Books

• On the Grotesque: Strategies of Contradiction in Art and Literature (Princeton University Press, 1982; paperback, 1986). 2nd ed. with new preface (Davies Publishing, 2006). This work was the primary inspiration for “Domus Aurea,” a composition by Edmund Campion for piano and vibraphone, which premiered at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, November 4, 2000.
• The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism (University of Chicago Press, 1987; paperback, 1992).
• Getting It Right: Language, Literature, and Ethics (University of Chicago Press, 1992). Partially translated into Croatian as Pripovjedni Imperative, in Politika ietika pripovijedanja, ed. Vladimir Biti (Zagreb: Hrvatska sveucilišna naklada, 2003), 129–56.
• One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad (University of Chicago Press, 1996).
• Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society (Duke University Press, 1999).
• Language Alone: The Critical Fetish of Modernity (Routledge Press, 2002).
• A Glossary of Literary Terms, 8th ed., coauthored with M.H. Abrams (Wadsworth, 2005); 9th ed. (Wadsworth, 2008). Translated into Persian, Turkish, Chinese, Korean, Greek. Indian edition, 2009.
• The Character of Criticism (Routledge Press, 2006).
• On Being Human, special issue of Daedalus, 138.3 (2009), consulting editor. This issue grew out of the “Autonomy, Singularity, Creativity: The Human and the Humanities” initiative sponsored by the National Humanities Center, 2006–09.
• The Humanities and the Dream of America (University of Chicago Press, 2011).
• Harpham, Geoffrey Galt (2017). What do you think, Mr. Ramirez? : the American revolution in education. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
• Scholarship and Freedom ([Harvard University Press]), 2020).
• Citizenship on Catfish Row: Race and Nation in American Popular Culture ([University of South Carolina Press], 2022).
• Theories of Race, at: theoriesofrace.com

Critical studies and reviews of Harpham's work

• Reitter, Paul (February 22, 2018). "The business of learning". The New York Review of Books. 65 (3): 30, 32–33. Review of What do you think, Mr. Ramirez?.

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• Recent Publications of Geoffrey Harpham
• Curriculum Vitae of Geoffrey Galt Harpham