story Criticism. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989.)

"The Superweapon and Its Cultural Images" (excerpted from War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination), Zeta Magazine, 2 (February 1989), 97-103.

("Teaching Vietnam Today: Who Won, and Why?" [reprint] in Points of View On American Higher Education. Edited by Stephen H. Barnes. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989, 148-53.)

Afterword, Mordecai Roshwald, Level 7. New York: Lawrence HillBooks, 1989, 185-92.

"Fatal Fiction: A Weapon to End All Wars," The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 45 (November 1989), cover, 18-25.

Review of W. Warren Wagar, A Short History of the Future, Book World, Washington Post, December 25, 1989.

"From Outsider to Insider: Melville's Narrative Strategies," Melville Society Extracts, 76 (February 1989), 3-5.

"The Greatest Fantasy on Earth: The Superweapon in Fiction and Fact," Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 16, 1989.

Discussions of Prison Literature in America: The Victim as Criminal and Artist: WFAD, Vermont (April 27, 1989); WTOP, Washington (May 9); International Media Service, national syndication on 200 radio stations (taped in May, 1989); "Meet the Authors," National Chamber of Commerce TV, national syndication on 130 TV stations (taped in May, 1989); WBAI, New York (May 22, 1989); WPVI-TV, Channel 6, Philadelphia (May 28, 1989).

"Will the Future Be Marxist?" World Science Fiction Convention, September 1, 1989.

"The Ultimate Weapon of American Science Fiction," World Science Fiction Convention, September 2, 1989.

"The Work of Robert A. Heinlein," World Science Fiction Convention, September 3, 1989.

"Apocalyptic Visions: The Prehistory of Strategic Bombing," National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, October 5, 1989.

"Fatal Fictions" (interview), WBEZ (Chicago), November 2, 1989.

"Superweapons Past and Present" (interview), WBEZ (Chicago), December 5, 1989.

"1968; Or, Bringing the War Home: The Vision of the Movement and the Alternative Press," The Vietnam Era. Ed. Michael Klein. London: Pluto Press and Winchester, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1990, 65-81.

Review of Rationalizing Genius: Ideological Strategies in the Classical American Science Fiction Short Story by John Huntington, Science-Fiction Studies, 17 (March 1990), 115-17.

("Science Fiction" [extended excerpts from Future Perfect]. Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, 24. Ed. Janet Mullane and Robert T. Wilson. Detroit: Gale Research, 1990. 283-90.)

"The Vietnam War as American Science Fiction and Fantasy," Science-Fiction Studies, 17 (November 1990), 341-59.

"Eternally Safe for Democracy: The Final Peace of American Science Fiction," Science Fiction, Social Conflict and War, Ed. Philip Davies. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990. 151-168.

"Teaching the Vietnam War in the 1990s," Educational Resources Information Center, U.S. Department of Education, 1995.

"Visions of the Ultimate Weapon in American Technology, Culture, and Policy," Science and Public Policy Section, New York Academy of Sciences, February 7, 1990.

"The Ultimate Weapon in American Culture," National Association for Science, Technology & Society Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, February 3, 1990.

"The Vietnam War as Fantasy and Science Fiction," The Fantastic Imagination in New Critical Theories Conference, Texas A&M University, March 2, 1990.

Guest Scholar Speech, Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. March 23, 1990.

"Science Fiction, Fantasy, and War" (panel), Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. March 23, 1990.

"Sexualizing Technology," Session Chairperson, Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. March 24, 1990.

"The Biggest Addiction of All: America's Superweapons," Montclair State College, May 1, 1990.

"War Stars: The Ultimate Weapon of American Culture," State University of New York at Binghamton, November 14, 1990.

"Teaching the Vietnam War in the 1990s," Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference, Philadelphia, April 15, 1995.

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.

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.

"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.

"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.