Liliana Naydan, Ph.D.

Academic Publications

Monographs 

Naydan, Liliana M. Flat-World Fiction: Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First Century America. The University of Georgia Press, 2021.

Naydan, Liliana M. Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction: Faith, Fundamentalism, and Fanaticism in the Age of Terror. Bucknell UP, 2016. 

Edited Books

Denny, Harry, Robert Mundy, Liliana M. Naydan, Anna Sicari, and Richard Séverè, editors. Out in the Center: Public Controversies and Private Struggles. Utah State UP, 2018. (Winner of the International Writing Centers Association 2019 Outstanding Book Award.)

Fragopoulos, George, and Liliana M. Naydan, editors.. Terror in Global Narrative: Representations of 9/11 in the Age of Late-Late Capitalism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 

Edited Journal Issue

Gardner, Clint, Maggie M. Herb, and Liliana M. Naydan, guest editors. Writing Center Journal vol. 41, no. 1, 2023. Special Issue: Contingency and its Intersections in Writing Centers. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/wcj/vol41/iss1/

Peer-Reviewed Articles in Journals 

Naydan, Liliana M. “Academic and Conversational Genre: Revisionist Visions of Antiracist Rhetoric in Claudia Rankine’s Just Us.” (Forthcoming in College Literature, 2024.)

Naydan, Liliana M. "The Politics of Genre Migration in Gary Shteyngart's Our Country Friends." Studies in the Novel, vol. 55, no. 3, 2023, pp. 307-324.

Naydan, Liliana M. “Hawthorne and the Problem of Immigrant Fiction in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Hema and Kaushik.” College Literature, vol. 50, no. 4, 2023, pp. 526-546.

Efthymiou, Andrea, Liliana M. Naydan, and Anna Sicari. “Faith, Secularism, and the Need for Interfaith Dialogue in Writing Center Work.” Writing Center Journal, vol. 39, no. 1-2, 2021, pp. 191-209.

Fels, Dawn, Clint Gardner, Maggie Herb, and Liliana M. Naydan. “Contingent Writing Center Work: Benefits, Risks, and the Need for Equity and Institutional Change.” Writing Center Journal, vol. 39, no. 1-2, 2021, pp. 351-380.

Naydan, Liliana M. “The Politics of Alienation in Gary Shteyngart’s Lake Success.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol 62, no. 3, 2021, pp. 361-371. 

Corey, Logan, Lauren Fitzgerald, Zeinab Khalil, and Zoe Kumagai, and Liliana M. Naydan. “Challenges of Professional Dress for Women Writing Center Workers.” The Peer Review, vol. 4, no. 1, 2020.

Naydan, Liliana M. “Digital Screens and National Divides in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 51, no. 3, 2019, pp. 433-451.

Efthymiou, Andrea, Liliana M. Naydan, and Anna Sicari. “Possibilities for Interfaith Dialogue in Writing Centers and Programs.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, vol. 16, no. 3, 2019, pp. 6-15. 

Naydan, Liliana M. “Beyond Economic Globalization in Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: The False Promise of Self-Help and Possibilities through Reading with a Creative Mind.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 53, no. 1, 2018, pp. 92-108. 

Naydan, Liliana M. “E.L. Doctorow and 9/11: Negotiating Personal and National Narratives in ‘Child, Dead, in the Rose Garden’ and Andrew’s Brain.” Studies in American Fiction, vol. 44, no. 2, 2017, pp. 281-297. 

Naydan, Liliana M. “Toward a Rhetoric of Labor Activism in College and University Writing Centers.”Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, vol. 14, no. 2, 2017, pp. 29-36.  

Fels, Dawn, Clint Gardner, Maggie Herb, and Liliana M. Naydan. “Toward ‘An Investigation Into the Working Conditions of Non-tenure Line, Contingent Writing Center Workers.’” Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty, vol. 20, no. 1, 2016, pp. A10-A16. (In College Composition and Communication, vol. 68, no. 1, 2016.) 

Naydan, Liliana M. “Philip Roth’s Postmodern Judaism: Religion, Retelling, and Suffering in American Pastoral.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 57, no. 3, 2016, pp. 335-47. 

Naydan, Liliana M. “Generation 1.5 Writing Center Practice: Problems with Multilingualism and Possibilities via Hybridity.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, 2016, pp. 28-35. 

Naydan, Liliana M. “Just Multiliteracy for Basic Writers: Teaching and Tutoring Genre, Audience, and Agency Using E-Portfolios.” Southern Discourse in the Center: A Journal of Multiliteracy and Innovation, vol. 19, no. 2, 2015, pp. 65-82. 

Naydan, Liliana M. “Media Violence, Catholic Mystery, and Counter-fundamentalism: A Post-9/11 Rhetoric of Flexibility in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 56, no. 1, 2015, pp. 94-107. 

Naydan, Liliana M., Joshua Kim, and Drake Misek. “The Problem of Simulation in Synchronous Online Video-Chat Tutoring.” Academic Exchange Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, 2014, pp. 119-24. (Reprinted in Sound Instruction Series: Writing Center Theory and Practice, edited by Kellie A. Charron, Rapid Intellect Group, 2015, pp. 139-43.) 

