Co-editor, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, revised edition; forthcoming, 2005.  This volume is a reconceptualization and revision of the Guide (listed below), significantly updated, with substantial additions to the current entries as well as approximately 60 additional entries.

Co-editor, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.  Electronic Edition.  http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/guide

Winner of the Association of American Publisher’s award for best electronic publication in the social sciences or humanities for 1997.

Co-editor, Constructive Criticism: The Human Sciences in the Age of Theory.  University of Toronto Press, 1995, 223 pp.

Co-editor, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. double-column, 776 pp.

Co-editor, Theory Between the Disciplines: Authority / Vision / Politics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. 257pp.

William Faulkner: The Making of a Novelist. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983. 208 pp.

Co-editor, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, revised edition; forthcoming, 2005.  This volume is a reconceptualization and revision of the Guide (listed below), significantly updated, with substantial additions to the current entries as well as approximately 60 additional entries.

Co-editor, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.  Electronic Edition.  http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/guide

Winner of the Association of American Publisher’s award for best electronic publication in the social sciences or humanities for 1997.

Co-editor, Constructive Criticism: The Human Sciences in the Age of Theory.  University of Toronto Press, 1995, 223 pp.

Co-editor, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. double-column, 776 pp.

Co-editor, Theory Between the Disciplines: Authority / Vision / Politics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. 257pp.

William Faulkner: The Making of a Novelist. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983. 208 pp.

“Trusting the Tale: The Narrativist Turn in the Human Sciences” rpt. in J.F. Lyotard, Ed. Derek Robbins, Oxford: Sage Publications, 2004.

“Intertextuality, Transference, and Postmodernism in Absalom, Absalom!: The Production and Reception of Faulkner’s Fictional World,” Faulkner and Postmodernism, Ed. John N. Duvall and Ann J. Abadie, University of Mississippi Press, 2002, pp. 109-123.

“The Will to Create: Poetry and Imitation” (Chap. 1 of William Faulkner: the Making of a Novelist); rpt. in William Faulkner: Critical Assessments, Ed. Henry Claridge, Vol. II.  New York: Routledge, 1999, pp. 33-45.

"`Paradoxical and Outrageous Discrepancy': Transgression, Auto-Intertextuality and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha," Faulkner and the Artist, ed. Donald Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie, University of Mississippi Press, 1996, pp. 161-80.

"Tell Me a Story: The Narrativist Turn in the Human Sciences," Constructive Criticism: The Human Sciences in the Age of Theory. University of Toronto Press, 1995, pp. 61-87.

"Introduction," with Thomas Carmichael, Constructive Criticism: The Human Sciences in the Age of Theory. University of Toronto Press, 1995, pp. 3-11.

"Henry James," The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, ed. Groden and Kreiswirth,  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, pp. 419-23.

"Preface," with M. Groden, The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, ed. Groden and Kreiswirth,  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, ix -xi.

"`Theory-Mad Beyond Redemption'(?)," with Mark Cheetham, in Theory Between the Disciplines: Authority / Vision / Politics.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990, 1-16.

"Centers, Openings, and Endings: Some Faulknerian Constants."  Reprinted in On William Faulkner: The Best from American Literature. Ed. Louis J. Budd & Edwin H. Cady. Durham: Duke University Press, 1990, 201-214.

 “Merely Telling Stories? Narrative and Knowledge in the Human Sciences,” Poetics Today, 21 (2000), 293 - 318.

"Trusting the Tale: The Narrativist Turn in the Human Sciences," New Literary History, 23 (1992), 629-57.

"Plots and Counterplots: The Structure of Light in August." In New Essays on Light in August.  Ed. Michael Millgate.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, 55-79.

"Centers, Openings, and Endings: Some Faulknerian Constants." American Litera­ture 56 (1984):38-50.

"Learning as He Wrote: Re-Used Materials in The Sound and the Fury." Mississippi Quarterly 34 (1981): 281-98.

"The Will to Create: Faulkner's Apprenticeship and Willard Huntington Wright." Arizona Quarterly 37 (1981): 149-65.

