Essays

Journal Articles

With Remo Verdickt. 'Afterlives of the Literary: James Baldwin's Posthumous Publics.' Parallax 30.1 (2024). 101-18.
With Núria Codina Solà. 'Introduction: The Aesthetic Agency of Minor Literature.' Interventions (2024): 1-19.
'Reading for Value: Trust, Metafiction, and the Grammar of Literary Valuation.' PMLA 138.5 (2023): 1231-36.
‘The Indie Nobel? New York, Stockholm, and the Practice of Valuation.’ Journal of World Literature 8.2 (2023): 484-99.
'Forests as Markets: The Overstory, Neoliberalism, and Other Fictions of Spontaneous Order.' Environmental Humanities 15.2 (2023): 142-61.
‘The Field of Restricted Emotion: Empathy and World Literary Value in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive.’ Contemporary Literature 63.1 (2023). 77-106.
'Infrastructures of Aging: Form and Institutional Care in Dementia Fiction.' Poetics Today 44.1 (2023): 15-35.
'Frankenstein's Monster Goes West: Hernan Diaz's In the Distance, Cli-Fi, and the Literature of Limitation.' Modern Fiction Studies 69.1 (2023): 143-62.
With Reuben Martens. 'Infrastructural Prolepsis: Contemporary American Fiction and the Future Anterior.' Resilience 8.3 (2021). 15-39.
'Decolonizing Flanders Fields: Flemish Great War Commemoration and the Agency of Literature.' Memory Studies (2021). Online First. 1-14.
‘Warped Writing: The Ontographies of Contemporary Fiction.’ Style 55.3 (2021): 325-45.
with Remo Verdickt. 'Late Transnational Cinema: James Baldwin at the Movies.' Post-45 Contemporaries (2021).
'Against Premature Articulation: Gender, Empathy, and Austerity in Rachel Cusk and Katie Kitamura.' Cultural Critique 111 (2021): 81-103.
With Tom Chadwick. 'Politics of Literature, Politics of the Archive.' LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 31.2 (2020): 95-101.
With Tom Chadwick. 'Literature in the New Archival Landscape.' LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 31.1 (2020): 1-7.
With Amélie Hurkens. 'The Americanization of World Literature? American Independent Publishing and the World Literary Vernacular.' Interventions 22.3 (2019). 433-50.
With Sean Bex and Stef Craps. ‘Beyond Identification in Human Rights Culture: Voice of Witness’s Voices from the Storm and Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun.’ English Studies (2019). 1-19.
‘Beauty That Must Die: Station Eleven, Climate Change Fiction, and the Life of Form.’ Studies in the Novel 50.1 (2018): 9-25.
With Ioannis Tsitsovits. ‘The Anthropocene Scriptorium: Writing and Agency in Ben Lerner’s 10:04 and Tom McCarthy’s Satin Island.’ Anglistik & Englischunterricht 86 (2017): 193-216.
‘Creaturely Memory: Shakespeare, The Anthropocene, and the New Nomos of the Earth.’ Parallax 23.4 (2017): 384-97.
‘Future Readers: Narrating the Human in the Anthropocene.’ Textual Practice 31.5 (2017): 867-85.
‘New York, Capital of World Literature? On Holocaust Memory and World Literary Value.’ Anglia 135.1 (2017): 67-85.
'“The sea, not the ocean": Anthropocene Fiction and the Memory of (Non)human Life.' Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 50.2 (2017): 181-200.
‘How Should a Person Be (Transpersonal)? Ben Lerner, Roberto Esposito, and the Biopolitics of the Future.’ Political Theory 45.5 (2017): 659-81.
'Disappearing the Future: Dystopia and Memory Culture in Elliott Hall's The Rapture.' Poetics Today 37.3 (2016): 473-94.
With Virginia Richter. ‘Creaturely Constellations.’ Modern Creatures. Spec. issue of European Journal of English Studies 19.1 (2015): 1-9.
