Faculty Publications
The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings
Penguin Random House, 2024
Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History
Wayne State University Press, 2024
Makeshift Altar
The University Press of Kentucky, 2024
Kantika
Macmillan, 2023
Evidence of Things Not Seen: Fantastical Blackness in Genre Fictions
Rutgers University Press, 2022
Drámaiocht na Gaelige ón Dara Cogadh Domhanda ar Aghaidh
Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2022
REDRESS: Ireland's Institutions and Transitional Justice
University College Dublin Press, 2022
Inceptions: Literary Beginnings and Contingencies of Form
Fordham University Press, 2021
Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice
Bloomsbury, 2021
The Elusive Everyday in the Fiction of Marilynne Robinson
Oxford University Press, 2021
Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021
Setting the Stage: Transitional Playwrights in Irish 1910-1950
Cork University Press, 2021
The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson
Wayne State University Press, 2019
Agamben’s Political Ontology of Nudity in Literature and Art
Routledge, 2019
Heirs of Yesterday
Wayne State University Press, 2020
Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690–1830
Oxford University Press, 2024
Cold War Cosmopolitanism
University of California Press, 2020
The Russian Immigrant: Three Novellas
Academic Studies Press, 2019
The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood
University of Chicago Press, April 2019
Big Giant Floating Head
Melville House Publications, June 2019
English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History
Cambridge University Press, 2016
An Underground Theatre: Major Playwrights in the Irish Language 1930-80
An Underground Theatre is the first full-length study of playwrights working in the Irish language in the pivotal 1930-80 period.
University College of Dublin Press, 2017
More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers
Melville House, 2016
The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside
Weighing in with a balance of the visceral and the cerebral, boxing has attracted writers for millennia. Yet few of the writers drawn to it have truly known the sport—and most have never been in the ring.
University of Chicago, 2017
Ultraviolet
Catapult, 2018


Carlo Rotella
The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside
Co-editor, with Michael Ezra
University of Chicago Press, April 2017

Paul Lewis
A is for Asteroids, Z is for Zombies: A Bedtime Book about the Coming Apocalypse
Kenneth Lamug, Illustrator, Andrews McMeel, October 2017

Eric Weiskott
English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History
Cambridge University Press, December 2016

Robert Lehman
Impossible Modernism: T. S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the Critique of Historical Reason
Stanford University Press, August 2016

Elizabeth K. Wallace and James Wallace
Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Life
Beaufort Books, May 2016

Paul Mariani
The Whole Harmonium: The Life of Wallace Stevens
Simon and Schuster,
April 2016

Christopher Boucher
Golden Delicious
Melville House,
April 2016

Suzanne Berne
The Dogs of Littlefield
Simon and Schuster, January 2016

Caroline Bicks and Michelle Ephraim
Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas: Shakespeare, Not Stirred
BC Bookmarks
September 2015

Kevin Ohi
Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015
Interview

Maia McAleavey
The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel
Cambridge University Press, 2015
Interview

Maria Luddy and
James M. Smith (eds.)
Children, Childhood and Irish Society, 1500 to the present
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014

Marjorie Howes
Yeats and Afterwords
University of Notre Dame Press, 2014

Mary Crane
Losing Touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014
Faculty Publication Highlight

Judith Wilt
Women Writers and the Hero of Romance
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Interview

Rhonda Frederick
"Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities."Small Axe.Volume 17, Number 3, 2013: 63-84.
Faculty Publication Highlight

Suzanne Berne
The Dogs of Littlefield
Fig Tree/Penguin, 2013

Maxim D. Shrayer
Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story
Syracuse University Press/Library of Modern Jewish Literature, 2013
Interview with Professor Shrayer

Andrew Sofer
Dark Matter: Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)
University of Michigan Press, October 2013
Video Interview

Amy Boesky
The Story Within: Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2013
Video Interview

Min Hyoung Song
The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American
Duke University Press Books, April 2013
Video Interview

Maxim D. Shrayer
I Saw It: Ilya Selvinsky and the Legacy of Bearing Witness to the Shoah
Academic Studies Press, March 2013
Video Interview

Elizabeth Graver
The End of the Point: A Novel
HarperCollins Publishers, March 2013

Carlo Rotella
Playing in Time: Essays, Profiles, and Other True Stories
University of Chicago Press, September 2012
Video interview

Kalpana Rahita Seshadri
HumAnimal: Race, Law, Language
University of Minnesota Press, May 2012

Paul Mariani
Epitaphs for the Journey: New, Selected and Revised Poems
Wipf and Stock, May 2012
Video interview

Frances Restuccia
The Blue Box
Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Cinema
Continuum, March 2012

Christopher Boucher
How to Keep Your Volkswagon Alive
Melville House, August 2011

Alan Richardson
The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts
was chosen for the 2011 Alpha Sigma Nu (Jesuit National Honor Society) book award in the humanities.

Kevin Ohi
Henry James and the Queerness of Style
University of Minnesota

Andrew Sofer
WAVE
Main Street Rag
Publishing Company
Video interview

Suzanne Berne
Missing Lucile: Memoirs of the Grandmother I Never Knew
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Video interview

Amy Boesky
What We Have: A Memoir
Gotham Books, 2010

Christopher Wilson
Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative
in the Neoconservative Turn
Ohio State University Press, 2010

Dayton Haskin
John Donne in the Nineteenth Century
Oxford University Press, 2007

Kim Garcia
Madonna Magdalene
Turning Point, 2006

Suzanne Matson
The Tree Sitter: A Novel
W.W. Norton, 2006

Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace
The British Slave Trade and Public Memory
Columbia University Press, 2006

Cynthia Young
Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left
Duke University Press, 2006

Rhonda Frederick
Colon Man a Come: Mythographies of Panama Canal Migration
Lexington Books, 2005

Robin Lydenberg
GONE: Site-Specific Works by Dorothy Cross
McMullen Museum Of Art, Boston College, 2005

Min Hyoung Song
Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
Duke University Press, 2005

Judith Wilt
Behind Her Times: Transition England in the Novels of Mary Arnold Ward
University of Virginia Press, 2005

Caroline Bicks
Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England
Ashgate Pub Ltd; 1 edition, 2003

Christina Klein
Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961
University of California Press; 1 edition, 2003

Dennis Taylor
Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England
Fordham University Press; 2 edition, 2003

James Najarian
Victorian Keats: Manliness, Sexuality, and Desire
Palgrave MacMillan, 2002

John Mahoney
William Wordsworth: A Poetic Life
Fordham University Press; 2 edition, 1996

Robert Chibka
A Slight Lapse: A Novel
W. W. Norton, 1st edition, February 1990

Robert Kern
Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem
Cambridge University Press, 1996