Work in Progress

• I am working on a larger book project on what I call contemporary literature's 'grammar of valuation.' This book aims to develop a new account of the way literary value is produced, articulated, and circulated in relation to non-literary value domains, and how this 'grammar of valuation' shapes the dominant forms of contemporary literature. Authors I discuss include W.G. Sebald, Karl-Ove Knausgaard, Annie Ernaux, Teju Cole, Jonathan Franzen, Colum McCann, George Saunders, Valeria Luiselli, Ben Lerner, Hernan Diaz, and Justin Torres.   
• With Gianna Zocco and Remo Verdickt, I am co-editing a special issue of the James Baldwin Review on European Baldwins. The special issue begins to trace the footprint of Baldwin's life and work in different European linguistic and national contexts. Publication in 2025.  
• Tom Toremans and I also co-direct a project entitled 'Righting the Black Atlantic,' which reassesses the notion of the Black Atlantic as a key term for capturing transnational mobility for our current age of involuntary displacement and human rights violations. Dr. Rich Cole is the main researcher employed in the project. Together, we are editing a Critical Concepts volume for Cambridge University Press on The Refugee and Literature. Publication in 2027. 
• With Ali Sperling and David Lombard, I am co-editing a special issue of Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture, and Environment on the topic of Anthropocene Sublimes. The special issue draws on revisionary theories of, among others, the toxic sublime, the haptic sublime, and the petroleum sublime to test the viability of the notion of the sublime for framing and representation environmental crisis. Publication in 2025.  ​
• With colleagues from Sweden and Hungary, I am co-editing a state-of-the-art volume on literary ethics. The volume is a spin-off of a recent conference entitled 'What Remains? Literature and Ethics in a Time of Crisis.' Publication in 2026 as a Yearbook of English Studies volume.