She teaches in the English department at Princeton University, where she is said to have a long-standing rivalry with another Princeton professor, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.

Oates has written several books under the psudonym of Rosamond Smith.

Table of contents

1 Major Themes 2 Works by Joyce Carol Oates 2.1 Novels 2.2 Poetry Collections 2.3 Short Stories 2.4 Essays and Criticism

Major Themes

Works by Joyce Carol Oates

Novels

• A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967)
• Expensive People (1968)
• them (1969)
• With Shuddering Fall (1964)
• ''Wonderland (1971)
• ''Do with Me What You Will (1973)
• ''Miracle Play (1974)
• ''The Assassins: A Book of Hours (1975)
• ''The Childwold (1976)
• The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976)
• Son of the Morning (1978)
• Cybele (1979)
• Unholy Loves (1979)
• Bellefleur (1980)
• Angel of Light (1981)
• A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)
• Luxury of Sin (1983)
• Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984)
• Solstice (1984)
• Marya: A Life (1986)
• Raven's Wing (1986)
• You Must Remember This (1987)
• American Appetites (1989)
• Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990)
• I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1990)
• Black Water (1992)
• Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993)
• What I Lived For (1994)
• Zombie (1995)
• First Love (1996)
• We Were the Mulvaneys (1996)
• Man Crazy (1997)
• Come Meet Muffin! (1998)
• My Heart Laid Bare (1998)
• Broke Heart Blues (1999)
• Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon (1999)
• Blonde (2000)
• The Barrens (2001)
• Beasts (2001)
• Middle-Age: A Romance (2001)
• Big Mouth and Ugly Girl (2002)
• I'll Take You There (2002)
• Freaky Green Eyes (2003)
• Rape: A Love Story (2003)
• The Tattooed Girl (2003)
• The Falls (2004)

Short Stories

• The Secret Mirror (1975)
• Fatal Woman (1977)
• Further Confessions (1977)
• The Murder (1977)
• Night-Side (1977)
• Bellefleur (excerpt) (1980)
• The Bingo Master (1980)
• The Doll (1980)
• The Virgin in the Rose-Bower (1984)
• Desire (1987)
• Haunted (1987)
• The Others (1987)
• The White Cat (1987)
• Blue-Bearded Lover (1988)
• Secret Observations on the Goat Girl (1988)
• White Trash (1988)
• Did You Ever Slip on Red Blood? (1989)
• Family (1989)
• Pregnant (1989)
• Ladies and Gentlemen (1990)
• Why Don't You Come Live With Me It's Time [from Tikkun] (1990)
• The Guilty Party (1991)
• Accursed Inhabitants of the House of Bly (1992)
• Don't You Trust Me? (1992)
• Extenuating Circumstances (1992)
• Letter, Lover (1992)
• Martyrdom (1992)
• The Model (1992)
• Poor Bibi (1992)
• The Premonition (1992)
• Phase Change (1993)
• The Radio Astronomer (1993)
• Thanksgiving (1993)
• Blind (1994)
• Brothers (1994)
• Elvis Is Dead: Why Are You Alive? (1994)
• ############## (1995)
• The Crossing (1995)
• The Hand-Puppet (1995)
• The Dream-Catcher (1996)
• Leave Me Alone God Damn You (1996)
• Nobody Knows My Name (1996)
• The Temple (1996)
• In the Insomniac Night (1997)
• The Sky-Blue Ball (1997)
• Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon! (1997)
• Broke Heart Blues (1998)
• Color Blind (1998)
• The Ruins of Contracoeur (1999)
• In Shock (2000)
• You, Little Match-girl (2000)
• The Abduction
• Accident
• Ace
• Adultress
• Anecdote
• The Assignation
• August Evening
• Bad Habits
• The Boy
• The Bystander
• Eleutheria
• Face
• Fin de Siecle
• Heartland
• Holiday
• In Traction
• Maximum Security
• Mule
• One Flesh
• Only Son
• Party
• Photographer's Model
• Picnic
• Pinch
• The Quarrel
• Romance
• Secret
• Senorita
• A Sentimental Encounter
• Sharpshooting
• Shelter
• Slow
• The Stadium
• Stroke
• Superstitious
• Tick
• A Touch of the Flu
• Train
• Two Doors
• Visitation Rights