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| “Incloseto Putbacko”: Queerness in Adolescent Fantasy Fiction A Balay The Journal of Popular Culture 45 (5), 923-942, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| Placing Students in Writing Classes: One University's Experience with a Modified Version of Directed Self Placement. A Balay, K Nelson Composition Forum 25, 2012 | 20 | 2012 |
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| Long-haul sweatshops A Balay, M Shattell New York Times 9, 2016 | 7 | 2016 |
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| PTSD in the Driver’s Seat A Balay, M Shattell The Atlantic, 2016 | 6 | 2016 |
| Zilpha Keatley Snyder's The Truth About Stone Hollow and the Genre of Time-Slip Fantasy A Balay Children's Literature Association Quarterly 35 (2), 131-143, 2010 | 6 | 2010 |
| Surprised by activism: the effects of one oral history on its queer steel-working narrators A Balay The Oral History Review 43 (1), 69-80, 2016 | 4 | 2016 |
| " They're closin'up girl land": female masculinities in children's fantasy A Balay Femspec 10 (2), 19-38, 2009 | 4 | 2009 |
| Sex and Surveillance on the Highway A Balay Transgender Studies Quarterly 4 (1), 96-111, 2017 | 3 | 2017 |
| “I gotta go”: Mobility as a queer methodology A Balay New Directions in Queer Oral History, 143-150, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
| Semi Queer: Stories of Trans, Gay, and Black Truck Drivers A Balay University of North Carolina Press, 2018 | 1 | 2018 |
| Playing With Gender for College Credit:" Experiencing Gender, Sex and Sexuality" A Balay Counterpoints 397, 141-150, 2011 | 1 | 2011 |
| Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction A Balay Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 27 (2), 398-399, 2008 | 1 | 2008 |
| PROLOGUE: SOUR GRAPES A Balay Queer Precarities in and Out of Higher Education: Challenging Institutional …, 2023 | | 2023 |
| Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture A Balay Labor 19 (4), 116-117, 2022 | | 2022 |
| Tossing Men Out of Bars: Consent in Today's Working Class A Balay Labor 19 (1), 132-139, 2022 | | 2022 |
