selected publications
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- Job's blazon. Christian Century. 128:24. 2011
- Lectio Divina. America. 205:21. 2011
- Moving House: Poems. Christianity & Literature. 60:496-498. 2011
- Polish Language and History in A Streetcar Named Desire. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 41:8-10. 2011
- Special Issue: The Legacy of Tennessee Williams. The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Artis in the South. 48:5-138. 2011
- Tennessee Williams and Armistice Day: An Unpublished Poem. The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Artis in the South. 48:32-39. 2011
- The Song of the Homeless. Haight Ashbury Literary Journal. 29:3. 2011
- An Interview with Distinguished Tennessee Williams Scholar Allean Hale. Valley Voices: A Literary Review. 10:6-13. 2010
- An Interview with Douglas McKeown on the Production of Kirche, Kutchen, und Kinder, 1979. Tennessee Williams Annual Review. 11:65-77. 2010
- Feathers. Christian Century. 127:30. 2010
- Genesis. Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality. 10:307. 2010
- Hollywood's Tennessee: The Williams Films and the Postwar Years (review). Modern Drama. 53:277-280. 2010
- Reviews.. Modern Drama. 53:266-285. 2010
- Tennessee Williams (1911-1983): A Pre-Centennial Issue. Valley Voices: A Literary Review. 10. 2010
- Burial at Sea. Kaleidoscope. 18. 2009
- Cultural Memory and Circular Time in Suzan-Lori Parks's Betting on the Dust Commander. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 39:8-11. 2009
- Haunting America. Southern Cultures. 15:115-138. 2009
- Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare Bulletin. 27:183-188. 2009
- Deadbeat Dad. Kaleidoscope. 61. 2005
- Guest Editor's Introduction. South Atlantic Review. 70:1-3. 2005
- Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960's Off-Off-Broadway Movement. Theatre Journal. 57:780-781. 2005
- Tennessee Williams and Sports. Popular Culture Review. 16:5-22. 2005
- Tennessee Williams in/and the Canons of American Drama. South Atlantic Review. 70:1-3. 2005
- The Fission of Tennessee Williams's Plays into Adrienne Kennedy's. South Atlantic Review. 70:44-72. 2005
- Williams's Sand. Explicator. 63:173-176. 2005
- Her Last Photo (Poem). Theology Today. 61:362. 2004
- Shakespeare Knocks: Macbeth in Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 34:8-10. 2004
- The Mutilated: Tennessee Williams's Apocalyptic Christmas Carol. American Drama. 13:82-97. 2004
- An Unpublished Tennessee Williams Letter to William Carlos Williams. Resources for American Literary Study. 28:159-162. 2003
- At Liberty: Tennessee Williams's Early Crucible. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 33:8-9. 2003
- Going to Humes with Elvis: An Interview with Robert Cummings. Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley. 3:7-25. 2003
- Hughes's Soul Gone Home. Explicator. 61:164-166. 2003
- It's Not Life with Auntie Mame: Tennessee Williams's 'Completed'. Tennessee Williams Literary Journal. 5:80-83. 2003
- Performance Studies: An Introduction (Book). World Literature Today. 77:158. 2003
- Tennessee Williams and the South (Book). Mississippi Quarterly. 56:466-469. 2003
- The Sobbing Dubois Sisters in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 33:6-8. 2003
- Waves. Christianity & Literature. 52:443. 2003
- Williams's The Demolition Downtown. Explicator. 62:39-41. 2003
- A play about terrible birds: Tennessee Williams's The Gnadiges Fraulin and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (illustrated).. South Atlantic Review. 66:1-22. 2001
- Jeweled Silence. Christianity & Literature. 50:380. 2001
- The Remarkable Rooming-House of Mme. Le Monde: Tennessee Williams's Little Shop of Comic Horrors. Tennessee Williams Annual Review. 4:39-48. 2001
- The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams (Book). Modern Drama. 44:262-265. 2001
- Echoes of Reflexivity in Tennessee Williams's 'A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot'. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 30:7-9. 2000
- Greene's 'The Destructors'. Explicator. 58:158-161. 2000
- Mr. Peters' Connections (Book Review). World Literature Today. 74:163. 2000
