English Faculty Publications
“Diaspora Fiction as Trans Literature.” (Chapter 25) The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature. Routledge, April 2024.
A handbook that examines the intersection of transgender studies and literary studies, bringing together essays from global experts in the field, providing a comprehensive overview of trans literature, across core topics, genres, and periods important for scholarship now and in the future.
“Ecstatic Kinship and Trans Interiority in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet.” Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form. Ed. Elizabeth Freeman and Tyler Bradway, Duke University Press, 2022.
A volume which asserts the importance of queer kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory. In a contemporary moment marked by the rising tides of neoliberalism, fascism, xenophobia, and homo- and cis-nationalism, scholars approach kinship as both a horizon and a source of violence and possibility.
Mission Work. Poetry, Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
An arresting collection of poems based on Aaron Baker’s experiences as a child of missionaries living among the Kuman people in the remote Chimbu Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Posthumous Noon: Poems. Gunpowder Press, 2017.
Selected by Jane Hirshfield as the winner of the 2017 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize. A collection of poems centered on grief and its bearing.
Shares Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism. University of Illinois Press, September 2019.
A transformative application of post humanist ideas to Latinx, feminist, and literary studies, Shared Selves shows how memoir can encourage readers to think more broadly and deeply about what counts as human life.
The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature. Co-Edited with Frances Aparicio. Routledge/Taylor & Francis, September 2012.
Forty plus essays by leading and emerging international scholars of Latino/a literature and analyses
Encarnacion: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature. Fordham University Press, 2009.
By following the contemporary movement away from the fixed categories of identity politics toward a more fluid conception of the intersections between identities and communities, Encarnacion analyzes the ways in which literature and philosophy draw boundaries around identity.
Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000. The University of Georgia Press, January 2003; Re-Released in paperback, Fall 2005.
A broad exploration of how people represent identity in the Americas, an argument that mixture has been central to the definition of race in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean since the nineteenth century. This study is particularly relevant in an era that promotes mixed-race musicians, actors, sports heroes, and supermodels as icons of a "new" America.
“This need to dance / This need to kneel”: Denise Levertov and the Poetics of Faith. Editor, with Michael P. Murphy. Wipf and Stock, 2019.
In a mixture of theoretical considerations and close readings, these essays provide valuable reflections about the complex relationship between poetry and belief and offer philosophically robust insights into different styles of poetic imagination.
Amy Lowell: Diva Poet. Ashgate Press, December 2011.
Winner of the 20110MLA Book Prize for Independent Scholars. In this text Dr. Bradshaw uses theories of the diva and female celebrity to account for Amy Lowell's extraordinary literary influence in the early twentieth century and her equally extraordinary disappearance from American letters after her death.
Amy Lowell, American Modern: Critical Essays. Editor, with Adrienne Munich. Rutgers University Press, March 2004.
This volume presents an essential revaluation of Lowell and builds a solid critical basis for evaluating her poetry, criticism, politics, and influence. Included essays explore the varied contributions of Lowell as a woman poet, a modernist, and a significant force of the literary debates of early twentieth-century poetics.
Selected Poems of Amy Lowell. Editor, with Adrienne Munich. Rutgers University Press, November 2002.
Amy Lowell was one of the most influential and best-known writers of her era. As a herald of the New Poetry, she saw herself and her writing as a part of a newly forged American people registering its consciousness in different tonalities, but all in a native idiom. Except for the few poems that appear in American literature anthologies, most of her work has been long out of print. This collection serves as an excellent sampling of her work.
Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Dr. Cornelius’ work explains the distinctive nature of alliterative meter, explores its differences from subsequent accentual-syllabic forms, and advances a reformed understanding of medieval English literary history.
Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830. The Ohio State University Press, 2013.
Dr. Cragwall’s work reveals the traffic between Romanticism’s rhetorics of privilege and the most socially toxic religious forms of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Paper Sovereigns: Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 1604-1664. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
Using written documents, printed books, orations, landscape markings, wampum beads, tally sticks, and other technologies of political accounting, Dr. Glover examines the powerful influence of treaty making along the vibrant and multicultural Atlantic coast of the seventeenth century.
