Publications

Patell, Cyrus R. K. Lucasfilm: Filmmaking, Philosophizing, and the Star Wars Universe. 2021. London: Bloomsbury.

Patell, Cyrus. Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination. Springer, 2015. New York: Palgrave Macmillan..

Patell, Cyrus. Emergent US literatures: from multiculturalism to cosmopolitanism in the late twentieth century.  2014. New York: NYU Press.

Patell, Cyrus RK. Rolling Stones' Some Girls. 2011. 33 1/3 Series. New York: Continuum.

Patell, Cyrus R. K., and Bryan Waterman, eds.. 2010. The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Patell, Cyrus R. K. and Bryan Waterman, eds. 2009.  Lost New York, 1609–2009. New York: Fales Library.

Patell, Cyrus RK. Negative liberties: Morrison, Pynchon, and the problem of liberal ideology. 2001. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Patell, Cyrus R. K. and Sacvan Bercovitch, eds. 1994. The Cambridge History of American Literature, general editor Sacvan Bercovitch, Volume II: Prose Writing, 1820–1865.

Patell, Cyrus R. K. and Sacvan Bercovitch, eds. 1994. The Cambridge History of American Literature, general editor Sacvan Bercovitch, Volume I: 1590–1820.

Patell, Cyrus R. K. Joyce’s Use of History in Finnegans Wake. 1984. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Patell, Cyrus R. K., and Bryan Waterman, eds.  The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Patell, Cyrus R. K., and Bryan Waterman, eds. Lost New York. Fales Library, New York University, 2010.

Bercovitch, Sacvan (general editor) and Cyrus R. K. Patell (associate editor). The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 2: Prose Writing, 1820-1865. Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Bercovitch, Sacvan (general editor) and Cyrus R. K. Patell (associate editor). The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 1: 1590-1820. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

“Cosmopolitan Reading and the Global Classroom,” with Deborah Lindsay Williams. Forthcoming in the ADE-ADFL Bulletin, December 2018.

“Karen Tei Yamashita and the Cultivation of Cosmopolitan Virtue” in Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory, ed. A. Robert Lee. University of Hawai’i Press,  2018.

 “The Dynamics of Residual and Emergent in the American Novel after 1940,” with Deborah Lindsay Williams, New Directions in the History of the Novel, ed. Patrick Parrinder and Jonathan Arac. Palgrave, 2014

“Overshadowed New York,” essay-review with Bryan Waterman, American Literary History 24 (2012): 853–63.

“Cosmopolitanism and Zoroastrianism in Moby-Dick,” The Turn Back to Religion: Essays in American Literature and Culture, ed. Nan Goodman and Michael Kramer. Ashgate, 2011. 19 –36.

"Star Wars and the Technophobic Imagination," Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology, ed. Douglas Brode and Leah Dyneka. Scarecrow Press, 2012.

"The nonconformist: new biography paints a convincing picture of Marlon Brando as intellectual," The National | September 11,  2014.

"The enduring appeal of fiction that asks: what if?"  The National | May 29, 2014.

"A History of the World in Twelve Maps shows that cartography is a matter of perspective," The National | December 12, 2013.

"Dissident Gardens shows pitfalls of US Communism," The National | August 22, 2013.

"Deep connections: Philip Hoare's seminal encounter with a blue whale," The National | August 22, 2013.