Dietrich Icon, co-edited with Gerd Gemunden (Duke University Press, 2007).

Special issues of Celebrity Studies (Volume 8, no. 4, December 2017) on celebrity biography/biopics, co-edited with Michael DeAngelis; Journal of e-Media Studies (Summer 2015) on race, gender, and genre in broadcast television and radio, co-edited with Mary Beth Haralovich.

"The Incredible Shrinking Star:  Todd Haynes and the Case of Karen Carpenter,"  Feminism's Indelible Mark:  Reframing the Work of Todd Haynes, eds. Therese Geller  and Julia Leyda (Duke University Press, 2022), pp. 256-280.

"Gross 'Inaccuracies, Misrepresentations, and Exaggerations': The Motion Picture Industry's Clean-up of Movie Fan Magazines in 1934," Mapping Movie Magazines:  Digitization, Periodicals, and Cinema History, ed. Daniel Biltereyst and Lies Van de Vijver (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).  Runner-up for Best Edited Collection awarded by British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies (BAFTSS), 2021.

"Feminist Media Histories Genealogies:  Star Studies," Feminist Media Histories, 4:2 (Spring 2018), pp. 185-190.

"The Perils of 'IT':  Clara Bow, Agency, Experience, and the Scandalous Life Story," Celebrity Studies 8:4 (2017).

"Classical Hollywood (1928-1946)," Chapter Two of Costume, Make-up and Hair, edited by Adrienne L. McLean for Behind the Silver Screen Series (Rutgers University Press, 2016).

"Editors' Introduction:  Reconsidering Gender, Genre, and Race in Broadcast Radio and Television," (co-written and co-edited with Mary Beth Haralovich) Special Issue of Journal of e-Media Studies 4:1 (Summer 2015)

"Performance, Labor, and Stardom in the Era of the Synthespian," Production Studies, the Sequel! Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries, edited by Miranda Banks et al (Routledge, 2015).

"'Fan Magazine Trouble':  The AMPP, Studio Publicity Directors and the Hollywood Press, 1945-1952," Film History 26:3 (2014)

"'As Told by Helen Ferguson':  Hollywood Publicity, Gender, and the Public Sphere," When Private Talk Goes Public:  Gossip in American History," edited by Kathleen Feeley and Jennifer Frost (Palgrave MacMillan, 2014).

"Fading Stars and the Ruined Commodity Form:  Star Discourses of Loss in Early Fan Magazines," Researching Women in Silent Cinema:  New Findings and Perspectives, edited by Monica Dall'Asta, Victoria Duckett, and Lucia Tralli (e-book, University of Bologna and University of Melbourne, Women and Screen Cultures, 2013).

"'The Elegance. . .is Almost Overwhelming':  Glamour and Discursive Struggles over Female Stardom in Early Television," Television:  le moment experimental, edited by Gilles Delavaud and Denis Marachal (Editions Apogee, 2011).

"'Not of Hollywood':  Constance Bennett, Kay Francis, Ruth Chatterton, Ann Harding, Nancy Carroll," Glamour in a Golden Age:  Movie Stars of the 1930s, edited by Adrienne L. McLean (Rutgers University Press, 2011).

"A Method to this Madness?  The Myth of the Mad Silent Film Star," Not So Silent:  Women in Cinema Before Sound, edited by Sofia Bull and Astrid Soderberg Widding (Stockholm University Press, 2010).

"An Appetite for Living:  Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, and the New Woman of the 1920s," Idols of Modernity:  Film Stars of the 1920s, edited by Patrice Petro (Rutgers University Press, 2010).

"Ephemeral Culture/eBay Culture:  Film Collectibles and Fan Investments," Everyday eBay:  Culture, Collecting, and Desire, edited by Ken Hillis et al (Routledge University Press, 2006).

"The Objects of Our Affection:  Material Practices, Material Culture," Vectors (e-journal, 2006).

"The Incredible Shrinking Star:  Todd Haynes and the Case of Karen Carpenter," Camera Obscura 57 19:3 (December 2004).

"Systematizing Scandal:  Confidential Magazine, Stardom, and the State of California," Headline Hollywood:  A Century of Film Scandal, edited by Adrienne L. McLean and David Cook (Rutgers University Press, 2001).

