Faculty Publications

Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters Between Black and Red, 1922-1963

The Balloonists

Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays

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

"English Chocolate Consumption and the Circulation of Cacao in the Early Modern Atlantic World." 2008 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

"West of Eden: American Gold, Spanish Greed and the Discourses of English Imperialism," Rereading the Black Legend. Maureen Quilligan, Margaret Greer, and Walter Mignolo, eds., (2008, The University of Chicago Press).

"Imperial Lexicography and the Anglo-Spanish War," Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings, Goran Stanivukovic, ed., (2007, Palgrave Press).

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).
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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).
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), forthcoming fall 2010. 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)