literary criticism – The Staircase Window

The Queen’s Path: A Revolutionary Guide to Women’s Empowerment and Sovereignty

Somebody with a Little Hammer

Dorothy Parker in Hollywood

The Heroine’s Journey: For Writers, Readers, and Fans of Pop Culture

Speak / Stop

Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic

Fairytale and Gothic Horror: Uncanny Transformations in Film

Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography

Our Vampires, Ourselves

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth

Against Interpretation and Other Essays

Women’s Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Salvage: Readings from the Wreck

The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters

The Word Pretty

Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

The Haunting of Sylvia Plath

The Medium of Leonora Carrington: A Feminist Haunting in the Contemporary Arts

Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?

Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers

Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers

The Weird Sister Collection: Writing at the Intersections of Feminism, Literature, and Pop Culture

No Judgement: On Being Critical

Migratory Birds

Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females

To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction

Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film

Otherwise Than the Binary: New Feminist Readings in Ancient Philosophy and Culture

Women’s Agency in the Dune Universe: Tracing Women’s Liberation through Science Fiction

Symbolism, Dada, Surrealisms: Selected Writing of Mary Ann Caws

Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay

A Tale of Two Titties: A Writer’s Guide to Conquering the Most Sexist Tropes in Literary History

Quantum Justice: Global Girls Cultivating Disruption through Spoken Word Poetry

Shakespeare’s Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance

Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

The Golden Girls

Not Just Jane

Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism

On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The Darcy Myth: Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love

Girlhood

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture

Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

Feminist Designer: On the Personal and the Political in Design

Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays

Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution

Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World

Uncut Funk: A Contemplative Dialogue

The Light Room

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture

The #Metoo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women

On Women

Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time

Where the Stress Falls

The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate: Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century

Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women’s Alliances in Early Modern England

The Hidden Writer

Fashion, Gender and Agency in Latin American and Spanish Literature

Roads of Her Own: Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women’s Road Narratives, 1970-2000

A Life of One’s Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance

Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction

How to Read Now

Once upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

How to Suppress Women’s Writing

Happily: A Personal History—with Fairy Tales

Black Women Writers at Work

Literary Identification from Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga

Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon

On the Inconvenience of Other People

Women Writing Race, Nation, and History: N/native

The Mother of the Brontës: When Maria Met Patrick

Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in My Present and in the Writings of the Past

Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës

Maya Angelou: The Iconic Self

Spirits and Spirituality in Victorian Fiction

Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread

American Originality: Essays on Poetry

A Life with Mary Shelley

More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason

American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street

Women of Will: The Remarkable Evolution of Shakespeare’s Female Characters

The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women’s Literature in America, 1820-1860

Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll

Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels

Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose

Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World

My Life in Middlemarch

Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing

Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature

How Poetry Can Change Your Heart

Free Woman: Life, Liberation, and Doris Lessing

Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers

Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore

The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

The Interpretation of Fairy Tales

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader

Motherlove in Shades of Black: The Maternal Psyche in the Novels of African American Women

Borderwork: Feminist Engagements With Comparative Literature

Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature

Epistemology of the Closet

Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America

Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities

The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition

Women in Culture: An Intersectional Anthology for Gender and Women’s Studies

Fashioning Horror: Dressing to Kill on Screen and in Literature

Contemporary Arab Women Writers: Cultural Expression In Context

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading

Contemporary Feminist Historical Crime Fiction

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

Nobody’s Looking at You

All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf

Heroines

Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance

Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity

The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning

Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare’s English Histories

Poetry Will Save Your Life: A Memoir

Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Dangerous Books for Girls: The Bad Reputation of Romance Novels Explained

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

What Is a Woman to Do? A Reader on Women, Work and Art, c. 1830-1890

Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics

A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare

Last Things: Emily Brontë’s Poems

You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed Messages