Frank L Cioffi

Education

Ph.D., English, Indiana University

M.A., English, Indiana University

B.A., English, Northwestern University

Books

Cioffi, F. L. (2024). Stellar English: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Grammar and Style. (p. 273). Princeton, NJ, United States, Princeton University Press.

Cioffi, F. L. (2018). The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers. (p. 357). Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press.

Cioffi, F. L. (2017). The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers. (p. 357). Princeton, NJ; Oxford, England, USA and UK, Princeton University Press.

Cioffi, F. (2015). One Day in the Life of the English Language: A Microcosmic Usage Guide. (p. 355). Princeton, NJ, U.S., Princeton University Press.

Cioffi, F. (2005). The Imaginative Argument: A Practical Manifesto for Writers. Princeton University Press.

Cioffi, F. (1982). Formula Fiction? An Anatomy of American Science Fiction, 1930-1940.. Westport, CT, London, Westport Ct and London Greenwood Press.

Journal Articles

Cioffi, F. L. (2020). Exploring the Strangeness: Conceptual Art and Science Fiction. Vector, (292). 38-47.

Cioffi, F. (2015). "La Jetee at Fifty-Two". Raritan, XXXIV(3). 37-56.

(2009). "Junk Sculptors, Fetishists, Cultural Collectees: Don DeLillo's Collectors." . Beyond Philology, 5.

Cioffi, F. (2006). Egghead Blues: The Life in the MInd in the Land of Things. Symploke, 14( 1-2). 7-29.

Cioffi, F. (2005). Argumentation in a Culture of Discord. The Chronicle of Higher Education Review,

(2001). Paradoksy Humanistyki [Paradoxes in the Humanities], Interiority Blurrings in Eraserhead and Pi. University of Gdansk Press,

Cioffi, F. (2000). An Anguish Become Thing: The Disturbing Performance of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Narrative, (Spring 2000).

Cioffi, F. (2000). The (Im) Possible Worlds of Robert Coovers’s The Public Burning. Critique,

Cioffi, F. (1999). Post-Millennial Postmodernism: On the Profession of Literature in the Centrifugal Age.

Cioffi, F. (1999). Style, Postmodernism, Etc.: An Interview with Ihab Hassan. Style, 33(3). 357-71.

Cioffi, F. (1998). The Phenomenology of the Disturbing Text. LIT,

Cioffi, F. (1988). The Audience Within the Object: The Implied Teacher in Composition Textbook Advertisements. Written Communication,

Cioffi, F. (1987). Towards a Deep Structure of the Reading Process. Zeszyty naukowe Wydzatu Humanisticznego Uniwersytety Gdanskiego: Filologia Angielska [Scholarly Publications of the University of Gdansk’s College of Humanities: English Philology], ,

(1984). The Composition Textbook Advertisement and Its Promise of Potency. Oklahoma Historical Society,

Cioffi, F. (1981). Teaching Humanities Courses in Prison. Alternative Higher Education,

Cioffi, F. (1981). Gilbert Sorrentino’s Science-fiction World in Mulligan Stew. Extrapolation,

Cioffi, F. (1980). Science Fiction on Campus…and in Prison. Journal of English Teaching Techniques,

Cioffi, F. (1980). Across the Great Divide: Breaking Away.

Book Chapters

Cioffi, F. L. (2020). Defamiliarizing the Most Familiar of Poets, Robert Frost. In Heuston, S. (Ed.), Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of Robert Frost (p. 11 pages). New York, NY,USA. Modern Language Association.

Cioffi, F. (2015). "Solipsism and Utopia: Fredric Brown, Charles Yu, Ludwig Wittgenstein". Individual and Utopia: A Multidisciplinary Study of Humanity and Perfection (pp. 133-148). Farnham, Surrey,UK. Ashgate.

Cioffi, F. (2011). "Teaching, Interpretation, and the 'Potential'". Terra Incognita (p. 27 pages). Gdansk,Poland. Gdansk University Press.

