Articles

2007    “Third Person Interruption,” The Book of Interruptions. Eds. David Hillman and Adam Phillips. Oxford University Press (December 2007)

2006    “Loaded Words,” Critical Inquiry (Summer 2006)

2002    “Our Genius Problem,” The Atlantic Monthly (December 2002)

            “Coercive Voluntarism,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (December 31, 2002)

            “Codes of Conduct,” The Boston Globe (December 22, 2002)

2001    “Coveting Your Neighbor’s Discipline.” The Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher Education), (January 12, 2001)

            “Moniker,” in Our Monica, Ourselves, ed. Lauren Berlant and Lisa Duggan (New York: NYU Press, 2001)

            “Heart and Hoof” (review of Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: The Making of a Legend) London Review of Books (October 4, 2001)

            “Two Point Conversion” in Between Law and Culture, ed. Lisa Bowers, David Theo Goldberg, and Michael Mushemo (University of Minnesota Press, 2001)

2000    “Spitting, Sneezing, Smearing” (review of David Trotter, Cooking with Mud) London Review of Books (August 10, 2000)

            “To Limn is Divine, Burbs are for Borons” Times Higher Education Supplement (July 7, 2000)

            “Fine Art for 39 Cents,” in London Review of Books (March 2000)

            “Second-Best Bed,” in Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture, ed. Carla Mazzio and Douglas Trevor (New York: Routledge, 2000)

1999    “No End of Sequels,” in London Review of Books (August 19, 1999)

            “ ‘  ’ (Quotation Marks),” in Critical Inquiry 25:4 (Summer 1999)

            “As They Like It” (on the Shakespeare authorship controversy), Harper’s (April 1999)

            “Reflection on The Lives of Animals” in J.M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals, ed. Amy Gutmann (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999)

            “Roles,” in Critical Terms in Gender Theory, ed. Catharine R. Stimpson and Gilbert Herdt (University of Chicago Press)

1998    “The Shrug Culture,” The New York Times Magazine (September 6, 1998)

1997    “Out of Joint,” in The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe, ed. David Hillman and Carla Mazzio (New York: Routledge, 1997)

1996    “Why We Love Dogs” The New Yorker (July 8, 1996)

            “Cinema Scopes: Evolution, Media and the Law.” in Austin Sarat, ed., Law and the Domains of Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996)

            “The Insincerity of Women,” in Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature. ed. Regina Schwartz (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995). Reprinted in Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture, edited by Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, and Peter Stallybrass (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1996)

            “What Is Culture? What Are Cultures?” in Field Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies.(New York: Routledge, 1996)

1995    “Back to Whose Basics?” New York Times Book Review (October 29, 1995)

            “The Marvel of Peru.” Foreword to Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World, trans. Michele Stepto and Gabriel Stepto. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995)

            “Heavy Petting,” in Human, All Too Human, ed. Diana Fuss (New York: Routledge, 1995), English Institute series

            “Viktor Petrenko’s Mother-in-Law,” in Women on Ice, ed. Cynthia Baughman (New York: Routledge, 1995)

            “Bisexuality and Celebrity,” in The Seductions of Biography, ed. Mary Rhiel and David Suchoff (New York: Routledge, 1995)

            “Jello,” in Garber and Walkowitz, Secret Agents (New York: Routledge, 1995)

1994    “The Bard and the Undead,” New York Times Op-Ed page (November 25, 1994)

1993    “Maximum Exposure,” New York Times Op-Ed page December 4, 1993

            “From Dietrich to Madonna: Cross-Gender Icons,” in Pam Cook and Philip Dodd, eds., Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader (London: Scarlet Press, 1993)

1992    “Overcoming ‘Auction Block’: Stories Masquerading as Objects,” Critical Quarterly, December l992; reprinted in Confessions of the Critics, edited by H. Aram Veeser, (New York: Routledge, 1996)

            “‘Greatness’: Philology and the Politics of Mimesis,” in Feminism and Postmodernism, a special issue of boundary 2, ed. Margaret Ferguson and Jennifer Wicke; subsequently published as a volume by Duke University Press (1992)

            “Strike a Pose” [on Marlene Dietrich], Sight and Sound (September l992)

            “Read My Lipstick,” New York Times Op-Ed page (August 20, l992)

            “Joe Camel, an X-Rated Smoke,” New York Times Op-Ed page (March 20, l992)