A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism. Ohio State University Press 2006.
In Dr. Hovey’s A Thousand Words there is the argument that there is such a thing as queer modernism, and that the literary portrait—one of the more prominent forms of experimentalism in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century writing—functions as one of its most important erotically dynamic aesthetic mechanisms, one modeled on visual portraiture relationships of looking between the artists, sitters, and spectators of paintings.
The Victorian Novel on File: Secrets, Hoards, and Information Storage. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Dr. Jacob’s work connects different fields of inquiry: information studies, media history, the new materialist turn to objects across the humanities, and the formal study of the novel. Additionally, it draws new attention to "storage" as differentiated from the archive and as made manifest through paper's affordances.
Racial Rhapsody: The Aesthetics of Contemporary U.S. Identity. Routledge, 2019.
A text that aims to interrogate the disciplinary history according to which literary criticism has come to organize its attention to literary texts around this primary object of analysis, the "racial" body.
The Poetics of National & Racial Identity in Nineteenth Century American Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
A study by Dr. Kerkering that examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America, arguing that writers such as DuBois, Lanier, Simms, and Scott used poetic effects to assert the distinctiveness of certain groups in a diffuse social landscape.
Immateriality and Early Modern English Literature: Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert. Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
Dr. Kapp provides six case studies of works by Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert, offering new readings of important literary texts of the English Renaissance alongside detailed chapters outlining attitudes towards immateriality in works of natural philosophy, medicine, and theology.
Shakespeare and the Power of the Face. Editor, Routledge, 2015.
Collected essays aimed to disclose that an attention to the power of the face in Shakespeare’s England helps explain moments when Shakespeare’s language of the self becomes intertwined with his language of the face.
Image Ethics in Shakespeare and Spenser. Palgrave, 2011.
Focusing on works by Shakespeare and Spenser, this study shows the connection between visuality and ethical action in early modern English literature.
Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England: The Representation of History in Printed Books. Routledge, 2003.
Dr. Knapp has produced a study of the status of visual and verbal media in early modern English representations of the past. This work focuses on general attitudes towards visual and verbal representations of history as well as specific illustrated books produced during the period.
Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in Renaissance England. Oxford University Press, 2019.
This text offers original research on the small-format cartography of the English Renaissance, while providing a new perspective on reading publics, common discourses, and selfhood. Throughout the work Dr. Lecky examines laureate chapbooks alongside affordable maps, atlases, and playing cards.
Miles from Nowhere, a novel. Penguin/Riverhead, 2009.
Joon is a Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s. Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father’s infidelity; he has left the family, and mental illness has rendered her mother nearly catatonic. So Joon, at the age of thirteen, decides she would be better off on her own, a choice that commences a harrowing and often tragic journey that exposes the painful difficulties of a life lived on the margins.
Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology. Edited by Jordan Abel, Carleigh Baker and Madeleine Reddon, Penguin Random House, 2023.
Celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Indigenous Voices Awards that honors the sovereignty of Indigenous creative voices and nurtures the work of emerging Indigenous writers in lands claimed by Canada, this anthology consists of selected works by finalists over the past five years.
"Black Studies and Trans Literature." (Chapter 22) The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature. Edited by Sabine Sharp and Douglas Vakoch. New York: Routledge, 2024.
A handbook that examines the intersection of transgender studies and literary studies, bringing together essays from global experts in the field, providing a comprehensive overview of trans literature, across core topics, genres, and periods important for scholarship now and in the future.
The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot, Vol. 5: Tradition and Orthodoxy, 1934–1939, Co-Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
A complete collection that provides access to 6,000+ pages of Eliot's nonfiction prose writings on literature, philosophy, religion, cultural theory, world politics, and other topics of enduring import.
T.S. Eliot, France, and the Mind of Europe. Editor. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2015.
