Faculty Publications

Latest Publications

Cover of Beyond Queer Words (9th edition)

Announcement, Publications

Prof. Duncan Wu Published in Beyond Queer Words

The Dept. of English is proud to announce that Prof. Duncan Wu’s poem, “Love at 30,000 feet,” has just been published in Beyond Queer Words (9th…

October 21, 2025

Painting of Rabih Alameddine holding a copy of The Happy Hooker. Cover of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible.

Announcement, News Story, Publications

Prof. Rabih Alameddine Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction

The department is excited to announce that Lannan Visiting Lecturer Rabih Alameddine has been longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction, for his new novel The True True Story of Raja…

September 22, 2025

Publications

Autotheories

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

List of Faculty Books

Title	Author/Editor
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race	Edited by Patricia Akhimie
Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World	Patricia Akhimie
Time and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World	Edited by Patricia Akhimie & Bernadette Andrea
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
The Christian Literary Imagination	Edited by Michael J. Collins and Michael Scott
Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark	Edited by Michael J. Collins and Michael Scott
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
Burn	Jennifer Natalya Fink
Thirteen Fugues	Jennifer Natalya Fink
The Mikvah Queen	Jennifer Natalya Fink
Performing Hybridity	Edited by May Joseph & Jennifer Natalya Fink
V	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
In the Belly	David Gewanter
Robert Lowell: Collected Poems	Edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter
The Sleep of Reason	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
The Routledge International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies	Edited by Sherry Lee Linkon, Tim Strangleman, Stefan Berger, Jackie Clarke, & Steven High
Learning Innovation And The Future Of Higher Education	Eddie Maloney
The Book of Landings	Mark McMorris
Entrepôt	Mark McMorris
Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion	Sarah McNamer
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 Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women’s Fiction	Angelyn Mitchell
Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present	Edited by Angelyn Mitchell
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
Relocations: Reading Culture in South Africa	Edited by Cóilín Parsons, Alexandra Dodd, & Imraan Coovadia
The Poem Electric: Technology and the American Lyric	Seth Perlow
Tender Buttons	Gertrude Stein; Edited by 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
The Discourse of John Selden, Esq.	Edited by Jason Rosenblatt & Joshua Eckhardt
John Selden: Scholar, Statesman, Advocate for Milton’s Muse	Jason Rosenblatt
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
Blue Talk and Love	Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora	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