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.

(“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.)

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.