"Lucy and Desi:  Sexuality, Ethnicity, and TV's First Family," Television, History, and  American Culture:  Feminist Critical Essays, eds. Mary Beth Haralovich and   Lauren Rabinovitz (Duke Univ. Press, 1999), pp. 56-74.

--SELECTED ARTICLES/PROCEEDINGS
 

Freedman G, Flanagan M, Kaufman G, Green MC (2021). "Using Comics and Tweets to Raise Awareness about Gender Biases in STEM."  Psychology of Popular Media https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000313

Potter, S. J., Demers, J. M., Flanagan, M., Seidman, M., & Moschella, E. A. (2020). "Can video games help prevent violence? An evaluation of games promoting bystander intervention to combat sexual violence on college campuses." Psychology of Violence.  https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000365

Flanagan, Mary. "A path to our futures." ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories, inaugural issue (July 2019), http://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal/index

Freedman G, Flanagan M, Kaufman G, Green MC (2018) "Obituaries Can Popularize Science and Health: Stephen Hawking and Interest in Cosmology and ALS," Psychology of Popular Media Culture.

Potter, S.J., Flanagan, M., Seidman, M., Hodges, H., Stapleton, J., Vessels, L. (2018) "Developing and Piloting Video Games to Increase College and University Students' Awareness and Efficacy of the Bystander Role in Incidents of Sexual Violence," Games for Health Journal doi: 10.1089/g4h.2017.0172

Freedman, G., Seidman, M., Flanagan, M., Kaufman, G., & Green, M. C. (2018) The impact of an "aha" moment on gender biases: Limited evidence for the efficacy of a game intervention that challenges gender assumptions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 72, 162-167. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2018.03.014. 

Freedman G, Seidman M, Flanagan M, Kaufman G, Green MC (2018) Updating a classic: A new generation of vignette experiments involving iterative decision-making. Adv Methods Pract Psychol Sci.  doi: 10.1177/2515245917742982

Freedman, G., Green, M. C., Flanagan, M., Fitzgerald, K., & Kaufman, G., (2018). The effect of gender on attributions for women's anxiety and doubt in a science narrative. Psychology of Women Quarterly, doi: 10.1177/0361684318754528

Freedman, G., & Flanagan, M. (2017). From dictators to avatars: Furthering social and personality psychology through game methods. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, e12368. doi: 10.1111/spc3.12368. 

Green, Melanie, Fitzgerald, Kaitlin, Kaufman, Geoff and Flanagan, Mary. (2017) "Self-Esteem and Public Self-Consciousness Moderate the Emotional Impact of Expressive Writing about Experiences with Bias." Personality and Individual Differences.

Seidman, M. J., Flanagan, M., Rose-Sandler, T., Lichtenberg, M. "Are games a viable solution to crowdsourcing improvements to faulty OCR? - The Purposeful Gaming and BHL experience." Code4Lib Journal 2016

Kaufman, Geoff and Flanagan, Mary. "Playing the System: Comparing the Efficacy and Impact of Digital and Non-digital Versions of a Collaborative Strategy Game." Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) 2016.

Kaufman, Geoff, Mary Flanagan, & Sukdith Punjasthitkul, "Investigating the Impact of 'Emphasis Frames' and Social Loafing on Player Motivation and Performance in a Crowdsourcing Game," Proceedings of CHI 2016.

Kaufman, Geoff, and Flanagan, Mary. "High-Low Split: Divergent Cognitive Construal Levels Triggered by Digital and Non-digital Platforms," Proceedings of CHI 2016.

Kaufman, G., Flanagan, M.  "A Psychologically "Embedded" Approach to Designing Games for Prosocial Causes." Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, Special Issue on Videogames, 9(3), article 5. doi: 10.5817/CP2015-3-5

Kaufman, G., Flanagan, M., Seidman, M., & Wien, S. "RePlay Health: An experiential role-playing sport for modeling health care decisions, policies, and outcomes."  Games for Health Journal.  (2015).