- Othello and Interpretive Traditions (Book Review). Theatre Journal. 52:591-592. 2000
- Review: Othello and Interpretive Traditions by Edward Pechter. Theatre Journal. 52:591-592. 2000
- Spring Storm (Book Review). World Literature Today. 74:369-370. 2000
- Stairs to the Roof (Book Review). World Literature Today. 74:816-817. 2000
- Williams's The Frosted Glass Coffin. Explicator. 59:44-46. 2000
- Lost in a Sea of Words: Tennessee William's Lifeboat Drill. Mississippi Quarterly. 53:57-66. 1999/2000
- 'Isolated': Tennessee Williams's First Extant Published Short Story. Tennessee Williams Annual Review. 33-39. 1998
- Charlotte Capers, Tennessee Williams and the Mississippi premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire. Mississippi Quarterly. 51:326-331. 1998
- Death of a Salesman: A Playwright's Forum (illustrated).. Michigan Quarterly Review. 37:590-623. 1998
- From Coitus to Craziness: The Italian Premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire. Journal of American Drama and Theatre. 10:74-92. 1998
- God Love. Blueline. 19:36-37. 1998
- Performing Scripts in David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 28:5-6. 1998
- Something Cloudy, Something Clear: Tennessee Williams's Postmodern Memory Play. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. 12. 1998
- World Literature in Review: English. World Literature Today. 72:833-834. 1998
- 'Lucius, the Severely Flawed Redeemer of Titus Andronicus': A Reply. Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate. 7:94-96. 1997-1998
- 'Hello from Bertha' as a Source for A Streetcar Named Desire. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 27:6-7. 1997
- 'It's only a paper moon': The Paper Ontologies in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. Modern Drama. 40:454-467. 1997
- Hickscorner as an Early London City Comedy. Jackson State University Researcher. 15:57-66. 1997
- Just Released from Performance: Tennessee Williams The Dark Room. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 27. 1997
- Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Explicator. 56:5-7. 1997
- Tenn in the '90s: Recent Scholarship on Tennessee Williams. Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association. 1-6. 1997
- Civil Rights and the Black Presence in Baby Doll. Literature Film Quarterly. 24:2-11. 1996
- Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway, and Fidel Castro. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 26:6-7. 1996
- Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams. Modern Drama. 39. 1996
- 'Cruelty...and sweaty intimacy': The Reception of the Spanish Premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire. Theatre Survey. 35:45-55. 1994
- 'Night, Mistuh CHarlie': The Porter in Tennessee Williams's 'The Last of My Solid Gold Watches'.... Mississippi Quarterly. 47:215-220. 1994
- Bonaparte Kowalski: Or, What Stanley and Napoleon Have in Common (and What They Don't) in A Streetcar Named Desire. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 24:6-8. 1994
- Color Connections in Adrienne Kennedy's She Talks to Beethoven. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 24:4-6. 1994
- On a trolley to the cinema: Ingmar Bergman and the first Swedish production of A Streetcar Named Desire. South Carolina Review. 27:277-286. 1994
- Orpheus Ascending: Music, Race, and Gender in Adrienne.... African American Review. 28:293-304. 1994
- Tennessee WIlliams's 'Secret Girl Friend:' An Oriental Account. Jackson State University Researcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 15:1-3. 1994
- The Mexican Premiere of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos. 10:315-340. 1994
- World Literature in Review: United States. World Literature Today. 68:135-136. 1994
- The First Production of A Streetcar Named Desire in Mainland China. Tennessee Williams Literary Journal. 2:19-31. 1990-1991
- 'Red-Hot!' in A Streetcar Named Desire. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 19:6-8. 1989
- An Interview with David Rabe. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. 3:135-156. 1989
- Emily Mann: A Classified Bibliography. Studies in American Drama. 4:223-266. 1989
