Faculty Publications

Smoking the Bible
Smoking the Bible (Copper Canyon Press, 2022)
The Secret History of Las Vegas
The Secret History of Las Vegas  (Penguin Books, 2014)
Sanctificum
Sanctificum (Copper Canyon Press, 2010)
There Are No Names for Red
There Are No Names for Red (Red Hen Press, 2010)
Feed Me the Sun
Feed Me the Sun (Peepal Tree Press, 2010)
Song For Night
Song For Night (Akashic Books, 2007)
The Virgin of Flames
The Virgin of Flames (Penguin Books, 2007)
Hands Washing Water
Hands Washing Water (Copper Canyon Press, 2006)
Becoming Abigail
Becoming Abigail (Akashic Books, 2006)
Graceland
Graceland (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)
Dog Woman
Dog Woman (Red Hen Press, 2004)
Daphne's Lot
Daphne's Lot (Red Hen Press, 2003)
Kalakuta Republic
Kalakuta Republic (Saqi Books, 2001)
Masters of the Board
Masters of the Board (Delta of Nigeria, 1985)
Inspired Journeys: Travel Writers in Search of the Muse
Inspired Journeys: Travel Writers in Search of the Muse (University of Wisconsin Press, 2016)
The Peasants and the Mariners
The Peasants and the Mariners (GemmaMedia, 2013)
The Sorrow of the Elves
The Sorrow of the Elves (GemmaMedia, 2010)
Honorable Bandit: A Walk Across Corsica
Honorable Bandit: A Walk Across Corsica (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007)
Love, the Magician
Love, the Magician (Harrington Park Press , 2005)
The Boom Economy: Or, Scenes from Clerical Life
The Boom Economy: Or, Scenes from Clerical Life (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003)
Monster: Adventures in American Machismo
Monster: Adventures in American Machismo (Council Oak Books, 2001)
The Genius of Desire
The Genius of Desire (Ballantine Books , 1993)
Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott
Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
You Are Here
You Are Here (Triquarterly, 2000)
The Psycho-Political Muse: Poetry Since the Fifties
The Psycho-Political Muse: Poetry Since the Fifties (University of Chicago Press, 1987)
Song and Error
Song and Error (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)
The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies
The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies (co-edited with Paul Rae, forthcoming Cambridge University Press, early 2024)
Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography
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
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.
A Cultural History of Theatre, 6 vols. (co-edited with C. B. Balme, Bloomsbury, 2017)
The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies
The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
The Performing Century: Nineteenth-Century Theatres History
The Performing Century: Nineteenth-Century Theatres History (co-edited with Peter Holland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
Considering Calamity: Methods for Performance Research
Considering Calamity: Methods for Performance Research (with Linda Ben-Zvi, Tel Aviv: Assaph Books, 2007)
Theatricality
Theatricality (co-edited with Thomas Postlewait, Cambridge University Press, 2004)
The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914
The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain (co-edited with Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Renditions
Renditions (Four Way Books, 2021)
An Orchard in the Street
An Orchard in the Street (American Readers Series, 2017)
Last Lake
Last Lake (University Of Chicago Press, 2016)
How Poems Think
How Poems Think (University Of Chicago Press, 2015)
Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories
Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories (University Of Chicago Press, 2010)
Sophocles, Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments
Sophocles, Selected Poems: Odes and Fragments (translator, Princeton University Press, 2008)
Creatures of a Day
Creatures of a Day (Louisiana State University Press, 2008)
In The Warhouse
In The Warhouse (Fractal Edge Press , 2004)
Sophocles: Antigone
Sophocles: Antigone (co-translator, Oxford University Press, 2003)
It's Time
It's Time (Louisiana State University Press, 2002)
Bakkhai, by Euripides
Bakkhai, by Euripides (Oxford University Press, 2001)
Selected Poems of Luis Cernuda
Selected Poems of Luis Cernuda (translator, Sheep Meadow, 1999)
Homage to Longshot O'Leary
Homage to Longshot O'Leary (Holy Cow! Press, 1998)
Sparrow: New and Selected Poems
Sparrow: New and Selected Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 1997)
Sweetbitter: A Novel
Sweetbitter: A Novel (Louisiana State University Press, 1994)
A Dove in Free Flight
A Dove in Free Flight (co-translator, UpSet Press, 2021)
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation
Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation  (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021)
I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody
I'jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody (co-translator, City Lights Publishers, 2007)
A Poet's Guide to Poetry, 2nd edition
A Poet's Guide to Poetry, 2nd edition (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
California Sorrow
California Sorrow (Knopf, 2007)
Drift: Poems
Drift: Poems (Knopf, 2003)
Ghost Ship: Poems
Ghost Ship: Poems (Knopf, 1996)
Summers of Vietnam and Other Poems
Summers of Vietnam and Other Poems (Sheep Meadow, 1990)
Tales of Arturo Vivante
Tales of Arturo Vivante (Sheep Meadow, 1990)
Threshold of the Year
Threshold of the Year (University of Missouri Press, 1982)
Prose for Borges
Prose for Borges (Northwestern University Press, 1974)
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
Additional Information:  Japanese translation
