Journal and Book Articles, 2010 – present

  • Ansu, Louis.  “The Economy of Desire in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.”  Symploke: A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship, vol. 26, nos. 1-2, 2018, pp. 191-205.
  • Arif, Karima.  “The Mutiliation of Memory, History, and the Body in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.”  the quint:  An Interdisciplinary Quarterly from the North 5.1 (Dec 2012):  57-71.
  • Babaee, Ruzbeh; Wan Roselezam Bt Wan Yahya; and Shivani Sivagurunathan.  “Dystopian Cybernetic Environment in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.”  Theory and Practice in Language Studies 4.2 (2014):  237-243.
  • Beck, Gunter.  “Slapstick Humor:  Physical Comedy in Vonnegut’s Fiction.”  Studies in American Humor 3.26 (2012):  59-72.
  • Bogar, Adam T. “Can a Machine Be a Gentleman? Machine Ethics and Ethical Machines.” Critical Insights: Kurt Vonnegut. Ed. by Robert T. Tally Jr., Ipswich, MA:  Salem Press, 2013.  248–68.
  • _____. “‘Farewell, hello, farewell, hello:’ Tralfamadorian Thought as Religion in Slaughterhouse-Five—A Geertzian Account.” Vidimus Enim Stellam Eius. Ed. Laszlo Szavay.  Paris: L’Harmattan Press, 2011.  47–55.
  • _____. “‘Just violet light and a hum:’ Approaching Death in Slaughterhouse-Five and in Medieval Chansons De Geste.” ALIZÉS: Revue Angliciste de La Réunion 37 (2013):  156–63.
  • _____. “Leveling the Playing Field: Cultural Relativism and Inequality.” Critical Insights: Inequality, edited by Kimberly Drake, Salem Press, 2018, pp. 35-46.
  • _____. “‘Nothing in this book is true:’ on Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.” The First Line Literary Journal 16.3 (2014):  61-63.
  • _____. “Victims of a Series of Accidents: Attention and Authority in Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan.” The Arts of Attention. Eds. Adam T. Bogar, Katalin G. Kallay, Matyas Banhegyi, Geza Kallay, Judit Nagy, and Balazs Szigeti, Paris:  L’Harmattan Press – Éditions L’Harmattan, 2016. 359-71.
  • Brown, Kevin.  “The Psychiatrists Wee Right:  Anomic Alienation in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.”  South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 28.2 (Summer 2011): 101-109.
  • Caracciolo, Marco.  “Posthuman Narration as a Test Bed for Experientiality:  The Case of Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos.”  Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, vol. 16, no. 2, 2018, pp. 303-314.
  • Carpenter, Amy.  “‘From All Their Story Sound, From a Place as Deep’: The Influence of Kurt Vonnegut on Anne Sexton’s Transformations.”  Studies in American Humor, vol. 4, no. 1, 2018, pp. 37-57
  • Carrigan, Henry.  “Walker Percy:  Kurt Vonnegut for Adults.”  Kurt Vonnegut:  Critical Insights.  Ed. Robert T. Tally, Jr.  Ipswich, MA:  Salem Press, 2013.
  • Clare, Ralph.  “Worlds of Wordcraft:  The Metafiction of Kurt Vonnegut.”  Kurt Vonnegut:  Critical Insights.  Ed. Robert T. Tally, Jr.  Ipswich, MA:  Salem Press, 2013.
  • Davis, Todd.  “Kurt Vonnegut.”  The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists.  Cambridge, England:  Cambridge UP, 2013.
  • Farrell, Susan.  “A Convenient Reality: Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night and the Falsification of Memory.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 55.2 (Jan 2014): 226-236.
  • _____.  “Vonnegut and Religion:  Daydreaming About God.”  Kurt Vonnegut:  Critical Insights.  Ed. Robert T. Tally, Jr.  Ipswich, MA:  Salem Press, 2013.
  • Freese, Peter.  “The Critical Reception of Kurt Vonnegut.”  Literature Compass 9.1 (Jan 2012):  1-14.
  • Hertweck, Tom.  “Now It’s the Women’s Turn:  The Art(s) of Reconcilation in Vonnegut’s Bluebeard.”  Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 17.1 (Spring 2011): 143-154.
  • Jarvis, Christina.  “Displaced Trauma and the Legacies of the Vietnam War in Hocus Pocus.”  War, Literature & the Arts 28 (2016):  1-21.
  • Kaiserman, Adam.  “Kurt Vonnegut’s PBS Style:  Breakfast of Champions, Sesame Street, and the Politics of Public Culture.”  Journal of American Culture 35.4 [52] (Dec 2012):  332-334.
  • Kavalier, Monika.  “Modal Structure in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.”  Acta Neophilologica 44.1-2 (2011):  103-111; 165.
  • Klinkowitz, Jerome.  “How to Die Laughing:  Kurt Vonnegut’s Lessons for Humor.”  Studies in American Humor 3.26 (2012):  15-19.
  • McInnis, Gilbert.  “The Myth of the Two Monsters in Breakfast of Champions.”  Kurt Vonnegut: Critical Insights, edited by Robert T. Tally, Jr., Salem Press, 2013, pp. 206-227.
  • McMahon, Gary.  “Based on the Novel by Kurt Vonnegut.”  Film International 9.4 (2011):  7-28.
  • Mentak, Said.  “Human Harmony:  Environmentalism and Culture in Vonnegut’s Writings.”  Kurt Vonnegut:  Critical Insights.  Ed. Robert T. Tally, Jr.  Ipswich, MA:  Salem Press, 2013.
