Book
From Daniel Boone to Captain America: Playing Indian in American Popular Culture.
University Press of Mississippi, 2016. Paperback edition, 2019.
Chapters
“Revising Hannah Duston: Competing Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Retellings of the Duston Captivity.” Inventing Destiny: Exploring the Cultures of U.S. Expansion. Ed. Jimmy Bryan. University Press of Kansas. September 2019.
“Jack Jackson, Native Representation, and Underground Comix.” Graphic Indigeneity: Comics
in the Americas and Australasia. Ed. Frederick Luis Aldama. University Press of Mississippi. June 2020.
Journal Articles
“The Fine Art of Genocide: Underground Comix and U.S. History as Horror Story.”
International Journal of Comic Art 21.1 (Spring/Summer 2019): 519-538.
“When Captain America Was an Indian: Heroic Masculinity, National Identity, and Appropriation.” The Journal of Popular Culture 48.2 (April 2015): 269-284.
“Playing Indian and Performing Gender in 1940s and 1950s United States Comics.” International Journal of Comic Art 15:2 (Fall 2013): 278-297.
“Family Relations and Indian-Killing in Robert Montgomery Bird’s Nick of the Woods.” Border
States 14 (2003): 5-11.
“The Fine Art of Genocide: Underground Comix and the Shadows of U.S. History.” Popular
Culture Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 17-20, 2019.
“Playing Indian, Heroic Masculinity, and National Identity in 1950s United States Comics.”
Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., March 27-30, 2013.
“The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Its Multiple Media.” Children’s Literature Association
Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI, June 10-12, 2010.
“Captain America as Indian: Reimagining American History.” Popular Culture Association
Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, March 31-April 3, 2010.
“World of Warcraft, the Tauren, and Native American Imagery.” Southwest Popular
Culture and America Culture Association Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February 25-28, 2009.
“The Marble Indian: Native Americans and Race in U.S. Art and Literature of the Early-
Nineteenth Century.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference, Susquehanna
University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, March 2007.
“Francis Parkman’s Search for Masculinity among the Sioux.” American Studies Association
Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2004.
“National Identity and Democracy in Daniel Boone Biographies and Robert Montgomery
Bird’s Nick of the Woods.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, November 2002.
Full-length Poetry Collections
Haunted City (Kelsay Books, 2017)
Small Chimes (Kelsay Books, 2014)
Chapbooks
Beautifully Whole (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2015)
Earth Lust (Finishing Line Press, 2014)
Come To Me and Drink (Finishing Line Press, 2012)
Reviews
Rachael Lyon’s The Normal Heart and How It Works, Border Crossing (Volume 5)
Palimpsest by Kristina Marie Darling, Barn Owl Review (2015)
Kathryn Stripling Byer’s The Girl in the Midst of the Harvest, storySouth (Spring 2014)
Unexplained Fevers by Jeannine Hall Gailey, Barn Owl Review (2014)
Intimates and Fools, Poetry by Laura Madeline Wiseman and Art by Sally Deskins, Connotation
Press: An Online Artifact (2014)
A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry, Edited by Stacey
Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz, Barn Owl Review (October 10, 2013)
The Glimmering Room by Cynthia Cruz, The Rumpus (March 20, 2013)
Amanda Auchter’s The Wishing Tomb, storySouth (January 7, 2013)
“Taking It With You: A Review of Fire on Her Tongue,” An eBook Anthology of Contemporary
Women’s Poetry by Kelli Russell Agodon & Annette Spaulding-Convy, Editors, Barn Owl Review (October 8, 2012)
“Scared Text by Eric Baus,” The Rumpus (July 27, 2012)
“One Voice”: A Review of Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation by
