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See below for a selection of our faculty’s numerous published works. For more comprehensive information about faculty members and their publications, please visit our Faculty Profiles page.

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Susan McCabe
H.D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism
Oxford University, 2221
Percival Everett
The Trees
Graywolf Press, 2021
Maggie Nelson
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Graywolf Press, 2021
Heather James
Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England
Cambridge University Press, 2021
Geoff Dyer
See/Saw: Looking at Photographs
Graywolf, 2021
Viet Nguyen
The Committed
Grove Press, 2021
Ashley Cohen
The Global Indies: British Imperial Culture and the Reshaping of the World, 1756-1815
Yale University Press, 2021
Ellen Wayland-Smith
The Angel in the Marketplace
Yale, 2020
Aimee Bender
The Butterfly Lampshade
Doubleday, 2020
Chris Freeman
Isherwood in Transit
U of Minnesota Press, 2020
Zakiyyah Jackson
Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World
NYU Press, 2020
Percival Everett
Telephone: A Novel
Graywolf Press, 2020
Sarah Sligar
Take Me Apart
MCD, 2020
Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus
Afro-Realism and the Romances of Race: Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel
LSU Press, 2020
Viet Nguyen
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
Simon & Schuster, 2020
Enrique Martinez-Celaya
Collected Writings and Interviews, 2010-2017
U of Nebraska Press, 2020
Geoff Dyer
Life with a Capital L: D.H. Lawrence
Penguin Classics, 2019
Viet Nguyen
Chicken of the Sea
McSweeney’s, 2019
Geoff Dyer
The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays of D.H. Lawerence
NYRB Classics, 2019
Dana Johnson
Trailblazer
Clockshop, 2019
Karen Tongson
Why Karen Tongson Matters
University of Texas Press, 2019
David Treuer
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Penguin Random House, 2019
Marci Vogel
Death and Other Holidays
Melville House, 2018
Sarah Kessler
Vocal Projections: Voices in Documentary
Bloomsbury Publishing In, 2018
Emily Anderson
Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss
University of Michigan Press, 2018
Devin Griffiths
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science
Cambridge University Press, 2018
 
Viet Nguyen
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
Abrams Press, 2018
Geoff Dyer
Broadsword Calling Danny Boy: On Where Eagles Dare
Penguin UK, 2018
Rebecca Lemon
King Richard III: Language and Writing
Arden Bloomsbury, 2018
Rebecca Lemon
Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern English
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018
Thea Tomaini
Dealing With The Dead
Brill, 2018
Elda Maria Roman
American Literature in Transition, 2000-2010
Cambridge University Press, 2017
David Rollo
Timely Voices: Romantic Writing in English Literature
McGill-Queen University Press, 2017
M.G. Lord
We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America
Beacon Press, 2017

 
Robin Coste Lewis
Robert Rauschenberg: Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno
MoMA New York, 2017
Mark Irwin
Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry
Peter Lang Inc., 2017
A woman with her back to the viewer sits at a desk in gown. The title and author name at the forefront.
Percival Everett
So Much Blue
Graywolf, 2017
Plush clouds in the sky. The title and author name at the forefront.
Mark Irwin
A Passion According to Green
New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2017
A moose and tree branches conformed in the shape of an animal are the forefront. The background is solid gray. The title and author name are displayed.
Anna Journey
An Arrangement of Skin
Counterpoint, 2017
At a table, three individuals around a table where a meal is being served. Pouring a cup of tea, the individual standing in the middle wears an animal-like mask. The title and author name are displayed.
Anna Journey
The Atheist Wore Goat Silk
Counterpoint, 2017
The title and author name are displayed. A drawing of a woman riding a motorcycle and solid color take up the background.
Viet Nguyen
The Refugees
Grove, 2017
The title and author name are displayed. An aerial view identical homes lined in rows in the background.
Elda María Román
Race and Upward Mobility
Stanford, 2017
The title and author name are displayed in exciting lettering and colors.
Danzy Senna
New People
Riverhead Books, 2017
A single rock sits on top of cloudy sea. The sky is clear yet blurs together with the water below. The title and author name are displayed.
David St. John
The Last Troubadour
Ecco, 2017
The title and author name are displayed. 16th century imagery of a skeleton watching a group of men look into a coffin.
Thea Tomaini
The Corpse as Text
Boydell, 2017
A up-close image of a zebra looking attentively. Only a single eye of the zebra's is shown. The title and author name are displayed.
Molly Bendall
Watchful
Omnidawn, 2016
Illustration of faceless figure heads looking the same direction. Illustrated plants separate the individuals. The title and author name are displayed.
T.C. Boyle
The Terranauts
Ecco, 2016
The title and author name are displayed in spooky lettering and color scheme.
Leo Braudy
Haunted
Yale, 2016
The title and author name are displayed. An open landscape with a single road curving right. Clear skies fill this center image.
Geoff Dyer
White Sands
Pantheon, 2016
The title and author name are displayed. Two small bird icons separate the title and subtitle.
Devin Griffiths
The Age of Analogy
John Hopkins, 2016
A close-up image of a slightly ajar door. Streaks of light surround the door's handle. The title and author name are displayed.
Dana Johnson
In The Not Quite Dark
Counterpoint, 2016
An individual sits on a bicycle at the left corner of the cover. The title and author name are displayed.
Viet Nguyen
Nothing Ever Dies
Harvard, 2016
A shadowed figurehead with a solemn expression. The title and author name are displayed.
Viet Nguyen
The Sympathizer
Grove, 2016
The title and author name are displayed. Shaded and texturized background.
Daniel Tiffany
The Work-Shy
Wesleyan, 2016
Rushing ocean waves create a tone of vicious movement. The title and author name are displayed.
Thea Tomaini
Things from the Sea
Punctum Books, 2016
The title and author name are displayed. A boat with two passengers' rows with a lake. Trees complete the image's background.
David Treuer
Prudence
Riverhead Books, 2016
An individual looks with determination and drive at the viewer. Their head is wrapped in a fabric. Flowers sit within the headwrap. The title and author name are displayed.
Joseph Boone
The Homoerotics of Orientalism
Columbia, 2015
The novel cover consists of the author's name, book title, and illustrated flowers and greenery in the background.
T.C. Boyle
The Harder They Come          Ecco, 2015 
An aircraft is rested on ground. A sunset is in its background. The title and author name are displayed.
Geoff Dyer
Another Great Day at Sea
Vintage, 2015
A man sits on top of a horse in motion. The title and author name are displayed.
Percival Everett
Half an Inch of Water
Graywolf, 2015
A man smirks coyly into the viewer's right, He has a cigarette in hand.
Christopher Freeman
The American Isherwood
University of Minnesota, 2015
Mark Irwin
American Urn
Ashland Poetry, 2015
A side profile of a woman looking into a glass window. One hand rest on her low chin. The other sits on her hip. Three men in hats look to be in discussion in the background's corner. The title and author name are displayed.
Robin Coste Lewis
Voyage of the Sable Venus
Knopf Doubleday, 2015
The title and author name are displayed. The lettering is bold and stands out.
Maggie Nelson
The Argonauts
Graywolf, 2015
Andrew Stott
The Poet and the Vampyre
Pegasus, 2015
David L. Ulin
Sidewalking
University of California, 2015
Daniel Tiffany
My Silver Planet
Johns Hopkins, 2014
Aimee Bender
The Color Master
Doubleday, 2013
T.C. Boyle
Stories II
Viking, 2013
Leo Braudy
Trying to Be Cool
Asahina & Wallace, 2013
Joseph Dane
Blind Impressions
University of Pennsylvania, 2013
Percival Everett
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
Graywolf, 2013
 

Mark Irwin
Large White House Speaking
New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2013
Anna Journey
Vulgar Remedies
Louisiana State, 2013
M.G. Lord
The Accidental Feminist
Walker Books, 2013
Hilary Schor
Curious Subjects
Oxford, 2013
Daniel Tiffany
In the Poisonous Candy Factory  
Capsule Editions, 2013
Daniel Tiffany
Neptune Park
Omnidawn, 2013
T.C. Boyle
San Miguel
Viking, 2012
Joseph Dane
What is a Book?
University of Notre Dame, 2012
Kate Flint
The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
Cambridge, 2012
Dana Gioia
Literature for Life
Longman, 2012
Dana Gioia
Pity the Beautiful
Graywolf, 2012
Dana Johnson
Elsewhere, California
Counterpoint, 2012
Rebecca Lemon
The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
David St. John
The Auroras
HarperCollins, 2012
Andrew Stott
The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi
Canongate Books, 2012
David Treuer
Rez Life
Atlantic Monthly, 2012
Emily Anderson
Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction
Routledge, 2011
T.C. Boyle
When the Killing’s Done  
Viking, 2011
Leo Braudy
The Hollywood Sign
Yale, 2011
Joseph Dane
Dogfish Memory
Countryman, 2011
Percival Everett
Assumption
Graywolf, 2011
Percival Everett
Swimming Swimmers Swimming  
Red Hen, 2011
William Handley
The Brokeback Book
University of Nebraska, 2011
Carol Muske-Dukes
Crossing State Lines
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011
Carol Muske-Dukes
Twin Cities
Penguin Books, 2011
Maggie Nelson
The Art of Cruelty  
W. W. Norton& Co., 2011
David Rollo
Kiss My Relics
University of Chicago, 2011
John Rowe
Afterlives of Modernism
Dartmouth, 2011
Danzy Senna
You are Free
Riverhead Books, 2011
Thea Tomaini
Sworn Bond in Tudor England  
McFarland, 2011
Karen Tongson
Relocations
New York University, 2011
Aimee Bender
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Doubleday, 2010
T.C. Boyle
Wild Child
Viking, 2010

