Recent Faculty Publications

Anna Maria Jones

"The Victorian Childhood of Manga: Toward a Queer Theory of the Child in Toboso Yana's Kuroshitsuji." Criticism 55.1 (Winter 2013): 1-41.

"Neo-Victorian Serials on Victorian Serials, or Lady Victorian Reads the Victorian Lady Reader." NAVSA North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, 2012.

Anna Lillios

“‘The Blue of Greece’: Durrell’s Images of an Adopted Land.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 24.1 (1991): 71-82.

“’The fire-spitting ogre’ Ernest Hemingway and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.” The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature 18 (2010): 77-89.

“’The Underside of Consciousness’ and the Nature of Evil in Matthiessen’s The Killing of Mister Watson.” Florida Studies. Ed. Steve Glassman. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006: 205-09.

“Cavafy and Durrell’s Egyptian Mirages.” Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World, edited by Anna Lillios. Susquehanna: Susquehanna University Press/Associated University Presse (2004).

“Discovering the Algebra of Love.” Lawrence Durrell: Conversations, ed. Earl G. Ingersoll. Associated University Presses, 1998: 243-244.

“Durrell’s Paris.” Confluences XV (Universite de Paris X) (1998): 143-151.

“Images of Florida in Constance Fenimore Woolson’s ‘Felipa.’” Journal of Florida Literature 9 (2000): 67-75.

“Introduction.” The Southern Quarterly 36.3 (1998): 7-9.

“Introduction.” Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World, edited by Anna Lillios. Susquehanna: Susquehanna University Press/Associated University Presses (2004).

“Janusz Glowacki, Polish Playwright.” The Iowa Journal of Literary Studies 5 (1984): 1-13.

“John Lutz, Sometime Florida Crime Writer.” In Florida Crime Writers. Ed. Steve Glassman. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008: 128-36.

“Lawrence and Gerald Durrell in Prospero’s Corfu.” Aphrodite, Narcissus, and the Human Comedy: Selected Essays on the Humor of Lawrence Durrell, eds. Frank Kersnowski and James Nichols. University of Victoria Press, 1993: 10-21.

“Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria: The City as Nexus.” Durrell and the City: Collected Essays on Place. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2011.

“New American Heroines in Bharati Mukherjee’s Fiction. Humanities Journal of the Universities of the Ural Region Region (Russia) (2001): 28-32.

“Paradise Noir: Land of Gold, Moon, and Pixie Dust.” Crime Fiction and Film in the Sunshine State, eds. Steve Glassman and Maurice O’Sullivan. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997: 103-118.

“Some Excursions into Zora Neale Hurston’s Eatonville.” Zora in Florida, eds. Steve Glassman and Kathryn Seidel. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida (1991): 13-27.

“The Alexandrian Mirages of Durrell and Cavafy: Cavafy’s Refracted Views of the City.” In Durrell In Alexandria. Edited by Shelly Ekhtiar. Alexandria, Egypt, 2005.

“The Death of Flag: Mother-Son Bonding in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s The Yearling.” Journal of Florida Literature 14 (2006).

“The Monstropolous Beast’: The Hurricane in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.” The Southern Quarterly 36.3 (1998): 89-93.

“Zora Neale Hurston’s American-ness.” Russian State University for the Humanities Journal of American Studies. (2013)

“Zora Neale Hurston’s Eatonville.” MAWA Review 7.2 (1992): 102-106.

“Zora Neale Hurston’s Final Chapter: Depression, Old Age, and the Decline of Creativity.” In Creativity, Madness and Civilisation. Ed. Richard Pine. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

Irina V. Morozova, C.A. Ruder, and Anna Lillios. “Summing Up the Result of the Joint Russian-American Students Projects.” Russian State University for the Humanities Journal of American Studies (2013).

“Literary legends forged complex friendship” by Joy Dickinson, The Orlando Sentinel, F11, March 13, 2011.

