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.

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