"Faulkner's The Marble Faun: Dependence and Independence." English Studies in Canada 6 (1980): 333-44

"Faulkner as Translator: His Versions of Verlaine." Mississippi Quarterly, 30 (1977): 429-32.

"William Faulkner and Siegfried Sassoon: An Allusion in Mosquitoes." Mississippi Quarterly 29 (1976): 433-34.

Review of Richard Godden, Fictions of Labor: William Faulkner and the South’s Long Revolution, American Literature, 71 (1999): 185-86.

Review of Paul Perron, Semiotics of the Modern French Novel: A Greimassian Analysis of Thériault’s Agaguk, LittéRéalité, 10 (1998): 97-98.

Review of Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Reappraisals: Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory, Modern Fiction Studies, 39.4 (1995): 215-16.

Review of Faulkner: After the Nobel Prize, Ed. Michel Gresset and Kenzaburo Ohashi, American Literature 16 (1989): 125-26.

Review of The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, Vol. 1, 1861-1897, ed. Frederick R. Karl & Laurence Davies. Canadian Slavonic Papers 27 (1985): 110-12.

Review of America and the Patterns of Chivalry by John Fraser. University of Toronto Quarterly 51 (1982): 447-49.

Review of Joseph Conrad and the Science of Unknowing by C. R. Labossiere, and Conrad's Later Novels by Gary Geddes. University of Toronto Quarterly 50 (1981): 131-33.

Edited and Revised 61 articles on 20^th Century Literary Theory for the Encyclopaedia Britannica (2001-2002):

M. H. Abrams, affective fallacy, Walter Allen, archetype, Erich Auerbach, Houston Baker, M. M. Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Harold Bloom, Kenneth Burke, R. S. Crane, Chicago Critics, Helene Cixous, Frederick C. Crews, Deconstruction, Jacques Derrida, Charles Du Bos, Umberto Eco, Richard Ellmann, William Empson, Stanley Fish, Formalism, Michel Foucault, Frankfurt School, Northrop Fryke, H. L. Gates, Pierre Felix Guattari, Geoffrey H. Hartman, T. E. Hulme, Luce Irigaray, George Kittredge, Murray Krieger, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, F. R. Leavis, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Harry Levin, literary criticism, Georg Lukács, Marxist Theory and Criticism, J. Hillis Miller, Narratology, New Criticism, New Humanism, Elder Olson, William Lyon Phelps, Prague School, Sir Peter Quennell, Sir Walter Raleigh, I. A. Richards, Edward W. Said, George Saintsbury, Ferdinand de Saussure, Semiotics, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, George Steiner, Stylistics, Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, Yale School 

"Faulknerian Deep Structures: Characteristic Narrative Strategies," Department of English Colloquium Series, University of Western Ontario, January 26 1982.

"`Dark House' not Bleak House: The Dialogic Plots of Light in August," Invited paper, Canadian Comparative Literature Association, Learneds Conference, Hamilton, Ontario, May 1987.

"`Forget it Jake - it's Chinatown': Cinematic Texts as Signifying Practices," with Antony Easthope, invited presentation for series on "Changing Conceptions of Literary Studies," Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change, University of Virginia, 6 March 1990.

"Trusting the Tale: The Narrativist Turn in Contemporary Theory," invited lecture, Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change, University of Virginia, 12 April 1990.

"`Paradoxical and Outrageous Discrepancy': Transgression, Auto-intertextuality and Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha," American Literature Association, San Diego, 1 June 1990.

"How Can We Tell Criticism from Theory? A Response," International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Université de Montréal, 18 May 1991.

"Tell Me A Story: The Narrativization of Contemporary Aesthetics and Social Theory," Invited lecture, University of Alberta, November 1991.

"The Ubiquity of Culture," Repenser la culture / Rethinking Culture, Université de Montréal, 5 April 1992.

"Trusting the Tale: The Narrativist Turn in the Human Sciences," Narrative: An International Conference, Vanderbilt University, 10 April 1992.

"Narrative and Philosophy: Rorty and Lyotard," Text and Ontology, University of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 26, 1992.

"Remapping Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha: Intertextuality, Transgression, and Overpassing," Invited Lecture, Trent University, March 11, 1993.