Naydan, Liliana M. “Leadership as Organizing in the Writing Center.” Academic Exchange Quarterly,  vol. 17, no. 4, 2013, pp. 105-10. (Reprinted in Sound Instruction Series: Writing Center Theory and Practice, edited by Kellie A. Charron, Rapid Intellect Group, 2015, pp. 29-33.) 

Naydan, Liliana M. “Just Writing Center Work in the Digital Age: De Facto Multiliteracy Centers in Dialogue with Questions of Social Justice.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, vol. 11, no. 1, 2013, pp. 1-7. 

Naydan, Liliana M. “Apocalyptic Cycles in Don DeLillo’s Underworld.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, vol. 23, no. 2, 2012, pp. 179-201.  

Naydan, Liliana M. “Justification by Temperate Faith Alone: Fundamentalism, Fanaticism, and Modernity in John Updike’s In the Beauty of the Lilies.” The John Updike Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 2011, pp. 89-106. 

Essays in Books 

Naydan, Liliana M. “Screening Fundamentalism, Fanaticism, and Terrorism in Don DeLillo’s Post-9/11 Fiction.” The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts, edited by Catherine Gander, Edinburgh UP, 2023, pp. 303-314.

Naydan, Liliana M. “What are You?: Rethinking Frames for Contingent Writing Center Work.” Speaking Up, Speaking Out: Lived Experiences of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty in Writing Studies, edited by Jessica Edwards, Rachel Sanchez, and Meghan McGuire, Utah State UP, 2021, pp. 59-69. 

Naydan, Liliana M. “Transitioning from Contingent to Tenure-Track Faculty Status As a WPA: Working Toward Solidarity and Academic-Labor Justice through Hybridity.” WPAs in Transition, edited by Courtney Adams Wooten, Jacob Babb, and Brian Ray, Utah State UP, 2018, pp. 284-296. 

Naydan, Liliana M. “Academic Classism and Writing Center Worker Identity.” Out in the Center: Public Controversies and Private Struggles, edited by Denny, Harry, Robert Mundy, Liliana M. Naydan, Anna Sicari, and Richard Séverè, Utah State UP, 2018, pp. 187-196.

Naydan, Liliana M. “Imaging Atrocity: The Function of Pictures in Narratives about 9/11.” Recovering 9/11 in New York, edited by Robert Fanuzzi and Michael Wolfe, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014, pp. 263-280.  

Creative Nonfiction

Naydan, Liliana M. “Verkhovyna.” Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, vol. 22, 2023, pp. 25-30.

Naydan, Liliana M. "Between Ukraine and America in a Time of War." World Literature Today (in WLT Weekly), 10 May 2022.

Translations 

Rubchak, Bohdan. “The Angel’s Betrayal.” Translated by Liliana Naydan, A Hundred Years of Youth: Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry, edited by Olha Luchuk and Michael M. Naydan, Litopys, 2000, p. 379.  

Zerov, Mykola. “For an Album.” Translated by Liliana Naydan, A Hundred Years of Youth: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Ukrainian Poetry, edited by Olha Luchuk and Michael M. Naydan, Litopys, 2000, p 157. 

Book Reviews

Naydan, Liliana M. “American Graphic: Disgust and Data in Contemporary Literature, by Rebecca B. Clark (Stanford, 2022).” The ALH Online Review, vol 35, no. 4, 2023, pp. 1989-1991.

Naydan, Liliana M. “Abusing Religion: Literary Persecution, Sex Scandals, and American Minority Religions by Megan Goodwin (Rutgers, 2020).” American Literary History Online. (Forthcoming) 

Naydan, Liliana M. “Christina Bieber Lake. Beyond the Story: American Literary Fiction and the Limits of Materialism. University of Notre Dame Press, 2019.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 66, no. 4, 2020, pp. 795-798. 

Public Humanities Scholarship 

Naydan, Liliana M. "Texturizing 9/11 in the Flat World: Screen Culture, Endless War, and the Literature of Terror." Post45 Contemporaries, 11 September 2021.

Dawn Fels, Clint Gardner, Maggie Herb, and Liliana M. Naydan. “On Retaining Highly Qualified Directors in College and University Writing Centers.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal as part of Axis: The Blog, 4 May 2016. 

Dawn Fels, Clint Gardner, Maggie Herb, and Liliana M. Naydan. “What Can We Do.” The Writing Center Journal Blog, 22 Feb. 2016.

Dawn Fels, Clint Gardner, Maggie Herb, and Liliana M. Naydan. “Why We Need to Talk to Tutors.” The Writing Center Journal Blog, 16 Feb. 2016.  

Dawn Fels, Clint Gardner, Maggie Herb, and Liliana M. Naydan. “The Research Process.” The Writing Center Journal Blog, 8 Feb. 2016. 

Dawn Fels, Clint Gardner, Maggie Herb, and Liliana M. Naydan. “An Investigation Into the Working Conditions of Non-tenure Line, Contingent Writing Center Workers: Why did we want to do this study?” The Writing Center Journal Blog, 1 Feb. 2016. 

Naydan, Liliana M. “A Reflection on Praxis 2.2 (2005): Why Wire the Writing Center.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal as part of Axis: The Blog, 1 June 2015.