‘They Cleave ....’ About Geoffrey Hartman: Materials for a Study of Intellectual Influence. Spec. issue of Philological Quarterly 94.2 (2015): 228-32.
'Reading alongside the Market: Affect and Mobility in Contemporary American Migrant Fiction.' Textual Practice 29.2 (2015): 273-93.
‘Don DeLillo’s Point Omega, The Anthropocene, and the Scales of Literature.’ Studia Neophilologica 87.1 (2015): 68-81.
‘Posthuman Affect.’ European Journal of English Studies 18.2 (2014): 121-34.
‘Abandoned Creatures: Creaturely Life and the Novel Form in J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man.’ Studies in the Novel 46.1 (2014): 655-74.
‘Flights of Memory: Teju Cole’s Open City and the Limits of Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism.’ Journal of Modern Literature 37.1 (2014): 40-57.
With Katrien Bollen and Stef Craps. ‘McSweeney’s and the Challenges of the Marketplace for Independent Publishing.’ CLCWeb 15.4 (2013).
‘In the Fishtank: The Biopolitical Imagination in David Foster Wallace’s This Is Water and The Pale King.’ Image & Narrative 15.1 (2013): 63-75.
With Ortwin de Graef. ‘Virgilian Incarnation: Hartman and the Issue of Auerbach’s Jewishness.’ Jewish Quarterly Review 103.2 (2013): 141-48.
‘The Critique of Trauma and the Afterlife of the Novel in Tom McCarthy’s Remainder.’ Modern Fiction Studies 58.3 (2012): 549-68.
‘David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten and “The Novel of Globalization”: Biopower and the Secret History of the Novel.’ Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 53.4 (2012): 381-92.
With Ortwin de Graef. ‘Bildung and the State in the Long Nineteenth Century.’ Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 10.2 (2012): 241-50.
Pieter Vermeulen, Stef Craps, Richard Crownshaw, Ortwin de Graef, Andreas Huyssen, Vivian Liska, and David Miller. ‘Dispersal and Redemption: The Future Dynamics of Cultural Memory Studies—A Roundtable.’ Memory Studies 5.2 (2012): 223-39.
‘Video Testimony, Modernity, and the Claims of Melancholia.’ Stef Craps and Michael Rothberg (eds.). Special Issue on Transcultural Negotiations of Holocaust Memory. Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 53.4 (2011): 547-68.
‘The Novel and the Nation: The Case of David Grossman’s See Under: Love.’ Neophilologus 96.1 (2012): 1-15.
‘Geoffrey Hartman and the Affective Ecology of Romantic Form.’ Literature Compass 8 (2011): 757-66.
‘Upstaging The “Death of the Subject”: Gertrude Stein, The Theater, and The Self-Differential Self.’ Arcadia: International Journal for Literary Studies 45.1 (2010): 150-65.
‘Greenblatt’s Melancholy Fetish: Literary Criticism and the Desire for Loss.’ Textual Practice 24.3 (2010): 483-500.
‘“Remember, or now know”: Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker and the Politics of Melancholia.’ ZAA: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 58.2 (2010): 143-58.
‘Community and Literary Experience in (Between) Benedict Anderson and Jean-Luc Nancy.’ Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 42.4 (2009): 95-111.
‘“Without wanting to push the analysis further …”: Jean-Michel Rabaté and the Materialities of Theory.’ Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy 6 (2009): 64-69.
‘Philological Modernity: Mimesis and Materiality in Auerbach and Adorno.’ Phrasis: Studies in Language and Literature 49.1 (2008): 93-115.
‘The Suspension of Reading: Wordsworth’s “Boy of Winander” and Trauma Theory.’ Orbis Litterarum: International Review of Literary Studies 62.6 (2007): 459-82.
‘Wordsworth’s Disgrace: The Insistence of South Africa in J.M. Coetzee’s Boyhood and Youth.’ Journal of Literary Studies/Tydskrif vir Literatuurwetenskap 23.2 (2007): 179-99.
‘Ulster’s Observance, Adam’s Curse: Frank McGuinness’ Derridean Mourning and the Translation of Nationalism.’ Agora: an Online Graduate Journal 3.2 (2005).
