The Production of Personal Life: Class, Gender, and the Psychological in Hawthorne’s Fiction (Stanford University Press, 1991)
Staging Depth: Eugene O’Neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse (University of North Carolina Press, 1995, Choice “Best Academic Books of 1995” award)
The Yale Indian: The Education of Henry Roe Cloud (Duke University Press, 2009)
Surveyors of Customs: American Literature as Cultural Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America (Yale University Press, 1997)
Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern (Duke University Press, 2004)
Critique for What? Cultural Studies, American Studies, Left Studies (Paradigm, 2006; Routledge 2016)
