Monica J Casper

Interests

Teaching

Sociology, inequality, bodies/embodiment, health and illness, reproduction, disability studies, trauma theory, feminist science and technology studies, qualitative methods

Research

Maternal and child health, infant mortality, reproductive justice, prisons and health, traumatic brain injury, human and nonhuman rights, elephant poaching and sanctuary movements

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Casper, M. J., & Moore, L. J. (2014). The Body: Social and Cultural Dissections. London: Routledge.
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  ;Your Role: Co-author.;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Lisa Jean Moore is my longtime collaborator.;
• Casper, M. J. (2013). Synthetic planet: Chemical politics and the hazards of modern life. New York: Routledge.
• Casper, M. J., & Currah, P. (2011). Corpus: An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Casper, M. J. (2009). Missing bodies: The Politics of Visibility. New York: NYU Press.
• Casper, M. J. (1998). The Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Chapters

• Casper, M. J. (2017). Excess Gains and Losses: Maternal Obesity, Infant Mortality, and Biopolitics of Blame. In Fat Planet: Obesity, Culture, and Symbolic Body Capital. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
• Casper, M. J., & Morrison, D. R. (2016). Gender, Violence, and Brain Injury In and Out of the NFL. In Football, culture and power. New York: Routledge.
• Casper, M. J. (1999). Operation to the Rescue: Feminist Encounters with Fetal Surgery. In Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions(pp 99-112). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Simmons, W. P., & Casper, M. J. (2014). Calculated Losses: Measuring Infant Mortality, Discounting Women’s Lives. In Counting on Marilyn Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics(p. 25). Demeter Press.
• Casper, M. J. (2013). Abduction or Kidnapping of Children. In Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia. Sage.
• Casper, M. J. (2013). Chemical weapons 'Dispersal'?: The mundane politics of air monitoring. In Synthetic Planet: Chemical politics and the hazards of modern life. New York: Routledge.
• Casper, M. J. (2012). Working On and Around Human Fetuses: The contested domain of fetal surgery. In Differences in Medicine: Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies(pp 28-52). Durham: Duke University Press.
• Casper, M. J., & Talley, H. L. (2012). Intersex and Aging: A (Cautionary) Research Agenda for the 21st Century. Johns Hopkins University Press.
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  ;Your Role: Co-author, mentor;Full Citation: Heather Laine Talley and Monica J. Casper, “Intersex and Aging: A (Cautionary) Research Agenda for the 21st Century,” in Tarynn M. Witten and A. Evan Eyler (eds.), Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Aging: Challenges for Research, Practice, and Policy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012).;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Dr. Talley is a colleague and my former PhD student from Vanderbilt University.;
• Casper, M. J., & Talley, H. L. (2009). Oprah goes to Africa: Philanthropic consumption and political (dis)engagement. In Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture. University Press of Mississippi.
• Casper, M. J., & Moore, L. J. (2009). It Takes Balls: Lance Armstrong and the Triumph of American Masculinity. In Men's Lives. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
• Casper, M. J. (2002). The Case of the Disappearing Moms: Fetal Surgery and Women's Health. In Women and Health: Power, Technology, Inequality, and Conflict in a Gendered World. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Casper, M. J. (2002). Working On (and Around) the Unborn Patient: Negotiating Social Order in Fetal Treatment Unit. In Working in America: Continuity, Conflict, and Change. New York: McGraw-Hill.
• Casper, M. J. (2001). Fetus: Feminist Perspectives. In Routledge international encyclopedia of women: global women's issues and knowledge. New York: Routledge.
• Casper, M. J., & Moore, L. J. (2001). Women in Space. In Routledge international encyclopedia of women: global women's issues and knowledge. New York: Routledge.
• Casper, M. J., & Clarke, A. C. (1992). Cervical Cancer. In Our bodies, ourselves: a new edition for a new era. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Casper, M. J., & Clarke, A. C. (1998). Cervical Cancer. In Our bodies, ourselves: a new edition for a new era. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Casper, M. J., & Clarke, A. C. (2005). Cervical Cancer. In Our bodies, ourselves: a new edition for a new era. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Journals/Publications

