Essays and Reviews
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On waiting, antechambers, and atriums for ArtReview
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On ecstatic swings for the Times Literary Supplement
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On the erotic dimensions of rocking chairs in the nineteenth century for The Public Domain Review
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On uncaging the nightingale for the Times Literary Supplement
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On the autograph fiend for History Today
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On Yevgeny Zamyatin for The Economist
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On the eyes of statues for The Brooklyn Rail
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On 24 hours at Dau, Paris for Hyperallergic
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On blood writing for 3:AM
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On how I wrote a book for Modernism/modernity
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On Don DeLillo for The Cambridge Humanities Review
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On booby traps for 3:AM
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On vagabond humanism for the Times Literary Supplement
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On the poetics of stone for the Los Angeles Review of Books
Academic Writing
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On sacrifice for Cambridge Themes in Irish Literature and Culture: Religion (forthcoming)
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On vowels and the sirens’ song for World Picture Journal
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On signatures as political gestures for Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics
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On intertextual dreaming for James Joyce Quarterly
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On the nightingale, Marie de France, T. S. Eliot, and sonic territoriality for Comparative Literature
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On Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, naming and nation for Essays in Criticism
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On modernism, transportation, and the etymological imagination for Modernism/modernity
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On the animation of containers for Journal of Modern Literature
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On lithic preservation for Irish Studies Review
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British Association for Irish Studies, Essay Prize winner
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On J.M. Coetzee’s cybernetic syntax for Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui
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On Frederick Marryat for Notes & Queries
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On the mechanosphere for Deleuze Studies
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On the signature of all things for Humanities
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On Abraham, Isaac, and cold-war cinema for the Journal of Religion and Film
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On Aaron Jaffe’s The Way Things Go for Critical Quarterly
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On The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney for the James Joyce Quarterly
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On Samuel Beckett and pots for the University of Indiana Press blog
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On some of my research into place-names for 9 West Road
Short Reviews for Aesthetica
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On Lee Miller
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On William Eggleston
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On Marja Helander
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On Nancy Princenthal’s Unspeakable Acts
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On Vitra’s Atlas of Furniture Design
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On Studio Morison’s MOTHER