Faculty Publications
Reza Aslan
An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville (2021)
God: A Human History (2017)
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (2013)
Muslims and Jews in America: Commonalities, Contentions, and Complexities (co-editor, 2011)
Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East (editor, 2011)
How to Win a Cosmic War, published in paperback as Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in a Globalized Age (2009)
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (2005)
Allison Benis White
The Wendys (2019)
Please Bury Me in This (2017)
Small Porcelain Head (2013)
Self-Portrait with Crayon (2009)
Charmaine Craig
My Nemesis (2023)
Miss Burma (2017)
The Good Men (2003)
Josh Emmons
A Moral Tale and Other Moral Tales (2017)
Prescription for a Superior Existence (2008)
The Loss of Leon Mead (2005)
Steve Erickson
American Stutter (2022)
Shadowbahn (2017)
These Dreams of You (2012)
Zeroville (2007)
Our Ecstatic Days (2005)
The Sea Came in at Midnight (1999)
American Nomad (1997)
Amnesiascope (1996)
Arc d'X (1993)
Leap Year (1989)
Tours of the Black Clock (1989)
Rubicon Beach (1986)
Days Between Stations (1985)
Alex Espinoza
The Five Acts of Diego Léon (revised and expanded, 2020)
Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime (2019)
The Five Acts of Diego Léon (2013)
Still Water Saints (2007)
Katie Ford
If You Have to Go (2018)
Blood Lyrics (2014)
Colosseum (2008)
Storm (2007)
Deposition (2002)
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Look at This Blue: An Assemblage Poem (2022)
Effigies III: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing (editor, 2019)
Burn (2017)
Streaming (2014)
Effigies II: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing (editor, 2014)
Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer (2004, 2014)
Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas (editor, 2011)
Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing (editor, 2009)
Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry (editor, 2007)
Blood Run (2007)
Off-Season City Pipe (2005)
They Wanted Children (editor, 2003)
Coming to Life (editor, 2002)
Dog Road Woman (1997)
The Year of the Rat (1993, 1996)
It's Not Quiet Anymore (editor, 1993)
Voice of Thunder (editor, 1992)
Michael Jayme
This Time Tomorrow (2010)
Every Night is Ladies' Night (2004)
John Jennings
John Jennings: Conversations (2020)
Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (co-author, 2020)
I Am Alfonso Jones (co-author, 2017)
Black Comix Returns (co-author, 2016)
Blue Hand Mojo: Hard Times Road (2016)
Blue Hand Mojo: Dust to Dust (2015)
Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (co-author, 2015)
The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (co-author, 2015)
Prison Industrial Complex for Beginners (co-author, 2015)
Laila Lalami
Conditional Citizens (2020)
The Other Americans (2019)
The Moor's Account (2014)
Secret Son (2009)
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits (2005)
Goldberry Long
Juniper Tree Burning (2001)
Tom Lutz
1925: A Literary Encyclopedia (2024)
Archipelago (2024)
The Cloud of Unknowing (2023)
Portraits (2022)
The Kindness of Strangers (2021)
Aimlessness (2020)
Born Slippy: A Novel (2019)
Merton of the Movies (editor, 2019)
And the Monkey Learned Nothing: Dispatches from a Life of Travel (2017)
Drinking Mare's Milk on the Roof of the World: Wandering the Globe from Azerbaijan to Zanzibar (2016)
Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America (2007)
Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value (2004)
Crying: The Natural & Cultural History of Tears (1999)
These 'Colored' United States: African American Essays from the 1920s (editor, 1996)
American Nervousness, 1903: An Anecdotal History (1991)
Emily Rapp Black
Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg (2021)
Sanctuary (2021)
The Still Point of the Turning World (2013)
Poster Child (2006)
Susan Straight
Mecca: A Novel (2022)
In the Country of Women (2019)
Between Heaven and Here (2012)
Take One Candle Light a Room (2010)
The Friskative Dog (2007)
A Million Nightingales (2006)
Highwire Moon (2001)
The Gettin' Place (1996)
Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights (1994)
I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots (1993)
Aquaboogie: a novel in stories (1990)
Andrew Winer
The Marriage Artist (2010)
The Color Midnight Made (2002)
Faculty Emeriti Publications
Christopher Buckley
Naming the Lost: The Fresno Poets (editor, 2021)
One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form (2012)
Rolling the Bones: Poems (2009)
Modern History: Prose Poems 1987-2007 (2008)
Sleepwalk (2006)
And the Sea (2006)
Sky (2004)
Condition of the Spirit: The Life and Work of Larry Levis (co-editor, 2004)
Star Apocrypha (2001)
Greatest Hits (2001)
How Much Earth: The Fresno Poets (co-editor, 2001)
The Geography of Home (co-editor, 1999)
Cruising State: Growing Up in Southern California (1994)
Dark Matter (1993)
Blue Autumn (1990)
