DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Discipline Park
Wendy's Subway (2023)

Arcadia, Indiana
Plays Inverse Press (July 4, 2017)

Testimony on Trial: Conrad, James, and the Contest for Modernism
University of Toronto Press (December 1, 2011)

Shakespeare and the Folktale: An Anthology of Stories
editor; Princeton University Press (October 22, 2019)

Shakespeare’s Folktale Sources
University of Delaware Press (June 3, 2015)

Sailor Talk: Labor, Utterance, and Meaning in the Works of Melville, Conrad, and London
Liverpool University Press (March 1, 2021)

Cannibal Old Me: Spoken Sources in Melville's Early Works
Kent State University Press (January 5, 2009)

Herman Melville's Whaling Years
co-edited with Thomas Farel Heffernan; Vanderbilt University Press (April 12, 2004)

Melville's Sources
Northwestern University Press (1987)

The Portrait's Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States
University of North Carolina Press (December 16, 2019)

Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists
Association of College & Research Libraries (March 31, 2015)

The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature
New York: Routledge (March 31, 2022)

The Humanist (Re)Turn: Reclaiming the Self in Literature
New York: Routledge (August 16, 2019)

Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton’s Eden
Open Book Publishers (July 10, 2017)

The Atheist Milton
Ashgate Publishing (November 1, 2012)

The Tyranny of Heaven: Milton's Rejection of God as King
University of Delaware Press (January 1, 2004)

Lone Prairie
Burlesque Press, Press (May 21, 2024)

In Their Time
Burlesque Press, Press (May 7, 2020)

Stumble Into a Lighted Room
Burlesque Press (September 28, 2016)

Notes on Nowhere: Feminism, Utopian Logic, and Social Transformation
University Of Minnesota Press (March 15, 1997)

Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America
Oxford University Press (December 30, 2013)

Samuel Richardson's New Nation: Paragons of the Domestic Sphere and "Native" Virtue
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers (August 1, 1998)

American Shakespeare Theatre: Stratford 1955-1985
Folger Books (December 1, 1986)

Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation
co-edited with L. Monique Pittman & Geoffrey Way; Routledge (March 24, 2023)

Reanimating Shakespeare’s Othello in Post-Racial America
Edinburgh University Press (November 30, 2022)

Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race: Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel
LSU Press (April 15, 2020)

Masculinity and the New Imperialism: Rewriting Manhood in British Popular Literature, 1870-1914
Cambridge University Press (May 21, 2014)

Making of the Victorian Novelist: Anxieties of Authorship in the Mass Market
Routledge (December 13, 2002)

Reading and Writing About Literature, 4th edition
co-edited with Janet E. Gardner, Bedford/St. Martin's (October 28, 2016)

The Little Magazine in Contemporary America
co-edited with Ian Morris, University of Chicago Press (April 10, 2015)

My Favorite Tyrants
University of Wisconsin Press (March 28, 2014)

The Lessons
Silverfish Review Press (March 1, 2011)

The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype
University of Pennsylvania Press (March 15, 2012)

Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women’s Writing in Caribbean Narrative
Duke University Press Books (June 1, 2012)

Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class
Cornell University Press (October 29, 2009)

Deep Horizons: A Multisensory Archive of Ecological Affects and Prospects
co-edited with Brianne Cohen and Erin Espelie; Amherst College Press (2023)

The Earth Cries Out
Vintage/Penguin Random House (February 27, 2017)

Recovering 9/11 in New York
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (January 1, 2014)

Abolition's Public Sphere
University Of Minnesota Press (September 4, 2003)

The Collected Poetry of Mary Tighe
editor; Johns Hopkins University Press (August 17, 2016)

Helen Maria Williams, Peru and Peruvian Tales
co-editor; Broadview Press (December 8, 2014)

The Keepsake for 1829
Broadview Press (June 9, 2006)

Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman: With Other Poems
editor; University Press of Kentucky (September 2, 1999)

A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival, 1750-1850
co-edited with Daniel Robinson; Oxford University Press (May 6, 1999)

British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology
editor; Johns Hopkins University Press (August 26, 1997)

Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices
co-edited with Theresa Kelley; University Press of New England (May 15, 1995)

