Books

All Places are Distant: A Natural Bibliogeography (Melville House) – 2027

Monstrum: A Visual History of Monsters (Insight Editions) – 2027

Group of Drunks: The Twelve Steps as American Scripture (Princeton University Press) – 2027

Thelema’s Commandment: On Religion’s Transgressions (University of Tampa Press) – 2027

Historic Maps of Pittsburgh (with Charles Succop, Reedy Press) – 2027

American Elegy: Notes on the Dis-United States (Ig Press) – 2026

In Defense of Purple Prose (Princeton University Press) – 2026

With the Lid Off: A Newcomers’ Guide to Pittsburgh (Arcadia) – 2026

Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling (Bloomsbury) – 2025

The Dove and the Dragon: A History of the Apocalypse (Fortress Books) – 2025

The Pittsburgh Tarot, a collaboration with artist Steve Teare (Microcosm Publishing) – 2025

Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain (Melville House) – 2024

Seven Sins and Seven Virtues (Abrams) – 2024

The Soul of Pittsburgh: Essays on Life, Community and History (Arcadia Publishing) – 2024

Elysium: An Illustrated History of Angelology (Abrams) – 2023

Relic (Bloomsbury) – 2023

Heaven, Hell, and Paradise Lost (Ig Publishing) – 2023

Binding the Ghost: Theology, Mystery, and the Transcendence of Literature (Fortress) – Spring, 2022

Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology (Abrams) – Winter, 2022

 An Alternative History of Pittsburgh (Belt Publishing) – Spring, 2021

Printed in Utopia: The Renaissance’s Radicalism (Zero Books) – Summer, 2020

Furnace of this World; or, 36 Observations about Goodness (Zero Books) – September 1st, 2019

America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion (Zero Books) – December 1st, 2018

Collections Edited:

Dispatches from the Rust Belt, Volume VI (Belt Media Collaborative) – 2024

Dispatches from the Rust Belt, Volume V. – Editor (Belt Media Collaborative) – 2023

The God Beat: What Journalism Says About Faith and Why it Matters (Co-Edited with Costica Bradatan, Broadleaf Books) – Summer, 2021

The Anthology of Babel (punctum books) – January 21, 2020 

Appears in:

Dispatches from the Rust Belt, Volume V. –  (Belt Media Collaborative) – 2023

Starstruck: An American Tale

Question Everything: A Stone Reader, edited by Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley

Dispatches from the Rust Belt, Vol. IV, edited by Ryan Schnurr

The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook

The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays Volume VI

Dostoevsky Wannabe Cities: Boston

Berfrois: The Book 

Beyond 1776: Globalizing the Cultures of the American Revolution

The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays Volume V

Red State Blues

The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays Volume IV

Prophecy and Eschatology in the Transatlantic World, 1550-1800

Puritans and Catholics in the Transatlantic World 1600-1800

The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays Volume II