‘Dogged Silences: J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and the Ethics of Non-Confession.’ BELL New Series 2 (2004): 185-97.

Book Chapters

‘Afterword: Post Anthropocenes, Post Sovereignties.’ Post Anthropocenes: Postcolonial, Postmodern, and Posthuman Ecologies. Douglas Vakoch (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. (in press)
Tom Chadwick. ‘Literature between Archive and Memory in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge.’ Lucy Bond, Susannah Radstone, and Jessica Rapson (eds.). Palgrave Companion to Literature and Memory. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. (in press)
With Remo Verdickt. ‘(Im)personal Style: James Baldwin, Joan Didion, and the Inscription of the Universal.’ Literature and the Work of the Universality. Alice Duhan, Stefan Helgesson, Christina Kullberg, Paul Tenngart (eds.). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024. 97-115.
‘Life Style: Rachel Cusk’s Critique of Minimalism.’ Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Roberta Garrett and Liam Harrison (eds.). London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 19-35.
'Depopulating the Novel: Post-Catastrophe Fiction, Scale, and the Population Unconscious.' Liliane Campos and Pierre-Louis Patoine (eds.). Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance. Open Books Publishers, 2022. 229-58.
With Perla Werner, Baldwin van Gorp, and Peter Simonsen. ‘From History to Intervention: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Dementia Stigma.’ Rose-Marie Dröes, Erik Schokkaert, and Mathieu Vandenbulcke (eds.). Dementia and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 25-44.
‘Deontologizing the Nonhuman: Arthur Gordon Pym, Contemporary Literature, and the Limits of the Human.’ Nonhuman Agency in the 21st-Century Novel. Yvonne Liebermann et al. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 69-86.
‘Rewilding Welfare: Sarah Hall and the State of Nature.’ Sarah Hall: Critical Essays. Elke D’hoker and Alex Beaumont (eds.). Canterbury: Gylphi Publishers, 2022. 99-120.
‘Homo Sacer/Homo Demens: The Epistemology of Dementia in Contemporary Literature and Theory.’ The Politics of Dementia: Forgetting and Remembering the Violent Past in Literature, Film, and Graphic Narratives. Irmela Krüger-Fürhoff, Nina Schmidt, and Sue Vice (eds.). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020. 39-54.
‘Impersonal Affect and Transpersonal Community in the Totaled City.’ Imola Bulgodzi, Agnes Gyorke, and Peter Csato (eds). Geographies of Affect in Contemporary Literature and Visual Culture. Boston: Brill, 2021. 21-34.
‘The Anthropocene.’ The Posthumanism Handbook. Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Jacob Wamberg (eds.). London: Bloomsbury, 2020. 59-69.
‘Pynchon's Posthuman Temporalities.’ Joanna Freer (ed.). The New Pynchon Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 69-85.
‘The 1990s.’ Peter Boxall (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction 1980-The Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 32-46.
‘The End of the Novel.' Sibylle Baumbach and Birgit Neumann (eds.). New Approaches to the 21st-century Anglophone Novel. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 317-36.
‘Magnificent Desolation: The Memory of Welfare and the Archaeology of Shame in the Novels of Johan Harstad.’ Patrizia Lombardo, Lars Saetre, and Sara Tanderup (eds.). Exploring Texts, Media, and Memory. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2017. 251-78.
With Lucy Bond and Stef Craps. ‘Memory on the Move.' Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, and Pieter Vermeulen (eds.). Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies. London and New York: Berghahn, 2016. 1-26.
‘On World Literary Reading: Literature, the Market, and the Antinomies of Mobility.’ Institutions of World Literature: Writing, Translation, Markets. Ed. Stefan Helgesson and Pieter Vermeulen. London: Routledge, 2015. 79-92.
With Stefan Helgesson. ‘Introduction: World Literature in the Making.’ Institutions of World Literature: Writing, Translation, Markets. Ed. Stefan Helgesson and Pieter Vermeulen. London: Routledge, 2015. 1-20.