The Journals of Mary Shelley, 2 volumes
co-edited with Diana Scott-Kilvert; Oxford University Press (June 18, 1987)

Modernism and Homer: The Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce, Osip Mandelstam, and Ezra Pound
Cambridge University Press (September 22, 2015)

The Movies as a World Force: American Silent Cinema and the Utopian Imagination
Rutgers University Press (February 4, 2019)

Hollywood's African American Films: The Transition to Sound
Rutgers University Press (July 27, 2011)

Illinois Women Novelists in the Nineteenth Century: An Analysis and Annotated Bibliography
University of Illinois Press (January 1, 1994)

Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular
Duke University Press Books (August 24, 2011)

When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel
Rutgers University Press (January 6, 2004)

Ngugi
James Currey (December 21, 2018)

Slavery and the Culture of Taste
Princeton University Press (April 27, 2014)

The Columbia Guide to East African Literatures in English Since World War II
with Evan Mwangi; New York: Columbia University Press (April 24, 2007)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature
Cambridge University Press (February 19, 2001)

Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism
New York: Columbia University Press (December 16, 1996)

Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature
Ithaca: Cornell University Press (March 18, 1992)

Reading Chinua Achebe
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann (January 1, 1991)

Reading the African Novel
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann (January 1, 1987)

A Grunt Speaks: A Devil’s Dictionary of Vietnam Infantry Terms
Erinach LLC (June 1, 2023)

The Swabian Affair
Morgan James Fiction (March 21, 2017)

The Helvetian Affair
Morgan James Fiction (November 17, 2015)

The Gabinian Affair
Morgan James Fiction (April 28, 2015)

The Violent Season: A Story of the Generation that Fought the Vietnam War
Unlimited Publishing LLC (September 16, 2014)

Nature's Voice: Health and Humanities
editor; bioGraph (December 30, 2020)

Recorded Time: How to Write the Future
bioGraph (December 26, 2020)

We Were Strangers: The Story of Magda Preiss
co-edited with AJ Greenberg; bioGraph (January 29, 2020)

Timelines of American Literature
co-edited with Cody Marrs, Johns Hopkins University Press (January 29, 2019)

I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters
Harvard University Press (January 8, 2018)

Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing
Harvard University Press (February 11, 2013)

Fleshly Tabernacles: Milton and the Incarnational Poetics of Revolutionary England
University of Notre Dame Press (March 15, 2016)

Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature: With an Edition of Middle English and Middle Scots Pastourelles
co-edited with Sarah Baechle and Elizaveta Strakhov; Penn State University Press ( June 7, 2022)

Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain
Cornell University Press (November 15, 2018)

Wolf Trees
Able Muse Press (September 15, 2023)

Bed of Impatiens
Able Muse Press (November 20, 2016)

Ukrainians in Michigan (Discovering the Peoples of Michigan)
Michigan State University Press (February 1, 2023)

The Butterfly
BHC Press (February 21, 2019)

Under a Night Sky
Final Thursday Press (September 29, 2016)

The Knowledge Tree
Wide Water Press (September 20, 2013)

When I Think About Rain
Final Thursday Press (January 29, 2009)

Unrelenting Readers: The New Poet-Critics
co-edited with David G Myers; Story Line Press (October 1, 2003)

Selves: The Self in Contexts
co-edited anthology with Joyce E. Boss; Copley Custom Publishing Group (1998)

Albert's Ashes: A Peacock's Tail
BookBaby (2021)

The Book Eaters
Perugia Press (September 15, 2023)

The Garies and Their Friends
co-edited with Megan Walsh; Broadview Press (April 18, 2016)

Against Self-Reliance: The Arts of Dependence in the Early United States
University of Pennsylvania Press (March 18, 2015)

Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water
Haymarket Books (October 15, 2024)

A History of American Civil War Literature
editor; Cambridge University Press (December 1, 2015)

Writing About American Literature
with Karen Gocsik; W.W.Norton & Company (April 29, 2014)

Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America
University of Georgia Press (March 1, 2012)

Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
Harper Collins (September 2, 2014)

Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters
editor; Anchor Books (December 1, 2003)

Erotics of Talk: Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms
Oxford University Press (December 12, 1996)

Dark Symphony and Other Stories by Elizabeth Laura Adams
editor; G K Hall (December 1, 1996)

