Faculty Publications
Writing for the Eyes in the Spanish Golden Age
Bucknell University Press, 2004
Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes
Bucknell University Press, 2005
Colonizing the Realm of Words
SUNY Press, 2010
A Second Sunrise: Poems in Translation by Cheran
Navayana, 2012
Lost Evenings: Tamil Poets from Sri Lanka's War
ARC Publications, 2016
The Literary Qur'an: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb (Forthcoming 2019)
Fordham University Press, 2019
On the Thresholds of Eurasia
Cornell University Press, 2018News of War Civilian Poetry 1936-1945
Oxford University Press, 2017
The National Stage: Theatre and Cultural Legitimation in England, France and America
UChicago Press, 1992
Post-Imperial Brecht
Cambridge University Press, 2004
Imagining the Edgy City
Oxford University Press, 2014
A Century of South African Theatre
Bloomsbury, 2019
Dark Lens: Imaging Germany, 1945
University of Chicago Press, 2019
For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity
University of Chicago Press, 2001
Salome and the Dance of Writing: Portraits of Memisis in Writing
University of Chicago Press, 1987
Saints: Faith without Borders
Critical Inquiry, The University of Chicago, 2011
Seeing Double Baudelaire's Modernity
UChicago Press, 2011
The Lives of the Novel
Princeton University Press, 2015
Univers de la Fiction
Seuil, 2017
Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Hontology: Depressive Anthropology and the Shame of Life
Zero Books, 2018
The Animal Part: Human & Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination
UChicago Press, 2010
Prosaic Conditions
Northwestern University Press, 2013
The Rape of Mesopotamia
UChicago Press, 2009
The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic
Stanford University Press, 1993
Translation as Citation
Oxford University Press, 2017
The Ethnography of Rhythm
Fordham University Press, 2016
Jean Metellus: When the Pipirite Sings, Selected Poems
Northwestern University Press, 2019
Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature
Princeton University Press, 2002
Christ's Subversive Body
Northwestern University Press, 2017