Faculty Publications
Smoking the Bible (Copper Canyon Press, 2022)
The Secret History of Las Vegas (Penguin Books, 2014)
Sanctificum (Copper Canyon Press, 2010)
There Are No Names for Red (Red Hen Press, 2010)
Feed Me the Sun (Peepal Tree Press, 2010)
Song For Night (Akashic Books, 2007)
The Virgin of Flames (Penguin Books, 2007)
Hands Washing Water (Copper Canyon Press, 2006)
Becoming Abigail (Akashic Books, 2006)
Graceland (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)
Dog Woman (Red Hen Press, 2004)
Daphne's Lot (Red Hen Press, 2003)
Kalakuta Republic (Saqi Books, 2001)
Masters of the Board (Delta of Nigeria, 1985)
Good in Bed: A Life in Queer Sex, Politics, and Religion (ReQueered Tales, 2023)
Inspired Journeys: Travel Writers in Search of the Muse (University of Wisconsin Press, 2016)
The Peasants and the Mariners (GemmaMedia, 2013)
The Sorrow of the Elves (GemmaMedia, 2010)
Honorable Bandit: A Walk Across Corsica (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007)
Love, the Magician (Harrington Park Press , 2005)
The Boom Economy: Or, Scenes from Clerical Life (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003)
Monster: Adventures in American Machismo (Council Oak Books, 2001)
The Autobiography Box: A Step-by-Step Kit for Examining the Life Worth Living (Chronicle Book , 2000)
The Genius of Desire (Ballantine Books , 1993)
Machines of the Mind: Personification in Medieval Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400 (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
You Are Here (Triquarterly, 2000)
The Psycho-Political Muse: Poetry Since the Fifties (University of Chicago Press, 1987)
Song and Error (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)
The Desiring-Image: Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2013)
The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies (co-edited with Paul Rae, Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography (co-edited with Peter W. Marx, Routledge, 2021)
Uncle Tom's Cabins: The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book (co-edited with Stefka Mihaylova, U. Michigan Press, 2018)
A Cultural History of Theatre, 6 vols. (co-edited with C. B. Balme, Bloomsbury, 2017)
The Broadview Anthology of Nineteenth-Century British Performance (Broadview Press, 2011)
The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
The Performing Century: Nineteenth-Century Theatres History (co-edited with Peter Holland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
Considering Calamity: Methods for Performance Research (with Linda Ben-Zvi, Tel Aviv: Assaph Books, 2007)
Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense (Duke University Press, 2007)
Theatricality (co-edited with Thomas Postlewait, Cambridge University Press, 2004)
The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain (co-edited with Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999)
George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre (Praeger/Greenwood, 1994)
Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture (Routledge, 1991)
Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Columbia University Press, 2024)
The Whitman Revolution: Sex, Poetry, and Politics (Iowa University Press, 2020)
Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus" (University of Iowa Press, 2011)
Ezra Pound: The Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)
Whitman: The Political Poet (Oxford University Press, 1996)
Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies (co-ed. with Jay Grossman, Oxford University Press, 1996)
The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets Literary History and Discord (Oxford University Press, 1992)
Ezra Pound: The Critical Reception (American Critical Tradition No 9) (Lenox Hill Pub, 1987)
Walt Whitman Among the French; Poet and Myth (Princeton University Press, 1980)
Colonial Virtue: The Mobility of Temperance in Renaissance England (University of Toronto Press, 2012)
Decals: Complete Early Poems of Oliverio Girondo (co-translator, Open Letter, 2018)
The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Writing the Incommensurable: Kierkegaard, Rossetti and Hopkins (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993)
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity (Columbia University Press, 2005)
Modernism's Body: Sex Culture and Joyce (Columbia University Press, 1996)
To Write Paradise: Style and Error in Pound's Cantos (Yale University Press, 1985)
A Guide to Ezra Pound's Selected Poems (New Directions, 1983)
Three Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2024)
Renditions (Four Way Books, 2021)
An Orchard in the Street (American Readers Series, 2017)
Last Lake (University Of Chicago Press, 2016)
How Poems Think (University Of Chicago Press, 2015)
Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories (University Of Chicago Press, 2010)
Sophocles, Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments (translator, Princeton University Press, 2008)
Creatures of a Day (Louisiana State University Press, 2008)
Fern-texts: Autobiographical Essay on the Notebooks of Young S. T. Coleridge (b. 1772) (Hollyridge Press, 2005)
In The Warhouse (Fractal Edge Press , 2004)
Sophocles: Antigone (co-translator, Oxford University Press, 2003)
It's Time (Louisiana State University Press, 2002)
Bakkhai, by Euripides (Oxford University Press, 2001)
Selected Poems of Luis Cernuda (translator, Sheep Meadow, 1999)
Homage to Longshot O'Leary (Holy Cow! Press, 1998)
Sparrow: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 1997)
Sweetbitter: A Novel (Louisiana State University Press, 1994)
The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art (University Of Chicago Press, 1989)
Auden and the Muse of History (Stanford University Press, 2023)
Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Literature and Culture (editor, Stanford University Press, 2007)
Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W.H. Auden (Stanford University Press, 2003)
Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation (Duke University Press Books, 2003)
Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies (co-editor, Oxford University Press, 1996)
Evangelical Gothic: The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula (University of Virginia Press, 2019)
War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma (Princeton University Press, 2007)
Victorian Relativity: Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery (University Of Chicago Press, 2001)
Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the 19th Century (University of Chicago Press, 1991)
Trollope and Comic Pleasure (University of Chicago Press, 1987)
Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism (co-editor with Bushra Rehman, Seal Press, 2019)
A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir (Beacon Press, 2014)
Sensations of History: Animation and New Media Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)
A Dove in Free Flight (co-translator, UpSet Press, 2021)
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021)
I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody (co-translator, City Lights Publishers, 2007)
A Poet's Guide to Poetry, 2nd edition (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
California Sorrow (Knopf, 2007)
A Poets Prose: Selected Writings Of Louise Bogan (Swallow Press , 2005)
Drift: Poems (Knopf, 2003)
Ghost Ship: Poems (Knopf, 1996)
The Judge Is Fury: Dislocation and Form in Poetry (Poets on Poetry Series) (University of Michigan Press , 1995)
Autumn Eros & Others Poems (Knopf, 1993)
The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling (University Of Chicago Press, 1993)
Summers of Vietnam and Other Poems (Sheep Meadow, 1990)
Tales of Arturo Vivante (Sheep Meadow, 1990)
Threshold of the Year (University of Missouri Press, 1982)
Little Magazine in America: A Modern Documentary History (Pushcart Press, 1979)
Prose for Borges (Northwestern University Press, 1974)
Surge of Piety: Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life (Yale University Press, 2016)
The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty (Yale University Press, 2012)
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (Kawade Shobo, 2009)
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Japanese translation
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (Hankyoreh, 2009)
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Korean translation
Comment la psychiatrie et l'industrie pharmaceutique ont médicalisé nos émotions (Editions Flammarion, 2009)
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French translation
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (Yale University Press, 2008)
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Winner of the Prescrire Prize for Medical Writing (France 2010)
Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England (Columbia University Press, 2004)
The Burdens of Intimacy (University of Chicago Press, 1998)
The Ruling Passion (Duke University Press, 1995)
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (co-editor, University of Chicago Press, 2001)
The Psychoanalysis of Race (editor, Columbia University Press, 1998)
The Social Life of Fluids: Blood, Milk, and Water in the Victorian Novel (Cornell University Press, 2010)
The Rhetoric of Empiricism: Language and Perception From Locke to I.A. Richards (Cornell University Press, 1993)
The Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England (Princeton University Press, 2015)
What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2014)
Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author (Harvard University Press, 1998)
Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition (University of Chicago Press, 1988)
The Life of the Poet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers (University of Chicago Press, 1984)
Dancing on the Fault Lines of History: Selected Essays (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming 2025)
Futures of Dance Studies (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020)
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(edited by Susan Manning, Janice Ross, & Rebecca Schneider)
New German Dance Studies (University of Illinois Press, 2012)
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(edited by Susan Manning & Lucia Ruprecht)
Danse Noires, Blanches Amériques (Centre National de la Danse, 2009)
Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion (Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2004)
Ecstasy and the Demon: Feminism and Nationalism in the Dances of Mary Wigman (University of California Press, 1993)
Extended Stay (University of Arizona Press, 2023)
Best Worst American: Stories (Small Beer Press, 2017)
Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016; paperback, 2018)
The Old Law in Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production (Routledge, 1997)
Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Children of Oedipus and Other Essays on the Imitation of Greek Tragedy 1550-1800 (University of Toronto Press, 1980)
The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics (University of Michigan Press, 2019)
Translation in African Contexts: Postcolonial Texts, Queer Sexuality, and Cosmopolitan Fluency (Kent State University Press, 2017)
Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality (SUNY Press, 2010)
The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 (Columbia University Press, 2007)
Bildad Kaggia: Voice of the People (Sasa Sema Publications, 2001)
Guide to Encounters from Africa (Nairobi : Macmillan Kenya, 2000)
The Permeable Self Five Medieval Relationships (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
The Works of Richard Methley (translator, Liturgical Press, 2021)
Mechthild of Hackeborn "The Book of Special Grace" (translator, Paulist Press, 2017)
Making Love in the Twelfth Century: "Letters of Two Lovers" in Context (translator, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013)
The Life of Juliana of Mont-Cornillon, translated in Living Saints of the Thirteenth Century (Brepols Publishers, 2012)
Thomas of Cantimpré: The Collected Saints' Lives (Brepols Publishers, 2008)
Frauenlob's Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet and His Masterpiece (Penn State University Press, 2006)
God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002)
Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World (University of California Press, 1998)
Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the "Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum" (Cornell University Press, 1998)
From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995)
Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine (University of California Press, 1989)
Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England (Penn State University Press, 2007)
Rust Belt Chicago: An Anthology (Belt Publishing , 2017)
The Old-Time Saloon: Not Wet - Not Dry, Just History (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
Chicago by Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker's Guide to the Paris of America (Northwestern University Press, 2013)
The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity (Thesis, Penguin Random House, forthcoming 2025)
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, New York 1987-1993 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021)
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Lambda Book Award in Nonfiction, Special Award from the Publishing Triangle in Nonfiction, National LGBT Journalists Association Book Award, Finalist- PEN John Kenneth Gailbraith Award in Nonfiction, Finalist- Gotham Book Award, New York Times Notable Book, NY Times Editor's Choice.
Maggie Terry (New York: Feminist Press, 2018)
The Cosmopolitans (New York: Feminist Press at CUNY, 2016)
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"One of the best novels of 2016"- Publishers Weekly
Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016)
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Publishing Triangle Nonfiction Book Award
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness To A Lost Imagination (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012)
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10 Best Most Unknown Books - Slate, "Best Unrecognized Books" of the year by GalleyCat.