Manzo, C., Kaufman, G., Punjasthitkul, S., and Flanagan, M. "Folksonomies to Libraries and Back Again: Assessing the Value of Crowdsourced, User-Generated Metadata," Digital Humanities Quarterly (2015).

Kaufman, G. and Flanagan, M. "Lost in Translation:  Comparing the Impact of an Analog and Digital Version of a Public Health Game on Players' Perceptions, Attitudes, and Cognitions." Intnl Journal of Games & Computer Mediated Simulations 5(3) 2013, 1-9.

Flanagan, M. & Carini, P. (2012). "How games can help us access and understand cultural artifacts." American Archivist 75(2), 514-37. 

--RECENT/FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS

2021

[Grace:AI] Daydreams (Feminist AI, video)

"Much of a muchness, blurring the lines," International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC'21)  Exhibition, curated by Lila Lo Curto and Bill Outcault, Association for Computational Creativity September

Mapscotch happening

Organon 3 Handbook launch, Berlin Felldfünf 15 July 2021

2020

Colors of Remembrance (digital drawings)

"Covid Memorial group virtual exhibition," Biennial of the Americas 15 June – 18 July

The Archive to Come, Telematic Media Arts, San Francisco, curated by Carla Gannis and Clark Buckner, 22 October -17 December 2020.

Confinementscotch (critical hopscotch)

" 52 Artists 52 Actions " series, Artspace Sydney Australia July 2020

[Grace:AI] Prometheus 2 (Feminist AI, prints on aluminum)

"The Question of Intelligence," Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, The New School New York City,  6 February –March 2020

2019

[pile of secrets] (8 videos)

"Gameplay. Cultura dels videojocs," from 18 December 2019 to 3 May 2020 CENTRE DE CULTURA CONTEMPORÀNIA DE BARCELONA

[topoesis] (electronic poetry software and works on paper)

"REWIRED," Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design Gallery, University of Bergen 21-28 November

[Grace:AI] Prometheus I (Feminist AI, works on paper)

"Children of Prometheus" exhibition at the NeMe Arts Center, Cyprus 10th Oct - Dec 20th

[mapscotch] (bombscotch) (Installation)

Playmode, MAAT  | Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia  | Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology  Lisbon Portugal October

WORDBOXES: Décomposition du Oui, Numéro 1, 2

Art Contemporain à La Maison Dora Maar, Ménerbes France

2018
[help me know the truth] (software and installation)
"Future Humanity ­­– Our Shared Planet," Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing 7 Nov – 28 Feb 2019

[borders] (Video Installation)
New Art Fest +18 Lisbon Portugal 9 Nov – 30 Nov 2018

[help me know the truth] (software and installation)
Ars Electronica Center Linz Austria October

[mirror book] (computational poetry installation)
Un lieu Une oeuvre galerie, Ménerbes France March 

[help me know the truth] (software and installation)
UCLA Art Sci Gallery Los Angeles March

2017
[borders] (Video Installation)
Im Spielrausch: Von Drachentötern, Königinnen und Pixelmonstern (Intoxicating Play: Of dragon slayers, queens and pixel monsters) Museum of Fine Arts Cologne (MAKK) August 19, 2017 to February 4, 2018

[borders] (Video Installation)
ART GAMES DEMO #4 Frontières et Migration aux Subsistances à Lyon December 2017

[domestic] (3D Computer Game Artwork)
HACKING / MODDING / REMIXING as Feminist Protest, Curated by Angela Washko, Jan. 28 – Feb. 26, 2017 Miller Gallery Carnegie Mellon University

[mapscotch] (bombscotch) (Installation)
Push Play exhibition, Touring: January 12 - March 4 2017, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle 12 Oct - 31 Dec 2017, Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver

2016
[Help Me Know The Truth] (software and installation)
"Monsters in the Machine" exhibition, LABORAL arts center, Asturias Spain in November 2016

[mapscotch] (bombscotch) (Installation) Free Play exhibition, Touring: Museum London in London, ON, Canada from January 30, 2016 - May 8, 2016; The Rooms, Provincial Art Gallery Division in St. John's, NL, Canada from May 27, 2016 - August 28, 2016; Parsons' Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at The New School in New York City, NY

