Recent Works
Stephen Spender, Poems Written Abroad
Published by Indiana University Press, 2019.
Friedrich Gerstäcker, The Arkansas Regulators
Publlished by Berghahn Books, 2019.
Max Eastman: A Life
Published by Yale University Press, 2017.
Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Louis Agassiz, Introduction to the Study of Natural History
Puiblished by Springer, 2017.
Reconsidering Longfellow
Edited by Christoph Irmscher and Robert Arbour.
Published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014. Paperback 2015.
A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History
Edited by Alan C. Braddock and Christoph Irmscher.
PUblished by the University of Alabama Press, 2009.
Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200
Paperback. Published by the University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.
Longfellow Redux
Published by the University of Illinois Press, 2006. Revised paperback edition, 2008.
John James Audubon:
Writings and Drawings
Published by the Library of America, 1999. Second edition, 2011.
The Poetics of Natural History
PUblished by Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Public Poet, Private Man: Web Exhibit
Published by the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Music for the Worms: Darwin at the Lilly Library
Web exhibit featuring Darwin's career and major works from The Voyage of the Beagle to The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms. With copious illustrations from the Archives of the Lilly Library and a complete chronology of Darwin's life.