Publications of Priscilla Wald

Books

  1. with Wald, ; Elliott, M. Oxford History of the Novel in English (American Novel 1870-1940).6  2014.
  2. Wald, P. Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative. Duke University Press, 2008.
  3. Wald, P. Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form. Duke UP, 1995. (second printing, 1998)

Edited

  1. with Gerry Canavan. Science Fiction. special issue of American Literature 83.2 (June, 2011).
  2. with J. Clayton, K.F.C. Holloway. Genomics in Literature, the Visual Arts, and Culture. Literature and Medicinespecial issue,   (Spring, 2007).
  3. with N. Tomes, and L. Lynch, eds.. Culture and Contagion. special issue of American Literary History 14.4 (Winter, 2002).
  4. Wai Chee Dimock, Priscilla Wald. Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges. special issue of American Literature 74.4 (Dec. 2002).

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. Wald, P. "Afterword." English Language Notes 61.1 (January, 2023): 95-99.
  2. Wald, P. "Microbes of Empire." American Quarterly 74.3 (September, 2022): 706-712.
  3. Wald, P. "Afterword: “A New Way beyond the Darkness”." Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific.  2022. 277-284.
  4. Altschuler, S; Wald, P. "Covid-19 and the language of racism." Signs 47.1 (September, 2021): 14-22.
  5. Wald, P. "Language Matters." Women's Studies 50.8 (January, 2021): 863-869.
  6. Altschuler, S; Wald, P. "COVID-19: Pandemic reading." American Literature 92.4 (December, 2020): 681-688.
  7. Taylor, MA; Wald, P. "Xenopolitics." American Quarterly 71.3 (January, 2019): 895-902.
  8. Wald, P. "Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War." Journal of American History 105.1Oxford University Press (OUP), (June, 2018): 212-212.
  9. Wald, P. "Kath Weston. Animate Planet: Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2017. 264 pp.." Critical Inquiry 44.3University of Chicago Press, (March, 2018): 613-614.
  10. Wald, P. "Viral cultures: Microbes and politics in the cold war." Zombie Theory: A Reader.  2017. 33-62.
  11. Wald, P. "Replicant being: Law and strange life in the age of biotechnology." New Directions in Law and Literature.  2017. 344-358.
  12. Wald, P. "Christopher Hamlin,More Than Hot: A Short History of Fever." Social History of Medicine 29.3Oxford University Press (OUP), (August, 2016): 663-664.
  13. Wald, P. "Natural Disaster." Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture. Ed. Adamson, J; Gleason, WA; Pellow, D. New York University Press, 2015. 
  14. Wald, P. "Biological Evolution, keyword entry." Fueling Culture: Energy, History, Politics. Ed. Szeman, I. Fordham University Press, 2015. 
  15. Wald, P. "The provincialism of time." Early American Literature 50.1Johns Hopkins University Press, (January, 2015): 63-80.
  16. Wald, P. "Science, Technology, and the Environment." The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction. Ed. Canavan, G; Link, E. Cambridge University Press, 2015. 179-193.
  17. Wald, P. "The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500-1900." Ed. Cole, K; Bauer, R; Nunes, Z; Patterson, C. Palgrave Macmillan,
  18. Wald, P. "Science and Literature in America." Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology in America. Ed. Slotten, H; Usselman, S; Clark, C.  2014. 
  19. Morgan, PT; Wald, P. "Preface: Thoreau symposium." American Literature 85.1Duke University Press, (March, 2013): 1-3.