Israel/Palestine and the Queer International (Duke University Press, 2012)
The Mere Future (New York: Vancouver: Arsenal, 2009)
The Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences (New York: The New Press, 2009)
Mercy (Belladonna Books, 2008)
The Child (New York: Carroll and Graff, 2007)
Carson McCullers (Historically Inaccurate) (Playscripts, Inc.: New York, 2006)
SHIMMER (New York: Avon, 1998)
Stagestruck: Theater, Aids and the Marketing of Gay America (Chapel Hill: Duke University Press, 1998)
The Early Novels of Sarah Schulman: The Sophie Horowitz Story, Girls Visions and Everything, After Delores (Book of the Month Club, Triangle Classics Series, 1997)
Rat Bohemia (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1995)
My American History : Gay And Lesbian Life During the Reagan/Bush Years (New York: Routledge, 1994)
Empathy (New York : E.P. Dutton, 1992)
People In Trouble (New York : E.P. Dutton, 1990)
After Delores (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1988)
Girls, Visions and Everything (Seattle: Seal Press, 1986)
The Sophie Horowitz Story (Tallahassee Florida: Naiad Press, 1984)
Toward A Sacramental Poetics (co-editor, Notre Dame University Press, 2021)
Loving Justice, Living Shakespeare (Oxford University Press, 2016)
The Immanent Frame on Secularism, Belief and Truth (Social Science Research Council, 2011)
Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism: When God Left the World (Stanford University Press, 2008)
Transcendence: Philosophy, Literature and Theology Approach the Beyond (Routledge, 2004)
The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism (University of Chicago Press, 1998)
The Postmodern Bible: The Bible and Culture Collective (Yale University Press, 1997)
Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature (Princeton University Press, 1994)
Remembering and Repeating: On Milton's Theology and Poetics (University Of Chicago Press, 1993)
The Book and the Text: The Bible and Literary Theory (Basil Blackwell, 1990)
Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost (Cambridge University Press, 1989)
When We Get There: A Novel (Bloomsbury USA, 2007)
Trace Evidence: poems (Tin House Books, 2023)
Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (Southern Illinois University Press, 2017)
The Accommodated Animal: Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales (University Of Chicago Press, 2013)
Sovereign Amity: Figures of Friendship in Shakespearean Contexts (University Of Chicago Press, 2002)
Chicago's Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2020)
City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman (University Of Chicago Press, 1995)
Chicago and the American Literary Imagination, 1880-1920 ( University of Chicago Press, 1984)
Judgment and Action Fragments toward a History (co-editor; Northwestern University Press, 2017)
Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity (Cornell University Press, 2010)
Bette Davis Black and White (University of Chicago Press, 2022)
Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic (University Of Chicago Press, 2010)
The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel (University Of Chicago Press, 1997)
Fictional Matter: Empiricism, Corpuscles, and the Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017)
Ingenuous Subjection: Compliance and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Domestic Novel (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005)
The House of Being (Yale University Press, 2024)
The Essential Muriel Rukeyser (Ecco Press, 2021)
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir (Ecco Press, 2020)
Monument: Poems New & Selected (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)
Best American Poetry 2017 (Scribner, 2017)
Thrall: Poems (Mariner Books, 2012)
Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (University of Georgia Press , 2010)
Native Guard: Poems (Mariner Books , 2006)
Bellocq's Ophelia: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2002)
Domestic Work: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2000)
The Pulter Project: Poet in the Making (pulterproject.northwestern.edu)
Recipes for Thought: Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern Kitchen (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
Staging Domesticity: Household Work and English Identity in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance (Cornell University Press, 1993)
Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family (Henry Holt, 2023)
The Sea Came Up and Drowned (Raw Books, 2020)
Mary is a River (Kelsay Books, 2018)
The Endless Unbegun (Twelve Winters Press, 2015)
September: Poems (Northwestern University Press, 2013)
Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion: Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan England (University of Chicago Press, 2021)
As If: Essays in "As You Like It" (punctum books, 2016)
Theatres and Encyclopedias in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Author's Pen and Actor's Voice : Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre (co-editor, Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies (co-editor, NYU Press, 2014)
Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet (co-editor, University Of Iowa Press, 2014)
At the Dusk of Dawn: Selected Poetry and Prose of Albery Allson Whitman (editor, UPNe, 2012)
The Works of James M. Whitfield: America and Other Writings by a Nineteenth-Century African American Poet (co-editor, UNC Press, 2011)
Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Nationalism (Oxford UP, 2011)
Plymouth Colony: Narratives of English Settlement and Native Resistance from the Mayflower to King Philip’s War (co-editor, Library of America, 2022)
Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures (Yale University Press, 2021)
“Good News from New England” by Edward Winslow: A Scholarly Edition (editor, University of Massachusetts Press, 2014)
Medical Encounters: Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures (University of Massachusetts Press, 2013)
Against the Uprooted Word: Giving Language Time in Transatlantic Romanticism (Stanford University Press, 2022)