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Helen H. Shen, Chen-hui Tsai, Lisha Xu, Shu Zhu, Teaching Chinese as a Second Language: Vocabulary Acquisition and Instruction. Peking University Press, July 2011


Chen-hui Tsai & Lisha Xu (2008). A Principle-based Approach to Teach Listening in a CALL-integrated Classroom. Proceedings of World CALL 2008, Using Technologies for Language Learning, 3rd International Conference, Fukuoka, Japan.


Young, D. (2021). Techniques for determining equality of the maximum nullity and the zero forcing number of a graph. The Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra, 37, 295鈥315.


Young, J.E. and Eleazer, M. (October 2020). The Hyper-Stable Disc of UGC 8839. MNRAS. doi: 10.1093/mnras/staa3220


Young, J. E., Kuzio de Naray, R., and Wang, S. X. (2020). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493(1), 55-69.


Was awarded seven nights on the McDonald Observatory's Harlen J. Smith telescope to observe the diffuse spiral galaxy SDSS J010223.55+203334.6. This galaxy is suspected to have interacted with another galaxy which Jason published on several years ago, and these measurements will allow Jason to confirm/refute this hypothesis.


Young, E.  (2017 [2020]). 鈥淔ootnotes: Amputation and Reconstruction in Reed Bontecou鈥檚 Civil War Photography.鈥 Special issue on 鈥淓xpanding the Archive in Civil War Studies."  Mississippi Quarterly 70/71 (4), 487-504.


Young, E. (2019). Pet projects: Animal fiction and taxidermy in the nineteenth-century archive. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.


Young, E. (2019). 鈥.鈥 LAAB Magazine4.  Reprints Elizabeth Young, 鈥淏lack Frankenstein at the Bicentennial: Race and Political Metaphor from Nat Turner to Now,鈥漈he Common Reader3:2 (2018): 63-77.


Pet Projects: Animal Fiction and Taxidermy in the Nineteenth-Century Archive was awarded an Honorable Mention Book Award by the at their triennial convention in Baltimore in November 2021.