  20. Hudsona, P; Goldfield, D; Bailey, RL; Hubal, EC; Wald, P. "Serials from the other side: An editorial perspective on current trends in scholarly communication." Serials Review 39.3Informa UK Limited, (January, 2013): 190-192.
  21. Wald, P. "Afterword." Contagionism and Contagious Diseases: Medicine and Literature between 1880 and 1933. Ed. Rutten, T; King, M. De Gruyter, 2013. 225-232.
  22. Wald, P. "The ‘Hidden Tyrant’: Propaganda, Brainwashing, and Psycho-Politics in the Cold War Period." Oxford Handbook of Propaganda Studies. Ed. Auerbach, J; Castronovo, R. Oxford University Press, 2013. 109-130.
  23. Wald, P. "Immigrant Literature and the Immigrant Experience." Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration,. Ed. Barkan, E. ABC-Clio, 2013. 1839-55.
  24. Wald, P. "Afterword: Global Health and the Persistence of History." Imperial Contagions: Medicine and Cultures of Planning in Asia. Ed. Peckham, R; Pomfret, D. University of Hong Kong Press, 2013. 215-25.
  25. Wald, P. "Botanophobia: Fear of Plants in the Atomic Age." Japanese Journal of American Studies 24 (2013): 7-27.
  26. P. Wald. "Bio Terror: Hybridity in the Biohorror Narrative, or What We Can Learn From Our Monsters." Contagion: Health, Fear, Sovereignty.  2012. 99-122.
  27. Wald, P. "Cells, Genes, and Stories: HeLa’s Journey from Labs to Literature." Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of Race, DNA and History. Ed. Wailoo, K; Nelson, A; Lee, C. Rutgers University Press, 2012. 247-65.
  28. Wald, P. "American Studies and the Politics of Life: ASA Presidential Address." American Quarterly 64.2 (2012): 185-204.
  29. Wald, P. "Exquisite Fragility: Human Being in the Aftermath of War." Blackwell Companion to American Literary Studies. JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD, 2011. 437-453.
  30. Wald, P. "Science Fiction." American Literature Ed. Wald, P; Canavan, G. 83.2Duke University Press, (June, 2011): 832-846.
  31. Canavan, G; Wald, P. "American Literature: Preface." American Literature 83.2 (June, 2011): 237-249.
  32. Wald, P. "“Science Fiction: Stories of Warning and Wonder,”." Cambridge History of the American Novel. Ed. Cassuto, L; Eby, C; Reiss, B.  2011. 832-46.
  33. Wald, P. "Introduction to Science Fiction." American Literature Ed. Canavan, G. 83.2Duke University Press, (2011): 237-249.
  34. Wald, P. ""Science Fiction and Medical Ethics"." The Lancet 371 (June, 2009): 9629-9629.
  35. Wald, P. "“We Have Never Been Biological,” Forum: Conference Debates. Biocultures: An Emerging Paradigm." PMLA 124.3 (May, 2009): 953-55.
  36. Rusert, B; Wald, P. "American Literature: Introduction." American Literature 81.1Duke University Press, (April, 2009): 1-6.
  37. Rusert, B; Wald, P. "Introduction, Technologies of Enslavement and Liberty." American Literature Ed. Wald, P; Rusert, B. 81.1 (March, 2009)
  38. Wald, P. ""The Intimacies of Strangers"." emisférica 6.1 (Summer, 2009)
  39. Wald, P. "Cognitive estrangement, science fiction, and medical ethics.." Lancet (London, England) 371.9628 (June, 2008): 1908-1909.
  40. Wald, P; Clayton, J. "Editors' preface: Genomics in literature, visual arts, and culture." Literature and Medicine 26.1Johns Hopkins University Press, (January, 2007): VI-XVI.
  41. Wald, P. "“Geonomics: the Spaces and Races of Citizenship in the Genome Age”." America–From Near and Far: Varieties of American Experience. Ed. Raphael, ML; Wilhelm, C. Department of Religion, William and Mary College, 2007. 
  42. Wald, P. "Naturalization." Keywords of American Cultural Studies. Ed. Burgett, B; Hendler, G. NYU Press, 2007. 
  43. Wald, P. "Atomic Faulkner." Faulkner’s Inheritance. Ed. Urgo, J. University of Mississippi Press, 2007. 