 

Joseph Dane
Out of Sorts
University of Pennsylvania, 2010
 
Joseph Dane
The Long and the Short of it
University of Notre Dame, 2010
Geoff Dyer
Paris Trance
Picador, 2010
Alice Echols
Hot Stuff
W. W. Norton & 10., 2010
Danzy Senna
Where did you sleep last night?
Picador, 2010
Bruce Smith
Phenomenal Shakespeare
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
Daniel Tiffany
Privado
Action Books, 2010
Daniel Tiffany
The Dandelion Clock
Tinfish Press, 2010
David L. Ulin
The Lost Art of Reading
Sasquatch Books, 2010
Molly Bendall
Bling and Fringe
What Books, 2009
Molly Bendall
Under the Quick
Parlor, 2009 
William Handley
Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West
Cambridge, 2009
Anna Journey
If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting
University of Georgia, 2009
Rebecca Lemon
The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Leo Braudy
On the Waterfront
Palgrave MacMillian, 2008
Kate Flint
The Transatlantic Indian
Princeton, 2008
Kate Flint
The Victorians and the Visual Imagination
Cambridge, 2008
Christopher Freeman
Love, West Hollywood
Alyson Books, 2008
Mark Irwin
Tall If
New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2008
Susan McCabe
Descartes’ Nightmare
University of Utah, 2008
Carol Muske-Dukes
Channeling Mark Twain
Random House, 2008
Bruce Smith
The Key of Green
University of Chicago, 2008
Heather James
Shakespeare’s Troy
Cambridge, 2007
Maggie Nelson
The Red Parts
Graywolf, 2007
Marianne Wiggins
The Shadow Catcher
Simon & Schuster, 2007
Rebecca Lemon
Treason by Words
Cornell, 2006
M.G. Lord
Astroturf
Walker Books, 2006
Margaret Russett
Fictions and Fakes
Cambridge, 2006
David Treuer
Native American Fiction
Graywolf, 2006
David Treuer
The Translation of Dr. Apelles
Graywolf, 2006
Aimee Bender
Willful Creatures
Doubleday, 2005
Heather James
The Norton Anthology of Western Literature
W. W. Norton & Co., 2005
Susan McCabe
Cinematic Modernism
Cambridge, 2005
David Román
Performance in America
Duke, 2005
William Handley
True West
University of Nebraska, 2004
Mark Irwin
Bright Hunger
BOA Editions, 2004
Brighde Mullins
Water Stories
Slapering Hol, 2004
David St. John
The Face
HarperCollins, 2004
Leo Braudy
From Chivalry to Terrorism
Knopf Doubleday, 2003
Susan McCabe
Swirl
Red Hen, 2003
Marianne Wiggins
Evidence of Things Unseen
Simon & Schuster, 2003
Alice Echols
Shaky Ground
Columbia, 2002
Viet Nguyen
Race and Resistance
Oxford, 2002
David St. John
Prism
Arctos, 2002
David L. Ulin
Writing Los Angeles
Library of America, 2002
Dana Johnson
Break Any Woman Down  
University of Georgia, 2001
Tania Modleski
Show and Tell
University of Michigan, 2001
Susan Segal
Aria
Bridge Works, 2001
Bruce Smith
Twelfth Night – Texts and Contexts  
Palgrave Macmillian, 2001
Aimee Bender
An Invisible Sign of My Own   
Anchor, 2000
Joseph Boone
Queer Frontiers
University of Wisconsin, 2000
David Rollo
Glamorous Sorcery
University of Minnesota, 2000
John Rowe
Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism
Oxford, 2000
John Rowe
Post-Nationalist American Studies
University of California, 2000
Hilary Schor
Dickens and the Daughter of the House
Cambridge, 2000
Daniel Tiffany
Toy Medium
University of California, 2000
Alice Echols
Scars of Sweet Paradise
Henry Holt, 1999
Brighde Mullins
Fire Eater
Tristan Bates Theatre, 1999
Aimee Bender
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Anchor, 1998
Joseph Boone
Libidinal Currents
University of Chicago, 1998
Tania Modleski
Old Wives’ Tales and Other Women’s Stories
New York University, 1999
David Román
Acts of Intervention
Indiana, 1998
David Román
O Solo Homo
Grove, 1998
Margaret Russett
De Quincey’s Romanticism
Cambridge, 1998
Alice Gambrell
Women Intellectuals, Modernism, and Difference
Cambridge, 1997
M.G. Lord
Forever Barbie
William Morrow, 1994
Thomas Gustafson
Representative Words
Cambridge, 1993
John Rowe
The Vietnam War and American Culture
Columbia, 1992
Joseph Boone
Engendering Men
Routledge, 1990
Anthony Kemp
The Estrangement of the Past
Oxford, 1990
Marianne Wiggins
John Dollar
HarperCollins, 1989
Tania Modleski
The Women Who Knew Too Much
Routledge, 1988

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