- From the Zoo to the Funnyhouse: A Comparison of Edward Albee's The Zoo Story with Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro. Theatre Southwest. 8-16. 1989
- Mann's Still Life. Explicator. 48:61-64. 1989
- Parallels between Desire under the Elms and Sweet Bird of Youth. The Eugene O'Neill Review. 13:23-25. 1989
- Rabe's Streamers. Explicator. 45:63-64. 1986
- Revealing Illusions in David Mamet's The Shawl. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 16:9-10. 1986
- Shakespeare's Sonnet 20. Explicator. 45:10-11. 1986
- Folklore and the Gulf of Mexico. Mississippi Folklore Register. 18. 1984
- MISCELLANY. American Speech. 59:373-379. 1984
- Media Watch: Infomercials. American Speech. 59:379. 1984
- Mocktails, Anyone?. American Speech. 58:190-191. 1982
- Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, I. ii. 34-101. Explicator. 40:12-13. 1982
- A Report on the 1977 MLA Special Session in Renaissance Drama. Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama. 21:1-9. 1978
- An Unpublished Longfellow Poem. Papers of the Biblographical Society of America. 72:349-350. 1978
- Milton's Use of Clouds for Satanic Parody in Paradise Lost. Essays in Literature. 5:153-162. 1978
- Jefferson Davis: From President to Place-Name. Names: Journal of the American Name Society. 25:158-173. 1977
- Paronomastic Announcements; Or, How to Have a Little Pun With Your Ads. American Speech. 52:29-38. 1977
- Place-Names, Naming, and Folklore. Mississippi Folklore Register. 11. 1977
- Review: American Drama Criticism, Supplement II by Floyd Eugene Eddleman. The South Central Bulletin. 37:45-46. 1977
- Review: Shakespeare's Playhouse Practice: A Handbook by Warren D. Smith. Educational Theatre Journal. 29:130-131. 1977
- Shakespearean Design (Book). Shakespeare Studies. 10:372-377. 1977
- State Names Used as City and County Names. Mississippi Folklore Register. 11:164-173. 1977
- A Preliminary Survey of the Vocabulary of White Alabamians. American Speech. 50:115-120. 1975
- Domainium. American Speech. 50:319-320. 1975
- From Marietta to Mobile: Pads Studies East and South. American Speech. 50:115-120. 1975
- MISCELLANY.. American Speech. 50:311-336. 1975
- Marietta, Ohio: The Continuing Erosion of a Speech Island. American Speech. 50:115-120. 1975
- The Phonology of the Conjure Tales of Charles W. Chestnutt. American Speech. 50:115-120. 1975
- The Subtle Drama of Richard WIlbur's 'Exeunt'.. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 5:11-13. 1975
- Two Early Poems by Edward Albee. Resources for American Literary Study. 5:95-97. 1975
- A Shakespearean Echo in Dekker's Old Fortunatus.. Notes and Queries. 19. 1972
- Milton's Samson Agonistes, 393-412. Explicator. 30. 1972
- Possible Sources for Lyly's Eubulus. American Notes and Queries. 10:83-84. 1972
- Review: Henslowe's Rose: The Stage & Staging by Ernest L. Rhodes. Educational Theatre Journal. 29:433-434. 197
- A Classified Edward Albee Checklist. Serif. 6:16-32. 1969
- 'Exchange me for a goat': Iago's Ewes and Rams, Othello's Goats and Monkeys, and Matthew 25:31-45. Cithara: Essays in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition. 46:3-15.
- 'It's Hard to Be Human': The Ironies in Tennessee Williams's 'Tent Worms'. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 36:9-12.
- 'No masterpiece has been overlooked': The early reception and significance of Tennessee Williams's 'Big Black: A MISSISSIPPI IDYLL'. ANQ. 8:27-34.
- A Bibliography of Scholarship on Shakespeare and Folklore. Mississippi Folklore Register. 10:210-233.
- A Supplementary Edward Albee Checklist. Serif. 10:28-39.
- Adrienne Kennedy Festival at the Great Lakes Theater Festival: a photo essay. Studies in American Drama. 8:85-94.
- All God's Chillun Got Wings and Macbeth. The Eugene O'Neill Newsletter. 12:55-61.
- An Interview with Jane Reid-Petty of New Stage Theatre. The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Artis in the South. 25:39-46.
- An Interview with Whitney J. LeBlanc. African American Review. 26:307-317.
- An Interview with Wolf Ruvinskis: The First Mexican Stanley Kowalski. Latin American Theatre Review. 26:159-165.
- Annotated bibliography of scholarship on the children's companies and their theaters. Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama. 19:57-82.