A collection of Modernist Studies and Eliot Scholars provide multiple perspectives that open up new veins of inquiry from unexpected sources and understudied phenomena, drawing on the recently published letters and essays that are currently remapping the field of Eliot studies.
Think About It: Critical Skills for Academic Writing. Co-Author with John Mauk and Karen Mauk. Boston, MA, Wadsworth/Cengage, 2014.
A work that aims to help users become more critical, active, academic thinkers by teaching nine essential intellectual practices, beginning with overarching strategies for critical thinking and ending with interactive outlines that guide users into greater development and organization.
Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
This book is the first study of legal reform and literature in early modern England. Dr. Strand’s work investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century.
Writing in Time: Emily Dickinson’s Master Hours, Amherst College Press, 2021.
Winner of the 2023 Richard J. Finneran Award for the best book about editorial theory or practice. Writing in Time argues that rather than presenting the “Master” documents as quarantined from Dickinson’s larger scene of textual production, this innovative new edition proposes reading them next to Dickinson’s other major textual experiment in the years between1858–1861: the Fascicles.
The Gorgeous Nothings. New York: Granary Books, 2012/New Directions, 2013.
The first full-color publication of Emily Dickinson’s complete envelope writings in facsimile from her visually stunning manuscripts, here in a deluxe, large-scale edition.
The Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne. Co-Authored /Edited with Nicholas Lawrence. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 2006.
From the summer of 1842 through fall of 1843, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne kept a common journal of their daily lives in a notebook that is currently housed in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Intended solely for their own eyes, this volume makes available for the first time a full facsimile edition of that journal, providing ordinary events and activities that occupied them as newlyweds.
Emily Dickinson’s Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writings. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
A facsimile edition and aesthetic exploration of a group of forty late drafts and fragments hitherto known as the "Lord letters." The drafts are presented in facsimile form on high-quality paper alongside typed transcriptions that reproduce as fully as possible the shock of script and startling array of visual details inscribed on the surfaces of the manuscripts.
“Diaspora Fiction as Trans Literature.” (Chapter 25) The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature. Routledge, April 2024.
A handbook that examines the intersection of transgender studies and literary studies, bringing together essays from global experts in the field, providing a comprehensive overview of trans literature, across core topics, genres, and periods important for scholarship now and in the future.
“Ecstatic Kinship and Trans Interiority in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet.” Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form. Ed. Elizabeth Freeman and Tyler Bradway, Duke University Press, 2022.
A volume which asserts the importance of queer kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory. In a contemporary moment marked by the rising tides of neoliberalism, fascism, xenophobia, and homo- and cis-nationalism, scholars approach kinship as both a horizon and a source of violence and possibility.
Mission Work. Poetry, Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
An arresting collection of poems based on Aaron Baker’s experiences as a child of missionaries living among the Kuman people in the remote Chimbu Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Posthumous Noon: Poems. Gunpowder Press, 2017.
Selected by Jane Hirshfield as the winner of the 2017 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize. A collection of poems centered on grief and its bearing.
Shares Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism. University of Illinois Press, September 2019.
A transformative application of post humanist ideas to Latinx, feminist, and literary studies, Shared Selves shows how memoir can encourage readers to think more broadly and deeply about what counts as human life.
The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature. Co-Edited with Frances Aparicio. Routledge/Taylor & Francis, September 2012.
Forty plus essays by leading and emerging international scholars of Latino/a literature and analyses
Encarnacion: Illness and Body Politics in Chicana Feminist Literature. Fordham University Press, 2009.
By following the contemporary movement away from the fixed categories of identity politics toward a more fluid conception of the intersections between identities and communities, Encarnacion analyzes the ways in which literature and philosophy draw boundaries around identity.
Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000. The University of Georgia Press, January 2003; Re-Released in paperback, Fall 2005.
A broad exploration of how people represent identity in the Americas, an argument that mixture has been central to the definition of race in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean since the nineteenth century. This study is particularly relevant in an era that promotes mixed-race musicians, actors, sports heroes, and supermodels as icons of a "new" America.
