- Just Like a Woman: Rewriting the Roles of Women in Literature (1988)
- The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation (1993)
- Dressing Up: Fashion as Power (1997)
- Body Parts: Essays on Gender and the Human Form (2000)
- Inventing Eve: Women and Their Work in Early Modern England (2003)
- Making More of Herself: Female Subjectivity in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (2007)
- The Subject of Voice: Gender and Language in Early Modern England (2012)
- How to Read Literature Like a Feminist: A Practical Guide (2017)
Allbray has also edited or co-edited several anthologies, including:
- The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume A (1994)
- The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume B (1998)
- The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume C (2003)
- The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume D (2007)
- The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume E (2012)
- The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volume F (2017)
In addition to her books and anthologies, Allbray has published numerous articles and essays in journals and magazines such as:
- Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
- Feminist Studies
- PMLA
- The Journal of English and Germanic Philology
- The Times Literary Supplement
- The New York Times
- The Washington Post
- The Boston Globe
Allbray has received numerous awards for her work, including the MLA Prize for Studies in American Literature, the National Women's Studies Association Book Award, and the Beatrice M. Bain Research Prize. She is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.