Since retiring from the University of Pittsburgh, Bruce McConachie has published
Theatre Histories:
An Introduction (3
rd edn) with three co-authors and
The Routledge Companion to Theatre,
Performance and Cognitive Science, co-authored with Rick Kemp. Previous single-authored books include:
Melodramatic Formations: American Theatre and
Society, 1820-1870 (1992),
American Theatre in the Culture of the Cold War (2003),
Engaging Audiences: A Cognitive
Approach to Spectating in the Theatre (2008),
Theatre
and Mind (2013), and
Evolution,
Cognition, and Performance (2015). A past President of the American Society for Theatre Research, he also continues to serve as an editor and reader for several academic publishers.