Invisible Subjects
Oxford University Press (April 1, 2016)

Taken from the Paradise Isle: The Hoshida Family Story
editor; University Press of Colorado (December 10, 2015)

Bound to Read: Compilations, Collections, and the Making of Renaissance Literature
University of Pennsylvania Press (May 1, 2013)

The Kosher Capones: The History of Chicago's Jewish Gangsters
Northern Illinois University Press (October 15, 2019)

An Accidental Anarchist: How the Killing of a Humble Jewish Immigrant by Chicago's Chief of Police Exposed the Conflict Between Law & Order and Civil Rights in Early 20th Century America
with Walter Roth; Rudi Pub (November 1, 1997)

Economic Woman: Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy
University of Toronto Press (August 8, 2013)

Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Afterlife of Victorian Illness
Cambridge University Press (May, 2021)

Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It
Basic Books (October 20, 2020)

Teaching the Literature Survey Course: New Strategies for College Faculty
West Virginia University Press (January 1, 2018)

Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
Jossey-Bass (March 7, 2016)

Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty
Harvard University Press (September 2, 2013)

Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year
Johns Hopkins University Press (April 4, 2005)

Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery
Oxford University Press (October 12, 2017)

Parents, Media, and Panic Through the Years: Kids Those Days
Palgrave Macmillan (August 27, 2018)

Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity
Routledge (May 18, 2009)

Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI 1920-1950
co-edited with Claire Culleton; Palgrave Macmillan (December 12, 2008)

Essays on the Essay and Other Essays
Zone 3 Press (2017)

In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments
Emergency Press (June 10, 2014)

Immortal Milk: Adventures in Cheese
Free Press (March 16, 2013)

Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation
University of South Carolina Press (April 20, 2023)

Dr. King is Tired, Too!!: (A Family's Walk)
Book Vine Press (September 4, 2020)

Freedom Narratives of African American Women: A Study of 19th Century Writings
McFarland Press (December 8, 2017)

Bold Nia Marie Passes the Test
Heart-Head Publishing (April 22, 2017)

Brown All Over
AuthorHouse (re-published with discussion, 2020)

The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime
Princeton University Press (October 26, 2021)

Outlaw Rhetoric: Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England
Cornell University Press (February 17, 2012)

Modernism, Sex, and Gender
with Allison Pease; Bloomsbury Academic (October 4, 2018)

At the Mercy of Their Clothes
Columbia University Press (November 29, 2016)

The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Culture
editor; Cambridge University Press (October 27, 2014)

British Modernism and Censorship
Cambridge University Press (July 31, 2006)

Walter Scott and Fame: Authors and Readers in the Romantic Age
Oxford University Press (March 1, 2017)

Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Screen
Cambridge University Press (October 14, 2002)

History and the Early English Novel: Matters of Fact from Bacon to Defoe
Cambridge University Press (April 13, 1997)

Guilty Pleasures: Popular Novels and American Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century
University of Virginia Press (September 24, 2018)

Let Me Let Go
Finish Line Press (January 10, 2020)

Blake and the City
Bucknell University Press (November 1, 2006)

Culture for Service: A History of Goshen College, 1894-1994
Goshen College (January 1, 1994)

Reforming Trollope: Race, Gender, and Englishness in the Novels of Anthony Trollope
Ashgate Publishing (April 21, 2013)

Women in Trollope’s Palliser Novels
Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press (October 1, 1987)

The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880
University of Chicago Press (June 1, 2006)

Misfit Forms: Paths Not Taken by the British Novel
Fordham University Press (December 2, 2014)

Robert Browning and Twentieth-Century Criticism
Camden House (September 1, 1995)

Borrowing Your Body
Riot in Your Throat (November 11, 2021)

Awakening Verse: The Poetics of Early American Evangelicalism
Oxford University Press (July 1, 2020)

Speculation: A Cultural History from Aristotle to AI
Columbia University Press (July 6, 2021)

Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature
Columbia University Press (November 1, 2016)

Modernism: Evolution of an Idea (with Sean Latham)
Bloomsbury Academic (December 3, 2015)

Modernism and the New Spain
Oxford University Press (October 3, 2012)