  44. cooke, M. "Foreword." Arab Women’s Lives Retold: Exploring Identity through Writing. University Press, 2007. v-viii.
  45. "Blood and Stories: How Genomics is Changing Race, Medicine, and Human History." Patterns of Prejudice 40.4/5 (November, 2006)
  46. Wald, P. "Blood and stories: How genomics is rewriting race, medicine and human history." Patterns of Prejudice 40.4-5Informa UK Limited, (September, 2006): 303-333.
  47. cooke, M. "Foreword." Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality. Ed. Husain, S. Seal, 2006. viii-xi.
  48. Wald, P. "What's in a cell?: John Moore's spleen and the language of bioslavery." New Literary History 36.2Johns Hopkins University Press, (Spring, 2005): 205-225.  Special Issue
  49. Baker, HA; Wald, P. "Anniversaries and "whispering ambitions": American Literature at 75." American Literature 76.4Duke University Press, (December, 2004): 639-652.
  50. Wald, P. "Hannah crafts.." In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on the Bondwoman’s Narrative. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, J; Robbins, H. Basic Books, 2004. 
  51. Wald, P. "“Dreiser’s Sociological Vision”." The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser. Ed. Cassuto, L; Eby, CV. Cambridge UP, 2004. 
  52. Wald, P. "Of crucibles and grandfathers: The East European immigrants." The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 50-69.
  53. Wald, P. "Hannah crafts.." Critical Essays on Hannah Crafts’ The Bondwoman’s Narrative. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, J; Robbins, H. Basic Books, 2003. 
  54. Wald, P. "The East European Immigrants: Of Crucibles and Grandfathers." The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature. Ed. Kramer, M; Nesher, HW. Cambridge UP, 2003. 
  55. Wald, P. "Introduction to Paula Treichler’s AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification." American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader. Ed. P Wald, MAE; Stokes, C. New York: New York UP, 2003. 182-84.
  56. Wald, P. "Dreiser & The Fallen." Woman Narrative Ed. Wald, P.  (2003)
  57. Wai Chee Dimock, P. Wald. "Preface." Literature and Science: Cultural Forms, Conceptual Exchanges (a special issue of American Literature) 74.4 (December, 2002): 705-14.
  58. P. Wald, N.Tomes, L. Lynch. "Introduction." Culture and Contagion, a special issue of American Literary History 14.4 (Winter, 2002): 617-24.
  59. Wald, P. "Communicable Americanism: Contagion, geographic fictions, and the sociological legacy of Robert E. Park." American Literary History 14.4Oxford University Press (OUP), (Winter, 2002): 653-685.
  60. Dimock, WC; Wald, P. "Literature and science: Cultural forms, conceptual exchanges." American Literature 74.4Duke University Press, (December, 2002): 705-714.
  61. Wald, P; Tomes, N; Lynch, L. "Introduction: Culture and Contagion." American Literary History 14.4Oxford University Press (OUP), (December, 2002): 617-624.
  62. Wald, P. "Immigration and Assimilation in Nineteenth-Century US Women’s Narratives." The Cambridge Companion to 19th-Century American Women’s Writing. Ed. Bauer, D; Gould, P. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. 176-199.
  63. Curzan, A; Wald, P. "Americanization." Encyclopedia of American Studies. Grolier, 2001. 
  64. Wald, P. "The Idea of America." Encyclopedia of American Studies Grolier, (2001)
  65. Wald, P. "Emma Goldman." American Women Prose Writers 1870-1920: Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. Harris, S; Jacobs, HL; Putzi, J. 221Detroit: Gale Group, 2000. 