Mike Davis
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, co-authored by Jon Wiener (2020)
Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory (2018)
Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism (co-editor, 2007)
In Praise of Barbarians: Essays against Empire (2007)
Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (2007)
No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border, with Justin Akers Chacon (2006)
Planet of Slums: Urban Involution and the Informal Working Class (2006)
The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu (2005)
Cronache Dall’Impero (2005, Italian only)
Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See, with Jim Miller and Kelly Mayhew (2003)
Dead Cities, And Other Tales (2003)
The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas (co-editor, 2002)
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (2001)
Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big City (2000)
Casino Zombies: True Stories From the Neon West (1999, German only)
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (1998)
¿Quién mató a Los Ángeles? (1994, Spanish only)
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990, 2006)
Prisoners of the American Dream (1986, 1999)
Beyond Blade Runner: Urban Control, The Ecology of Fear (1992)
Juan Felipe Herrera
Akriica (2022)
Kid to Kids Choir (2022)
El Crossover [translation of Crossover by Kwame Alexander, 2021]
Every Day We Get More Illegal (2020)
Imagine / Imagina (2018)
Notes on the Assemblage (2017)
The Roots of a Thousand Embraces (2016)
Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream (2015)
Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes (2014)
Senegal Taxi (2014)
Featherless / Desplumado (2013)
SkateFate (2011)
Half the World in Light (2008)
187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross The Border: Undocuments 1971-2007 (2007)
Downtown Boy (2005)
Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box (2005)
Coralito's Bay / La Bahia de Coralito (2004)
Super Cilantro Girl / La Superniña del Cilantro (2003)
Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler (2002)
Grandma & Me at the Flea / Los Meros Meros Remateros (2002)
Giraffe on Fire (2001)
Thunderweavers (2000)
The Upside Down Boy/El Nino de Cabeza (2000)
CrashBoomLove: A Novel in Verse (1999)
Loteria Cards & Fortune Poems (1999)
Laughing Out Loud, I Fly / A Carcajadas Yo Vuelo (1998)
Mayan Drifter: Chicano Poet in the Lowlands of America (1997)
Love After the Riots (1996)
Calling the Doves / Canto a Las Palomas (1995)
Night Train to Tuxtla: New Stories and Poems (1994)
The Roots of a Thousand Embraces: Dialogues (1994)
Memoria(s) from an Exile's Notebook of the Future (1993)
Akrílica (1989)
Facegames (1987)
Exiles of Desire (1985)
Rebozos of Love (1974)
Judy Kronenfeld
If Only There Were Stations of the Air (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2024)
Oh Memory, You Unlocked Cabinet of Amazements! (Bamboo Dart Press, 2024)
Groaning and Singing (2022)
Bird Flying through the Banquet (2017)
Shimmer (2012)
Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths (2012)
King Lear and the Naked Truth (1998)
Shadow of Wings (1991)
Eliud Martinez
American Identities (editor) (2008)
Voice Haunted Journey (1990)
The Art of Mariano Azuela (1981)
Maurya Simon
The Wilderness: New and Selected Poems (2018)
Questions My Daughters Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Them (2014)
The Raindrop's Gospel (2010)
Cartographies (2008)
Weavers (2005)
Ghost Orchid (2004)
A Brief History of Punctuation (2001)
The Golden Labyrinth (1995)
Speaking in Tongues (1990)
Days of Awe (1989)
The Enchanted Room (1986)
Jane Smiley
Dangerous Business (2022)
The Strays of Paris (2021)
Charles Dickens (2021)
Perestroika in Paras (2020)
Taking the Reins (2020)
Saddles and Secrets (2019)
Riding Lessons (2018)
Twenty Yawns (2016)
Golden Age (2015)
Early Warning (2015)
Some Luck (2014)
Gee Whiz (2013)
Pie in the Sky (2012)
True Blue (2011)
A Good Horse (2010)
The Man Who Invented the Computer (2010)
Private Life (2010) The Georges and the Jewels (2009)
Ten Days in the Hills (2007)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005)
A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck (2004)
Charles Dickens (2003)
Good Faith (2003)
Horse Heaven (2000)
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998)
Moo (1995)
A Thousand Acres (1991)
Ordinary Love & Good Will (1989)
The Greenlanders (1988)
Catskill Crafts (1988)
The Age of Grief (1987)
Duplicate Keys (1984)
At Paradise Gate (1981)
Barn Blind (1980)
Ben Stoltzfus
Dumpster, for God's Sake (2019)
Alliecats (2019)
Falling and Other Stories (2018)
Magritte and Literature (2014)
Cat O'nine Tails (2012)
Hemingway and French Writers (2010)
Valley of Roses (2006)
Lacan and Literature (1996)
Alain Robbe=Grillet (1985)
Gide and Hemingway (1978)
Black Lazarus (1972)
Gide's Eagles (1969)
The Eye of the Needle (1967)
Dwight Yates
Bring Everybody (2006)
Haywire Hearts and Slide Trombones (2000)