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Books By Our Graduates


Selected Books by Former Doctoral Students
in the English Department

Jenny Bledsoe, Co-Ed., The Materiality of Middle English Anchoritic Devotion, Arc Humanities Press, 2021

Rachel Bowser, Co-Ed., Like Clockwork:  Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures, University of Minnesota Press, 2016

Amy Benson Brown, Co-Ed., Roads to Reconciliation:  Conflict and Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century, Routledge Press, 2014

---. The Book of Sarah, WordTech Communications, 2011

---. Co-Ed., The Reality of Breastfeeding:  Reflections by Contemporary Women, Praeger Press, 1998

Sumita Chakraborty, Arrow:  Poems, Carcanet Press, 2020

Amy Chen, 1,000+ Tips for Life Inside and Outside the Academy, Springer Texts in Education, 2022

---. Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market, University of Massachusetts Press, 2020

Brian Cliff, Irish Crime Fiction, Palgrave, 2018

Dori Coblentz, Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage, Edinburgh University Press, 2021

---. Fundamentals of Italian Rapier, SKA SwordPlay Books, 2018

J. Laurence Cohen, Excavating Exodus:  Biblical Typology and Racial Solidarity in African American Literature, Clemson University Press, 2021

Brian Croxall, Co-Ed., What We Teach When We Teach DH:  Digital Humanities in the Classroom, University of Minnesota Press, 2023

---. Co-Ed., Like Clockwork:  Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures, University of Minnesota Press, 2016

Anthony Cuda, The Passions of Modernism:  Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, and Mann, University of South Carolina Press, 2010

Brian Dawson, The Equality of Flesh:  Materialism and Human Commonality in Early Modern Culture, Cornell University Press, 2024

Amy E. Elkins, Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present, Oxford University Press, 2023

Yoshiaki Furui, Modernizing Solitude:  The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, University of Alabama Press, 2019

Margaret Greaves, Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present, Oxford University Press, 2023

Lindsey Grubbs, Ed., Under That Calamity, Lanternfish Press, 2022

Allison Hobgood, Beholding Disability in Renaissance England, University of Michigan Press, 2021

---. Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England, Cambridge University Press, 2014

---. Co-Ed., Recovering Disability in Early Modern England, Ohio State University Press, 2013

Rebecca Kumar, Co-Ed., Queer and Femme Gazes in AfroAsian American Visual Culture, Palgrave MacMillan, 2024

Emily Leithauser,The Borrowed World, Able Muse Press, 2016

Jess Libow, Vigorous Reforms:  Women Writers and the Politics of Health in the Nineteenth-Century United States, University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming 2025

Dominic Mastroianni, Politics and Skepticism in Antebellum American Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2014

Lynn Maxwell, Wax Impressions, Figures, and Form in Early Modern Literature:  Wax Works, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Maureen McCarthy, Promising Practices in Humanities PhD Professional Development, Council of Graduate Schools, 2017

Roopika Risam, New Digital Worlds: Post Colonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis and Pedagogy, Northwestern University Press, 2018

---. Co-Ed., The Digital Black Atlantic, University of Minnesota Press, 2021

---. Co-Ed., Anti-Racist community Engagement:  Principles and Practices, Campus Compact, 2023

Lauren Rule Maxwell, Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas, Purdue University Press, 2013

Karen M. Poremski, Co-Ed., Roads to Reconciliation:  Conflict and Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century, Routledge Press, 2014

Aimee Pozorski, Roth and Trauma:  The Problem of History in the Later Works, Continuum Press, 2011

---. Falling After 9/11:  Crisis in American Art and Literature, Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2014

---. AIDS-Trauma and Politics, Lexington, 2019

---. Co-Ed., The Bloomsbury Handbook to Philip Roth, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

Gitanjali Shahani, Tasting Difference: Food, Race, and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Literature, Cornell University Press, 2020

---. Ed., Food and Literature, Cambridge University Press, 2019

---. Emissaries in Early Modern Literature & Culture, Routledge 2016, Ashgate 2009, with Brinda Charry

Justin P. Shaw, Co-Ed., Inclusive Shakespeares:  Identity, Pedagogy, Performance, Palgrave, 2023

Molly Slavin,  Criminal Cities: The Postcolonial Novel and Cathartic Crime, University of Virginia Press, 2023

Jennifer Yusin,The Future Life of Trauma, Fordham UP, 2017

---. A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference, Routledge, 2023