Publications of Cathy N. Davidson

Books

  1. Davidson, CN. Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business in the 21st Century (Penguin Paperback, 2012).  2012.
  2. Davidson, CN. Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking Press June 2011 publication date).  2010.
  3. Davidson, CN; Goldberg, DT. The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (MIT Press, forthcoming, 2010). MIT Press. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning M I T PRESS, 2009.
  4. Davidson, CN; Goldberg, DT. MIT Press. M I T PRESS, 2009.
  5. Davidson, CN; Goldberg, DT. The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age.  2009.
  6. DAVIDSON, CN. Olaudah Equiano, Written by Himself.40 Duke University Press, August, 2007. 18-51 pp.
  7.  "Olaudah Equiano, Written by Himself". Novel.forthcoming  forthcoming.
  8. Davidson, CN. Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory. W.W. Norton, 1997. (With photographs by Bill Bamberger)
  9. Davidson, CN. Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan. Dutton-Signet (Penguin USA), 1993. (Plume paperback, Oct. 1994; Quality Paperback edition, 1993; Japanese translation, DHC Publishing, 1995; German translation, Knesebeck Verlag, 1996)
  10. Davidson, CN. The Book of Love: Writers and their Love Letters. Pocket/Simon and Schuster, 1992. (Plume/Penguin paperback, 1995; Seoul, Korea: Dongnyok Publishers, 1993; Tokyo, Japan: DHC Publishers, 1994; Barcelona, Spain: Circulo de Lectores, 1994; Beijing, China: Xinhua Publishers, 1996)
  11. Davidson, CN. Ideology and Genre: The Rise of the Novel in America. Fourth Annual James Russell Wiggins Lecture in the History of the Book in American Culture, Worcester, Mass: American Antiquarian Society, 1987. (Reprinted in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 96 (Oct. 1986))
  12. Davidson, CN. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. Oxford UP, 1986.
  13.  The Experimental Fictions of Ambrose Bierce: Structuring the Ineffable. U of Nebraska P, 1984.

Edited

  1. Davidson, CN. Strangers on a Train: A Chance Encounter Provides a Lesson in Complicity and the Never- Ending Crisis in the Humanities. Academe: Magazine of the American Association of University Professors  (2013).
  2. Davidson, CN. Changing Higher Education to Change the World (Series of 8 Articles). Fast Company  (2013).
  3. Davidson, CN. Education, Assessment and the Challenges of the Future (Series of Articles). Washington Post Education Blog  (2012).
  4. Davidson, CN. The Future of Thinking.  2008.
  5. Davidson, CN; Wagner-Martin, L; Ammons, E; Harris, T; Kibbey, A; Ling, A; Radway, J. The oxford companion to: Women’s writing: In the United States. The Oxford Companion to Women'S Writing in the United States Oxford UP, (January, 2005): 1-1021.
  6. Davidson, CN; Moon, M. Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from "Oroonoko" to Anita Hill.  Duke UP, 1995.
  7. Davidson, CN; Wagner-Martin, L. Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States.  Oxford UP, 1995.
  8. Davidson, CN. PH Stands for Political Hypocrisy. Academe 77.5JSTOR, (1991): 8-14.
  9. Elliott, E; ed, ; Davidson, AECN. Columbia History of the American Novel.  Columbia UP, 1991.
  10. Davidson, CN; ed,. Reading in America: Literature and Social History.  Johns Hopkins UP, 1989.
  11. Davidson, CN; ed,. Reading America. Special Issue on the History of Literacy and the History of Books in America, Guest Edited by C.N. Davidson, American Quarterly 40.1 (1988).
  12. Davidson, CN; ed, G. Early American Women Writers Series.  Oxford UP, 1987.
  13. Davidson, CN; introduction, EWAC; bibliography,. Critical Essays on Ambrose Bierce.  G. K. Hall Publishing, 1982.
  14. C.N. Davidson, guest ed.. Canada's Women Writers. Special issue, Journal of Popular Culture 15  (Winter 1981).
  15. Davidson, CN; Davidson, AE. The Art of Margaret Atwood: Essays in Criticism.  Anansi Press/ U of Toronto P, 1981.
  16. Davidson, CN; Broner, EM. The Lost Tradition: Mothers and Daughters in Literature.  Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1980.
  17. Broner, EM; Davidson, CN; guest,. Mothers and Daughters in Literature. Women’S Studies (Special Issue) 6.2 (1979).

