edited volumes
Controversial Bodies:Thoughts on the Public Display of Plastinated Corpses, Edited by John D. Lantos, Johns Hopkins University Press
The Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment. (with John W. Yolton, Roy Porter, and Pat Rogers) Oxford; Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1991
European Cultures. Studies in Literature and the Arts (with Walter Pape and Elinor Shaffer); Berlin: DeGruyter, 1993
Advances in Visual Semiotics, consulting editor, Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1995.
Reflecting Senses. Perception and Appearances in Literature, Culture and the Arts. Berlin: DeGruyter, 1995. (A joint project of the Research Group on Aesthetic Illusion, University of California Humanities Institute).
A Field Guide to a Metafield: Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide. University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.