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Asian Themes in Literature:
	"Identity & Buddhism in Can Xue's Frontier,"  Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2020).
	"Tantra in Pynchon's Against the Day," Critique, 58.3 (2017): 276-86.  PDF version.
	"Confucianism in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled," Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore 4.1 (2004).
	"Zen Comedy in Postcolonial Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day," Mosaic 29.1 (1996): 79-102.
	"Confucianism in Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet," The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 24.1 (1989): 49-64. "Confucianism in Timothy Mo's The Monkey King," Tamkang Review 18.1-4 (1987-8): 403-21. Reprinted in World Literature Written in English, 29.2 (Autumn 1989): 50-61.
	"The Hindu World of R.K. Narayan's Mr. Sampath,"  Comparative Literature: East & West, (July 2018): 24-37.
	"Hindu Mysticism in the 20th Century: R.K. Narayan's The Guide," Philological Quarterly 62.1 (1983, Winter): 31-43.
	"Religion & Culture in Raja Rao's The Serpent & the Rope," Journal of Literary Studies 4.2 (Dec. 1981), Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India.
	"Race & Community in Sam Selvon's Fiction," Caribbean Quartery 37.4 (1991): 9-22.
	"Ghosts and Genealogy in Maxine Kingston’s The Woman Warrior," The  Northwest Review, 22.1 (1985): 122-133.
	"Technology & the Third World: Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast," Critique 26.4 (1985): 217-27.
Postmodernism:
	"Postmodern Ethics: Richard Rorty & Michael Polanyi," Southern Humanities Review, 29.1 (1995): 15-48. This essay received the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award as the best essay published by Southern Humanities Review in 1995.
	Modern Social Imaginaries (Charles Taylor), Rocky Mt. Review, 60.1 (RMMLA, Spring 06).
McCarthy & Southwest Regionalism:
	"Cormac McCarthy as Pragmatist," Critique, 47.2 (Winter 2006): 201-14.
	"Language & the Dance of Time in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian," Southwestern American Literature, 30.1 (Fall 2004): 23-36.
	"Redemption as Language in Cormac McCarthy's Suttree," Christianity and Literature, 53 (2004): 385–97.
	"Theater & Small Town Texas in Clay Reynold's The Tentmaker," Critique, 48.1 (Fall 2006): 90-101.
	"Beauty & History in Clay Reynolds' Franklin's Crossing," Southwestern American Literature, 30.2 (Spring 2005): 29-44.
	"The Missing Beauty in Clay Reynolds' Agatite Trilogy," The Texas Review, 25.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2004): 80-102.
	"The Failure of Southwest Regionalism," South Dakota Review, 19.4 (Winter 1982): 85-99.
	"James Steele: New Mexico's First Local Colorist," Midwest Quarterly, 21.4 (Su 1980):484-90.

Poetry:
	Donny Does E-Mail.  Serialized in Amarillo Bay, 1999-2000; 46 poems.
	Watermelon Mountain / Cold Mountain (click to read 3 poems).  Calcutta: Writers Workshop Press, 1984.
	Indians (click to read 4 poems).  Stafford, Virginia: Northwoods Press, 1980.
	Messages From a Typewriter  (click to see 12 visual poems).  Lawrence, Kansas: Lantana Press, 1980.  4 poems from this collection are reprinted in The Art of Typewriting, ed. Marvin & Ruth Sackner (2015): 244.
Short Stories:
	"Avantara Mantra," Short Story International, 78 (1990): 463-80.
	"Moksha," Short Story International, 57 (1986): 75-86.
First Person Essay:
	"God with an Elephant Head: Pilgrimage to India."   Prairie Schooner, 62.3 (1988): 92-103.
Pedagogy:
	Remaking the American University, Education Review (March 06).
	Declining by Degrees, Education Review (Nov. 05).
	Does the Online University Need Faculty, Adjuncts, or Clerks? Workplace 6.2 (June 05).
	Silicon Literacies, Rocky Mt. Review, 58.2 (RMMLA, Fall 04)
	Putting the University Online, Kairos, 9.1 (04)
	On the Internet by Hubert Dreyfus. Workplace, 5.2 (July 03).
	"Transcendentalism & Henry Barnard's School Architecture," The Journal of General Education, 29.3 (Fall 1977): 173-87.