2015
[borders] series PLAYGROUNDS, Redline Collective Denver CO  July

[mapscotch] (bombscotch) (Installation) Free Play exhibition, Touring:  College of Wooster Art Museum Curated by Melissa E. Feldman January 18, 2015 - March 6; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in Victoria, BC, Canada from April 25, 2015 - August 3, 2015; Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY from Oct 1, 2015 - Nov 6, 2015

2014
Play Your Place: Play South Westminster (Public Art Video Game in collaboration with Ruth Catlow as Local Play UK) Tate Britain, British Folk Art Exhibition July 2014

[borders] (Video Installation) FILE Machinima in FILE 2014 - Electronic Language International Festival, FIESP Cultural Center, São Paulo Aug 25 to Oct 05, 2014

[map-puzzle 1: treasure island] (Puzzle) Dime Bag 4: exhibition at The End is Near, Brooklyn July

[mapscotch] (Installation) Free Play exhibition at Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside PA Curated by Melissa E. Feldman

[borders] (Video Installation) Digital Zoo exhibition UK (Touring 5 cities) Feb – July including London, Sunderland, Leeds

[buffalo] (Board Game) Doing it on the Table: An Exhibition of Board Games by Digital Designers, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco March

2013
[pile of secrets] (Video Installation) ZKM_Gameplay Mobile, Representing of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Berlin Nov- Dec

[borders] Series (video installation) Media Arts Dortmund, Cologne November

[borders] Series (video installation) Machinigglitch, ARCADE, Festival Gamerz 9, Aix on Provence France

Layoff (Computer Game) The Games of Art, Block Gallery Queensland Australia 23 July -2 August

Play Your Place: Play Southend (Public Art Video Game in collaboration with Ruth Catlow as Local Play UK) Launching at the METAL Village Green Festival, UK July 2013

[mapscotch] (Public Street Game) Free Play, ICI, Henry Gallery Seattle June

--SOME RECENT CHAPTERS

Kaufman, Geoff, Flanagan, Mary, and Seidman, Max. "Creating Stealth Game Interventions for Attitude and Behavior Change: An 'Embedded Design' Model.'  Persuasive Gaming in Context. Eds de la Hera, Teresa, Jansz, Jeroen, Raessens, Joost and Schouten, Ben. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021, pp. 73-90. 


Flanagan, Mary. "If you play it, do you believe it?" Narrative Mechanics: Strategies and Meanings in Games and Real Life, edited by Beat Suter, René Bauer, and Mela Kocher. Transcript: Bielefeld, Germany, forthcoming in 2021.


Flanagan, Mary. "Feminist(AI)," The Love Makers, by Aifric Campbell. London: Goldsmiths Press (Distributed by MIT Press) 2021.


Flanagan, Mary. "Enter the Dragon," The Infinite Playgrounds, by Bernie Dekoven with Holly Gramazio. Edited by Eric Zimmerman, Celia Pearce, and Holly Gramazio. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020, pp. 136-139


Flanagan, Mary. "Taking Binaries off the Table." Feminist War Games? Mechanisms of War, Feminist Values, and Interventional Games, eds. Jon Saklofske, Alyssa Arbuckle, Jon Bath. London: Routledge, 2019, pp. 195-201


Flanagan, Mary. "A Playful Planet, Despite it all," Essay for the Playmode Exhibition Catalog, Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal: FundaçãoEDP, Oct 2019, pp. 124-130.

Flanagan, Mary. "Video Games and Gaming Culture." Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender: SPACE. Ed. Hedblad, Alan and Kooistra, Alja. New York: Macmillan, 2018.

Flanagan, Mary. "Critical Play and Responsible Design." The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities. Ed. Jentery Sayers. New York: Routledge 2018.

Flanagan, Mary. "An Alternate History of Wargaming." Zones of Control. Pat Harrigan and Matthew Kirschenbaum, eds. (MIT Press 2016), pp 703-707.

Flanagan, Mary. "Critical Play: The Productive Paradox." Blackwell Companion to Digital Art, ed. Christiane Paul New York: Blackwell, 2016, pp. 445-460.

Flanagan, Mary. "The Ludification of Culture  & Playful Aesthetics." Gameful World, Ed. S. Walz and Sebastian Deterding. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015.

