Rachel McCoppin

“Salvation from Angst: Redefining Objective “Truth” for the Subjective “truth” of the Present Moment” - Published in the journal World Literary Review 2011

McCoppin, Rachel. “Spartacus’ Entrapment in the Underworld in Blood and Sand.” Ed. Michael Cornelius. In Progress – Tentatively published by McFarland Press, 2015.

McCoppin, Rachel. “Perverse Selves: Unwanted Impulses and Obsession in Poe.” In Press – Scheduled for publication in a collection on Poe, Ed. Gerry Del Guercio. Lehigh, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2015.

McCoppin, Rachel. “Jesus as Modern Metaphor in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.” In Press - Scheduled to be published in Studies in the Literary Imagination, 46.2, 2014.

McCoppin, Rachel. “Confused Reality: The War Masks in Japanese Author, Hikaru Okuizumi’s The Stones Cry Out and Argentine Author, Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Garden of Forking Paths.’” Rupkatha: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 5.3, 2013.

McCoppin, Rachel. “Composition Multiculturalism.” Real-Life Writers: Composition Courses as Pathways to Student Success. Eds. Lillian Craton and Renee Love. Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2015.

McCoppin, Rachel. “An Odd Quest Continued: The Heroes of Tim Burton.” Tim Burton: Works, Characters, and Themes. Ed. Johnson Cheu. In Progress - Tentatively published by McFarland Press, 2015.

Jesus as Modern Metaphor in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five” - Accepted for publication in the journal Studies in the Literary Imagination for its Fall issue (no. 46, vol. 2). 2012

“War, Children, and Altruism in J. D. Salinger’s Nine Stories” - Published in the journal Akedemeia 2011

“The Moral Path: Personal Responsibility and Altruism in the Works of Katherine Anne Porter” - Published in the journal The Journal of Texas Women Writers. 2009

“Sympathy for the Other: British Attempts at Understanding the American Indian" - Published in the journal Symbiosis 2010

“Spiritual Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Transcendentalism to Existentialism through Walt Whitman” - Published in a book entitled The Poetry of Walt Whitman: New Critical Perspectives edited by Kanwar Dinesh Singh and published by Atlantic Publishers. 2009

“Horrific Obsessions: Poe’s Legacy of the Unreliable Narrator” - Accepted for publication in a book entitled Adapting Poe: Re-Imaginings in International and Popular Culture, published by Palgrave Macmillan. 2012

"Sympathy for the Other: British Attempts at Understanding the American Indian" - in a book on Anti-Americanism in British Literature edited by Dr. Diana Archibald

“Extending Kenneth Burke and Multicultural Education: Being Actively Revised by the Other” co-authored with Dr. Mark Huglen - Published in a book entitled Humanistic critique of education: Teaching and Learning as Symbolic Action. 2010

“‘God Damn It, You’ve Got to be Kind:’ War and Altruism in the works of Kurt Vonnegut” - Published in a book entitled New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut edited by David Simmons and published by Palgrave Macmillan. 2009

"Transcendental Legacies: Transcendental and Existential Tenets in Modernism and Postmodernism" in the journal Stirrings Still: The International Journal of Existential Literature Edited by Erik M. Grayson, Binghamton University

"Questioning Ethics: Incorporating the Novel into Ethics Courses" - in the book Teaching the Novel across the Curriculum, Edited by Colin Irvine, published by Greenwood Press

"Leaning on the North" - in the June/July 2007 issue of SIRR Magazine

"Existentialism in the Classroom: Practical Application to Nietzsche" - in the journal InterCulture, Issue 3

"Existential Endurance: Resolution from Accepting the 'Other' in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace" - in the journal The International Journal of Existential Literature Edited by Erik M. Grayson, Binghamton University

"Creating American Literature" - in the journal Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice . Spring 2007, Vol. 2, Issue 2.

"Being Actively Revised by the Other: Opposition and Incorporation" - in the book Teaching Ideas for the Basic Communication Course , Vol. 10. Ed. Barbara Hugenberg and Lawrence Hugenberg. Dubuque , IA : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company for the National Communication Association, 2006. Co-authored by McCoppin, Rachel, and Mark E. Huglen

McCoppin, Rachel. “Vonnegut and Postmodernism: A Review of Robert Tally’s Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel: A Postmodern Iconography.” Studies in the Novel, 45.2, Summer 2013.

McCoppin, Rachel. “Using Fiction in the Application of Ethics.” Fiction as Research Practice. Ed. by Patricia Leavy. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2013.