“This need to dance / This need to kneel”: Denise Levertov and the Poetics of Faith. Editor, with Michael P. Murphy. Wipf and Stock, 2019.
In a mixture of theoretical considerations and close readings, these essays provide valuable reflections about the complex relationship between poetry and belief and offer philosophically robust insights into different styles of poetic imagination.
Amy Lowell: Diva Poet. Ashgate Press, December 2011.
Winner of the 20110MLA Book Prize for Independent Scholars. In this text Dr. Bradshaw uses theories of the diva and female celebrity to account for Amy Lowell's extraordinary literary influence in the early twentieth century and her equally extraordinary disappearance from American letters after her death.
Amy Lowell, American Modern: Critical Essays. Editor, with Adrienne Munich. Rutgers University Press, March 2004.
This volume presents an essential revaluation of Lowell and builds a solid critical basis for evaluating her poetry, criticism, politics, and influence. Included essays explore the varied contributions of Lowell as a woman poet, a modernist, and a significant force of the literary debates of early twentieth-century poetics.
Selected Poems of Amy Lowell. Editor, with Adrienne Munich. Rutgers University Press, November 2002.
Amy Lowell was one of the most influential and best-known writers of her era. As a herald of the New Poetry, she saw herself and her writing as a part of a newly forged American people registering its consciousness in different tonalities, but all in a native idiom. Except for the few poems that appear in American literature anthologies, most of her work has been long out of print. This collection serves as an excellent sampling of her work.
Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Dr. Cornelius’ work explains the distinctive nature of alliterative meter, explores its differences from subsequent accentual-syllabic forms, and advances a reformed understanding of medieval English literary history.
Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830. The Ohio State University Press, 2013.
Dr. Cragwall’s work reveals the traffic between Romanticism’s rhetorics of privilege and the most socially toxic religious forms of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Paper Sovereigns: Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 1604-1664. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
Using written documents, printed books, orations, landscape markings, wampum beads, tally sticks, and other technologies of political accounting, Dr. Glover examines the powerful influence of treaty making along the vibrant and multicultural Atlantic coast of the seventeenth century.
A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism. Ohio State University Press 2006.
In Dr. Hovey’s A Thousand Words there is the argument that there is such a thing as queer modernism, and that the literary portrait—one of the more prominent forms of experimentalism in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century writing—functions as one of its most important erotically dynamic aesthetic mechanisms, one modeled on visual portraiture relationships of looking between the artists, sitters, and spectators of paintings.
The Victorian Novel on File: Secrets, Hoards, and Information Storage. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Dr. Jacob’s work connects different fields of inquiry: information studies, media history, the new materialist turn to objects across the humanities, and the formal study of the novel. Additionally, it draws new attention to "storage" as differentiated from the archive and as made manifest through paper's affordances.
Racial Rhapsody: The Aesthetics of Contemporary U.S. Identity. Routledge, 2019.
A text that aims to interrogate the disciplinary history according to which literary criticism has come to organize its attention to literary texts around this primary object of analysis, the "racial" body.
The Poetics of National & Racial Identity in Nineteenth Century American Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
A study by Dr. Kerkering that examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America, arguing that writers such as DuBois, Lanier, Simms, and Scott used poetic effects to assert the distinctiveness of certain groups in a diffuse social landscape.
Immateriality and Early Modern English Literature: Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert. Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
Dr. Kapp provides six case studies of works by Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert, offering new readings of important literary texts of the English Renaissance alongside detailed chapters outlining attitudes towards immateriality in works of natural philosophy, medicine, and theology.
Shakespeare and the Power of the Face. Editor, Routledge, 2015.
Collected essays aimed to disclose that an attention to the power of the face in Shakespeare’s England helps explain moments when Shakespeare’s language of the self becomes intertwined with his language of the face.
Image Ethics in Shakespeare and Spenser. Palgrave, 2011.
Focusing on works by Shakespeare and Spenser, this study shows the connection between visuality and ethical action in early modern English literature.
Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England: The Representation of History in Printed Books. Routledge, 2003.