• Casper, M. J. (2017). Search for lepton-flavour-violating decays of the Higgs and Z bosons with the ATLAS detector. The European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 77(2), 1-31.
• Casper, M. J., & Licona, A. C. (2017). An Open Letter to University Presidents, Provosts, and Governing Boards. The Feminist Wire.
• Casper, M. J. (2016). "When Cities Fail, Babies Die.". Metropolitics.
• Casper, M. J. (2016). Critical trauma studies: understanding violence, conflict and memory in everyday life.
• Casper, M. J. (2016). Measurement of the photon identification efficiencies with the ATLAS detector using LHC Run-1 data. The European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields, 76(12), 1-42.
• Casper, M. J. (2016). Within Trauma.
• Casper, M. J. (2013). Drunk on a Plane: Or, Why I Loved Flight. The Feminist Wire.
• Casper, M. J. (2013). Feminists We Love: Amy Wheeler. The Feminist Wire.
• Casper, M. J. (2013). Feminists We Love: Sandra Fluke. The Feminist Wire.
• Casper, M. J. (2013). Women. Horse. Mountain.. TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism.
• Casper, M. J. (2014). Feminists We Love: Carol Anshaw. The Feminist Wire.
• Casper, M. J. (2014). Marge Piercy: On Feminism, Politics, and Writing. TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism.
• Casper, M. J. (2014). Oculus. Mojave River Review, 1(1), 12-14.
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  Nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize
• Casper, M. J. (2014). The Color of Infant Mortality. The Feminist Wire.
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  Reprinted in Truthout, September 4, 2014: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/25975-the-color-of-infant-mortality#
• Casper, M. J. (2014). Women, Men, Horses, and the Wild, Wild West: An Interview with Deanne Stillman. The Feminist Wire.
• Casper, M. J. (2015). An Interview with Sherry Payne: Nurse, Childbirth Educator, Womanist. The Feminist Wire.
• Casper, M. J. (2015). Highway of Tears: A Review. The Feminist Wire.
• Casper, M. J. (2015). Toward a Theory and Praxis of Sustainable Feminism. TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism.
• Casper, M. J., & Durban-Albrecht, E. (2014). Expectations: Intimate Feminisms Embodied. The Feminist Wire.
• Casper, M. J., & Leonard, D. J. (2014). Rotten to the Core: The NFL and Domestic Violence. The Feminist Wire.
• Casper, M. J., & Moore, D. L. (2013). Myths of Progress and Cartographies of Hate. The Feminist Wire.
• Casper, M. J., & Simmons, A. S. (2013). Choosing Our Own Lives: Two 40-Something Feminists Reflect on Roe. The Feminist Wire.
• Casper, M. J. (2014). A Ruin of Elephants: Trans-Species Love, Labor, and Loss. Oppositional Conversations.
• Casper, M. J. (2014). Abject(ified) Reproduction. Hysteria, 21.
• Casper, M. J. (2014). Black Lives/Black Life Matters: A Conversation with Patrisse Cullors and Darnell L. Moore. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J. (2014). Feminist Disability Studies. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Rev. ed, 4, 1696-1701.
• Casper, M. J. (2014). The Dynamic Dyad. The Women's Review of Books, 31(5), 29--30.
• Casper, M. J., & Moore, D. L. (2014). Love in the Time of Racism. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology.
• Casper, M. J. (2013). Biopolitics of Infant Mortality. Anthropologies.
• Casper, M. J. (2013). Conclusion: Environmental security in an uncertain world.
• Casper, M. J. (2013). Introduction: Chemical matters.
• Casper, M. J. (2013). No Justice for Trayvon: White Women in the Jury Box. The Feminist Wire.
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  Reprinted in Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence, edited by Kevin Alexander Gray, JoAnn Wypijewski, and Jeffrey St. Clair (CounterPunch, 2014). See: http://store.counterpunch.org/product/killing-trayvons/
• Casper, M. J. (2013). Preface.
• Casper, M. J. (2013). What We Aren't Talking About When We Talk About Gun Control. The Feminist Wire.
• Casper, M. J. (2012). Because Women Matter. The Feminist Wire.
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  ;Full Citation: “Because Women Matter,” The Feminist Wire, October 23, 2012.;
• Casper, M. J. (2012). HerStory #10: Georgia O'Keeffe. Chick History.
• Casper, M. J. (2012). My Father's Daughter. The Feminist Wire.
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  ;Full Citation: “My Father's Daughter,” The Feminist Wire, June 17, 2012.;
• Casper, M. J. (2012). One Tough Mother. The Feminist Wire.
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  ;Full Citation: “One Tough Mother,” The Feminist Wire, May 13, 2012.;
• Casper, M. J. (2012). Out of the Shadows: A Conversation with Evelyn C. White. The Feminist Wire.
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  ;Full Citation: “Out of the Shadows: A Conversation with Evelyn C. White,” The Feminist Wire, November 1, 2012.;
• Casper, M. J., & Casper-Milam, M. (2012). The Hunger Games. The Feminist Wire.
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  ;Your Role: Co-author, mentor;Full Citation: “The Hunger Games” with Mason Casper-Milam, The Feminist Wire, February 1, 2012.;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Mason is my 11-year old daughter and also a member of the Collective of The Feminist Wire.;
