Recent select publications

The articles below are available for download in PDF format.

Forthcoming:

"Atlantic to Pacific: James, Blackmur, Todorov and Intercontinental Form." In Wai Chee Dimock, ed. The Planet of American Literature.

2006

"Pre-emption, Perpetual War, and the Future of the Imagination" boundary 2. (Spring issue).

2005

"Rational and Irrational: Narrative in an Age of Globalization." In Minor Transnationalisms eds., Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih. Duke University Press.

2003

"The Morality of Form, or What's So Bad About 'Bad Writing'?" in Jonathan Culler ed., Just Being Difficult?: Academic Writing in the Public Arena Stanford University Press, pp. 171-80.

2002

"Multiculturalism Now: Civilization, National Identity, and Difference Before and After September 11th." boundary 2 29:2 (Summer): 109-128.

"The Operative Heart: On Jean-Luc Nancy's L'intrus" The New Centennial Review 2:3 (Fall): 87-108.

2001

"Against Race: Yes, But At What Cost?" Essay/review of Paul Gilroy's Against Race: for Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 23: 1 (Spring): 1-22.

2000

"Assumed Identities." New Literary History 31:4, pp. 765-780.

1999

"Awful Patriotism: The Politics of Knowing." (Critical essay on Richard Rorty's Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America) diacritics (29:1): 37-56.