Department of English at the University of Virginia

Mark Twain: A Short Introduction. Blackwells, 2003.
Authorship and Audience: Literary Performance in the American Renaissance. Princeton University Press, 1991.
Fenimore Cooper: A Study of His Life and Imagination. Princeton University Press, 1978.
Editor, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain, Barnes & Noble, 2006.
Editor, Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Stowe, Bedford St. Martin's, 2006.
Editor, The Last of the Mohicans, by Cooper. Barnes & Noble, 2003.
Co-Editor, Emerson and His Legacy: Essays in Honor of Quentin Anderson. Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
Editor of Walt Whitman: Whitman's Autograph Revisions of R. M. Bucke's Walt Whitman. New York University Press, 1974.

“Readapting Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen (ed. Barton Palmer, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007)
“The Twain-Cable Connection,” A Companion to Mark Twain (ed. Budd and Messent, Blackwell, 2006)
"Mark Twain Tries to Get the Last Laugh: Hadleyburg and Other Performances," 2006.
"Re-Adapting Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Novel on Film," 2006.
"The Twain-Cable Connection," 2005.
"The Tragedy of Mark Twain, by Pudd'nhead Wilson" (2002).
"White Readers and Black Slaves" in Teaching Uncle Tom's Cabin. (2000).
"'As If I Were With You': The Performance of Whitman's Poetry," in The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman (1995).
"The Address of The Scarlet Letter," in Readers in History (1993).
"Pilgrims' Politics: Steinbeck's Art of Conversion," in New Essays on The Grapes of Wrath (1990).
"Jim and Mark Twain: What Do Dey Stan' For?" Virginia Quarterly Review (1987).
"Seeing & Saying: The Dialectic of Emerson's Eloquence," in Emerson and His Legacy.

Summer 2007 – “Uncle Tom’s Cabin on Film,” Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the Web of Culture conference (which I co-directed), Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford
Fall 2006 -- “Mark Twain, Virtually,” Center for Twain Studies, Elmira College
Fall 2005 – “Mark Twain Tries to Get the Last Laugh,” Mark Twain Circle of America Annual Meeting, MLA National Convention
Spring 2004 -- “Uncle Tom’s Cabin & American Culture: 3 Works in Progress,” Vassar College
Fall 2002 -- "Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Web of Culture," The Huntington Library conference, Topsy-Turvy: Uncle Tom's Cabin Turns 150"
Fall 2002 -- "The Site of Uncle Tom's Cabin," Gettysburg College (E-Lincoln Prize Speech)
Spring 2001 -- "Teaching American Literature," Temple University English Dept.
Summer 2000 -- "Virtual Unrealities: Black Figures and White Fictions," Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, Univ. of Virginia
Spring 1999 -- "Criticism as Fiction," presented to the Poe Society Session, American Literature Association National Conference, Baltimore

2004-2008 – Scholarly Edition Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities
2006-2007 – Collaborative Research Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities
2002-2004 – Materials Preservation Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
1998-1999 – Fellow in Residence Grant, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities,University of Virginia

Stephen Railton