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Listed below:  books, scholarly essays and articles, along with a list of presses and journals for which I have reviewed scholarly manuscripts. This list includes activities prior to those completed during the past five years.

BOOK-LENGTH PUBLICATIONS:

Annual Proceedings:  World of Thought Resident Scholar Series.  Ed. Christy Steele and Suzanne Bunkers.  Mankato: Mankato State University, 1994, 1995, 1996.  [In-house publications]

"All Will Yet Be Well": The Diary of Sarah Gillespie Huftalen, 1873-1952. Ed. Suzanne L. Bunkers. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993.

The Diary of Caroline Seabury. Ed. Suzanne L. Bunkers. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.

Guidebook for Teaching Assistants in English. Ed. Suzanne Bunkers, Keith Sell, and Tammy Bracken. Mankato, MN: Mankato State University, 1989.  [In-house publication]

Good Earth, Black Soil. Co-authored with Frank W. Klein. Winona, MN: St. Mary's College Press, 1981.

SELECTED JURIED ARTICLES, ESSAYS, CHAPTERS:

"Mothers, Daughters, and Diaries: Literacy, Relationship, and Cultural Context." Co-authored with Judy Nolte Temple. Nineteenth-American Women and Literacy. Ed. Catherine Hobbs. Charlottesville: U Press of Virginia, 1995. 197-216.

"'I Am Outraged Womanhood': Dorothy Parker as Feminist and Social Critic." American Women Humorists: Critical Essays. Ed. Linda A. Morris. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994. 327-340. First published in Regionalism and the Female Imagination, 4.2 (Fall 1978): 25-34.

"In Search of Susanna: A Study of One Immigrant's Experience." The Palimpsest 74.4 (Winter 1993): 188-196.

"Faithful Friends: Diaries and the Dynamics of Women's Friendships." Communication and Women's Friendships: Parallels and Intersections in Literature and Life. Ed. Janet D. Ward and Joanna S. Mink. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993. 9-26.

"What Do Women Really Mean?: Thoughts on Women's Diaries and Lives." The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism. Ed. Olivia Frey, Frances Zauhar, and Diane Freedman. Durham: Duke UP, 1993. 207-221.

"Introduction: Keeping a Diary." The Goldfinch: A Magazine of History for Children 14. 1 (Fall 1992): 4-5. State Historical Society of Iowa, 2-3.

"'We Are Not the Cleavers': Images of Nontraditional Families in Children's Literature." The Lion and the Unicorn 16.1 (June 1992): 115-133.

"Subjectivity and Self-Reflexivity in the Study of Women's Diaries as Autobiography." A/B: Auto/biography Studies 5.2 (Fall 1990): 114-123.

"Diaries: Public and Private Records of Women's Lives." Legacy 7 (Fall 1990): 17-26.

"Teaching Assistants: What Good Are They? An Essay." Mankato Statement: The Journal of the College of Education, Fall 1990: 5-6.

"Renewal and Freshman Composition." Faculty Development: A Regional, Collaborative Bush Foundation Newsletter 3.3 (Spring 1990), 6.

"Reading and Interpreting the Unpublished Diaries of Nineteenth-Century Women." A Women's Diaries Miscellany. Ed. Jane DuPree Begos. Weston, CT: MagiCircle Press, 1989. 178-183.

"Ten Times Harder: Becoming a Stepmother."  Women and Stepfamilies. Ed. Nan Bauer Maglin and Nancy Schniedewind.  Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1989.  29-37.

"What We Do When We Write About Women's Lives."   Co-authored with Ilene Alexander and Cherry Muhanji.  Women's Studies Quarterly: Special Issue on Nontraditional Literature by Women , 17. 3&4 (Fall/Winter 1989): 99-114.

"Midwestern Diaries and Journals: What Women Were (Not) Saying in the Late 1800s." Studies in Autobiography. Ed. James Olney. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. 190-210.

"Reading and Interpreting the Letters of Fannie Reed." Sister to Sister. Ed. Janis L. Pallister. Washington, D.C.: Turn-of-the-Century Women, 1988. 43-52.

"'Faithful Friend': Nineteenth-Century Midwestern Women's Unpublished Diaries." Women's Studies International Forum 10.1 (1987): 7-17.

"Reading and Interpreting Unpublished Diaries by Nineteenth-Century Women." A/B: Auto/biography Studies 2.2 (Summer 1986): 15-18.

"Why are These Women Laughing? The Power and Politics of Women's Humor."  Studies in American Humor 4. 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 1985): 82-93.

"Strong Women Grow from Black Soil." Plainswoman, 8.5 (January 1985): 4-6.

"In Search of Susanna." Iowa Woman, 3.3 (Summer 1982): 41-45.

"Honoring Our Foremothers: Four Generations of Strong Iowa Women." Iowa Woman, 1.4 (July/August 1980): 7-13.