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. Davidson, CN. "Why Higher Education Demands a Paradigm Shift." Public Culture 26.1Duke University Press, (2014): 3-11.
  2. Davidson, CN. "Humanities and Technology in the Information Age." The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity.. Ed. Frodeman, R; Klein, JT; Mitcha, C.  2013. 
  3. Davidson, C. "Why Education Demands a Paradigm Shift." Public Culture  (2013)
  4. Davidson, CN; Goldberg, DT. "Our digital age: Implications for learning and its (online) institutions." E Learning and Digital Media 9.3SAGE Publications, (August, 2012): 249-266.
  5. Davidson, CN. "Strangers on a train." Academe 97.5 (September, 2011)
  6. Davidson, CN. "Foreword."  IGI Global,
  7. C.N. Davidson. "Research Is Teaching." ADE Bulletin  (2009)
  8. Davidson, CN. "Blamed For Change." International Journal of Learning and Media  (2009)
  9. Davidson, CN. "Humanities 2.0: Promise, perils, predictions." Pmla 123.3Modern Language Association (MLA), (December, 2008): 707-717.
  10. Davidson, CN. "No! In thunder." American Literature 76.4Duke University Press, (December, 2004): 665-675.
  11. Davidson, CN. "Understanding the Economic Burden of Scholarly Publishing." Chronicle of Higher Education 50.6 SEC. B (October, 2003): B7-B10.
  12. Davidson, CN. "Carrie’s Sisters: The Popular Prototypes for Dreiser’s Heroine." Modern Fiction Studies 23 (1997): 385-407.
  13. Davidson, CN. "Research and Teaching." A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1966. Ed. Harris, Joseph,. Prentice Hall, Studies in Writing and Culture, 1997. ix-xi.
  14. Davidson, CN. "Critical Fictions." Pmla  (September, 1996)
  15. Davidson, CN. "Guest column - Four views on the place of the personal in scholarship - Critical fictions." Pmla 111.5 (1996): 1069-1072.
  16. "Preface." A New England Tale by Catherine Maria Sedgwick. Oxford UP, 1995. 
  17. Davidson, CN. "The Question of Accuracy: Or, Why Women’s Studies?." The European English Messenger  (1995)
  18. Davidson, CN. "Loose Change: Presidential Address to the American Studies Association." American Quarterly 46 (June, 1994): 123-38.
  19. Davidson, CN. ""Loose Change": Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 4, 1993." American Quarterly 46.2JSTOR, (June, 1994): 123-123.
  20. Davidson, CN. "Tatami Room." Eloquent Obsessions: Writing Cultural Criticism. Ed. Torgovnick, M. Duke UP, 1994. 
  21. "Preface." Kelroy by Rebecca Rush. Oxford UP, 1993. 
  22. Davidson, CN. "The Novel as Subversive Activity: Women Reading, Women Writing." After the Revolution: Further Explorations in the History of American Radicalism. Ed. Young, AF. Dekalb: Northern Illinois UP, 1993. 
  23. Davidson, CN. "Laughing in English." Academe 79.6JSTOR, (1993): 18-18.
  24. Davidson, CN. "Love Letters for My Grandmother." The Women’S Review of Books 10.2 (November, 1992): 12 and 13-12 and 13.
  25. DAVIDSON, CN. "CALVERT,ALCUIN AND CALVERT,STEPHEN - BROWN,CB." Resources for American Literary Study 17.2 (1991): 272-274.
  26. Davidson, CN. "Photographs of the Dead: Cindy Sherman, L.J.M. Daguerre, Nathanial Hawthorne." Saq 89 (Fall, 1990): 667-701.
  27. DAVIDSON, CN. "PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DEAD, SHERMAN, DAGUERRE, HAWTHORNE." South Atlantic Quarterly 89.4 (1990): 667-701.
