Flattened Fauna: A Field Guide to Common Animals of Roads, Streets and Highways (1987)

Wall-to-Wall America: A Cultural History of Post-Office Murals in the Great Depression (1982)

Benedictine Maledictions: Liturgical Cursing in Romanesque France (1993)

and the unforgettable

Honor and Slavery: Lies, Duels, Noses, Masks, Dressing as a Woman, Gifts, Strangers, Humanitarianism, Death, Slave Rebellions, the Proslavery Argument, Baseball, Hunting, and Gambling in the Old South (1996).

‘Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan’

Also, John Sutherland’s LRB report on the 1993 MLA convention included some subtitular whoppers from the list of talks and panels.

‘Star Power: or, How to (De)Flower the Rectal Brain: the Increments and Excrements of “Influence” in Dorian Gray and Edward II’

Teledildonics: Virtual Lesbians in the Fiction of Jeanette Winterson’