  • Michael, Magali Cornier.  “An Anti-War Novel for the Twenty-First Century:  Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Rewrites Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.”  Inhabited by Stories:  Critical Essays on Tales Retold.  Eds. Nancy A. Barta-Smith and Danette DiMarco.  Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England:  Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012.
  • Morace, Robert.  “Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.:  Sermons on the Mount.”  Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 51.2 (Winter 2010): 151-158.
  • Morse, Donald.  “The Curious Reception of Kurt Vonnegut.”  Kurt Vonnegut:  Critical Insights.  Ed. Robert T. Tally, Jr.  Ipswich, MA:  Salem Press, 2013.
  • _____.  “Reconsidering Vonnegut.”  Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies [Special Section] 17.1 (Spring 2011): 97-154.
  • Pardee, Sheila Ellen.  “Anthropology Across the Universe:  Folk Societies in the Early Novels of Kurt Vonnegut.”  Kurt Vonnegut:  Critical Insights.  Ed. Robert T. Tally, Jr.  Ipswich, MA:  Salem Press, 2013.
  • Privett, Joshua. “Always-Already Recreating the ‘Same Old Nightmare’: The Function of Ideology in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano.” New Academia: An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory 4.1 (2015): 105–13.
  • Raj, Ankit, and Nagendra Kumar. “Finding ‘Bluebeard’ in Kurt Vonnegut’s Bluebeard.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews (2021): 1-5. DOI: 10.1080/0895769X.2021.1872361
  • Raj, Ankit, and Nagendra Kumar. “The Hero at a Thousand Places: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five as Anti-Monomyth.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 62.2 (2021): 239-252. DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2020.1800583
  • Reed, Benjamin.  “Technologies of Instant Amnesia:  Teaching Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Harrison Bergeron’ to the Millenial Generation.”  Teaching American Literature:  A Journal of Theory and Practice 8.1 (Spring 2015):  45-69.
  • Rodriguez, Deanna.  “The Absurdity of Suicide:  The Existential Struggle as Explored by Vonnegut in Breakfast of Champions.”  New Academia: An International Journal of English Language Literature and Literary Theory 2.4 (Oct 2013):  1-4.
  • Seiber, Sharon Lynn.  “Time, Transformation, and the Reading Process in Vonnegut.”  Kurt Vonnegut:  Critical Insights.  Ed. Robert T. Tally, Jr.  Ipswich, MA:  Salem Press, 2013.
  • Shields, Charles J.  “Biography of Kurt Vonnegut.”  Kurt Vonnegut:  Critical Insights.  Ed. Robert T. Tally, Jr.  Ipswich, MA:  Salem Press, 2013.
  • _____.  “If Jesus Did Stand-Up:  The Comic Parables of Kurt Vonnegut.”  Studies in American Humor 3.26 (2012):  25-39.
  • Simut, Andrei.  “Elements of Science Fiction and the Fascination with the Post-Human Gaze in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos.”  Caietele Echinox 26 (2014):  282-291.
  • Singh, Sukhbir.  “Time, War, and The Bahgavad Gita:  A Rereading of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five.”  Comparative Critical Studies 7.1 (2010):  83-103.
  • Tally, Robert T. Jr.  “On Kurt Vonnegut.”  Kurt Vonnegut:  Critical Insights.  Ed. Robert T. Tally, Jr.  Ipswich, MA:  Salem Press, 2013.
  • Thomas, P.L.  “Looking for Vonnegut:  Confronting Genre and the Author/Narrator Divide.”  Kurt Vonnegut:  Critical Insights.  Ed. Robert T. Tally, Jr.  Ipswich, MA:  Salem Press, 2013.
  • _____.  “Lost in Adaptation:  Kurt Vonnegut’s Radical Humor in Film and Print.”  Studies in American Humor 3.26 (2012):  85-101.
  • Ullrich, David W.  “The Function of ‘Oubliette’ in Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.”  Explicator 70.2 (Apr-June 2012):  149-152.
  • Vanderwerken, David L.  “Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five at 40:  Billy Pilgrim–Even More a Man of our Time.”  Critique:  Studies in Contemporary Fiction 54.1 (2013):  46-55.
  • Wakefield, Dan.  “Kurt Vonnegut:  Christ-Loving Atheist.”  Image:  Art, Faith, Mystery 82 (Fall 2014):  67-75.
  • Ward, Joseph.  “Following in the Footsteps of Sisyphus:  Camus, Vonnegut, and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.”  Interdisciplinary Literary Studies:  A Journal of Criticism and Theory 14.1 (2012):  79-94.
  • Wepler, Ryan.  “‘I Can’t Tell if You’re Being Serious or Not’:  Vonnegut’s Comic Realism in Slaughterhouse-Five.”  Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 17.1 (Spring 2011): 97-126.
  • Wicks, Amanda.  “All this Happened, More or Less:  The Science Fiction of Trauma in Slaughterhouse-Five.”  Critique:  Studies in Contemporary Fiction 55.3 (2014):  329-340.
  • Wilkinson, Nils and Eckart Voigts.  “Mechanistic Dystopia:  E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops (1909) and Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano (1952).”  Dystopia, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalypse:  Classics-New Tendencies-Modal Interpretations.  Eds. Eckart Voigts and Alessandra Boller.  Trier, Germany:  Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT), 2015.
  • Willett, Nicole.  “In Search of Soul.”  Electric Sheep Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Speculative Fiction in a Post Modern World.  Ed. Harry Edwin Eiss.  Newcastle upon Tyne, England:  Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014.