Amal al-Jubouri (trans. Rebecca Gayle Howell with Husam Qaisi), Barn Owl Review (April 11, 2012)
“‘A Woman So Dumb and So Fierce’: Rachel Marie Patterson’s If I Am Burning, storySouth
(Spring 2012)
“A New Silence Pushes Lexicon to the Brink,” a review of Little Winter Theater by Nancy Kuhl,
The Rumpus (January 28, 2012)
“Somewhere Below the Solar Plexus of Her,” a review of Vocabulary of Silence by Veronica
Golos, The Rumpus (December 21, 2011)
“Once I Believed the Stories Didn’t Have Endings: A Review of Jeannine Hall Gailey’s She
Returns to the Floating World,” Barn Owl Review (November 17, 2011)
“Your Notes, Your Small Pebbles,” a review of Arlene Kim’s poetry collection What have you
done to Our ears to make us hear echoes?, The Rumpus (September 28, 2011)
“The Need for Space: Open Possibilities of the Prose Poem,” Popular Culture Association (PCA)
Conference, April 17-20, 2019, Washington, DC
“Balancing Work and Home,” LSSU Development Day panel, August 2014
“‘If you had never known fear’: Reimagining the Landscape of Fairy Tale Literature,” Popular
Culture Association (PCA) Conference, April 16-19, 2014, Chicago, IL
“Entering the Conversation: Moving Beyond the Self,” co-chaired panel with Jillena Rose,
Writing Across the Peninsula (WAP) Conference, September 24, 2010, Michigan Tech in Houghton, MI
Associate Professor
Refereed Journal Articles
2017 Shaffer-O’Connell, M. Interest Groups, Federalism, and Water Quality in the Great Lakes: Chasing a Moving Target. American Review of Canadian Studies 47(1): 89-100.
Other Publications
2020 Clipperton, J., J. Franco, S. Nordyke, M. Shaffer-O’Connell, F. Wood. “SOTL Research Design for Assessment of Interventions.” APSA Preprints. doi: 10.33774/apsa-2020-gwfl0.
Manuscripts in Preparation
2020 Murray, L., Robadiak, K., Shaffer-O’Connell, M. “Assessing Democratic Engagement through Student Organizations”
2020 Rathje, G., Shaffer-O’Connell, M., & Zemzadja, E. “Impact of Sex (Female versus Male) On Class Attendance and Exam Performance”
2020 Shaffer-O’Connell, M. “Tactical choices: Interest Group Activities on Great Lakes Water Quality Policy”
Media Coverage
2020 Interviewed on Country 104. “2020 Elections”. November 3, 2020.
2020 Quoted in “In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Some Cracks Emerge in the Pro-Trump Wall” by Kathleen Gray. New York Times, August 27, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/us/politics/michigan-trump.html
Panels Organized
2017 Memory and Memorialization: Public Memorials of Collective Trauma at MIPSA Conference, October 2017
Papers Presented
2015 “The Impact of Sex (Male versus Female) and Attendance on Exam Performance”, paper presented at the Lilly Conference in Traverse City, MI, October 2015.
2014 “The Politics of Oil: Interest Groups and Oil Policy in the Beaufort Sea Region”, paper presented at the WPSA Conference in Seattle, WA, April 2014.
2014 “The Politics of Water: Interest Groups and Great Lakes Water Quality Policy”, paper presented at the SPSA Conference in New Orleans, LA, January 2014.
2010 “How Federalism Muddies the Waters of Interest Group Decision-Making”, paper presented at the CONNECT Colloquium in Plattsburgh, NY, October 2010.
2007 “Indigenous Populations in Federal Systems: A Comparison of the US & Canada”, paper presented with Gregory Rathje at the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago, April 2007.
2006 “Access Points in the Environmental Legislative Process in the United States and Canada”, paper presented at the MANECCS Conference in Montreal, September 2006.
Posters
2012 “Women and Politics around the World”, Teaching Poster, at the MIPSA Conference in Sault Ste. Marie, MI, October 2012.
Presentations
2019 “Teaching Engagement to Apathy” at APSA/IPSA International Teaching and Learning Conference in Brighton, United Kingdom, June 2019.
2019 “Civic and Community Engagement in a Political Science First Year Seminar” at APSA Centennial Center Teaching Symposium in Washington, DC, March 2019.
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