“Southern Soulmates” by Stuart Ferguson. The Wall Street Journal, Opinion page A17. October 19, 2010.Book review by Philip K. Jason. Southern Literary Review, December 29, 2010.

“Weekly Books Roundup,” Orlando Arts Blog by Matt Palm, The Orlando Sentinel, March 2, 2011.

“Zora Neale Hurston’s Real Home was in Brevard County” by Megan Scott in Florida Today, March 9, 2011.

Book Review by Flo Turcotte in Twentieth Century Literature 57 (2011): 272

Review by Colette Bancroft, St. Petersburg Times, September 28, 2011.

Review by John Wolford (University of Missouri, St. Louis) in Journal of Folklore Research. February 23, 2011.

Review by M.L. Jackson, Choice 48 (March 2011): 1289. Forum: Magazine of the Florida Humanities 35 (2011): 9.

Review by Penne J. Laubenthal in Swampland: Cultures of the South

“The Friendship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ernest Hemingway,” Florida College English Association, Ybor City, FL, October 2012, regional, refereed.

"In the Arena: The Gender Wars of Hemingway’s Pedro Romero and Brett Ashley. 12th International Hemingway Conference. Malaga, Ronda, Spain, June 15-30, 2006.

“‘The Monstropolous Beast’: The Hurricane as Metaphor in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Florida College English Association Conference, Gainesville, FL, February 4-5, 1993.

“’Herod the Great’: The End of Zora Neale Hurston’s Road.” Florida College English Association Conference. Daytona Beach, Florida, November 3-4, 2005.

“A Retrospective View of Lawrence Durrell.” On Miracle Ground XV: The International Lawrence Durrell Conference. Paris, France. July 1—5, 2008.

“Alexandria: The City as Nexus.” On Miracle Ground XVI: The International Lawrence Durrell Conference. New Orleans, LA. July 7-10, 2010.

“Alexandrian Mirages: Durrell’s and Cavafy’s Refracted Views of the City.” On Miracle Ground IX: The International Lawrence Durrell Conference, Alexandria, Egypt, June 23-27, 1996.

“Anthropological Fiction: Zora Neale Hurston’s Eatonville.” Florida College English Association, Bradenton, FL, February 1, 1991.

“Bharati Mukherjee’s Heroines in The Middleman and Other Stories.” Third International Conference on the Short Story in English, Ames, Iowa, June 4-7, 1994.

“Cavafy and Durrell in Alexandria.” Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, December 27-30, 1995.

“Central Florida Crime Fiction.” Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, April 8-11, 1998.

“Central Florida Detective Fiction.” Florida College English Association Conference, Winter Park, FL, February 15-16, 1996.

“Constance Fenimore Woolson.” College English Association Conference, Orlando, FL, April 7-9, 1994.

“Crossing the Creek: Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.” Florida College English Association annual conference, Boynton Beach, FL, October 15-16, 2009, refereed, regional.

“Durrell at the Villa Seurat: New Critical Perspectives.” On Miracle Ground X: The International Lawrence Durrell Society Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 20-24, 1998.

“Durrell’s Paris.” Colloque pour l’inauguration de la Bibliotheque Durrell, Paris, France, October 18-19, 1997.

“Durrell’s Tibetan Quartet: A Study in Gender Roles.” On Miracle Ground VII: The International Lawrence Durrell Conference, Avignon, France, July 1-3, 1992.

“e-Durrell.” On Miracle Ground XII: The International Lawrence Durrell Society Conference, Ottawa, Canada, June 20-24, 2002.

“Ethnicity and Community in Rawlings’s The Yearling.” Southern American Studies Association Conference, Seaside, FL, February 27-March 2, 1997.

“Eve Cohen: An Interview with Lawrence Durrell’s Muse for Justine. Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, KY, February 22-24, 2007, refereed, national.

“Gender and Ethnicity in the Greek Novels of Lawrence Durrell and John Fowles.” Durrell School of Corfu Seminar on “The Emergence of Modern Greece.” Corfu, Greece, May 21-26, 2006.

