Faculty Publications

The Sorrow of the Elves

Monster: Adventures in American Machismo

Honorable Bandit: A Walk Across Corsica

Zero Station (video essay)

Watch My Feet (interview and video)

The Cooler (audio and text)

The Seinfeld Analog (video)

Les Cruel Shoes (text and video)

Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott

The Psycho-Political Muse: American Poetry Since the Fifties

You Are Here

Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture (Routledge, 1991)

George Bernard Shaw and the Socialist Theatre(Praeger/Greenwood, 1994)

Playwriting and Nineteenth-Century British Women, edited with Ellen Donkin (Cambridge University Press, 1999)

The Economics of the British Stage, 1800-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Theatricality, edited with Thomas Postlewait (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense (Duke University Press, 2007)

Considering Calamity: Methods for Performance Research, co-edited with Linda Ben-Zvi, Assaph (Tel Aviv: Assaph Books, 2007)

The Performing Century: Nineteenth-Century Theatres History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)

The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Books and Edited Collections

Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express, New Americanists Series (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2005). 368 pp.
Click here for reviews.

Cairo 2010: After Kefaya, a portfolio of work by the next generation of Cairo writers (plus a filmmaker and a comic artist), edited and introduced by Brian T. Edwards, A Public Space, Issue 9 (Fall 2009): 127-175.
Features new work by Muhammad Aladdin, Ahmed Alaidy, Mansoura Ez-Eldin, Mohamed Al-Fakhrany, Khalid Kassab, Magdy El Shafee, and Omar Taher, with new translations by Humphrey Davies, Brian Edwards, Paul Starkey and Adam Talib.
Click here to read the introduction.

Globalizing American Studies, edited by Brian T. Edwards and Dilip P. Gaonkar (University of Chicago Press, 2010), 344 pp. Contributors include Kate Baldwin, Ali Behdad, Wai Chee Dimock, Brent Hayes Edwards, Brian Larkin, Claudio Lomnitz, Donald Pease, Naoki Sakai, Elizabeth Thompson, Juliet A. Williams, and Kariann Yokota.

Fabulous Small Jews

Snobbery: The American Version

Narcissus Leaves the Pool

Life Sentences

Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars

The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets Literary History and Discord

Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies

Walt Whitman Among the French; Poet and Myth

Whitman the Political Poet

Ezra Pound: The Critical Reception (American Critical Tradition No 9)