  66. Wald, P. "Imagined Immunities." Cultural Studies & Political Theory. Ed. Dean, J. Cornell UP, 2000. 189-208.
  67. Wald, P. "Future Perfect: Genes, Grammar and Geography." New Literary History 4.31 (2000): 681-708.
  68. Bauer, DM; Wald, P. "Complaining, conversing, and coalescing." SIGNS 25.4 (2000): 1299-1303.
  69. Wald, P. "Geographics: Writing the Shtetl into the Ghetto." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses  (November, 1999): 209-27.
  70. Wald, P; DiStefano, C; Weisenfeld, J. "Edititorial." Institutions, Regulation, and Social Control, Signs 24.4 (1999): 857-868.
  71. Wald, P; Patterson, M. "Themes, Topics and Criticism." Ameican Literary Scholarship 1997. Duke UP, 1999. 399-423.
  72. Wald, P. "Fabulous Shadows: Rethinking the Emersonian Tradition." American Quarterly 50.4 (December, 1998): 831-39.  Review essay on John Carlos Rowe's At Emerson's Tomb
  73. Wald, P. "Minefields and meeting grounds: Transnational analyses and American studies." American Literary History 10.1Oxford University Press (OUP), (March, 1998): 199-218.
  74. "Fabulous Shadows: Rethinking the Emersonian Tradition."  
  75. Wald, P. "Fabulous Shadows: Rethinking the Emersonian Tradition, Review of John Carlos Rowe's At Emerson's Tomb." American Quarterly 50.4Johns Hopkins University Press, (1998): 831-839.
  76. Wald, P. "Cultures and Carriers: ’Typhoid Mary’ and the Science of Social Control." Social Text 52-53 (1997): 181-214.
  77. Wald, P. "Minefields and Meeting Grounds: Transnational Analyses and American Studies." American Literary History 9.1 (Spring, 1997): 199-218.
  78. Wald, P. "Zora Neale Hurston." A Companion to American Thought. Ed. Fox, R; Kloppenberg, J. Blackwell Publishers, 1995. 
  79. Wald, P. "’Chaos Goes Uncourted’: John Yau’s Dis-orienting Poetics." Cohesion and Dissent in America. Ed. Alkana, J; Colatrella, C. SUNY Press, 1994. 133-58.
  80. Wald, P. "Dreiser and the Fallen Woman Narrative." The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser. Duke UP, 1993.  Reprinted in American Indian Persistence and Resurgence, ed. Karl Kroeber [Duke UP, 1994]
  81. Wald, P. "A God Who Is Later a Terror: (En)countering the National Plot in Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans." Prospects  (1992): 323-65.
  82. Wald, P. "Terms of Assimilation: Legislating Subjectivity in the Emerging Nation." boundary 2 19.3 (Fall, 1992): 77-104.  Reprinted in Cultures of United States Imperialism, ed. Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease [Duke UP, 1993]. Also reprinted in American Indian Persistence and Resurgence, ed. Karl Kroeber [Duke UP, 1994]
  83. Wald, P. "Becoming "colored": The self-authorized language of difference in Zora Neale Hurston." American Literary History 2.1Oxford University Press (OUP), (March, 1990): 79-100.
  84. Wald, P. "Hearing Narrative Voices in Melville’s Pierre." boundary 2 17.1 (Spring, 1990): 100-32.  Reprinted in Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon, ed. Donald Pease (Duke UP, 1994)
  85. Wald, P. "Guilt by Dissociation: John Yau’s Poetics of Possibility." Talisman 5 (Fall, 1990): 121-26.
  86. Wald, P. "William Peterfield Trent." Dictionary of Literary Biography: Nineteenth Century American Literary Critics and Scholars. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli-Clark, Inc, 1989. 
  87. Wald, P. "Science and Technology." Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory. Ed. Szeman, I; Blacker, S; Sully, J. 59Wiley-Blackwell, 1980. 1700-1705.