“Greece: Lawrence Durrell’s Place of Predilection.” On Miracle Ground VI: The International Lawrence Durrell Conference, Statesboro, GA, April 19-21, 1990.

“Hemingway’s Angels of Mercy in ‘that dirty war’: Brett Ashley and Catherine Barkley as WWI VADs.” Mars in Ascendant: The Great War and the Twentieth Century, Northampton, England, July 31-August 4, 2001.

“Lawrence Durrell and the Greek World: A Panel Discussion.” On Miracle Ground XIII: The International Lawrence Durrell Conference. Rhodes, Greece, June 27-July 2, 2004.

“Lawrence Durrell’s Greek Circle.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky, February 24-26, 2005, refereed, national.

“Paul Engle and Writing in America.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. University of Louisville. Louisville, KY, February 18-21, 2009, refereed, national.

“Portraits of the Artists as Young Men: Fowles’s Urfe and Durrell’s Darley as Antisocial Characters.” On Miracle Ground XI: The International Lawrence Durrell Society Conference, Corfu, Greece, July 2-7, 2000.

“Results from the Investigation of Modern Love in Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet.” On Miracle Ground V: The International Lawrence Durrell Conference, Carbondale, IL, April 14-16, 1988.

“Teaching Guide to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s Cross Creek.” Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Conference, Satellite Beach, Florida, April 10-12, 2003.

“The Big Read,” Northwest Regional Library, Coral Springs, FL., February 9, 2012 (sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities).

“The Big Read,” West Regional Library, Plantation, FL., February 10, 2012.

“The Complicated Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.” College English Association Conference. St. Petersburg, FL, April 3-5, 2003.

“The Creation of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s Cross Creek World. The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. University of Louisville. Louisville, KY. February 23-25, 2012, refereed, national.

“The End of the Road: Hurston and Rawlings’s Last Years,” Florida College English Association, Winter Park, FL, October 2010, regional, refereed.

“The Essence of Englishness in Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet.” On Miracle Ground XVII: The International Lawrence Durrell Conference. London, England. June 13-16, 2012.

“The Florida Stories of Bob Shacochis.” Florida College English Association Conference, Palm Beach, FL, February 6-7, 1997.

“The Literary Friendship of Ernest Hemingway and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. University of Louisville. Louisville, KY. February 21-23, 2013, refereed, national.

“The New American Heroine: Bharati Mukherjee’s ‘Jasmine.’” College English Association Conference, Orlando, FL, April 7-9, 1994.

“Towards a Theory of Florida Literature.” Florida College English Association Conference, Gainesville, Florida, October 17-18, 2002.

“War and Gender in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.” Durrell School of Corfu Seminar on “The Literature of War.” Corfu, Greece. May 20-25, 2007.

“Zora Neale Hurston: New Alabama Research.” Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, April 13-15, 2000.

“Zora Neale Hurston’s American-ness.” Alexei Zverev International Conference on American Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities. Moscow, Russia. May 11-12, 2011.

“Zora Neale Hurston’s Eatonville Folk in Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 21-23, 1991.

“Zora Neale Hurston’s Eatonville.” The Zora Conference, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, November 16-17, 1989.

“Zora Neale Hurston’s Final Chapter: Depression, Old Age, and The Decline of Creativity.” Durrell School of Corfu Seminar on “Madness and Creativity.” Corfu, Greece, May 22-27, 2005.

“Zora Neale Hurston’s Florida Films.” Florida College English Association, Daytona Beach, FL, January 30-31, 1992.

“Zora Neale Hurston’s Oedipus Complex: The Father Figure in Jonah’s Gourd Vine.” Florida College English Association Conference, Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, October 16-17, 2004.

“Zora Neale Huston’s Afro-American Communities.” Alexei Zverev International Conference on American Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities. Moscow, Russia. May 14-15, 2013.

