Publications

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS AUTHORED

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  Political Fiction and the American Self (U of Illinois). Chapters on Jack London, Herman Melville, Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, and Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood.

  Tibet on Fire: Buddhism, Protest, and the Rhetoric of Self-Immolation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

EDITORIAL WORK ON BOOKS

• 2019    “Religion, Popular Culture, and the Anthropocene,” a special issue of The Journal of Religion, Culture, and Nature, co-edited with Lisa Sideris.

  2018    Religious Journeys in India: Pilgrims, Tourists, and Travelers, co-edited with Andrea Marion Pinkney (SUNY).

  2015:  "Film and Video in Asia," co-edited with S. Brent Plate (forthcoming in Material Religion).

  2015: "De-Orienting Religious Studies in Asia," co-edited with Andrea Marion Pinkney and Robbie Goh, Numen, Volume 62, Issue 1.

  2015: Religious Journeys in India, co-edited with Andrea Marion Pinkney (forthcoming, SUNY).

  2014: Buddhism and American Cinema, co-edited with Gary Storhoff in Buddhism and American Culture," (in SUNY series, "Buddhism and American Culture").

  2013: Buddhism, Modernity, and the State in Asia: Forms of Engagement, co-edited with Pattana Kitiarsa (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan).

  2011: Embodied Knowledge: Traditional Asian Martial Arts in a Transnational World, co-edited with Douglas Farrer (SUNY).

  2011: Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhist American Literature into the 21st Century, co-edited with Gary Storhoff in "Buddhism and American Culture," (SUNY).

  2010: Norman Mailer’s Later Fiction: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest (Palgrave).

  2010: American Buddhism as a Way of Life, co-edited with Gary Storhoff in "Buddhism and American Culture," (SUNY).

  2009: The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature, co-edited with Gary Storhoff (SUNY).

  2008: Democracy as Culture: Deweyan Pragmatism in the Age of Globalization, co-edited with Tan Sor Hoon (Albany, SUNY).

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

• ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS

  2023    “Some Versions of the Bodhisattva: Meditation on Maxine Hong Kingston and Thích Nhất Hạnh (Part TWO)” in Re-Markings Vol 21, No. 3.

  2022    “Some Versions of the Bodhisattva: Meditation on Maxine Hong Kingston and Thích Nhất Hạnh (Part ONE)” in in Re-Markings Vol 21, No. 2.

  2022    ”The Beats, the Four Noble Truths, and the Problem of “Romantic Buddhism” in The Journal of Beat Studies Vol 10 (2022), 85-104.

  2022    “Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”: Performing Communion” in “The Beat Goes On! A ‘Beat Poets’ Special,” a special issue of The Beacon (20 July 2022).

  2021    “The Letters of Norman Mailer” in Norman Mailer in Context, ed. Maggie McKinley, Cambridge University Press (2021).  355-62.

  2021    “Connecting Youthful Dissent and the Current Ecological Crisis when Teaching the Work of Gary Snyder” in The Beats: a Teaching Companion, ed. Nancy Grace, Clemson University Press, 2021, 301-15.

  2018    “Proxy Pilgrimage: Seeing Tibet in Dharamsala, India,” in Religious Journeys in India, co-edited with Andrea Marion Pinkney (SUNY).

  2018    “New Motivations for Religious Travel in India,” co-authored with Andrea Pinkney, in Religious Journeys in India (SUNY).

  2017    “Death and Destruction in Snyder’s Twenty-First-Century Poems,” in ANQ, 30.2, pp. 118-28.

  2017    "Buddhism and the Beats” in The Cambridge Companion to the Beats, ed. Steven Belleto. (Cambridge UP, 225-39).

  2016     “Gary Snyder, Counterculture, and National Identity” in the Journal of Beat Studies, vol. 4, pp 43-56.  IRJ ARTICLE.

  2016     “‘Howl’ and the Performance of Communion,” in Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the ‘Howl' Generation, ed. Deborah Geis. London and New York: Methuen, ‘Howl’ and the Performance of Communion,” in Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the ‘Howl' Generation, ed. Deborah Geis. London and New York: Methuen, pp25-32. BOOK CHAPTER, Invited.

  2016    "Buddhism and the Beats” in The Cambridge Companion to the Beats, ed. Steven Belleto. (Forthcoming, 6500 words.) BOOK CHAPTER, Invited.

  2016     “Audiovisual-Religion in Asia: an Introduction” in in Material Religion. Volume 11, Issue 4, 2015, 415-420. IRJ ARTICLE.

  2016     “Can a Coke Can Be Sacred? Tantric Television and Supposedly Mundane Objects in Khyentse Norbu’s The Cup” in Material Religion. Volume 11, Issue 4, 2015, 527-547. IRJ ARTICLE.

  2015     “De-Orienting Religious Studies in Asia," with Andrea Marion Pinkney and Robbie Goh, Numen 62(1) 2015, 1-6. IRJ.

  2014     “What Is a Buddhist Movie?” in Contemporary Buddhism, 15(1) 2014, 44-80. IRJ.

  2014     “The ‘Engaged Aesthetics’ of Maxine Hong Kingston’s Fifth Book of Peace,” in On the Legacy of Maxine Hong Kingston (Berlin: Lit Verlag), pp 207-213. REPRINTED from "The 'Engaged Buddhism' of Maxine Hong Kingston's Fifth Book of Peace" in Buddhism and Buddhist Philosophy in World Literature, ed. Pornsan Watanangura and Heinrich Detering (Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press, 2011), 53-62. BOOK.

