Selected Recent Faculty Publications

Seeing Through Race

W. J. T. Mitchell
Seeing Through Race (2012)
Cruel Optimism

Lauren Berlant
Cruel Optimism (2011)
2011 René Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature Association
Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present

W. J. T. Mitchell
Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present (2011)
Voyager

Srikanth Reddy
Voyager (2011)
What Was African American Literature

Kenneth Warren
What Was African American Literature (2011)
The Unrepentent Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton

Richard Strier
The Unrepentent Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton (2011)
2011 Warren-Brooks Award, Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies
Living Liberalism: Practical Citizenship in Victorian Britain

Elaine Hadley
Living Liberalism: Practical Citizenship in Victorian Britain (2010)
2010 Albion Book Prize, North American Conference on British Studies
Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics

Hillary Chute
Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics (2010)
The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud

Maud Ellmann
The Nets of Modernism: Henry James, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Sigmund Freud (2010)
The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

Lauren Berlant
The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (2010)
From Dame Quickly

Jennifer Scappettone
From Dame Quickly (2009)
The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature

James Chandler, Ed.
The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature (2009)
Elizabeth I: Translations, 1544-1589; Elizabeth I: Translations, 1592-1598

Janel Mueller and Joshua Scodel, Eds.
Elizabeth I: Translations, 1544-1589; Elizabeth I: Translations, 1592-1598 (2009)
2009-10 MLA Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition
The Rape of Mesopotamia

Lawrence Rothfield
The Rape of Mesopotamia (2009)
The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution

Eric Slauter
The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution (2009)
Honorable Mention, MLA Prize for Best First Book
Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts: Dante Gabriel Rosetti and William Morris

Elizabeth Helsinger
Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts: Dante Gabriel Rosetti and William Morris (2008)
What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images

W. J. T. Mitchell
What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images (2008)
2005 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association
A Power to Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common Law

Bradin Cormack
A Power to Do Justice: Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common Law (2007)
Honorable Mention, Roland H. Bainton Book Prize
The Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance Then and Now

David Bevington
The Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance Then and Now (2007)
Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship

Leela Gandhi
Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship (2006)
Facts for Visitors

Srikanth Reddy
Facts for Visitors (2004)
Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales

Mark Miller
Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales (2004)
Post-Imperial Brecht: Politics and Performance, East and South

Loren Kruger
Post-Imperial Brecht: Politics and Performance, East and South (2004)
A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature

Bill Brown
A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (2003)
So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism

Kenneth W. Warren
So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism (2003)