Flanagan, Mary. "The Bride Stripped Bare." Reprinted in: Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader, edited by Patrick Keilty and Rebecca Dean. Sacramento, CA: Litwin Books, 2013.

Flanagan, Mary. "Play, Participation, and Art: Blurring the Edges." Context Providers. Eds. Margot Lovejoy, Christiane Paul, Victoria Vesna. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press (Intellect Press), 2011.

"What Happened in the Dressing Room," InTransition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies. 11.1(2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/intransition.15423

The Movie Musical (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2021 )

The Migration of Musical Film: From Ethnic Margins to American Mainstream (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2014)

"Operation Amigos: The Original Amateur Hour Goes to Mexico," Quarterly Review of Film and Video 36.7 (2019), 554-572. DOI: 10.1080/10509208.2019.1593014.

"Toil Behind the Footlights: The Spectacle of Female Suffering and the Rise of Musical Comedy," Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies 40.1 (May 2019), 122-145.

"Bisbee '17: The Performance of History," The American Historical Review 124.3 (June 2019).

"Invisible Immigrants: A Better Life and the Cinematic Undocumented" in Frederick Luis Aldama, ed. Latinx Ciné: Filmmaking, Production, and Consumption in the 21st Century (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, August 2019), 171-185.

"Ramona in the City: Mexican Los Angeles, Dolores Del Rio, and the Remaking of a Mythic Story" in Jan-Christopher Horak, Lisa Jarvinen and Colin Gunckel, eds. Cinema Between Latin America and Los Angeles: Origins to 1960 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019), 51-63.

"There's No Place Like Home: The Hollywood Folk Musical" in Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, and Art Simon, eds., The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film, 4 vols. (Walden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 318-338.

"The Soul of a People: Mexican Spectatorship and the Transnational Comedia Ranchera," The Journal of American Ethnic History 30.1 (2010), 72-98.

"Subversive Sounds: Ethnic Spectatorship and Boston's Nickelodeon Theatres, 1907-1914," Film History: An International Journal 19.3 (2007), 213-227.

Continental Strangers: German Exiles in Hollywood, 1933-1951 (Columbia University Press, 2014)

A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder's American Films (Berghahn, 2008)

"The Making of Now: New Wave Cinema in Berlin and Buenos Aires." In: A Transnational Art Cinema: The Berlin School and Its Global Contexts Eds. Marco Abel and Jaimey Fisher. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018. 293-312.

Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections . Edited with Colin Calloway and Susanne Zantop (Nebraska University Press, 2002).

Framed Visions: Popular Culture, Americanization, and the Contemporary German and Austrian Imagination (Michigan University Press, 1998).

Die hermeneutische Wende: Disziplin und Sprachlosigkeit nach 1800  (Berghahn, 1990).

Bertrand Tavernier, Interviews (Introductory essay; interviews co-edited with T. Jefferson Klline). University Press of Mississippi "Conversations with Filmmakers" series, 2016; pb 2022.

Bertrand Tavernier. Manchester U. Press (U.K.), Palgrave Macmillan (U.S.), 2011; pb 2015.

New Novel, New Wave, New Politics: Fiction and the Representation of History in Postwar France. U. of Nebraska Press, 1996. Choice Outstanding Academic Book. Modern Language Association Scaglione Prize for best book in French & Francophone Studies, 1997.

Rape and Representation (Contributor, Co-edited with Brenda R. Silver). Columbia U. Press, 1991; pb 1993.

Parables of Theory: Jean Ricardou's Metafiction. Summa Publications, 1984.

ARTICLES

"The 1970s Mode d'Emploi: Three Films by Georges Perec," Yale French Studies #143 (2024), 137-159.

"Alain Resnais, Anti-Illusionist," and "Bertrand Tavernier: 'Un film est comme un repas' ('A film is like a meal)," The Art of  Directing: A Concise Dictionary of French Film Directors, Ed. Michael Abecassis et al.. Peter Lang, 2023.

"Hommage à Bertrand Tavernier : du genre filmique au genre," Le Genre & L'Ecran, June 2021. Available at : https://www.genre-ecran.net/?Hommage-a-Bertrand-Tavernier (4,600 words).