• Casper, M. J., & Morrison, D. R. (2012). Intersections of Disability Studies and Critical Trauma Studies: A Provocation. Disability Studies Quarterly, 32(2).
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  http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3189;Your Role: Co-author, mentor;Full Citation: Daniel R. Morrison and Monica J. Casper, “Intersections of Disability Studies and Critical Trauma Studies: A Provocation.” Disability Studies Quarterly, April 2012.;Electronic: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;
• Casper, M. J., & Morrison, D. R. (2012). When Injured Brains Speak. The Feminist Wire.
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  ;Full Citation: “Out of the Shadows: A Conversation with Evelyn C. White,” The Feminist Wire, November 1, 2012.;
• Simmons, W. P., & Casper, M. J. (2012). Culpability, Social Triage, and Structural Violence in the Aftermath of Katrina. Perspectives on Politics, 10(3), 675--686.
• Casper, M. J. (2011). Biopolitics: Biopolitics : An Advanced Introduction (1).
• Casper, M. J. (2011). Bringing forth the body: An introduction.
• Casper, M. J. (2011). Less Is Not More. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J. (2011). Locating Paule Marshall. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J. (2011). Not Your Mother's Breast Milk. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J. (2011). Our Reproductive Dystopia: Or, WTF?. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J. (2011). Reproductive Rights in Black and Whilte. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J. (2011). Reproductive Tourism. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J. (2011). Revolt of the Little Grey Cells. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J. (2011). Sex, Parenting, and Feminism. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J. (2011). The Intimacy of Mentoring. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J. (2011). Tucson tragedy: Naming the Unspeakable. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J. (2011). We Don't Just Litigate and Leave. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J., & Knight-Gonzales, L. (2011). The United States of Incarceration. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J., & Kolomyjec, W. (2011). Hypothetical Women, REal Violence. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J., & Moore, L. J. (2011). Begatting and Begetting: The Issue(s) of Men. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J., & Moore, L. J. (2011). Dirty Work and Deadly Agents: A (Dis)Embodied Weapons Treaty and the Illusion of Safety. WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 39(1), 95-119.
• Casper, M. J., & Moore, L. J. (2011). Dirty Work and Deadly Agents: A (Dis)Embodied Weapons Treaty and the Illusion of Safety. Women's Studies Quarterly, 39(1/2), 95--119.
• Casper, M. J., & Morrison, D. R. (2011). Does Traumatic Brain Injury Have a Gender?. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J., & Simmons, W. P. (2011). Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Whatcha Gonna Do. The Feminist WIre.
• Casper, M. J., & Morrison, D. R. (2010). Medical Sociology and Technology: Critical Engagements. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 51(1_suppl), S120-S132.
• Carpenter, L. M., & Casper, M. J. (2009). A Tale of Two Technologies: HPV Vaccination, Male Circumcision, and Sexual Health. Gender and Society, 23(6), 790--816.
• Casper, M. J. (2009). Biopolitics: Missing Bodies : The Politics of Visibility (1).
• Casper, M. J. (2009). Rewriting Normal. The Women's Review of Books, 26(2), 12--14.
• Casper, M. J. (2009). Sports, Environmentalism, Land Use, and Urban Development. Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 33(2), 103-110.
• Casper, M. J., & Carpenter, L. M. (2009). A Tale of Two Technologies. Gender & Society, 23(6), 790-816.
• Casper, M. J., & Carpenter, L. M. (2009). Global Intimacies: Innovating the HPV Vaccine for Women's Health. WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 37(1), 80-100.
• Casper, M. J., & Morgan, L. M. (2009). Fetus Shouldn't Rob Women of Personhood. Springfield Republican.
• Casper, M. J., Mincyte, D., & Cole, C. L. (2009). Bodies of Nature: Politics of Wilderness, Recreation, and Technology. Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 33(3), 199-205.
• Casper, M. J., & Carpenter, L. M. (2008). Sex, drugs, and politics: the HPV vaccine for cervical cancer. Sociology of Health & Illness, 30(6), 886-899.
• Casper, M. J. (2007). A Response to the Motion Picture: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 31(4), 434-439.
• Casper, M. J. (2007). Fetal Surgery Then and Now: There Is Too Much Emphasis on the Fetus and Not Enough on the Woman. Conscience, 28(3), 24-27.
• Casper, M. J., & Talley, H. L. (2007). Feminist Disability Studies. Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 4, 1696-1701.
• Thompson, C. (2007). Book Review of Exposing Men: The Science and Politics of Male Reproduction. American Journal of Sociology, 113(3), 313--315.
• Casper, M. J. (2006). Dear Nicole. Celebrity 101: Intellectuals Take On Hollywood Gossip.
• Casper, M. J. (2006). The Conversation Would Go Like This. Celebrity 101: Intellectuals Take On Hollywood Gossip.
• Casper, M. J. (2006). The Public Spew. Celebrity 101: Intellectuals Take On Hollywood Gossip.
• Casper, M. J., & Muse, C. (2006). Genital Fixations: What's Wrong with Treating Intersex in the Womb. American Sexuality Magazine.
