Peer-reviewed essays and book chapters

Works in progress: 

To Philosophize is to Learn to Live with Others: On Anton Wilhelm Amo (for Radical Philosophy)

Pluralism: Traditional, Critical, and Radical (for Philosophy and Global Affairs)

“Performing Conjectural History: Of Hegel (and Others)” in Intersubjectivity Volume 2, eds. Katherine Rochester and Lou Cantor. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2019.

“Buddhism between Worlds: Contested Liberations in Kipling, Salinger, and Head” in Religion and Literature 49.3 (2017), 23-47

“Empires of Enlightenment: On Illumination and the Politics of Buddhism in Heart of Darkness” Journal of Modern Literature 40.2 (2017), pp 1-21

“Performative Scholarship” in the ACLA State of the Discipline Online Report:  March 2014. Republished in Futures of Comparative Literature (Routledge, 2017) ed. Ursula Heise et. al.

“Philosophy Against and in Praise of Violence: Kant, Thoreau, and the Nonviolent Revolutionary Spectator” Theory, Culture & Society 33.6 (2016), pp 51-73

“Sounding Conscience: Walden‘s Global Bottoms,” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth Century Americanists 4.1 (2016), pp 41-63 (nominated for the 1921 American Literature Prize)

“Buddhism and the Postmodern Novel: A Case Study of Cobra and its Critics,”  Twentieth-Century Literature 62.1 (March 2016), pp 32-55

“Not to be European would not be ‘to be European still’: Overcoming Eurocentrism in Levinas and others”  Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy  23.1 (2015) pp 21-42

“Epochs, Elephants, and Parts: On the Concept of History in Literary Studies,” review-essay with a response by Kenneth Warren and a rejoinder, diacritics 42.4 (2014), pp 26-52

“Alternative Economies of Art and Politics: An Interview with Gabriel Rockhill and Nato Thompson” Public Books, September 15, 2014

“‘Melancholy Wildness’: The Failure of Cross-Cultural Engagement in Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and Brown’s Edgar Huntly“ Early American Literature 49.1 (2014), pp. 121-147

“Overcome by Photography: Camera Lucida in an International Frame” Third Text 24.3 (2010), pp. 331-339

“We are Cannibals, All: Fredric Jameson on Colonialism and Experience” Postcolonial Studies, 13.1 (2010), pp. 91-105

 “Specters of Katrina: Historical Reflections on the Future of New Orleans” In The Question of New Orleans Eds. Hawkinson, Kurgan and Marble. New York: Trustees of Columbia University, 2006, 15-17

“Becoming Unbearable: An Interview with Slavoj Zizek” Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism, Spring 2006