Cioffi, F. (2010). "Graphic Fictions on Graphics Subjects: Teaching the Illustrated Medical Narrative" in S. Tabachnick (ed), Teaching the Graphic Novel. Approaches to Teaching the Graphic Novel (p. 10 pages). New York, NY,USA. MLA Press.

Cioffi, F. (2005). The Postmodern Return: Theory-Travel Writing - Autobiography, Aiken's Silent Snow, Secret Snow Ontological Hesitation and Biography. In Stierstorfer, K. (Ed.), The Postmodern Return: Theory--Travel Writing--Autobiography Germany. University of Heidelberg Press.

Cioffi, F. L. (2001). The Language of Comics: Word and Image, Disturbing Comics: The Disjuntion of Word and Image in the Comics of Adrzej Mleczko, Ben Katchor, R. Crumb, a Art Spiegelmannd. In Varnum, R., & Gibbons, C. T. (Eds.), The Language of Comics (pp. 97-122). Jackson, MS,United States. University Press of Mississippi.

Media Contributions

Cioffi, F. (1979). Teaching Behind the Walls.

Presentations

Cioffi, F. (2012, October 6). "Solipsism and Utopia". Society for Utopian Studies. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto.

Cioffi, F. (2008, October 7). "Twenty First Century Student Writing". Who Owns Writing?. Hempstead, NY: Hofstra University.

Cioffi, F. (2008, May 2). "General Education Writing Courses". GenEd: Making It Work and Making It Matter. New York, NY: City University of New York.

Cioffi, F. (2003, April 30). Don’t Be a Moon-Calf: Ways of Talking about the Argumentative Essay. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Writing Program.

Cioffi, F. (2002, October 31). To Communicate before Being Understood: The Argumentative Thesis and Students’ Resistance to It. Princeton University: Princeton University Writing Program..

Cioffi, F. (1994, February 28). Finding order Amidst Entropy. Louisville: Century Literature Conference.

Cioffi, F. (1989, December 31). Surreal Identity Quests in First, Second, and Third World Literature. Modern Language Association Meeting. Washington, DC

Cioffi, F. (1988, November 30). Memory and the Reading Process. Midwest modern Language Association Meeting. St. Louis

Cioffi, F. (1988, April 30). Nature, the Environment, and the Emersonian ‘Not-Me’. Pacific Northwest American Studies Association Conference.

Cioffi, F. (1988, April 30). Henry Miller and the Pornographic Aesthetic. Northern Pacific Popular Culture Association meeting..

Cioffi, F. (1987, April 30). The American Social Reform Novel. Tampere Conference on American Studies. Finland.: University of Tampere, Finland..

Cioffi, F. (1985, December 31). Beginnings: Falling into Texts. Modern Language Association Meeting. Chicago

Cioffi, F. (1985, March 31). How Literary Experience Differs from Life experience. Warsaw, Poland: Warsaw University American Studies Center.

Cioffi, F. (1984, October 31). The Reader’s Encounter with the Literary Text. Conference on Literature and Linguistics. Wijazyca, Poland

Cioffi, F. (1983, December 31). Textual Fictions as Criticism. New York: Modern Language Association meeting.

Cioffi, F. (1981, February 28). Slave Ship’s Revolutionary Quest: Communication. 20th Century Literary Conference. : University of Louisville.

Other Scholarly Works

Reviews

Cioffi, F. (2015,September 26). Readers Writing : Strategy Lessons for Responding to Narrative and Informational Text. New York, NY,U.S.: Teachers College Record.

Cioffi, F. (1983,October 1). Review of Channels of Desire. Milwaukee, WI,USA: Sub-Stance.

Research Currently in Progess

Cioffi, F.(n.d.). American Fiction and Solipsism. In Progress.

Cioffi, F.(n.d.). Beyond Zombie Pedagogy: Discovering Life in the College Writing Classroom. In Progress.

College

University