Short Stories

  1. Wald, P. "BIO TERROR Hybridity in the Biohorror Narrative, or What We Can Learn from Monsters." CONTAGION: HEALTH, FEAR, SOVEREIGNTY. Ed. Magnusson, B; Zalloua, Z. (UNIV WASHINGTON PRESS, January, 2012): 99-122.
  2. Clayton, J; Davis, LJ; Metzl, JM; Wald, P; Hausman, BL. "Forum: Conference debates - Biocultures: An emerging paradigm." PMLA 124.3 (Modern Language Association (MLA), May, 2009): 947-956.

Book Reviews

  1. Wald, P. Jagged Edges: Reading Culture Through a Literary Lens, review of Susan Mizruchi, The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and print Culture 1865-1915 and Cynthia H. Tolentino, America's Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology.  Novel: A Forum on Fiction 44.3 (March, 2015): 467.
  2. Wald, P. Review of Jonathan Metzal's he Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease.  SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE 24.1 (April, 2011): 194-195.
  3. Wald, P. Review of Cynthia H. Tolentino's America's Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology.  NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION 44.3 (2011): 467-470.
  4. Wald, P. Review of Susan Mizruchi's The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915.  NOVEL-A FORUM ON FICTION 44.3 (2011): 467-470.
  5. Wald, P. Review of Ian Whitmarsh's Biomedical Ambiguity: Race, Asthma, and the Contested Meaning of Genetic Research in the Caribbean.  Social History of Medicine 22.2 (August, 2009): 421-422.
  6. Wald, P. Review of Heather Munro Prescott's Student Bodies: The Influence of Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine.  BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE 83.1 (2009): 217-218.
  7. Wald, P. Review of Ann L. Ardis and Leslie W. Lewis’ Women’s Experience of Modernity: 1875-1945.  MODERNISM/Modernity 12.4 (2005): 729-31.
  8. Wald, P. Review of Laura Otis’ Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century.  Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 46.3 (Summer, 2003): 452-54.
  9. Wald, P. Review of Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky, eds.’s "’Bad’ Mothers: The Politics of Blame in Twentieth-Century America".  Left History (2001).
  10. Wald, P. Review of Lawrie Balfour’s The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy.  The Review of Politics 63.4 (Fall, 2001): 593-95.
  11. Wald, P. Review of John Carlos Rowe’s The Other Henry James.  New England Quarterly (2000).
  12. Wald, P. Review of Nancy Tomes' The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women and the Microbe at the Turn of the Century.  MODERNISM-MODERNITY 7.2 (2000): 338-340.
  13. Stefano, CD; Weisenfeld, J. Institutions, Regulations and Social Control.  special issue of Signs (1999).
  14. Wald, P. Review of Walter Benn Michaels’ Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism.  Modern Language Quarterly 59.1 (March, 1998): 124-29.
  15. Wald, P. Review of Trudier Harris’ The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller’s Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan.  American Literature 7.1 (March, 1998): 202-202.
  16. Wald, P. Review of Richard M. Merelman’s Representing Black Culture: Racial Conflict and Cultural Politics in the United States.  Ethnic and Racial Studies 20.1 (1997): 226-28.
  17. Wald, P. Review of Genevieve Fabre and Robert O'Meally's History and Memory in African-American Culture.  American Literature 68.1 (March, 1996): 269-71.
  18. Wald, P. Review of Nina Schwartz’s Dead Fathers: The Logic of Transference in Modern Narrative.  Clio 26.1 (Fall, 1996): 127-32.
  19. Wald, P. Review of Lee Quinby’s Anti-Apocalypse: Exercises in Genealogical Criticism.  American Literature 67.2 (June, 1995): 421-22.
  20. Wald, P. Review of Mark Twain’s Pudd’n’head Wilson: Race, Conflict, and Culture.  Studies in American Fiction 23.2 (Fall, 1995): 254-56.
  21. Wald, P. Review of Kathleen Diffley’s Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861-1876.  Journal of American History 81.1 (June, 1994): 283-84.
  22. Wald, P. Review of Paula Gunn Allen’s A Cannon Between My Knees.  Studies in American Indian Literature 9.4 (Fall, 1985).
  23. Wald, P. Review of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller.  Studies in American Indian Literature 6.4 (Fall, 1982).
  24. Applewhite, J. Science Fiction.  Poetry 138 (June, 1981): 156-156.