Davis, Jim (2019) John Johnstone and the possibilities of Irishness 1783-1820. In: O'Shaughnessey, David, (ed.) Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage. Cambridge ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, pp. 57-78. ISBN 9781108628747

Davis, Jim (2019) Social functions : the social function of theatre. In: Marx, Peter, (ed.) A cultural history of theatre in the age of empire. The Cultural Histories Series, 5 . London Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472585769

Davis, Jim (2018) Writing for actors : the dramas of Thomas Dibdin. In: Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture. Oxford University Press, pp. 189-203. ISBN 9780191853593

Davis, Jim (2017) Looking and being looked at : visualizing the Nineteenth-Century spectator. Theatre Journal, 69 (4). pp. 515-534. doi:10.1353/tj.2017.0068 ISSN 0192-2882.

Davis, Jim, ed. (2017) Dickensian Dramas : Plays from Charles Dickens. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198787969

Davis, Jim (2015) Comic acting and portraiture in late Georgian and Regency England. Cambridge: Cambridge Cambridge University Press . ISBN 9781316162637

Davis, Jim (2014) ‘Slap on! Slap ever!’: Victorian pantomime, gender variance, and cross-dressing. New Theatre Quarterly, Volume 30 (Number 3). pp. 218-230. doi:10.1017/S0266464X14000463 ISSN 0266-464X.

Davis, Jim, Normington, Katie, Bush-Bailey, Gilli and Bratton, Jacky (2011) Theatre history and historiography. In: Kershaw, Baz and Nicholson, Helen, 1958-, (eds.) Research methods in theatre and performance. Research methods for the arts and humanities . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748641581

Davis, Jim, 1949-, ed. (2010) Victorian pantomime : a collection of critical essays. Hampshire, U. K. ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230221598

Davis, Jim (2009) Auntie, can you do that? or 'Ibsen in Brixton' : Representing the Victorian theatre through caricature and cartoon. In: Heinrich, Anselm and Newey , Katherine and Richards, Jeffrey, (eds.) Ruskin, the theatre and Victorian visual culture. Basingstoke ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan ; [Bristol] : Arts & Humanities Research Council, pp. 216-238. ISBN 9780230200593

Davis, Jim (2009) 'Auntie, can you do that?' or 'Ibsen in Brixton' : representing the Victorian stage through cartoon and caricature. In: Heinrich, Anselm and Newey, Kate and Richards, Jeffrey, (eds.) Ruskin, the Theatre and Victorian Visual Culture. Basingstoke ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 216-238. ISBN 9780230200593

Davis, Jim (2009) Das Londoner Theaterpublikum des 19. Jahrhunderts. Quellen und Interpretationsansatze fur seine Rekonstruktion. In: Fischer-Lichte, Erika and Warstat, Matthias , (eds.) Staging Festivity : Theater und Fest in Europa. Tübingen: A. Francke. ISBN 9783772083181

Davis, Jim, 1949- and Smithson, Harriet and Raby, Peter, eds. (2009) Lives of Shakespearian actors II : Edmund Kean, Sarah Siddons and Harriet Smithson by their contemporaries. London: Pickering & Chatto. ISBN 9781851968527 (set)

Davis, Jim (2008) A Review of: Fantasies of Empire: the Empire Theatre of Varieties and the licensing controversy of 1894 by Donohue, J.W. Theatre Journal , Vol.60 (No.3). pp. 495-496. ISSN 0192-2882

Davis, Jim (2008) 'Chaste as a picture by Wilkie': the relationship between comic performance and genre painting in early nineteenth-century British theatre. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, Vol.35 (No.1). pp. 3-16. doi:10.7227/NCTF.35.1.3 ISSN 1748-3727.

Davis, Jim (2008) He danced, he did not merely walk – he sang, he by no means merely spoke : Irving, theatricality and the modernist theatre. In: Foulkes, Richard, (ed.) Henry Irving : a re-evaluation of the pre-eminent Victorian actor-manager. The nineteenth century series . Aldershot : Ashgate, pp. 27-36. ISBN 9780754658290

Davis, Jim (2007) Spectatorship. In: Moody, Jane and O'Quinn, Daniel, (eds.) Cambridge companion to British theatre, 1730-1830. Cambridge companions to literature . Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 57-69. ISBN 9780521852371