"Rereading '93 in '21" [on Victor Hugo]. South Central Review, vol. 38.2-3 (fall 2021), 84-89.

"French and American Feminists Write About #MeToo," South Central Review 37:1 (Spring 2020): 14-28. 

"Modiano at the Movies," Yale French Studies #133 (summer 2018), 113-26.

"Becoming a Song: Sound, Memory, and Cinema History in Michael Haneke's Amour," South Central Review 33: 2 (summer 2016): 80-95."

"A La Recherche de témoins: Le 17 Octobre, 1961 et ses représentations," in Mémoires Occupées: Fictions Françaises et Seconde Guerre Mondiale, Marc Dambre, ed., Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2013, 207-214.

"Irène Némirovsky's David Golder from Novel to Film and Back," Yale French Studies #121 (2012), 54-68.

"Lieux de mémoire et géographie imaginaire dans Dora Bruder," Cahiers du Centre de Recherche: Etudes sur le roman du second demi-siècle, Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle (2005), 397-405. 

"Documentary in an age of Terror," South Central Review 22:2 (2005), 20-38.

"Tavernier's Doubt," Studia Filmoznawcze (Warsaw, Poland), special issue on Film and Religion, spring 2004.

"Women Filmmakers Remember the Occupation" [on Chantal Akerman and Diane Kurys], Modern and Contemporary France (UK), special issue on "Gendering the Occupation," vol. 7, no. 1 (1999).

"The Barbie Affair and the Trials of Memory," in Fascism's Return: Scandal, Revision and Ideology Since 1980, edited by Richard J. Golsan. University of Nebraska Press, 1999

"Pagnol and the Paradoxes of Frenchness," in Identitiy Papers: Scenes of Contested Nationhood in Twentieth-Century France, Tom Conley & Steven Ungar, eds. University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Coming Soon to a Festival Near You: Programming Film Festivals, ed., St Andrews: St Andrews Film Books, 2012.

Still Moving: Pilobolus at Forty, New Boston Films, 2012, a documentary film about the dance company Pilobolus.

“No Place Like Homeland,” The Huffington Post, posted October 1, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-ruoff/no-place-like-homeland_b_82….

"When Film Is A Festival," The Huffington Post, posted September 8, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-ruoff/when-film-is-a-festival_b_8…

"With Jeb and Torture, It's Déjà Vu All Over Again," The Huffington Post, posted August 29, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-ruoff/with-jeb-and-torture-its-_b…

"Homophobia just ain't what it used to be," The Conversation, posted May 28, 2015, http://theconversation.com/homophobia-just-aint-what-it-used-to-be-42389

"Is Investigative Journalism a Joke?," Pacific Standard, posted April 23, 2015: http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/is-investigative-journalism-a-jo…

Virtual Voyages: Cinema and Travel, ed., Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.

An American Family: A Televised Life, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

The Emperor’s Naked Arm Marches On, with Kenneth Ruoff, London: Flicks Books, 1998.

The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire (2016)

The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, translation (2015)

Translating Mount Fuji: Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity , (2006)

The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction, (1995)

Word and Image in Japanese Cinema, (2000)

Working Words: New Approaches to Japanese Studies, (2014)

Laughing Wolf , by Yuko Tsushima, translation, (2011)

Temple of the Wild Geese/Bamboo Dolls of Echizen, by Tsutomu Mizukami, translation, (2008)

Shanghai, by Yokomitsu Riichi, translation, (2001)

Converting Cultures: Ideology, Religion, and Transformations of Modernity, (2007)

The Shade of Blossoms, by Ooka Shohei, translation, (1998)

Interfaces:Studies in Visual Culture, series co-edited with A Randolph, (https://web.archive.org/web/20210420095144/http://www.upne.com/series/I…) .

"Key Frames to Cinema History: New Studies of The Exhibitor Catalogs of The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company" in Domitor 2020 Proceedings: Crafts, Trades, and Techniques of Early Cinema [DOMITOR series]. Valentine Robert, Louis Pelletier, Sirois Trahan, Priska Morissey, Ian Christie, Tami Williams eds. (Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing 2024) [pages 302-322]

"Mark Williams on critical thinking, pedagogy, digital humanities, archives, and media ecology."  Interview by Toby Miller.  "culturalstudies" podcast (5 April 2024).

