BOOKS:
Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Read more about Race >
The Lives of Frederick Douglass (Harvard University Press, 2016). Read more about Lives >
Dislocating Race and Nation (University of North Carolina Press, 2008). Read more about Dislocating >
Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity (University of North Carolina Press, 1997). Read more about Delany, Douglass >
Conspiracy and Romance (Cambridge University Press, 1989). Read more about Conspiracy >
EDITIONS AND COLLECTIONS:
Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion Tourgée, coedited with Sandra Gustafson (Fordham University Press, 2022).
The Norton Anthology of American Literature (W. W. Norton, 2022, 2017, 2012, 2007). Read more about the Norton Anthology >
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables (W. W. Norton, 2020). Read more about this Norton Critical Edition >
Herman Melville, Pierre; or the Ambiguities, coedited with Cindy Weinstein (W. W. Norton, 2017). Read more about this Norton Critical Edition >
Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave, coedited with John Stauffer and John R. McKivigan (Yale University Press, 2015). Read more about Heroic Slave >
The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Read more about New Companion >
A Companion to American Literary Studies, coedited with Caroline Levander (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). Read more about this Companion>
The Works of James M. Whitfield, coedited with Ivy G. Wilson (University of North Carolina Press, 2011). Read more about Whitfield >
William Wells Brown, Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter (Bedford Cultural Edition, 2011). Read more about Clotel >
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance (The John Harvard Library, 2010). Read more about Blithedale >
Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville, coedited with Samuel Otter (University of North Carolina Press, 2008). Read more about Douglass and Melville >
Hemispheric American Studies, coedited with Caroline Levander (Rutgers University Press, 2008). Read more about Hemispheric >
Herman Melville, Israel Potter (Penguin Books, 2008). Read more about Potter >
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). Read more about Dred >
Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader (University of North Carolina Press, 2003). Read more about Delany >
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville (Cambridge University Press, 1998). Read more about this Companion >
ESSAYS AND OP-EDS:
Over 100 scholarly essays, chapters, and reviews. Recent op-eds include:
“Why We Must Hear the Warning in Frederick Douglass’s ‘Sources of Danger to the Republic’ Today,” Time Magazine, August 24, 2021.
“Frederick Douglass and the Trouble with Critical Race Theory,” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2, 2021.
“Frederick Douglass’ Fourth of July Speech: A Reminder of the American Tradition of Critique,” Baltimore Sun, July 2, 2021.
“Georgia’s Voter Suppression Laws Betray the Promise of Reconstruction,” Washington Post, April 27, 2021.