Representative publications

Books:

• Commons Democracy: Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States. Fordham University Press, 2016.
• Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People. Minnesota University Press, Fall 2008.
• National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men. Duke University Press, 1998.
• The Word in Black and White: Reading `Race' in American Literature, 1638-1867. Oxford Univ. Press, 1992.

Collections:

• With Russ Castronovo. Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics. Duke Univ. Press, 2002.

Editions:

• Lydia Maria Child, Romance of the Republic (1867). University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
• Rebecca Rush, Kelroy, (1812). Oxford Univ. Press, 1993.
• Dual edition of and Introduction to Frances Ann Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation (1863) and her daughter Frances Butler Leigh's Residence on a Georgia Plantation (1883). Published as Principles and Privilege: Two Women's Lives on a Georgia Plantation. University of Michigan Press, 1994.

Journal:

• Special issue. "AmBushed: On the Costs of Macht-Politik," South Atlantic Quarterly 15.1 (Jan. 2006), November 2005.
• Special issue co-edited with Houston Baker. "Violence, the Body and The South," American Literature, 73.2 (June2001)