Jacqueline M. Foertsch

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book

• Foertsch, J.M. (2021). Freedom's Ring: Literatures of Liberation from Civil Rights to the Second Wave.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2013). Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America. Vanerbilt UP.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2008). Bracing Accounts: The Literature and Culture of Polio in Postwar America. Fairleigh Dickinson UP / Associated University Presses.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2007). American Culture in the 1940s. American Culture Series, Edinburgh UP.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2007). Conflict and Counterpoint in Lesbian, Gay, and Feminist Studies. Palgrave.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2001). Enemies Within: The Cold War and AIDS Crisis in Literature, Film and Culture. University of Illinois Press. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc948086/

Book Chapter

• Foertsch, J. (2020). "The Cold War Literature of Mutually Assured Destruction". Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture. 175-86. Cambridge, Cambridge UP.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2010). Reprint: "The Bomb Next Door: Four Postwar Alterapocalyptics." in Ray Bradbury , ed. Harold Bloom. Chelsea House.
• Foertsch, J.M., Field, D. (2005). "A Battle of Silence: Women's Magazines and the Polio Crisis in Postwar US and UK". Culture Unbound: Anxieties and Border Crossings in the Cold War Era. 17-33. Edinburgh, Edinburgh UP.
• Foertsch, J.M., Thomas, C. (2000). "In Theory if Not in Practice: Straight Feminism's Lesbian Experience". Straight With a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality. 45-59. University of Illinois Press.

Book Review

• Foertsch, J.M. (2006). Laboring to Play by Melanie Dawson. 71 (3) South Atlantic Review.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2005). Jane Austen, Or: The Secret of Style by D.A. Miller. 70 (2) 141-43. South Atlantic Review.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2001). Out In the South by Carlos L. Dews and Carolyn Leste Law, eds. 66 (4) 171-73. South Atlantic Review.

Conference Proceeding

• Foertsch, J.M. (1991). A Structured Sharing: H.D.'s Sea Garden as Early Epic Gesture. 99-105. West Virginia University Papers.

Journal Article

• Foertsch, J.M. (2024). End of the Road: Joan Didtion, Hunter S. Thompson, and True Crime in the Auto-Apocalyptic West.
• Foertsch, J. (2019). “On the Road, In Cold Blood, and the End of the American Road Trip.”. Midwest Quarterly. 60 (4) 390-401.
• Foertsch, J. (2019). “Tools of the Trade: Working Women in Texts of the Sexual Revolution.”. 81 (2) 100-116.
• Foertsch, J. (2017). “Cautionary Tales from the Sexual Revolution: Freedom Gained and Lost in 1970s Novels, Films, and Memoirs.”. 40 (3) 1-10.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2012). "Last Man Standing: Interracial Sex and Survival in Postnuclear Films, 1951-2007.". Modern Language Studies. 42 (1) 30-47.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2010). "Against the Starless Midnight of Racism and War: African American Intellectuals and the Anti-Nuclear Agenda.". Philological Quarterly. 88 (4) 407-30.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2009). Historicizing Polio's Happy Ending in Recent American Children's Fiction. Childrens Literature Association Quarterly. 34 (1) 21-37.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2007). 'Heads, You Win!': Newsletters and Magazines of the Polio Nation. Disability Studies Quarterly. 27 (3)
• Foertsch, J.M. (2007). Extraordinarily Convenient Neighbors: African American Characters in White-Authored Post-Atomic Novels. Journal of Modern Literature. 30 (4) 122-38.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2007). No Time for Tears?: Gender and Denial in Polio Memoirs. Prose Studies. 29 (2) 238-56.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2007). Ordinary Pocket Litter: Paper, the Papers, and One's Papers in Cold War Novels of Intrigue. Contemporary Literature. 48 (2) 278-306.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2006). Books as Broccoli? Images as Ice Cream?: Providing a Healthy Menu in a College English Classroom. Pedagogy. 6 (2) 209-230.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2004). Introduction: 'The Terror! The Terror!'. Studies in the Novel. 36 (3) 285-293.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2004). The Trials of Trialoguing in Gay, Lesbian, and Feminist Studies. Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture. 15 76-95.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2003). Bombs Away and Smash Hits at Home: Dissolving Boundaries in The War of the Worlds. Popular Culture Review. 15 (1) 51-64.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2003). Incredible Shrinkage: The Perils of Patriotism in 1960s Spy Films. Studies in Popular Culture. 25 (3) 33-48.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2001). The Right, the Wrong, and the Ugly: Teaching Shelley's Several Frankensteins. College English. 63 (6) 697-711.
• Foertsch, J.M. (2000). The Circle of Learners in a Vicious Circle: Derrida, Foucault, and Feminist Pedagogic Practice. College Literature. 27 (3) 111-29.
• Foertsch, J.M. (1999). Angels in an Epidemic: Women as 'Negatives' in Recent AIDS Literature. South Central Review. 16 (1) 57-72.
• Foertsch, J.M. (1999). Not Bombshells but Basketcases: Gendered Illness in Nuclear Texts. Studies in the Novel. 31 (4) 471-88.
• Foertsch, J.M. (1997). The Bomb Next Door: Four Postwar Alterapocalyptics. Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture. 30 (4) 333-58.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research

• Way, J.E. (Co-Principal), Foertsch, J.M. (Principal), "Faculty Mentoring Grant: 2017 Postwar Studies Faculty Colloquium," sponsored by Faculty Success, Office of the Provost, University of North Texas, $4000 Funded. (2016 - 2017).
• Foertsch, J.M., "Team Mentoring Grant," sponsored by Office of Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $4000 Funded. (2016 - 2017).
• Way, J.E. (Co-Principal), Foertsch, J.M. (Principal), "Faculty Mentoring Grant: 2016 Postwar Studies Faculty Colloquium," sponsored by Vice Provost for Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $4000 Funded. (2015 - 2016).
• Foertsch, J.M., "Team Mentoring Grant," sponsored by Office of Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $4000 Funded. (2015 - 2016).
• Foertsch, J.M., "UNT Scholarly and Creative Achievement," sponsored by UNT, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2014 - 2014).
• Foertsch, J.M. (Other), "Freedom's Ring: Rhetorics of Liberation from Civil Rights to the Second Wave," sponsored by UNt/Research and Creativity Enhancement, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2013 - 2013).
• Foertsch, J.M. (Principal), "Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America," sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities/Sumer Stipend, Federal, $6000 Funded. (2010 - 2010).
• Foertsch, J.M. (Principal), "Bracing Accounts: The Literature and Culture of Polio in Postwar America," sponsored by Nationl Endowment for the Humanities/Summer Stipend, Federal, $5000 Funded. (2004 - 2004).
• Foertsch, J. (Principal), "Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America," sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities/Sumer Stipend, Federal, Funded. (2010 - 2010).
• Foertsch, J. (Principal), "Bracing Accounts: The Literature and Culture of Polio in Postwar America," sponsored by Nationl Endowment for the Humanities/Summer Stipend, Federal, Funded. (2004 - 2004).