Messina, Lynn

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Senior Production Supervisor

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McGraw-Hill

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Dissertation topic/title: “Trains of Thought: The Railroad and Consciousness in Selected Works by Hawthorne, James, and Cather.” (1997)

Publications (in reverse order of publication):

“Child Abuse.” Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services. 23 Sept. 2012. Web.

“2012–13 National High School Debate Topic: Federal Transportation Infrastructure Spending.” Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 11 June 2012. Web.

“Education: Teacher Accountability.” Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 21 May 2012. Web.

“High-Tech Manufacturing Jobs.” Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 7 May 2012. Web.

“Antipiracy Measures.” Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 26 Mar. 2012. Web.

“Super PACs.” Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 27 Feb. 2012. Web. <

“Oil Pipelines in the U.S.” Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 23 Jan. 2012. Web.

“Green Jobs.” Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 27 Dec. 2011. Web.

“Believing the Lie: Meme Theory and the Conspiracy Virus in The X-Files.” Diegesis: Journal of the Association for Research in Popular Fictions (Winter 1998): 24–33.

“The Price of the Ticket: The Train Wreck and Victorian Sensibility in Henry James’s The Ambassadors.” Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 29 (1998): 1–17.

“Trains of Thought: Temporal Simultaneity and the Integration of Consciousness in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables.” theory@buffalo (Spring 1997): 149–168.

“Freedom or Anarchy: The Capital-Labor Struggle in William Dean Howells’s A Hazard of New Fortunes.” CEA Critic 58 (Fall 1995): 60–65.

“Metaphors of Nature and the Land in Frank Norris’s The Octopus.” The Image of Nature in Literature, the Media, and Society: Selected Papers of the 1993 Conference of The Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery. Ed. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo, CO: U of Southern Colorado, 1993. 94–98.