St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading, October 22, 2011.

17th Annual Lake Helen Florida Authors Book Fair, March 5, 2011.

Amelia Island Book Festival, February 17-18, 2012 (sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities).

Bartow Public Library, Bartow, FL, January 15, 2013.

Florida Heritage Book Fair, St. Augustine, FL, September 24, 2011 (cancelled due to family obligations).

Florida Humanities Program, Niceville Public Library, Niceville FL, February 8, 2012 (sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council)

Ft. Pierce Zora Fest! “The Collection: Celebrating Zora’s Writing,” March 9, 2013 (cancelled due to family obligations).

History Club, Orange County History Center, Orlando, FL, October 15, 2011

Interview by John King, The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast about the Writing Life (iTunes), October 17, 2012.

Interview by Philip K. Jason, Southern Literary Review, January 17, 2011.

Interview on National Public Radio/WUFT (Gainesville) by Hank Conner, host of “Conner Calling” (one-hour program). Broadcast September 17, 2010.

James Weldon Johnson Lecture, UCF African American Studies, January 22, 2013.

Lillios, “Zora Neale Hurston’s Herod the Great,” NCTE conference, Coronado Springs Resort, Orlando, FL, November 19, 2010, invited, national.

Orange County History Center, Orlando, FL, March 16, 2011.

Orlando Public Library, June 11, 2011.

Panel Discussion: Florida Literary Legends—Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Amelia Island History Museum, February 19, 2012 (sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council).

Panelist, “Literary Magazines: A Roundtable Discussion,” Florida College English Association, Winter Park, FL, October 14-15, 2010, regional, refereed.

Passing Through Durrell’s Dark Crystal: Eve Cohen’s Poetic Transformation.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, KY, February 22-24, 2007, refereed, national.

Sierra Club, Orlando, FL, October 19, 2011.

St. Petersburg Public Library, St. Petersburg, FL, March 24, 2012.

UCF Life Program, March 13, 2012.

Zora Neale Hurston Conference on the 75th-Year Anniversary of the Publication of Their Eyes Were Watching God, Eatonville, FL, September 20-21, 2012.

Zora Neale Hurston Festival, Ft. Pierce, FL, March 24, 2011.

Zora Neale Hurston: Anthropologist as Modernist Film-Maker.” Modern Language Association Convention, New York, December 27-30, 1992.

Zora Neale Hurston: Following Her Dust Tracks.” Chautaqua South Lecture Series, Martin County Library System (Stuart, FL), January 28, 2012.

Patrick D. Murphy

"Dangdaimeiguo xiaoshuo zhong de ziran" ("Nature in the Contemporary AmericanNovel"), previously published article, translated into Chinese, Journal of Poyang Lake 3 (2012);120-128.

"AnEcological Feminist Revisioning of the Masculinist Sublime." RevistaCanaria de Estudios Ingleses(Spain) 64 (2012): 79-94.

"Bringing the SubsistencePerspective in Environmental Justice and Ecofeminism to Contemporary Literature,""International Conference: Chinese Literature and Art in World CultureCommunication," Beijing Language and Culture University.

"Bringing the SubsistencePerspective in Environmental Justice and Ecofeminism to ContemporaryLiterature," Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

"Community Resilience andthe Cosmopolitan Role in the Environmental Challenge-Response Novels of Ghosh,Grace, and Sinha," "Cross-Cultural Forum: Nationalism andCosmopolitanism in Literature," Beijing Language and Culture University.

"Ecological Applications of Mikhail Bakhtin's Dialogics" and "Bringing the SubsistencePerspective in Environmental Justice and Ecofeminism to ContemporaryLiterature," Hunan University, Changsha, China.

"Practicing Ecocriticism inAmerican Literary and Cultural Studies," Anhui University of Science andTechnology, Huainan, China.

"Subjects, Identities, Bodies, andSelves" and "An Ecofeminist Revisioning of theMasculinist Sublime," Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.