• Casper, M. J. (2005). Preface: Special Issue: Ethnography and Disability Studies. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 34(2), 115-120.
• Casper, M. J. (2005). Review of Splicing Life? The New Genetics and Society. Contemporary Sociology, 34(5), 508--510.
• Casper, M. J. (2005). Special Issue: Ethnography and Disability Studies. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 34(2), 115-120.
• Casper, M. J., & Morgan, L. M. (2004). Constructing Fetal Citizens. Anthropology News.
• Casper, M. J. (2003). Pro-life government decision is unfair to American families. Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
• Casper, M. J. (2002). Chemical Weapons: Incineration Island. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 58(2), 17-19.
• Casper, M. J. (2001). Knockout Women: A review of Karyn Kusama's Girlfight. Journal of Sport & Social Issues, 25(1), 104-110.
• CHRISTENSEN, V. A., & CASPER, M. J. (2000). HORMONE MIMICS AND DISRUPTED BODIES: SOCIAL WORLDS ANALYSIS OF A SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSY. Sociological Perspectives, S93--S120.
• Casper, M. J. (2000). Hormone Mimics and Disrupted Bodies: Social worlds analysis of a scientific controversy. Sociological Perspectives, 43(4), S93-S120.
• Casper, M. J. (2000). Review of Making Women Pay: The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights. Contemporary Sociology, 30(4), 408-409.
• Casper, M. J. (2000). Review of Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies. Contemporary Sociology, 29(5), 754-756.
• Casper, M. J. (2000). Review of Surrogate Motherhood: Conception in the Heart. Feminism and Psychology, 10(3), 385-387.
• Casper, M. J. (1999). Book Review of For the Sake of the Children: The Social Organization of Responsibility in the Hospital and Home. American Journal of Sociology, 105(1), 317-319.
• Casper, M. J. (1999). Review Of Sudden Death and The Myth of CPR. Social Forces, 79(2), 797-798.
• Casper, M. J. (1999). Review of Inventing Pain Medicine: From the Laboratory to the Clinic. Contemporary Sociology, 28(2), 229--230.
• Casper, M. J. (1999). Up in Arms: A Community Responds to Chemical Weapons Incineration.
• Casper, M. J. (1998). Genetic testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2: recommendations of the Stanford Program in Genomics, Ethics, and Society. Breast Cancer Working Group. Journal of women's health / the official publication of the Society for the Advancement of Women's Health Research, 7(5), 531.
• Casper, M. J. (1998). Negotiations, Work Objects, and the Unborn Patient: The Interactional Scaffolding of Fetal Surgery. Symbolic Interaction, 21(4), 379-399.
• Casper, M. J. (1998). Our bodies, ourselves for the new century: a book by and for women.
• Casper, M. J., & Clarke, A. E. (1998). Making the Pap Smear into the 'Right Tool' for the Job: Cervical Cancer Screening in the USA, circa 1940-95. Social Studies of Science, 28(2), 255--290.
• Casper, M. J. (1997). Feminist Politics and Fetal Surgery: Adventures of a Research Cowgirl on the Reproductive Frontier. Feminist Studies, 23(2), 233-262.
• Casper, M. J. (1997). Revies of Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe v. Wade. Gender and Society, 11(6), 826--827.
• Casper, M. J. (1996). Biomedical Technologies: Reconfiguring Nature and Culture. ISSN 0745-5194.
• Casper, M. J., & Clarke, A. E. (1996). From Simple Technology to Complex Arena: Classification of Pap Smears, 1917-90. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10(4), 601-623.
• Casper, M. J., & Koenig, B. (1996). Introduction: Reconfiguring Nature and Culture: Intersections of Medical Anthropology and Technoscience Studies. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10(4), 523-536.
• Casper, M. J., & Koenig, B. (1996). Reconfiguring Nature and Culture: Intersections of Medical Anthropology and Technoscience Studies. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10(4), 523-536.
• Casper, M. J. (1995). Fetal cyborgs and technomoms on the reproductive frontier: which way to the carnival?.
• Casper, M. J. (1995). Introduction. Science, Technology and Human Values, 20(4), 395.
• Casper, M. J., & Berg, M. (1995). Constructivist Perspectives on Medical Work: Medical Practices and Science and Technology Studies. Science, Technology, and Human Values, 20(4), 395-407.
• Casper, M. J., & Berg, M. (1995). Constructivist Perspectives on Medical Work: Medical Practices and Science and Technology Studies. Science, Technology, and Human Values, 20(4).
• Casper, M. J., & Moore, L. J. (1995). Inscribing Bodies, Inscribing the Future: Gender, Sex, and Reproduction in Outer Space. Sociological Perspectives, 38(2), 311-333.
• Casper, M. J. (1994). At the Margins of Humanity: Fetal Positions in Science and Medicine. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 19(3), 307-323.
• Casper, M. J. (1994). Lust in Space: Sexuality and Gender on the Final Frontier.
• Casper, M. J. (1994). On Fetuses, Genes, and "Human" Nature: Theory and Politics in the Age of Fetal Treatment.
• Casper, M. J. (1994). Reframing and Grounding Nonhuman Agency: "What Makes a Fetus an Agent?". The American Behavioral Scientist, 37(6), 839.
• Casper, M. J. (1992). Making the Wrong Tool for the Job the Right One: Pap Smear Screening 1940-1990. Social Studies of Science, 28(2).
• Casper, M. J. (1992). The New our bodies, ourselves : a book by and for women.

