| Performing bodies in pain: medieval and post-modern martyrs, mystics, and artists M Carlson Springer, 2010 | 117 | 2010 |
| Looking, Listening, and Remembering: Ways to Walk New York after 9/11 M Carlson Theatre Journal 58 (3), 395-416, 2006 | 40 | 2006 |
| Impassive Bodies: Hrotsvit Stages Martyrdom M Carlson Theatre Journal 50 (4), 473-487, 1998 | 30 | 1998 |
| Furry cartography: Performing species M Carlson Theatre Journal 63 (2), 191-208, 2011 | 26 | 2011 |
| Affect, Animals, and Autists: Feeling Around the Edges of the Human in Performance M Carlson University of Michigan Press, 2018 | 21 | 2018 |
| Spectator Responses to an Image of Violence: Seeing Apollonia M Carlson Fifteenth Century Studies 27, 7-20, 2002 | 14 | 2002 |
| Antigone's bodies: performing torture M Carlson Modern Drama 46 (3), 381-403, 2003 | 11 | 2003 |
| Acting and Answerability M Carlson Method Acting Reconsidered, 81-95, 2000 | 11 | 2000 |
| Ways to walk New York after 9/11 M Carlson Performance and the City, 15-32, 2011 | 10 | 2011 |
| Marina Abramović repeats: Pain, art, and theater M Carlson Hunter On-Line Theater Review, 2005 | 10 | 2005 |
| Painful Processions in Late Medieval Paris M Carlson European Medieval Drama 6, 65-82, 2003 | 9 | 2003 |
| The Angel Project M Carlson Theatre Journal 56 (1), 125-127, 2004 | 7 | 2004 |
| Performative pornography: Annie Sprinkle reads her movies M Carlson Text and Performance Quarterly 19 (3), 236-247, 1999 | 6 | 1999 |
| Mapping Abramović, from affect to emotion M Carlson Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times, 133-145, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| Performative Pain: Building Culture on the Bodies of Actors and Artists M Carlson City University of New York, 2002 | 4 | 2002 |
| Publications, Monograph M Carlson Education, 2019 | 2 | 2019 |
| Le Mystère de Saint Sébastien’s Villain: ‘No Cuckoo is a Sparrowhawk M Carlson Les Mystères: Studies in Genre, Text and Theatricality, 147-66, 2012 | 2 | 2012 |
| Blindness, Excrement, and Abjection in the Theatre: ASTR Presidential Address, 30 October 2021 M Carlson Theatre Survey 63 (3), 257-273, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
| Marginal Performances by Late Medieval Pigs and Blind Men M Carlson Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 51 (3), 397-429, 2021 | 1 | 2021 |
| Whipping Up Community M Carlson Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and …, 2010 | 1 | 2010 |