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.



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