"The Media Ecology Project: Collaborative DH Synergies to Produce New Research in Visual Culture History" with John Bell. Digital Humanities Quarterly (15:1) Special Issue on AudioVisual Data in DH, March, 2021.

"The Great War at Scale: New Opportunities for Provenance in World War I Collections at the National Archives (NARA)"  by Mark Williams and Bret Vukoder in Provenance and Early Cinema: Preservation, Circulation, and Repurposing. Paolo Cherchi Usai, Joanne Bernardi, Tami Williams, and Joshua Yumibe eds. (Indiana University Press, 2021)

"Local Insights, Global Networked Scholarship:
The Media Ecology Project USIA Pilot" by Mark Williams and Bret Vukoder in Nuevas aproximaciones al cine documental. Un estado de la cuestión contemporáneo. Javier Campo, Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli, Clara Garavelli, Pablo Piedras y Kristi Wilson, eds. (Prometeo Press, 2021).

Co-Editor, VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture: Special Issue on Audiovisual Data in Digital Humanities 7:14 (October, 2018) [published in August, 2019]

Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema, Television, Archive, Mark Garrett Cooper, Sara Beth Levavy, Ross Melnick, Mark Williams eds. (Routledge AFI Series, 2018)

"Archives of Liveness: Television Newsfilm Reconsidered" in Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema, Television, Archive, Mark Garrett Cooper, Sara Beth Levavy, Ross Melnick, Mark Williams eds. (Routledge AFI Series, 2018)

"From 'Live' to Real Time: On Future Television Studies" in The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and the Digital Humanities, Jentery Sayers, ed. (Routledge, 2018).

"William Boddy's Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics" in A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting, Aniko Bodroghkozy, ed. (Wiley, 2018).

"Networking Moving Image History: Archives, Scholars, and the Media Ecology Project," in The Arclight Guidebook to Media History and The Digital Humanities, Charles R. Acland and Eric Hoyt, eds. (2016) http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/reframebooks/archive2016/the-arclight-guide…

"The Media Ecology Project: Library of Congress Paper Print Pilot" The Moving Image: The Journal of The Association of Moving Image Archivists, 16:1 (Spring, 2016), 148-151. 

"Passing for History: Humor and Early Television Historiography" in No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity, Angela Rosentahl, David Bindman, and Adrian Randolph, eds. (2015) 176-200.

"A Child is Being Rescued: Television at the Threshold of the Real," in Télévision: le moment expérimental (1935-1955), Gilles Delavaud et Denis Maréchal, eds. (2011) 202-213.

"Re-Wiring Media History: Inter-Medial Borders," in Convergence Media History, Janet Staiger and Sabine Hake, eds. (2009) 46-56.

"Get/Away: Structure and Desire in Rancho Notorious" in Dietrich Icon, Gerd Germunden and Mary Desjardins, eds. (2007) 259-283.

"Real-time Fairy Tales: Cinema Pre-figuring Digital Anxiety," in New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality, Anna Everett and John Thornton Caldwell, eds. (2003) 159-178.

"History in a Flash: Notes on the Myth of TV 'Liveness'," in Collecting Visible Evidence, Jane Gaines and Michael Renov, eds. Visible Evidence Series, 6 (1999) 292-312.

Guest Editor, Special Double Issue of Quarterly Review of Film and Video; Topic:  U.S. Regional and Non-Network Television History (issue 16:3/4, 1999); "Issue Introduction:  U.S. Regional and Non-Network Television History."

"Considering Monty Margetts' Cook's Corner: Oral History and Television History," in Television, History, and American Culture, Mary Beth Haralovich and Lauren Rabinovitz, eds. (Durham:  Duke University press, Console-ing Passions Series, 1999)

"Entertaining 'Difference': Strains of Orientalism in Early Los Angeles Television," in Living Color: Race, Feminism, and Television, Sasha Torres, ed. (1998) 12-34.