"Constructing a Reference Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism" (with M. Groden), University of Western Ontario, March 16, 1993.

"Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha: Intertextuality and Apocrypha," invited lecture, University of Waterloo, April 22, 1993.

"A Centre for Theory?", invited seminar, University of Waterloo, April 22, 1993.

"The Artist and Transgression: Yoknapatawphan Auto-Intertextuality," invited plenary lecture, 1993 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, "Faulkner and the Artist," University of Mississippi, August 3, 1993.

"Outrageous and Paradoxical Discrepancy": Transgression, Auto-Intertextuality, and Yoknapatawpha,” English Department Colloquium, October 13, 1993.

“'And Now Let Us Talk About Love': Overpassing as Transference in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha," American Literature Association, San Diego, June 4, 1994 [revised version of English Department Colloquium, March 7, 1995]

"Intertextuality and Fictional Worlds," invited lecture for "Narrative and Metanarrative" Series, Contemporary Studies Program, University of King's College, Halifax, N.S., January 19, 1995.

"The Reception of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha: Overpassing as Transference," Narrative: An International Conference, University of Utah, April 21, 1995.

“Transgression, Intertextuality and Yoknapatawpha: Faulkner, Foucault, and Freud,” invited lecture, Department of English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, October 2, 1995.

“Ghetto Music,” Panelist, “Trash,” Canadian Association of American Studies, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 20, 1995.

“Trusting the Tale? The Narrativist Turn and Knowledge in the Human Sciences,” Invited Plenary Address, “Narrative and Metaphor Across the Disciplines,” Auckland, New Zealand, July 8, 1996.

“Narrative, Forms of Knowledge, and the Social Sciences,” Invited talks, Massey University and Auckland University, New Zealand, July 10, 12, 1996.

“Narrative Knowledge and the Human Sciences,” Invited talk, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, March 11, 1997.

“Multi-Textual Fictional Worlds and Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha,” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, April 10 - 13, 1997.

“Merely Telling Stories: Narrative and Knowledge Claims in the Human Sciences,” The Histories of Theory Conference, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, UWO, April 16 - 19, 1998.

“‘Now We’re Going to Talk About Love’: Models of Transference, Reception and Postmodern Intertextuality in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Beyond,” American Literature Association Conference, San Diego, May 28-31, 1998.

“Faulkner Passing Through Morrison: Intertextuality and Racial Otherness,” Modern Language Association, Conference, San Francisco, December 27-30, 1998.

“Intertextuality, Transference, and Postmodernism in Absalom, Absalom!: The Production and Reception of Faulkner=s Fictional World,” invited plenary lecture, 1999 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, "Faulkner and Postmodernism," University of Mississippi, July 28, 1999.

“Faulkner and Freud: Affect and the Creation of Textual Worlds,” invited keynote address, Southern Literature Symposium, University of California at Santa Barbara, Februray 23, 2001.

“The Importance of Stories of Fact: Teaching Narrative and Narrative Theory after the Narrativist Turn,” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference, Vancouver, BC, October 11, 2001.

“Faulkner and Freud: Transference and Textuality,” invited lecture, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, October  12, 2001.

“Modelling the Reception of Faulkner=s Yoknapatawpha,” invited lecture, University of British Columbia, October 15, 2001.

“The Disappearance of Charles Bon: Faulkner ‘Passing’ Through Morrison, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, October 10, 2002

“The Racialized Uncanny in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!,” American Literature Association, Cambridge, MA, May 23, 2003

“Travelling Stories: Narrative Theory and Disciplinarity,” New Directions in the Humanities Conference, Rhodes,  Greece, July 2, 2003

"Narrative Between the Disciplines": A research project studying the uses of and claims for narrative made by different disciplines, part of which resulted in the essays and talks on narrative theory listed above.

"Remapping Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha: Textuality and Transgression": A research project on the    auto-intertextual relationships that help to constitute Yoknapatawpha, the fictional world made up of numerous novels and short stories by William Faulkner, part of which resulted in the essays and talks on Yoknapatawpha listed above.

Revised edition The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Forthcoming 2005 (described above).