‘Teaching the Critique of Romanticism and Empire in Coetzee’s Disgrace.’ Elleke Boehmer, Jane Poyner, and Laura Wright (eds.). Approaches to Teaching Coetzee’s Disgrace and Other Works. New York: MLA Publications, 2014. 80-86.
‘The Biopolitics of Trauma.’ Gert Buelens, Samuel Durrant, and Robert Eaglestone (eds.). The Future of Trauma Theory. London: Routledge, 2014. 141-55.
‘The Novel after Melancholia: David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten and Tom McCarthy’s Remainder.’ Martin Middeke and Christina Wald (eds.). The Literature of Melancholia: Early Modern to Postmodern. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. 254-67.
‘Being True to Fact: Coetzee’s Prose of the World.’ Anton Leist and Peter Singer (eds.). Coetzee and Ethics: Philosophical Perspectives on Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 269-90.
‘Wordsworth and the Recollection of South Africa.’ Elleke Boehmer, Robert Eaglestone, and Katy Iddiols (eds.). J.M. Coetzee in Context and Theory. London: Continuum, 2009. 47-59.
‘Unforgettability: On the Dynamic Turn in Memory Studies.’ Jan Baetens, Dirk de Geest, and Jurgen Pieters (eds.). New Conceptions of Literary Dynamics.Brussels: Royal Academy Publications, 2008. 49-52.
‘Mimesis and the Perpetuation of Modernity.’ Ian Cooper, Ekkehard Knoerer, and Bernhard Malkmus (eds.). Third Agents: Secret Protagonists of the Modern Imagination. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008. 43-62.
With Nele Bemong and Mirjam Truwant. ‘Europe, in Comparison.’ Nele Bemong, Mirjam Truwant, and Pieter Vermeulen (eds.). Re-Thinking Europe: Literature and (Trans)National Idenity. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. 7-18.
‘Het Verlies van verlies: literaire historiografie en het vermogen om te rouwen’ [The Loss of Loss: Literary Historiography and the Ability to Mourn]. Hans Vandevoorde and Bart Vervaeck (eds.). Literatuur en geschiedenis. VAL-Cahier 27. Leuven: Peeters, 2007. 27-39.
‘Benjamin, Critical Theory, and the Promise of Loss.’ Katrien Vloeberghs and Thomas Crombez (eds.). On the Outlook: Figures of the Messianic. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. 21-34.
‘Timely Memory and Textual History: Geoffrey Hartman’s Refiguration of Love.’ Ansgar Nünning, Marion Gymnich, and Roy Sommer (eds.). Literature and Memory: Theoretical Paradigms, Genres, Functions. Tübingen: Narr Francke, 2006. 67-79.

Review Essays

Review Essay of Jeremy Rosen. Minor Characters Have Their Day. ALH Online Review 11 (2017): n. pag. Online.
With Thomas Chadwick. ‘Geological Time and the Literary Archive.’ Review Essay of McKenzie Wark. Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene. nY 29 (2016): 109-27.
Review Essay of Brigitte Johanna Glaser and Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz, eds. Narrating Loss: Representations of Mourning, Nostalgia, and Melancholia in Contemporary Anglophone Fictions. Anglia 133.3 (2015): 560-66.
'Transatlantische Kontinuitäten: Eine Geopolitik der Literaturwissenschaft in der Nachkriegszeit’ [‘Transatlantic Continuities: A Geopolitics of Postwar Literary Studies’]. Review Essay of Geoffrey Hartman. A Schlolar’s Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe. IASL Online 2010.
Review Essay of Sara Guyer. Romanticism after Auschwitz. Studies in Romanticism 47.4 (2008): 592-97.
‘The Future of Possibility.’ Review Essay of Anne-Lise François. Open Secrets: The Literature of Uncounted Experience. Postmodern Culture 18.2 (2008).
Review Essay of Geoffrey Hartman. Scars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity. Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 2.1 (2004): 195-200.