- Audre Lorde's 'Afterimages': History, Scripture, Myth, and Nightmare. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 38:9-12.
- Bars and Their Extensions. American Speech. 49:111-118.
- Bawdy Uses of et Cetera. American Speech. 58:75-78.
- Bibliography of Scholarship on Henry Medwall. Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama. 22:65-72.
- Black and Multi-Racial Productions of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. 9:96-128.
- Cars and Traveling in the Death of Bessie Smith. CLA Journal. 30:472-480.
- Cleopatra of the Nile and Blanche DuBois of the French Quarter. Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism and Scholarship. 11:25-27.
- Companero Tenn: The Hispanic Presence in the Plays of Tennessee Williams. Tennessee Williams Annual Review. 2:35-52.
- David Mamet's Duck Variations as a Parody of a Socractic Dialogue. American Drama. 9:21-32.
- David Mamet's WRITING IN RESTAURANTS: a primary and secondary bibliography. AEB. 4:160-167.
- Disrupting Racial Performances in Amiri Baraka's Police. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 37:2-4.
- Donne's 'Obsequies to the Lord Harrington': Theme, Structure, and Image. The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Artis in the South. 13:65-82.
- Edward Albee. Modern Drama. 31:121-124.
- Eyewitnessing in Tennessee Williams's Small Craft Warnings. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 32:9-11.
- Fast Moving Put-Ons: Recent Bumper Sticker Jokes. Mississippi Folklore Register. 17:119-124.
- Fishing for Gulls. Louisiana Literature. 24:78.
- Food for Thought in Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America. Studies in Contemporary Satire: A Creative and Critical Journal. 8:9-20.
- Forgotten Manuscripts: Blues for Emmett TIll: The Earliest Extant Song about the Murder of Emmett TIll. African American Review. 42:455-460.
- Fugitive Kind (Book). World Literature Today. 76:151-152.
- In Honor of Marice C. Brown. Mississippi Folklore Register. 13.
- Interview with Maya Koreneva. Studies in American Drama. 8:200-213.
- Introduction.. Southern Quarterly. 38:6-9.
- London premiere of The Zoo Story: Edward Albee and the British press. Library Chronicle. 20:75-95.
- Love's Wealth in The Sunne Rising. The South Central Bulletin. 43:112-114.
- MISCELLANY.. American Speech. 58:190-192.
- MISCELLANY.. American Speech. 54:61-80.
- Macbeth, Malcolm, and the Curse of the Serpent. The South Central Bulletin. 34:159-160.
- Mark Twain, Aristotle, and Pudd'nhead Wilson. Mark Twain Journal. 15:1-4.
- Megan Terry's Amtrack: An Iran-Contra Comedy. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 20:3-5.
- Midlife. Louisiana Literature. 24:79.
- Milena's Wedding, Paragraphs [and] Passages, and the Formation of Adrienne Kennedy's Canon. CLA Journal. 50:64-83.
- Miscellany. American Speech. 58:71-96.
- Mitch and Murray in David Mamet's Glengary Glen Ross. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 18:3-5.
- More Nursing Terms. American Speech. 55:46-53.
- Mushfaking -- Its Continuing History. American Speech. 60:184-185.
- Names in Business and Technical Writing Textbooks. Names: Journal of the American Name Society. 29:285-295.
- Notices of David Rabe's First Play, 'The Chameleon' (1959). Resources for American Literary Study. 17:95-107.
- OTHELLO I.i.8-17; 35-40. Explicator. 38:38-39.
- Of Jets, Milk Trains and Edward Albee's Seascape. Notes on Modern American Literature. 9.
- Olivier to Williams: an introduction. Missouri Review. 13:143-157.
- Our Lady of the Quarter: Blanche DuBois and the Feast of the Mater Dolorosa. ANQ. 4:81-87.
- Parks's In The Blood. Explicator. 64:253-255.
- Personal Names: Materials and Methods. Names: A Journal of Onomastics. 31.
- Picaro Tom Goes Catfishing: The Proleptic Importance of 'Gift of an Apple'. Tennessee Williams Annual Review. 9:27-38.
- Recent Studies in John Heywood. English Literary Renaissance. 13:113-123.