Theology and Agency in Early Modern Literature
Cambridge University Press (June 14, 2018)

Liturgy and Literature in the Making of Protestant England
Cambridge University Press (March 3, 2011)

Ways of the World: Theater and Cosmopolitanism in the Restoration and Beyond
Cornell University Press (November 15, 2020)

Infamous Commerce: Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
Cornell University Press (June 8, 2006)

Playwrights and Plagiarists in Early Modern England
Cornell University Press (January 1, 1997)

Networked Poetics: The Digital Turn in Southern African Poetry (Page and Screen)
University of Massachusetts Press (February 23, 2024)

Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
Vintage / Anchor Books (forthcoming 2024)

Her 37th Year, An Index
Noemi Press (March 15, 2015)

Promising Young Women
Dorothy, a publishing project (October 1, 2012)

The Virtuous Republic: Political Ideology and Literature During the Founding of the American Nation
Heidelberg: Universitaatsverlag Winter (March 20, 2003)

Superheroes in the Streets: Muslim Women Activists and Protest in the Digital Age
University Press of Mississippi (April 15, 2024)

Performing Democracy in Iraq and South Africa: Gender, Media, and Resistance
Syracuse University Press (November 8, 2013)

Robert Hayden in Verse: New Histories of African American Poetry and the Black Arts Era
University of Michigan Press (August 22, 2018)

Walter Map and the Matter of Britain
University of Pennsylvania Press (June 27, 2017)

Plays in American Periodicals, 1890-1918
Palgrave Macmillan (August 10, 2007)

The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader
co-edited with Melanie Dawson, Duke University Press (July 7, 2000)

American Drama: The Bastard Art
Cambridge University Press (January 28, 1997)

Masks in Modern Drama
University of California Press (November 1, 1984)

John le Carré’s Post-Cold War Fiction
University of Missouri (January 17, 2017)

The Art of Indirection in British Espionage Fiction
McFarland & Company (May 10, 2011)

Yeats and Politics in the 1930s
Palgrave Macmillan (February 1, 1988)

William Kentridge: Being Led by the Nose
University of Chicago Press (May 25, 2017)

Restaging Ubu and the Truth Commission: 20 Years On
University of Cape Town Press (March 1, 2016)

The Transplant Men
Jacana Media (April 1, 2010)

Of Wild Dogs
Double Storey Publishers (2005)

Ireland's National Theaters: Political Performance and the Origins of the Irish Dramatic Movement
Syracuse University Press (April 1, 2001)

City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism
Yale University Press (February 25, 2020)

Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England
Oxford University Press (February 25, 2015)

The Stage Clown in Shakespeare's Theatre
Praeger (November 1999)

Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies
co-edited with Louise Cainkar & Amira Jarmakani; Syracuse University Press, 2022

Arab Intellectuals and American Power: Edward Said, Charles Malik, and the US in the Middle East
Tauris (October 1, 2020)

Literature and the Renewal of the Public Sphere
co-edited with Susan V Gallagher; London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin's (August 8, 2000)

Translating "Clergie": Status, Education, and Salvation in Thirteenth-Century Vernacular Texts
University of Pennsylvania Press (December 1, 2015)

Angels and Earthly Creatures: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages
University of Pennsylvania Press (December 17, 2003)

Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Ohio State University Press (June 1, 2020)

Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue
co-edited with Joshua King; Ohio State University Press (May 2, 2019)

Broader Horizons: Johannes Witte de Hese’s "Itinerarius" and Medieval Travel Narratives
Medieval Academy of America (January 1, 2001)

The Roots of Cane: Jean Toomer and American Magazine Modernism
University of Iowa Press (August 23, 2024)

A Careful Hunger: Poetry by Judy Young
co-edited with Mary Ann Taylor-Hall & Susan Starr Richards; University of Kentucky Press (September 22, 2019)

How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Process of Textual Production
University of Iowa Press (January 15, 2017)

Publishing Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race since 1850
co-edited with George Hutchinson; University of Michigan Press (February 8, 2013)

Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth Century African American Literature
University Press of Mississippi (March 21, 2006)

Women and Gift Exchange in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Richardson, Burney, Austen
New York: Routledge (June 7, 2016)

Men’s Work: Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660–1784
New York: Palgrave (February 28, 2001)