Publications
Books:
Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer Aesthetic. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2000.
Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
Editions:
Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2004
Special Double Issue of Gothic Studies, Vol.2, 1-2, April 2000
“Decomposing Fiction,” Special Issue of Horror Studies, 2:2, December 2011
Articles:
“Butoh: The Dance of Global Darkness,” Global Gothic, ed. Glennis Byron, Manchester: Manchester University Press (forthcoming)
“Decomposing Fictions,” introduction to special issue of Horror Studies 2:2, ed. Steven Bruhm (forthcoming December 2011)
“Still Here: Choreography, Temporality, AIDS,” Queer Times, Queer Becomings, eds. E.L. McCallum and Mikko Tukhanen, Albany, NY: SUNY Press: 317-34 (forthcoming November 2011).
“Gothic Oklahoma!: The Dream Ballet,” ELN: English Language Notes Special Issue on Affect and Genre, ed. Kelly Hurley, 48:1 (2010): 101-12.
“Cell Phones from Hell,” South Atlantic Quarterly, Special Issue on Desire and Technology, ed. Ellis Hanson, 110:3 (2011): 601-20.
“The Unbearable Sex of Henry VIII”, Shakesqueer. Ed. Madhavi Menon. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2011, 28-38
“Michael Jackson: Queer Funk,” Queering the Gothic. Eds. Andrew Smith and William Hughes. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2009, 158-76.
“What I didn’t do on my summer vacation,” Reader’s Forum on Procrastination, English Studies in Canada 34 (2-3), 2008, 21-24
“Byron and the Choreography of Queer Desire,” Palgrave Advances in Byron Studies. Ed. Jane Stabler. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2007, 16-33.
“Nightmare on Sesame Street; or The Self-Possessed Child,” Gothic Studies 8.2 (2006): 98-113.
“Gothic Sexualities,” Teaching the Gothic. Eds. Andrew Smith and Anna Powell. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2006, 93-106.
Co-written with Natasha Hurley, “Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children” Introduction to Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children. Ed. Steven Bruhm and Natasha Hurley, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004, ix-xxxviii.
“Queer Today, Gone Tomorrow,” English Studies in Canada Readers’ Forum, English Studies in Canada 29 (2003):25-32.
"The Contemporary Gothic: Why We Need It," Cambridge Companion to the Gothic. Ed. Jerrold Hogle. London: Cambridge University Press, 2002, 259-76.
“Encrypted Identities,” Special Double Issue of Gothic Studies, Vol.2, 1. Ed. Steven Bruhm, April, 2000, 1-7.
“Picture This: Stephen King’s Queer Gothic,” Companion to the Gothic. Ed. David Punter. Oxford: Blackwell Press, 1999, 269-80.
“Reforming Byron’s Narcissism,” The Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion. Eds. Thomas Pfau and Robert Gleckner. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998, 429-47.
“Queer Queer Vladimi,r” American Imago: Psychoanalysis and Culture. 53 (1996): 281-306; reprinted in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism Vol. 108. New York: Gale Group, 2001, 161-71.
“Blond Ambition: Tennessee Williams’s Homographesis,” Essays in Theatre/Etudes théâtrales 14 (1996): 97-105.
“On Stephen King’s Phallus, or The Postmodern Gothic” Narrative 4 (1996): 55-73; reprinted in The American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative. Eds. Robert K. Martin and Eric Savoy. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998, 75-96.
“Taking One to Know One: Oscar Wilde and Narcissism,” English Studies in Canada 21 (1995): 170-188.
“Aesthetics and Anesthetics at the Revolution,” Studies in Romanticism 32 (1993): 399-424.
“Roderick Random’s Closet,” English Studies in Canada 19 (1993): 401-16
“William Godwin’s Fleetwood: The Epistemology of the Tortured Body,” Eighteenth-Century Life 16 (1992): 21-33.
“Blackmailed by Sex: Tennessee Williams and the Economics of Desire” Modern Drama 34 (1991): 528-537.
Art Writing:
“Viewing in Discretion.” Catalogue Essay for Dan O’Neill’s Viewer Discretion: New Work and Work in Review. St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, 6 March – 18 April 2004
“Grab Your Baskets, Girls, We’re Going Shopping!” Catalogue Essay for QC: Queer Commodity, curated by Spencer Ramsay. Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery, 7 March – 28 April 2002
Editor of Queer Looking, Queer Acting: Lesbian and Gay Vernacular, by Robin Metcalfe. Catalog of an exhibition held at Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, 11 October -16 November 1997.
Miscellaneous:
Entry for “Gothic Body” in The Handbook of Gothic Literature. Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts (London: Macmillan, 1998), 267-8.
Review of Ellen Brinks’ Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2003), The Wordsworth Circle 35.4 (2004): 183-4
Review of Jerrold Hogle’s The Undergrounds of The Phantom of the Opera: Sublimation and the Gothic in Leroux’s Novel and Its Progeny (New York: Palgrave, 2002), Romantics Circles Reviews (on-line) 7.2 Winter 2004. http://www.rc.umd.edu/reviews/back/hogle.html
Review of Jodey Castricano’s Cryptomimesis: The Gothic and Jacques Derrida’s Ghost Writing (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001), forthcoming in Gothic Studies
Review of David Punter’s Gothic Pathologies: The Text, The Body and The Law (Macmillan, 1998). Romanticism On the Net 17 (February 2000), http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat0385/17pathologies.html
Review of Cannon Schmitt’s Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997). European Romantic Review 10, 3 (1999): 397-400.
Review of Roxana Stuart’s Stage Blood: Vampires on the 19th-Century Stage (Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1994), in Gothic Studies, Vol. 1, 1 (1999), 129-31.
Review of David Collings’s Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics of Cultural Dismemberment (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994) in South Atlantic Review 60 (1995): 137-40.