Writing

On uncaging the nightingale for the Times Literary Supplement
On the autograph fiend for History Today
On the erotic dimensions of rocking chairs in the nineteenth century for The Public Domain Review
On Yevgeny Zamyatin for The Economist
On the eyes of statues for The Brooklyn Rail
On 24 hours at Dau, Paris for Hyperallergic
On culture, literature, and vagabond humanism for the Times Literary Supplement
On the poetics of stone for the Los Angeles Review of Books
On Don DeLillo for The Cambridge Humanities Review
On Aaron Jaffe’s The Way Things Go for Critical Quarterly
On The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney for the James Joyce Quarterly
On the aura of autographs for the Process column at Modernism/modernity
On Samuel Beckett and pots for the University of Indiana Press blog
On booby traps for 3:AM
On some of my research into place-names for 9 West Road
On blood writing for 3:AM

On vowels and the sirens’ song for World Picture (accepted, forthcoming)
On intertextual dreaming for James Joyce Quarterly
On the nightingale, Marie de France, T. S. Eliot, and sonic territoriality for Comparative Literature
On Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, naming and nation for Essays in Criticism
On modernism, transportation, and the etymological imagination for Modernism/modernity
On the animation of containers for Journal of Modern Literature
On lithic preservation for Irish Studies Review
- British Association for Irish Studies, Essay Prize winner
On J.M. Coetzee’s cybernetic syntax for Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui
On Frederick Marryat for Notes & Queries
On the mechanosphere for Deleuze Studies
On the signature of all things for Humanities
On Abraham, Isaac, and cold-war cinema for the Journal of Religion and Film

A book chapter on Beckett for a collection from an American university press
A book chapter on signatures for a sociology and politics collection from an American university press
A book chapter on sacrifice and Ireland for a collection from a British university press