- Elaine Scarry’s On Beauty and Being Just (Princeton UP, 1999)
- Roger Scruton’s Beauty: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2011)
- Helen Vendler’s “The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar” (Jefferson Lecture 2004)
- T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919)
- “The Arts in America, Two Decades after the National Endowment for the Arts Report” (with the co-author of the NEA Report)
- “Redeeming the Plastic Arts: How Greek Philosophy Encountered the Iconic Imagination”
- “Engaging Students Through Performance: Classrooms as Rehearsal Spaces”
- “The Relationship of Beauty and Morality: the Roles of Nature, Convention, and the Refinement of Judgment”
- “Beholding Bach” (musical scores)
- “Enacting Shakespeare” (staged scenes)
- “Investigating Impressionism” (select paintings)
- “Rendering the Romantics” (select poems)