- Redefining the Way Theatre is Created and Performed: The Radical Inclusion of Suzan-Lori Parks's 365 Days/365 Plays. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. 22:65-86.
- Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream by WIlliam Shakespeare. Theatre Journal. 39:100-101.
- Review: A Streetcar Named Desire: The Moth and the Lantern by Thomas P. Adler. Theatre Journal. 43:407-408.
- Review: Levitating the Pentagon: Evolutions in the American Theatre of the Vietnam War Era by J.E. Fenn. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. 47:255-257.
- Review: Tennessee Williams & Elia Kazan: A Collaboration in the Theatre by Brenda Murphy. Theatre Journal. 45:565-566.
- Review: Tennessee Williams by Roger Boxill. Theatre Journal. 42:398-399.
- Revisiting Funnyhouse: An Interview with Billie Allen. African American Review. 41:165-175.
- Roland Barthes, Tennessee Williams, and A Streetcar Named Pleasure/Desire. The Centennial Review. 43:289-304.
- Rutting in A Streetcar Named Desire. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 22:2-3.
- Sacred Vision and Dramatic Space: Voices, Time, and History in The Face of Emmett Till. Southern Quarterly. 45:76-100.
- Shakespeare and Folklore. Mississippi Folklore Register. 10.
- Shakespeare and the Computer: A Checklist of Scholarship. The Shakespeare Newsletter.
- Shakespeare and the Instruction in the Language Arts. Journal of the Mississippi Council of Teachers of English. 20:20-25.
- Shakespeare's Religious Language: A Dictionary.. Christianity & Literature. 55:278-280.
- Shakespeare, Folklore, and Literary Criticism. Mississippi Folklore Register. 10:111-114.
- Shakespeare, Salesman for the Arts. Mississippi Folklore Register. 21:113-117.
- Sleeping with Caliban: the politics of race in Tennessee Williams's Kingdom of Earth. Studies in American Drama. 8:140-162.
- Some Ways of Teaching Unity. Journal of English Teaching Techniques. 3:1-3.
- State Names Applied to Foods. Names: Journal of the American Name Society. 27:71-72.
- Streetcar Named Desire: a playwright's forum (illustrated). Michigan Quarterly Review. 29:173-203.
- THE PSEUDO SUFFIX -(ER)CISE.. American Speech. 60:91-93.
- Tenn and the Banana Queen: The Correspondence of Tennessee Williams and Marion Black Vaccaro. Tennessee Williams Annual Review. 8:123-136.
- Tennessee Williams. Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Culture. 48.
- Tennessee Williams (Book). Modern Drama. 45:162-165.
- Tennessee Williams Sends His Autobiography to Mexico. Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Culture. 46:255-256.
- Tennessee Williams' 'Big Black: A Mississippi Idyll' and Race Relations, 1932. Arts and Letters: A Liberal Arts Forum. 20:8-12.
- Tennessee Williams' Interval: MGM and Beyond. Southern Quarterly. 38:21-27.
- Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire in Havana: Modesto Centeno's Cuban Streetcars, 1948-1965. South Atlantic Review. 60:89-110.
- Tennessee Williams, 'Mother Yaws,' and AIDS. Popular Culture Review. 13:63-67.
- Tennessee Williams: A Bibliography by Drewey Wayne Gunn. Southern Quarterly. 30:192-194.
- Tennessee Williams: A Descriptive Bibliography by George W. Crandell. AEB. 10:88-91.
- Tennessee Williams: The Non-Dramatic Work. The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Artis in the South. 38.
- The Ending of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance and Agamemnon. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 21:3-5.
- The Exisential Nightmare in Tennessee Williams's The Chalky White Substance. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 23:8-11.
- The First Critical Assessments of A Streetcar Named Desire: The Streetcar Tryouts and the Reviewers. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. 6:45-67.
- The Function of Susie in Tennessee Williams's Period of Adjustment. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 25:10-11.
- The Japanese Premier of A Streetcar Named Desire. Mississippi Quarterly. 48:713-723.
- The Language of Nursing. American Speech. 48:192-210.
- The Legacy of Emmett Till. Southern Quarterly. 45:6-8.
- The Mustachioed Cabbage as Motif. Mississippi Folklore Register. 8:210-214.
