Carpenter, John C. and Melissa McCormick, eds. The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2019.

Carpenter, John C. and Melissa McCormick, eds. The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2019.

McCormick, Melissa. The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.

McCormick, Melissa. Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009.

McCormick, Melissa. “Purple Displaces Crimson: The Wakan Dialectic as Polemic.” In Dora Ching, Louise Cort, and Andrew Watsky, eds. Around Chigusa: Tea and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.

McCormick, Melissa. “Bijutsu-shi kara mita Shinkurodo—Merissa Makomikku shi intabyu [The New Chamberlain from an Art Historical Perspective: Interview with Melissa McCormick].” In Abe Yasuro, et al eds. Muromachi jidai no shojo kakumei ‘Shinkurodo’ emaki no sekai [Revolutionary Girl of the Muromachi Period: The World of The New Chamberlain. Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2014.

McCormick, Melissa. “The Appeal of ’Tokugawa Illuminated Manuscripts’: Tosa Mitsusada’s Scenes of Suma and the Hofer Collection of Early Modern Scrolls in the Harvard Art Museums..” In Shimohara Miho ed., Kinsei Yamato-e saiko (Reconsidering Early Modern Yamato-e ). Tokyo: Br{“u}cke. In Japanese, trans. Ido Misato., 2013.

McCormick, Melissa. “Flower Personification and Imperial Regeneration in The Chrysanthemum Spirit [’Kiku no sei monogatari’ ni okeru hana no gijinka to koto no saisei]..” In Kokubungaku Kenkyū Shiryōkan, ed. America ni wattata monogatari-e. Tokyo: Perikansha, 2013.

McCormick, Melissa. “In Situ: Buddhist Art and Ritual at the Imperial Court.” In Elegant Perfection Masterpieces of Courtly and Religious Art from the Tokyo National Museum. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2012.

McCormick, Melissa. “Mountains, Magic, and Mothers: Envisioning the Female Ascetic in a Medieval Chigo Tale.” In In Gregory P.A. Levine, Andrew M. Watsky, and Gennifer Weisenfeld, eds. Crossing the Sea: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.

McCormick, Melissa. “The Genji Poetry Match, Manuscript Culture, and the Art of Transcription [‘Shahon bunka’ to sozoteki na tensha—hakubyo ‘Genji monogatari utaawase emaki’ o megutte].” In Genjie shusei. Tokyo: Geika Shoin, 2011.

McCormick, Melissa. “Monochromatic Genji: The Hakubyo Tradition and Female Commentarial Culture.” In Haruo Shirane ed. Envisioning The Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

McCormick, Melissa. “Peeking Into the ‘Genji Room’: Ink-line Genji Scrolls and the Nyobo Perspective [Genji no ma o nozoku: hakubyo Genji monogatari emaki to nyobo no shiza].” In Genji monogatari o yomitoku 1: Egakareta Genji monogatari. Tokyo: Kanrin Shobo, 2006.

McCormick, Melissa. “Ōtagaki Rengetsu’s Waka Poetics: Sentiment, Selfhood, and the Saigyo Persona.” In Japan in the Age of Modernization: The Arts of Ōtagaki Rengetsu and Tomioka Tessai. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2023.

McCormick, Melissa. “Furemu to paratekusuto: ‘Genji keizu’ to jimyaku no monogatari [Frame Stories and Paratexts: Genji Genealogies and Lineal Narratives].” In Sano Midori Sensei Koki Kinen Ronshu Kankokai ed., Zokei no poetika: Nihon bijutsushi o meguru atarana chihei [The Poetics of Form: New Horizons in Japanese Art History]. Seikansha, 2021. In Japanese, trans. Professor Sano Midori.

McCormick, Melissa. “Poetic Visions: The Literary Imagination in Japanese Painting.” In A Legacy for Learning: The Jane and Raphael Bernstein Collection. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2021.

McCormick, Melissa. “Beyond Narrative Illustration: What Genji Paintings Do.” In The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated. Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2019.

McCormick, Melissa. “Murasaki’s Mind Ground: A Buddhist Theory of the Novel.” In Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

McCormick, Melissa. “The Chrysanthemum Spirit,“ translation and introduction.” In Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.

McCormick, Melissa. “’Murasaki Shikibu Ishiyamamode zufuku’ ni okeru sho mondai—wa to kan no sakai ni aru Murasaki Shikibu zo“ [Murasaki Shikibu at Ishiyamadera: An Image between Wa and Kan].” In Kokka 1434. In Japanese, trans. by Professor Ido Misato. Pp. 5-21. 2015.

McCormick, Melissa. “Genji Goes West: The 1510 Genji Album and the Visualization of Court and Capital.” In The Art Bulletin . Pp. 54-85. 2003.

McCormick, Melissa. “Documentation Concerning the Production of the Tale of Genji Album (Harvard University Art Museums) Recorded in the Diary of Sanjonishi Sanetaka .” In Kokka 1241. Pp. 27-28. 1999.