Kenneth M Roemer

Biographic Data

ID313234
NAMEKenneth M Roemer
GIVEN NAMESKenneth M
FAMILY NAMERoemer
SIGNATUREROEMER K M
AFFILIATIONSThe University of Texas at Arlington
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS342
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Meet the “More Immediate and Intense” Ursula K. Le Guin

    Kenneth M RoemerARTICLEUtopian Studies2025

    Caveat Lector: (1) This review essay assumes a reader who has little knowledge of Le Guin’s expansive canon of poetry. I was one of those readers; (2) I make no pretense of knowing the scholarship on the poems. Because my source of information, Ursula K. Le Guin: Collected Poems, is excellent, I do, however, hope some of my comments will be useful to the poetry-knowledgeable readers; (3) I am not an “objective” Le Guin reader. My admiration for h…

  • Utopia Calls

    Kenneth M RoemerARTICLEUtopian Studies2020

    The essay offers a profile of Lyman Tower Sargent's career as a “calling” manifested in his half century of dedication to expanding the utopian literature canon in print and digital bibliographies, his widely used definitions that establish boundaries for the bibliographies, his efforts to convince different academic and nonacademic audiences in a variety of forms of the importance of utopianism, and his mentorship of young scholars

  • It's Not a Poem. It's My Life

    Kenneth M Roemer, Kenneth M Roemer Kenneth M RoemerARTICLEStudies in American Indian…2012

  • Making Do

    Kenneth M Roemer, Kenneth M Roemer Kenneth M RoemerARTICLEStudies in American Indian…2012

    Making DoMomaday’s Survivance Ceremonies Kenneth M. Roemer (bio) I think she was trying to carve the souls of her children into the birds. She was making do. Linda Hogan, “Making Do” I One of the most powerful and beautiful episodes in one of the most influential works of American Indian literature finds the protagonist, Abel, broken down and depressed, atop a hill in Los Angeles. The drums, singing, flute, and alcohol don’t relieve his anguish. …

  • From Utopia to Apocalypse

    Kenneth M RoemerARTICLEAmerican Literature2011

  • Título Ausente

    Susan Berry Brill De Ramíírez, Kenneth M Roemer et al.BOOKStudies in American Indian…2011

    This article examines the complex relationship between American Indian poetry and translation, arguing that the act of translation often misrepresents and distorts the original meaning and cultural context of the poems. The authors analyze how the Western literary tradition's emphasis on fixed meaning and individual authorship clashes with the oral traditions and communal values of many Indigenous cultures. They explore the challenges of translat…

  • The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature

    Open AccessFatima Vieira, J C Davis et al.BOOKThe Cambridge companion to…2010

    Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Cha…

  • Future West

    Kenneth M RoemerARTICLEAmerican Literature2010

    Book Review| March 01 2010 Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction; Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women Kenneth M. Roemer Kenneth M. Roemer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 223–225. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-091 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kenneth M. Roemer; Future West: Utopia and Apocalyp…

  • The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature

    Open AccessJoy Porter, Kenneth M RoemerBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Native…2005

    Invisible, marginal, expected - these words trace the path of recognition for American Indian literature written in English since the late eighteenth century. This Companion chronicles and celebrates that trajectory by defining relevant institutional, historical, cultural, and gender contexts, by outlining the variety of genres written since the 1770s, and also by focusing on significant authors who established a place for Native literature in li…

  • The Cambridge companion to Native American literature

    Joy Porter, Kenneth M RoemerBOOKThe Cambridge companion to Native…2005

  • Astrofuturism

    Kenneth M RoemerARTICLEAmerican Literature2005

    Book Review| September 01 2005 Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space; Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism: A Rhetoric of Feminist Utopian Fiction By De Witt Douglas Kilgore. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. 294 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95.By Ellen Susan Peel. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2002. xxvi, 227 pp.$49.95. Kenneth M. Roemer Kenneth M. Roemer Search for other works by this author on: This S…

  • Higher Ground

    Kenneth M RoemerARTICLEAmerican Literature2001

    Book Review| September 01 2001 Higher Ground: From Utopianism to Realism in American Feminist Thought and Theory By Sally L. Kitch. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2000. x, 308 pp. Cloth,$45.00; paper, $17.00. Kenneth M. Roemer Kenneth M. Roemer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 656–657. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-656 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn …

  • Utopian Literature, Empowering Students, and Gender Awareness

    Kenneth M RoemerARTICLEScience Fiction Studies1996

    Utopian Literature, Empowering Students, and Gender Awareness1. Utopian Hesitancies and a 36-Year-Old Grandmother.Most young professors, still caught up in the glow of completing their dissertations, yearn to teach their specialties.I didn't yearn.I hesitated for some obvious general reasons: inexperienced professors who teach their specialties tend to assume too much familiarity about their topic, and hence fail to clarify or support their claim…

  • Tribal Secrets

    Kenneth M Roemer, Robert Warrior et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1996

  • The Nightway Questions American Literature

    Kenneth M Roemer, Kenneth RoemerARTICLEAmerican Literature1994

    In 1987 a graduate student came to me with what seemed to be an ingenious excuse for avoiding a reading assignment. She explained that she came from a rural background and was raised in a superstitious family. After reading John Bierhorst's introduction to Washington Matthews's translation of parts of the Dine or Navajo Nightway,1 she was afraid to read the text. She called my attention to Bierhorst's comment about Navajo who believed that Matthe…

  • Indian Lives

    Open AccessKenneth M Roemer, Hertha D Sweet Wong et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1994

    THOUGH THEY ARE CERTAINLY NOT INFALLIBLE INDICES TO CANON revision, the annual eight-hundred sessions of the MLA Convention do, at least, suggest trends. The distribution of sessions during the past few years and American Indian literature's recent elevation from discussion group to division status (a key bureaucratic and symbolic step) indicate a growing, though highly selective, interest in Native American literature. Most of the sessions and i…

  • Manifest Manners

    Kenneth M Roemer, Gerald VizenorREVIEWAmerican Literature1994

  • Saanii Dahataal/The Women Are Singing

    Kenneth M Roemer, Luci TapahonsoARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1993

  • The Ancient Child, A Novel

    Kenneth M Roemer, N Scott MomadayARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1991

  • Ancestral Voice

    Louis Owens, Charles L Woodard et al.ARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly1990

  • Approaches to Teaching Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain

    Sharon Jessee, Kenneth M RoemerARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…1989

    Journal Article Approaches to Teaching Momadays’s The Way to Rainy Mountain. Edited by Kenneth M. Roemer. New York: Modern Language Assocation, 1988. xii +172 pages. $17.50. Get access Approaches to Teaching Momadays’s The Way to Rainy Mountain. Kenneth M. Roemer. New York: The Modern Language Association, 1988. xii + 172 pages. $17.50. Sharon Jesse Sharon Jesse University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Ac…

  • The Post-Industrial Utopians by Boris Frankel

    Kenneth M RoemerARTICLETechnology and Culture1989

    174 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE One might object that this microscopic approach, this emphasis on individual personalities and specific corporate cultures, necessarily neglects the role of more general social and economic conditions af­ fecting innovation. Organizational politics and discordant personali­ ties may hamper development in one company, but in an industry as competitive as the computer industry, other, more congenial organi­ z…

  • The Post-Industrial Utopians

    Kenneth M Roemer, Boris Frankel et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1989

  • Prescriptions for Readers (and Writers) of Utopias

    Kenneth M RoemerARTICLEScience Fiction Studies1988

  • Back to Malachi

    Kenneth M Roemer, Robert J ConleyARTICLEWicazo Sa Review1987