- The Names of Whores and Their Bawds and Panders in English Renaissance Drama. Midwestern Journal of Language and Folklore. 6:41-50.
- Therapists in Susan Glaspell's Suppressed Desires and David Rabe's In The Boom Boom Room. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 18:2-3.
- Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of the Plays. Modern Drama. 50:105-109.
- Two Studies of Honor in Shakespeare. Shakespeare Quarterly. 27:350-353.
- Vulnerable Intimacies in Tennessee Williams's 'Happy August the Tenth'. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 32:4-6.
- Why Stanley and His Friends Drink Jax Beer in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. Notes on Contemporary Literature. 20:2-3.
- William in Ebony: Black and Multi-racial Productions of 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. Black American Literature Forum. 25:147-181.
- Williams's The Municipal Abattoir. Explicator. 64:108-111.
- Williams's a Streetcar Named Desire. Explicator. 66:34-37.
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book
- Successful Writing at Work. Boston, MA: Wadsworth Pub. Co.. 2012
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. London, England: Methuen. 2010
- Suzan-Lori Parks: essays on the plays and other works. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co.. 2010
- The influence of Tennessee Williams: essays on fifteen American playwrights. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co.. 2008
- Contemporary African American women playwrights: a casebook. London; New York: Routledge. 2007
- Hurrican blues: poems about Katrina and Rita. Cape Girardeau, MO: Southeast MIssouri State University Press. 2006
- Understanding Adrienne Kennedy. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. 2005
- The Tennessee Williams encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 2004
- Othello: new critical essays. New York: Routledge. 2002
- The undiscovered country: the later plays of Tennessee Williams. New York: P. Lang. 2002
- Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000
- Venus and Adonis: critical essays. New York: Garland Pub.. 1997
- Speaking on stage: inteviews with contemporary American playwrights. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 1996
- Titus Andronicus: critical essays. New York: Garland Pub.. 1995
- Confronting Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire: Essays in Critical Pluralism. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1993
- American playwrights since 1945: a guide to scholarship, criticism, and performance. New York: Greenwood Press. 1989
- Conversations with Edward Albee. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 1988
- Critical essays on Edward Albee. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall. 1986
- Models for Technical Writing. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1985
- Shakespeare and southern writers: a study in influence. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 1985
- Tennessee Williams: a guide to research and performance. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 1985
- Shakespeare in the South: essays on performance. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 1983
- Studies in American drama, 1945-present. Ed. 7.
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chapter of book
- 'Black Up Again': Combating Macbeth in Contemporary African-American Plays. Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance. New York, NY. 211-221.
- 'Having Lost the Ability to Say: 'My God!': The Theology of Tennessee Wiliams's Small Craft Warnings. The Undiscovered Country: The Later Plays of Tennessee Williams. New York, NY. 107-124.
- 'Sentiment and humor in equal measure': Comic Forms in The Rose Tattoo. Tennessee Williams: A Tribute. Jackson. 214-231.
- 'You One of Uh Mines?': Dis(re)membering in Suzan-Lori Parks's Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom. Suzan-Lori Parks: Essays on the Plays and Other Works. Jefferson, N.C.. 45-64.
- Albee's Early One-Act Plays: 'A New American Playwright from Whom Much Is Expected'. The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee. Cambridge, England. 16-37.
- American History/African Nightmare: Adrienne Kennedy and Civil Rights. Contemporary African American Women Playwrights. London, England. 62-82.
- Blackness Made Visible: A Survey of Othello in Criticism, on Stage, and on Screen. Othello: New Critical Essays. New York, NY. 1-87.
- Edward Albee's Counting the Ways: The Ways of Losing Heart. Edward Albee: An Interview and Essays. Houston. 121-140.
- Eunice Hubbell and the Feminist Thematics of A Streetcar Named Desire. Confronting Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire: Essays in Cultural Pluralism. Westport, CT. 105-120.
- Puck's Magic Mojo: The Achievements of Suzan-Lori Parks. Suzan-Lori Parks: Essays on the Plays and Other Works. Jefferson, NC. 7-19.
- Venus and/or Adonis among the Critics. Venus and Adonis: Critical Essays. New York, NY. 3-65.
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