• Swinburne, Hardy, Lawrence and the Burden of Belief (U of Chicago P, 1978).
• The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence:  Texts and Contexts (U of Nebraska P, 1987).
• The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms (with Supryia Ray) (Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1997, 2003).
• “Introduction” to The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories (by Nathaniel Hawthorne) (Signet/New American Library, 2006).

• Literature of Religious Reflection
• Contemporary Approaches to Literature 

Ross Murfin studies late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British and American literature as well as contemporary critical theory.  The author of books on Swinburne, Hardy, and D. H. Lawrence, he has also edited and introduced collections and editions of works by Joseph Conrad and Nathaniel Hawthorne.  He is series editor of Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism, a line of books published by Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, and is co-author, with Supryia M. Ray, of The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms.