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Denise Howard Long 
Adjunct Instructor of English
Online English Program Coordinator
M.A. English, University of Illinois at Springfield
Certificate, The Publishing Institute, Univ. of Denver
Phone: (217) 206-6792
Office: UHB 3067
Teaching Concentration and Interests: American Literature, Short Stories and Short Story Theory, War Literature, Gender Theory, Men's Studies/Masculinity Studies
Courses: Introduction to Literature, Introduction to American Literature, Introduction to Fiction, Introduction to Literary Genres: American Short Story, Introduction to Fiction, War Literature
Publications:
- Editor, The Alchemist Review, 2006.
- "A Dentist No More: Destruction of Masculinity in Frank Norris's McTeague." MidAmerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, 2006.
- "My William." Short Stuff Magazine, 2004.
- "Summer's End." The Alchemist Review, 2004.
- "Waiting." The Alchemist Review, 2003.
Readings and Presentations:
- "Battle Lines of Separation: Fiction and Truth in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried." Illinois Philological Association Annual Conference, 2007.
- "A Dentist No More: Destruction of Masculinity in Frank Norris's McTeague." Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Annual Conference, 2005.
- "Motherhood as Home and Mother as Self: Women Seeking Identification in Edith Wharton's Summer and Meridel Le Sueur's The Girl." Illinois Philological Association Annual Conference, 2005.
- "Disposal and Absorption of Nature: Consumerism in Don DeLillo's White Noise." Illinois Philological Association Annual Conference, 2004.
- "What They Didn't Know" and "Summer's End." Fiction. Reading at the Vachel Lindsay House, Springfield, Illinois. 2004.
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