  2014     “Some (Hollywood) Versions of Enlightenment” in Buddhism and American Cinema, in "Buddhism and American Culture," SUNY series, "Buddhism and American Culture,” 1-12. BOOK.

  2013     “Trungpa, Naropa, and the Outrider Road: An Interview with Anne Waldman” in Journal of Beat Studies, Vol. 2, 31-52. IRJ.

  2013     "Buddhist Engagements: Cooperation, Co-optation, and Confrontation,” co-authored with Pattana Kitiarsa, in Buddhism, Modernity, and the State in Asia: Forms of Engagement, co-edited with Pattana Kitiarsa (2013, Palgrave Macmillan), 1-14. BOOK.

  2013     "Angry Monk Syndrome on the World Stage: Tibet, Engaged Buddhism, and the Weapons of the Weak" in Buddhism, Modernity, and the State in Asia: Forms of Engagement (2013, Palgrave Macmillan), 163-207. BOOK. 

  2011     "Martial Arts, Transnational Affiliations and the Paradoxes of Embodied Knowledge," co-authored with Douglas Farrer (forthcoming in Embodied Knowledge: Traditional Asian Martial Arts in a Transnational World, SUNY), 1-25. BOOK.

  2011     "Some Versions of the Samurai: The Budō Core of DeLillo’s Running Dog" Embodied Knowledge: Traditional Asian Martial Arts in a Transnational World, Albany: SUNY), 29-60. BOOK.

  2011     "Introduction: Writing as Enlightenment," with Gary Storhoff in Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhism American Literature into the Twenty-First Century (SUNY, “Buddhism and American Culture” series), 1-15. BOOK.

  2011     "Embodied Mindfulness: Charles Johnson and Maxine Hong Kingston on Buddhism, Race, and Beauty" in Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhism American Literature into the Twenty-First Century (SUNY), 141-56. BOOK.

  2011     "Poetry and Practice at Naropa" in Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhism American Literature into the Twenty-First Century (SUNY, “Buddhism and American Culture” series), 157-84. BOOK.

  2011     "Multiple Modernities and the Tibetan Diaspora" in South Asian Diaspora 3.1, 103-15. IRJ.

  2010     "Absolutely Dauntless: A Quarter-century of Sex, God, Politics, and Fame" in Norman Mailer’s Later Fiction, Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest (Palgrave), 1-11. BOOK.

  2010     "Late Mailer: His Writing and Reputation since Ancient Evenings" in Norman Mailer’s Later Fiction: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest (Palgrave), 181-92. BOOK.

  2010     "Introduction: American Buddhism as a Way of Life," written with Gary Storhoff, in American Buddhism as a Way of Life (SUNY), 1-10. BOOK.

  2010     "The Politics of Playful Confrontation: Barthelme as Disgruntled Liberal," in Short Story Criticism, Volume 142 (SSC-142). REPRINTED from Connotations 13.3 (2003/2004), 246-69. IRJ/COLLECTION.

  2010     "The Problem of the Political Novel," in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, vol. 234, REPRINTED from Political Fiction and the American Self. BOOK/COLLECTION.

  2009     "Introduction: The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature," written with Gary Storhoff, in The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature (SUNY), 1-17. BOOK.

  2009     "Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston" in The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature (SUNY), 177-87. BOOK.

  2009     "‘Angry Monk Syndrome’ on the World Stage" in Buddhist Approaches to Political Conflict and Peace Development (Bangkok: Mahachulalongkorn UP), 73-84. BOOK.

  2008     "Non-duality and Aesthetic Experience: Dewey's Theory and Johnson’s Practice" in Democracy as Culture: Deweyan Pragmatism in the Age of Globalization (SUNY), 139-62. BOOK.

  2008     "Teaching Lolita in (a) ‘Consuming Culture’: (a Seminar in Cultural Studies)," written with Tania Roy, in Approaches to Teaching Lolita ed. Zoran Kuzmanovic and Galya Diment (MLA), 62-70. BOOK.

  2008     "Pragmatism’s Passport: Dewey, Democracy, and Globalization," with Tan Sor-hoon, in Democracy as Culture: Deweyan Pragmatism in the Age of Globalization (SUNY), 1-17. BOOK.

  2008     "‘Their Humor Annoyed Him’: Cavalier Wit and Sympathy for the Devil in The Castle in the Forest" in The Mailer Review 2, 318-329.

  2007     "The Sexual Politics of Divine Femininity: Tārā in Transition in Gary Snyder’s Poetry" in Partial Answers 5.2, 219-244. IRJ.

  2007     "Invisible Threads: Ellesteen Bishop and Feminine Civility in Dreamer" in Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher, ed. by Marc C. Conner and W.R. Nash (U of Mississippi P, 127-49). BOOK.

  2007     "‘For/From Lew’: the Ghost Visitations of Lew Welch and the Art of Zen Failure: A Dialogic Dialogue" in Connotations 16.1-3, 92-115. IRJ.

  2006     "The Karma of Words: Mailer since Executioner’s Song," Journal of Modern Literature 30.1, 1-16. IRJ.

  2006     "Interview with Charles Johnson and Maxine Hong Kingston" in MELUS, 31, 269-293. IRJ.

  2006     "'Whole Sight' in Review: Reflections on Charles Johnson" in MELUS, 31, 244-267. IRJ.

  2006     "White Noise as Disaster Movie," (co-authored with Valerie Wee) in Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise, ed. Engles, Tim, and John N. Duvall (MLA), 204-13.  BOOK.