Dr. Knapp has produced a study of the status of visual and verbal media in early modern English representations of the past. This work focuses on general attitudes towards visual and verbal representations of history as well as specific illustrated books produced during the period.
Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in Renaissance England. Oxford University Press, 2019.
This text offers original research on the small-format cartography of the English Renaissance, while providing a new perspective on reading publics, common discourses, and selfhood. Throughout the work Dr. Lecky examines laureate chapbooks alongside affordable maps, atlases, and playing cards.
Miles from Nowhere, a novel. Penguin/Riverhead, 2009.
Joon is a Korean immigrant living in the Bronx of the 1980s. Her parents have crumbled under the weight of her father’s infidelity; he has left the family, and mental illness has rendered her mother nearly catatonic. So Joon, at the age of thirteen, decides she would be better off on her own, a choice that commences a harrowing and often tragic journey that exposes the painful difficulties of a life lived on the margins.
Carving Space: The Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology. Edited by Jordan Abel, Carleigh Baker and Madeleine Reddon, Penguin Random House, 2023.
Celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Indigenous Voices Awards that honors the sovereignty of Indigenous creative voices and nurtures the work of emerging Indigenous writers in lands claimed by Canada, this anthology consists of selected works by finalists over the past five years.
"Black Studies and Trans Literature." (Chapter 22) The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature. Edited by Sabine Sharp and Douglas Vakoch. New York: Routledge, 2024.
A handbook that examines the intersection of transgender studies and literary studies, bringing together essays from global experts in the field, providing a comprehensive overview of trans literature, across core topics, genres, and periods important for scholarship now and in the future.
The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot, Vol. 5: Tradition and Orthodoxy, 1934–1939, Co-Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
A complete collection that provides access to 6,000+ pages of Eliot's nonfiction prose writings on literature, philosophy, religion, cultural theory, world politics, and other topics of enduring import.
T.S. Eliot, France, and the Mind of Europe. Editor. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2015.
A collection of Modernist Studies and Eliot Scholars provide multiple perspectives that open up new veins of inquiry from unexpected sources and understudied phenomena, drawing on the recently published letters and essays that are currently remapping the field of Eliot studies.
Think About It: Critical Skills for Academic Writing. Co-Author with John Mauk and Karen Mauk. Boston, MA, Wadsworth/Cengage, 2014.
A work that aims to help users become more critical, active, academic thinkers by teaching nine essential intellectual practices, beginning with overarching strategies for critical thinking and ending with interactive outlines that guide users into greater development and organization.
Legal Reform in English Renaissance Literature. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
This book is the first study of legal reform and literature in early modern England. Dr. Strand’s work investigates rhetorical and representational practices that were used to monitor English law at the turn of the seventeenth century.
Writing in Time: Emily Dickinson’s Master Hours, Amherst College Press, 2021.
Winner of the 2023 Richard J. Finneran Award for the best book about editorial theory or practice. Writing in Time argues that rather than presenting the “Master” documents as quarantined from Dickinson’s larger scene of textual production, this innovative new edition proposes reading them next to Dickinson’s other major textual experiment in the years between1858–1861: the Fascicles.
The Gorgeous Nothings. New York: Granary Books, 2012/New Directions, 2013.
The first full-color publication of Emily Dickinson’s complete envelope writings in facsimile from her visually stunning manuscripts, here in a deluxe, large-scale edition.
The Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne. Co-Authored /Edited with Nicholas Lawrence. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 2006.
From the summer of 1842 through fall of 1843, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne kept a common journal of their daily lives in a notebook that is currently housed in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Intended solely for their own eyes, this volume makes available for the first time a full facsimile edition of that journal, providing ordinary events and activities that occupied them as newlyweds.
Emily Dickinson’s Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writings. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
A facsimile edition and aesthetic exploration of a group of forty late drafts and fragments hitherto known as the "Lord letters." The drafts are presented in facsimile form on high-quality paper alongside typed transcriptions that reproduce as fully as possible the shock of script and startling array of visual details inscribed on the surfaces of the manuscripts.