  28. Davidson, CN. "Decoding the Hemingway Hero in The Sun Also Rises." The Sun Also Rises. Ed. Wagner, L. New York: Cambridge UP, 1987. 
  29. Davidson, CN. "The Book in the ’Good Old Days’: A Portrait of the Early American Book Industry." (Adapted From Chapter Two of Revolution and the Word), Book Research Quarterly 2 (Winter, 1987): 33-64.
  30. Davidson, CN. "The Reprint Phenomenon." (Review Essay), Women’S Review of Books 4.1 (1986): 7-9.
  31. Davidson, CN. "Education, Literacy, and the Politics of Sentimental Fiction." Women’S Studies International Forum (Great Britain) 9 (1986): 5-8.
  32. Davidson, CN. "Female Authorship and Authority: The Case of Sukey Vickery." Early American Literature 21 (1986): 4-28.
  33. Davidson, CN. "The Resisting Critic and the Politics of Literary Reception." (Review Essay), American Quarterly 37 (1985): 286-291.
  34. Davidson, CN. "To Bee or Not to Bee: Ann Rosenberg’s Critique of Levi-Strauss." Canadian Literature 105 (1985): 197-200.
  35. Davidson, CN. "Crossing Boundaries: Hubert Aquin’s L’Antiphonaire and Robert Kroetsch’s Gone Indian as Fictions of the Avant-Garde."  54
  36. Davidson, CN. "Flirting with Destiny: Ambivalence and Form in the Early American Sentimental Novel." Studies in American Fiction. 10 1982. 17-39.
  37. Davidson, CN. "Isaac Mitchell’s The Asylum; or, Gothic Castles in the New Republic." Prospects: the Annual of American Cultural Studies 8 (1982): 281-300.
  38. Davidson, CN. "Vernissage: Ray Smith’s Lord Nelson Tavern and the Fine Art of Glossing Over." Canadian Literature 92 (1982): 58-70.
  39. Davidson, CN. "The Matter and Manner of Charles Brockdon Brown’s Alcuin." Critical Essays on Charles Brockdon Brown. Ed. Rosenthal, B. Boston: G.K. Hall Publishing, 1981. 71-86.
  40. Davidson, CN. "Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle: The Artist as Escapist and Seer." Studies in Canadian Literature 3 (1981)
  41. Davidson, CN. "The Popular Roots of Major American Novels." Kansai American Literature (Japan) 27 (1980): 16-43.
  42. Davidson, CN. "Kept Women in the House of Mirth." The Markham Review 9 (1979): 10-14.
  43. C.N. Davidson (Co-author). "Margaret Atwood's Lady Oracle: The Artist as Escapist and Seer." Studies in Canadian Literature 3 (Winter 1978)
  44. Davidson, CN. "Courting God and Mammon: The Biographer’s Impasse in Melville’s ’Bartleby the Scrivener’." Special Melville Number of Delta (France) 6 (1978): 47-60.
  45. C.N. Davidson (Co-author). "Carrie's Sisters: The Popular Prototypes for Dreiser's Heroine." Modern Fiction Studies 23 (Fall 1977): 385-407.
  46. Davidson, CN. "Canadian Wry: Comic Vision in Atwood’s Lady Oracle and Laurence’s The Diviners." Regionalism 3 (1977)
  47. Davidson, CN. "’Circumsexualocution’ in Henry James’s Daisy Miller." Arizona Quarterly 32 (Winter, 1977): 335-55.
  48. Davidson, CN. "Oedipa as Androgyne in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49." Contemporary Literature 18 (Winter, 1977): 38-50.
  49. Davidson, CN. "The Power of Sympathy Reconsidered: William Hill Brown as Literacy Craftsman." Early American Literature 10 (Spring, 1975): 14-29.

Articles in a Collection

  1. Davidson, C. "The Futures of Scholarly Publishing." (University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)), April, 2004. 129-142.