1991    “The Chic of Araby: Transvestism and the Erotics of Cultural Exchange,” in Bodyguards, ed. Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub (New York: Routledge, 199l)

            “The Occidental Tourist: M. Butterfly and the Scandal of Transvestism,” in Nationalisms and Sexualities, ed. Andrew Parker, Mary Russo, Doris Sommer, and Patricia Yaeger (New York: Routledge, 1991)

            “The Transvestite’s Progress: Rosalind the Yeshiva Boy,” in The Appropriation of Shakespeare: Post-Renaissance Reconstructions of the Works and the Myth, ed. Jean Marsden (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991)

1990    “The Roaring Girl and the Scandal of Transvestism,” in Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, ed. David Scott Kastan and Peter Stallybrass (New York: Routledge, l990)

            “Fetish Envy,” October 54 (Fall 1990)

            “Shakespeare as Fetish,” Shakespeare Quarterly 4l.3 (Summer l990)

1989    “Spare Parts: The Surgical Construction of Gender,” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies,1.3 (Fall 1989).  Reprinted in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, eds. Henry Abelove, Michelle Barale, and David Halperin (New York: Routledge, 1993)

1987    “Descanting on Deformity: Richard III and the Shape of History,” in The Historical Renaissance: New Essays in Tudor and Stuart Literature and Culture, eds. Heather Dubrow and Richard Strier (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, l987)

            “Secret Sharing: Reading Conrad Psychoanalytically,” (co-authored with Barbara Johnson) College English 49:6 (October l987)

            “Shakespeare's Ghost Writers,” in Cannibals, Witches and Divorce: Estranging the Renaissance. ed. Marjorie Garber (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, l987)

1986    “The Education of Orlando,” in Comedy from Shakespeare to Sheridan. ed. A.R.Braunmuller and J.C. Bulman (Newark: University of Delaware Press, l986, and London and Toronto: Associated University Presses)

            “‘What's Past is Prologue’: The Dramatic Role of the Audience in Shakespeare's History Plays,” in Renaissance Genres: Essays on Theory, History, and Interpretation. Harvard English Studies, l4, ed. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, l986)

1984    “‘Here's Nothing Writ’: Scribe, Script, and Superscription in Marlowe's Plays,” in Theater Journal 36:3 (October l984)

            “‘The Rest is Silence’: Ineffability and the ‘Unscene’ in Shakespeare's Plays,” in Ineffability from Dante to Beckett, eds. Peter S. Hawkins and Anne Howland Schotter (New York: AMS Press, l984)

1981    “‘Remember Me’: Memento Mori Figures in Shakespeare's Plays,” Renaissance Drama l2 (l98l)

1980    “‘The Eye of the Storm’: Structure and Myth in Shakespeare's Tempest,” Hebrew University Studies in Literature 8:l (Spring l980)

            “‘Wild Laughter in the Throat of Death’: Dark Moments in Shakespearean Comedy,” in Shakespearean Comedy, ed. Maurice Charney (New York: New York Literary Forum, l980)

            “The Healer in Shakespeare,” in Medicine and Literature, ed. Enid Rhodes Peschel (New York: Neal Watson Academic Publications, l980)

1979    “Marlovian Vision/ Shakespearean Revision,” in Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 22 (l979)

            “Romeo and Juliet: A Learning Guide,” produced for the U.C. San Diego Extension Division in conjunction with the BBC-PBS televised Shakespeare plays (Los Angeles: Kendall Hunt, l979)

1978    “‘Vassal Actors’: The Role of the Audience in Shakespearean Tragedy,” Renaissance Drama 9 (l978)

1977    “‘Infinite Riches in a Little Room’: Closure and Enclosure in Marlowe,” in Two Renaissance Mythmakers, Selected Papers from the English Institute, l975-l976, ed. Alvin Kernan (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, l977)

            “Coming of Age in Shakespeare,” The Yale Review 66:4 (Summer l977)

            “Cymbeline and the Languages of Myth,” Mosaic l0:3 (Spring l977)

1975    “Fallen Landscape: The Art of Milton and Poussin,” English Literary Renaissance 5:8 (Winter l975)

1973    “The Generic Contexts of When We Dead Awaken,” in Dramatic Romance, ed. Howard Felperin (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, l973)