Faculty Publications

Latest Publications

A dark cover of Autotheories, edited by Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan

Publications

Edited by Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan | A transdisciplinary array of authors offering a new frame of reference for autotheory and its genre-bending synthesis of autobiography and critical theory.

August 20, 2025

Cover image of Action without Hope, w detail of Turner watercolor

Publications

Action Without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse

by Nathan Hensley. A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action.

June 4, 2025

Publications

Recentering Learning: Complexity, Resilience, and Adaptability in Higher Education

Edited by Maggie Debelius. The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed how colleges and universities manage teaching and learning. Recentering Learning unpacks the wide-reaching implications of disruptions such as the pandemic on higher education.

December 3, 2024

List of Faculty Books

Title	Author/Editor
Beyond Borders: A Cultural Reader	Randall Bass & Joy Young
The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television	Caetlin Benson-Allott
Remote Control	Caetlin Benson-Allott
Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing	Caetlin Benson-Allott
Autotheories	Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan
Brown Romantics: Poetry And Nationalism In The Global Nineteenth Century	Manu Samriti Chander
Reading What’s There: Essays on Shakespeare in Honor of Stephen Booth	Edited by Michael J. Collins
So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures	Maureen Corrigan
Recentering Learning: Complexity, Resilience, and Adaptability in Higher Education	Edited by Maggie Debelius, Joshua Kim, and Edward Maloney
“So What Are You Going to Do with That?” Finding Careers Outside Academia	Maggie Debelius & Susan Basalla
All Our Families: Disability Lineage & the Future of Kinship	Jennifer Natalya Fink
Bhopal Dance	Jennifer Natalya Fink
Thirteen Fugues	Jennifer Natalya Fink
The Mikvah Queen	Jennifer Natalya Fink
In the Lateness of the World	Carolyn Forché
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance	Carolyn Forché
Blue Hour	Carolyn Forché
Happiness	Aminatta Forna
Natural Acts: Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music	Pamela Fox
Fort Necessity	David Gewanter
War Bird	David Gewanter
The Good New: A Tuscan Villa, Shakespeare, and Death	John Glavin
Action Without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse	Nathan K. Hensley
Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age Empire	Edited by Nathan K. Hensley and Philip Steer
Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty	Nathan K. Hensley
Inventing Education: Georgetown Students and DC Youth Learn from Each Other	John C. Hirsh
Power and Probity in a DC Cooperative: The Life and Death of Sursum Corda	John C. Hirsh
Vygotsky’s Children: Georgetown and Oxford Students Meet Urban Youth	John C. Hirsh
The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States	Brian Hochman
Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology	Brian Hochman
Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity	M. Lindsay Kaplan
The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England	M. Lindsay Kaplan
The Half-Life of Deindustrialization: Working Class Writing About Economic Restructuring	Sherry Lee Linkon
Literature Learning: Teaching the English Major	Sherry Lee Linkon
Learning Innovation And The Future Of Higher Education	Eddie Maloney
The Book of Landings	Mark McMorris
Entrepôt	Mark McMorris
Meditations on the Life of Christ: The Short Italian Text	Sarah McNamer
Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States	Lori Merish
African American Women’s Literature	Edited by Angelyn Mitchell and Danille K. Taylor
The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century	Patrick R. O’Malley
Liffey & Lethe: Paramnesiac History in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Ireland	Patrick R. O’Malley
Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture	Patrick R. O’Malley
Locating Privacy in Tudor London	Lena Cowen Orlin
Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event	Ricardo L. Ortíz
Cultural Erotics in Cuban America	Ricardo L. Ortíz
100 Years of New Media Pedagogy	J Palmeri & Ben McCorkle
Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture	Cóilín Parsons
Science, Technology, and Irish Modernism	Edited by Kathryn Conrad, Cóilín Parsons, Julie McCormick Weng
The Ordnance Survey and Modern Irish Literature	Cóilín Parsons
The Poem Electric: Technology and the American Lyric	Seth Perlow
The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece	John Pfordresher
Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture	Amanda D. Phillips
Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde	Libbie Rifkin
Among Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Poetry	Edited by Libbie Rifkin and Anne Dewey
Insurgent Testimonies: Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature	Nicole Rizzuto
Cyberformalism: Histories of Linguistic Forms in the Digital Archive	Daniel Shore
Milton and The Art of Rhetoric	Daniel Shore
Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility	Christine So
Big Girl	Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in William Blackstone’s England	Kathryn D. Temple
Writing the Future: Lazamon’s Prophetic History	Kelley M. Wickham-Crowley
The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth	Edited by Richard Gravil, Daniel Robinson, Duncan Wu
Romanticism: An Anthology The Fourth Edition	Edited by Duncan Wu
Wordsworth: An Inner Life	Duncan Wu