Book, Authored
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1880-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009)
Book, Chapter
Wood, Amy Louise. "Cole Blease's Pardoning Pen: State Power and Penal Reform in South Carolina" in Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South. Eds. Amy Louise Wood and Natalie J. Ring. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.
"The South," Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , eds. Christopher McKnight Nichols and Nancy Unger (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017)
The "Vicarious" Play of Lynching Melodramas: Cinema and Mob Violence in the United States, 1895-1905 in Violence and Visibility in Modern History, eds. Jurgen Martschukat and Silvan Niedermeier (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Book, Edited
Wood, Amy Louise and Natalie J. Ring, eds. Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019
Editor, New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Violence (University of North Carolina Press, 2011)
Journal Article
"'Somebody Do Something!': Lynching Photographs, Historical Memory, and the Possibility of Sympathetic Spectatorship," The European Journal of American Studies 14:4 (Winter 2019)
Wood, Amy Louise. "The Spectacle of Lynching: Rituals White Supremacy in the Jim Crow South," American Journal of Economics and Sociology 77:3-4 (2018): 757-788
Amy Louise Wood, “Critical Conversation on Donald Mathews’ ‘The Southern Rite of Human Sacrifice’,” Journal of Southern Religion 17 (2015): http://jsreligion.org/issues/vol17/Wood.html
Killing the Elephant: Murderous Beasts and the Thrill of Retribution, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 11:3 (2012): 405-44
Lynching Photography and the Visual Reproduction of White Supremacy, American Nineteenth Century History 6:3 (2004): 373-399
’A World Without Warmth’: Social Darwinism and the Criminal Redemption Narrative". British American Nineteenth Century History Conference. British American Nineteenth Century Historians. (2019)
Prison Reform and the Limits of State Power in Jim Crow South Carolina. Southern Historical Association. (2018)
The Legacy of Lynching in American Life. Sewanee, the University of the South. Sewanee, The University of the South. (2018)
The Lynching of Ed Johnson in Historical Perspective. University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. (2018)
"We Can't Breathe": Ethical Engagement, Historical Memory, and the Spectacle of Black Suffering. Symposium on Spectacle and Spectatorship. American Studies Working Group. University of Manchester, UK. (2017)
Crime and Punishment in the Age of Jim Crow. Race and Incarceration Speaker Series. Colorado College. (2016)
Fear and Sympathy in Progressive-Era Criminal Justice: The Strange Case of Jesse Pomeroy. American Studies Association of Norway Annual Meeting. (2016)
Sympathetic Sentiment and the Psychological Treatment of Prisoners in the Progressive Era. Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting. Organization of American Historians. (2015)
Vengeance and Sympathy: Criminal Justice in America. Violence in the American Imagination. Loughborough University. (2015)
’For the Sake of his Heartbroken Mother’: Gender and Sympathy in Southern Prison Reform, 1890-1940. Southern Association of Women Historians Triennial Meeting. (2015)