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
Additional Information:  Korean translation
Comment la psychiatrie et l'industrie pharmaceutique ont médicalisé nos émotions
Additional Information:  French translation
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness
Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness (Yale University Press, 2008)
Additional Information:  Winner of the Prescrire Prize for Medical Writing (France 2010)
The Burdens of Intimacy
The Burdens of Intimacy (University of Chicago Press, 1998)
The Ruling Passion
The Ruling Passion (Duke University Press, 1995)
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis (co-editor, University of Chicago Press, 2001)
The Psychoanalysis of Race
The Psychoanalysis of Race (editor, Columbia University Press, 1998)
The Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England
The Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England (Princeton University Press, 2015)
Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author
Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author (Harvard University Press, 1998)
Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition
Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition (University of Chicago Press, 1988)
The Life of the Poet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers
The Life of the Poet: Beginning and Ending Poetic Careers (University of Chicago Press, 1984)
Futures of Dance Studies
Futures of Dance Studies (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Additional Information:  (edited by Susan Manning, Janice Ross, & Rebecca Schneider)
New German Dance Studies
New German Dance Studies (University of Illinois Press, 2012)
Additional Information:  (edited by Susan Manning & Lucia Ruprecht)
Danse Noires, Blanches Amériques
Danse Noires, Blanches Amériques (Centre National de la Danse, 2009)
Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion
Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion (Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2004)
Extended Stay
Extended Stay (University of Arizona Press, 2023)
Best Worst American: Stories
Best Worst American: Stories (Small Beer Press, 2017)
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP, New York 1987-1993
Additional Information:  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
Maggie Terry (New York: Feminist Press, 2018)
The Cosmopolitans 
The Cosmopolitans  (New York: Feminist Press at CUNY, 2016)
Additional Information:  "One of the best novels of 2016"- Publishers Weekly
Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair
Additional Information:  Publishing Triangle Nonfiction Book Award
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness To A Lost Imagination
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness To A Lost Imagination  (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012)
Additional Information:  10 Best Most Unknown Books - Slate, "Best Unrecognized Books" of the year by GalleyCat.
Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
Israel/Palestine and the Queer International (Duke University Press, 2012)
The Mere Future
The Mere Future (New York: Vancouver: Arsenal, 2009)
Mercy
Mercy (Belladonna Books, 2008)
The Child
The Child (New York: Carroll and Graff, 2007)
Carson McCullers (Historically Inaccurate)
Carson McCullers (Historically Inaccurate) (Playscripts, Inc.: New York, 2006)
SHIMMER
SHIMMER (New York: Avon, 1998)
Stagestruck: Theater, Aids and the Marketing of Gay America
Stagestruck: Theater, Aids and the Marketing of Gay America (Chapel Hill: Duke University Press, 1998)
Rat Bohemia 
Rat Bohemia  (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1995)
Empathy 
Empathy  (New York : E.P. Dutton, 1992)
People In Trouble  
People In Trouble   (New York : E.P. Dutton, 1990)
After Delores 
After Delores  (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1988)
Girls, Visions and Everything 
Girls, Visions and Everything  (Seattle: Seal Press, 1986)
The Sophie Horowitz Story 
The Sophie Horowitz Story  (Tallahassee Florida: Naiad Press, 1984)
Trace Evidence: poems
Trace Evidence: poems (Tin House Books, 2023)
Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing
Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing  (Southern Illinois University Press, 2017)
 Judgment and Action Fragments toward a History
Judgment and Action Fragments toward a History (co-editor; Northwestern University Press, 2017)
Bette Davis Black and White
Bette Davis Black and White (University of Chicago Press, 2022)
Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic
Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic (University Of Chicago Press, 2010)
The House of Being
The House of Being (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2024)
The Essential Muriel Rukeyser
The Essential Muriel Rukeyser  (Ecco Press, 2021)
Monument: Poems New & Selected
Monument: Poems New & Selected (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)
Best American Poetry 2017
Best American Poetry 2017 (Scribner, 2017)
Thrall: Poems
Thrall: Poems (Mariner Books, 2012)
Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (University of Georgia Press , 2010)
Native Guard: Poems
Native Guard: Poems (Mariner Books , 2006)
Bellocq's Ophelia: Poems
Bellocq's Ophelia: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2002)
Domestic Work: Poems
Domestic Work: Poems  (Graywolf Press, 2000)
The Sea Came Up and Drowned
The Sea Came Up and Drowned (Raw Books, 2020)
Mary is a River
Mary is a River (Kelsay Books, 2018)
The Endless Unbegun
The Endless Unbegun (Twelve Winters Press, 2015)
September: Poems
September: Poems  (Northwestern University Press, 2013)