Individuals

Assistant Professor Beth Capo

Illinois College -  Jacksonville, IL 62650

Telephone:	217-245-3346

Research Interests:

American culture, American literature, contemporary Japanese fiction in translation, Gender and Women's Studies

Publications:

Book
Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2007.

Print Journal Articles (refereed)
“Midwestern History and Memory in Robinson’s Gilead.” Under consideration by
MidAmerica since 6/25/07.
“’She is herself a poem’: Caresse Crosby, Feminine Identity, and Literary History.”
Legacy: Journal of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. 23.1 (June 2006). 30-43.
“’Can This Marriage Be Saved?’: Birth Control and Marriage in Modern American
Literature.” Modern Language Studies 34.1&2 (Spring/Fall 2004). 28-41.
“‘How Shall We Change the Law?’: Birth Control Rhetoric and the Modern American
Narrative.” Literature and the Law. Rodopi Press Perspectives in Modern Literature. Edited by Michael J. Meyer. 2004. 119-144.
“Inserting the Diaphragm In(to) Modern Fiction: Mary McCarthy, Philip Roth, and the
Literature of Contraception.” Journal of American Culture 26.1 (March 2003): 111-123.
“Black Female Absence and the Construction of Womanhood in Faulkner’s Light in
August.” The Faulkner Journal 16.3 (November 2000): 7-31.

On-Line Journal Articles (refereed)
“Teaching Illinois.” College English Association Forum 35.1 (Winter/Spring 2006).
http://www2.widener.edu/%7Ecea/351capo.htm

Poetry
“Marathon.” My Life at the Gym: Feminist Perspectives on Community through the Body. Edited by Jo Malin. Forthcoming, SUNY Press.