Reviews

• Casper, M. J. (2012. Review of Ourselves Unborn.
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  ;Full Citation: Review of Sara Dubow, Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2011), in Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Fall 2012.;

Others

• Casper, M. J., & Aguirre, E. M. (2017, Fall). Sex-assault survivors who disclose need empathy, not judgment. Arizona Daily Star.
• Casper, M. J. (2016, May). Why We Need Mother's Day, All Year Long. College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
• Casper, M. J. (2016, Spring). A Constellation (in my left breast). Moonsick Magazine.
• Casper, M. J. (2016, Spring). How to Read a CV. Moonsick Magazine.
• Casper, M. J. (2016, Winter). Lucky Girl. TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism.
• Casper, M. J. (2014, Spring). Toward a Theory and Praxis of Sustainable Feminism.. TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism.
• Casper, M. J. (2014, Winter). Oculus. Mojave River Review.
• Casper, M. J. (2013, Fall). Women. Horse. Mountain.. TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism.
• Casper, M. J. (2012). Postpartum.
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  ;Full Citation: “Postpartum,” Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Issue 3, July 2012. [Selected for the “Best of 2012” print edition.] [Creative nonfiction];Type of Publication: Literary Journal;
• Casper, M. J. (2012). Weightless.
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  ;Full Citation: “Weightless,” The Linnet's Wings, Spring 2012. [Fiction];Type of Publication: Literary Journal;
• Casper, M. J. (2012, Spring). Weightless. The Linnet’s Wings.
• Casper, M. J. (2012, Summer). Postpartum. Vine Leaves Literary Journal.
• Casper, M. J. (2011, Spring). Danish Folk Tale. Spilling Ink Review.
• Casper, M. J. (2011, Spring). Tangled Up in Blue. Slow Trains.
• Casper, M. J. (2008, Fall). Panic: A Book Review in the Form of Autoethnography. Canyon Voices.
• Casper, M. J. (2008, Spring). The Edible Parts. TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism.
• Casper, M. J. (2005, June). Deer in the Headlights. Special Edition Florida Review Chapbook.