* Women in Russian Literature: from Pushkin to Solzhenitsyn (University of Chicago Press, 1993)
* Chernyshevsky and the Aesthetics of Social Utopia (Cornell University Press, 1997)
* Suicide as a Cultural Institution in Dostoevsky's Russia (Cornell University Press, 1997)
* The Demons in Russian and Soviet Literature, Theater and Film: The Devil's Repertoire (Brill Rodopi, 2018)
Select Edited Books and Journal Issues
* _Women and Literature in Russia_ (Special issue of _Russian Literature_, 1994)
* _Chernyshevsky and His Time_ (Special issue of _Slavic and East European Journal_, 1998)
* _Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?: A Controversy Renewed_ (co-edited with Sarah Pratt; special issue of _Slavonic and East European Review_, 1999)
* _Dostoevsky's The Possessed: Critical Essays_, (ed. with Kevin M. F. Platt, special issue of _Slavonic and East European Journal_, 2018)
* _Pushkin's The Bronze Horseman: Critical Essays_, (ed. with Kevin M. F. Platt, special issue of _Slavonic and East European Review_, 2019)
Articles and Chapters in Books
* "The Theme of Suicide in Dostoevsky's _The Devils_", in _Dostoevsky Studies: Essays in Honor of Richard Peace_ (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1993)
* "Reading and Rethinking Leskov: The Case of _The Enchanted Pilgrim_" in _Leskov: His Style and Impact_ (ed. by Robert Belknap, Boulder: East European Monographs, 1995)
* "The Poetics of Political Martyrdom in the Works of Chernyshevsky, Leskov, and Boborykin", _Slavic Review_ (Winter, 1996)
* "The 'Woman Question' and the Rise of Social Realism in Russian Literature," _Slavic and East European Review_ (July 1996)
* "Chernyshevsky and Russian Utopia(s): The Political and the Aesthetic", _Slavonic and East European Journal_ (Winter, 1998)
* "Bakhtin and Russian Realism: The Question of Genre", _New Literary History_ (Winter 1999)
* "The Utopian Impulse and the Cultural Poetics of Suicide in Russia," _Canadian-American Slavic Studies_ (Spring-Summer 2000)
* "'For Freedom, for Truth': Political Paranoia and the Poetics of Suicide in Dostoevsky's _Demons_," _Dostoevsky Studies_ (New Series, Vol. 5, 2001)
* "The Devil in Dostoevsky's _Demons_," _Slavic Review_ (Spring 2003)
* "Social Paranoia and the Politics of Suicide in Dostoevsky's _Demons_," in _The Demons_ by Fyodor Dostoevsky. A Norton Critical Edition (New York: Norton, 2003)
* "Utopian Visions in Solzhenitsyn's Historical Prose: _A Breath Not Taken_, _The Gulag Archipelago_, and _Two Hundred Years Together_", in _Solzhenitsyn and His Time_, ed. by William Husband and Erika Spivack (New York: Berghahn, 2005)
* "The Social Imagination of the Underground Woman: Notes on Dostoevsky's _Notes from Underground_ and Solzhenitsyn's _Matrena's Place_" in _Writing the Unfinished Tale: On Alexander Solzhenitsyn at 90_, ed. by Caryl Emerson (New Haven: Yale Russian and East European Studies, 2006)
* "On the Trail of the Evil Spirit: Dostoevsky's Demon in Literature, Theater, and Film", _Slavic Review_ (Winter, 2010)
* "Pushkin's _The Bronze Horseman_ and the Poetics of Power" _ Slavic Review_ (Winter, 2012)
* "'How Many Devils Will Come Crawling Out!': The Theme of Possession and the Figure of the Devil in Russian Literary and Cultural Contexts", special issue of _Slavic and East European Journal_ (Spring, 2013)
* "The 'Unhappy Consciousness' and the Devil: From Goethe to Dostoevsky" in _The Unhappy Consciousness: Its Transformations and Disappearance_ (ed. by Michael Finke, Brill Rodopi, 2014)
* "Crime and Punishment in Dostoevsky's _The Devils_", in _Crime and Punishment: A Companion_ (ed. by Kevin M. F. Platt, Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, 2015)
* "Introduction to _Demons_," _Norton Anthology of World Literature_, vol. E, Ninth edition (New York: Norton, 2019)