Essays and Reviews
- On fact-checking a rumor about Hegel and American Spirit cigarettes for Kiosk
- On rat cities and the behavioral sink for Places Journal
- On Deir Yassin and postage stamps for Kiosk
- On Carl Linnaeus and Homo sapiens for Cabinet
- On waiting, antechambers, and atriums for ArtReview
- On ecstatic swings for the Times Literary Supplement
- On the erotic dimensions of rocking chairs in the nineteenth century for The Public Domain Review
- On uncaging the nightingale for the Times Literary Supplement
- On the autograph fiend for History Today
- On Yevgeny Zamyatin for The Economist
- On the eyes of statues for The Brooklyn Rail
- On 24 hours at Dau, Paris for Hyperallergic
- On blood writing for 3:AM
- On how I wrote a book for Modernism/modernity
- On Don DeLillo for The Cambridge Humanities Review
- On booby traps for 3:AM
- On vagabond humanism for the Times Literary Supplement
- On the poetics of stone for the Los Angeles Review of Books
- On Albrecht Dürer’s pillow studies for Nemunas (Lithuanian translation by Aistė M. Grajauskaitė)
- On Claude Mellan’s The Sudarium of Saint Veronica for El Món d’Ahir (Catalan translation by Laura Gas)
Academic Writing
- On sacrifice for Cambridge Themes in Irish Literature and Culture: Religion (forthcoming)
- On vowels and the sirens’ song for World Picture Journal
- On signatures as political gestures for Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics
- 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
- On Aaron Jaffe’s The Way Things Go for Critical Quarterly
- On The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney for the James Joyce Quarterly
- On Samuel Beckett and pots for the University of Indiana Press blog
- On some of my research into place-names for 9 West Road
Curatorial Articles
- Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany
- Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and their Gardens (1904)
- Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ Passio Verbigenae (ca. 1580)
- A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)
- Tom Seidmann-Freud’s Book of Hare Stories (1924)
- The Art of Sutherland Macdonald, Victorian England’s “Michelangelo of Tattooing” (ca. 1905)
- I Also Am Formed Out of the Clay: Animated Putty (1911)
- The Age of Impoliteness: Galateo: or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners (1774 edition)
- Unwashed Furry Masses: Wanda Gág’s Millions of Cats (1928)
- Never-again Land: J. M. Barrie’s My Lady Nicotine (1896)
- As Loud as a Mouse: Mickey’s Sonic Debut in Steamboat Willie (1928)
- The Afterimage of Death: Dr. Berkeley’s Discovery(1889)
- The World’s First Costume Book: François Desprez’s Collection of Various Clothing Styles (1562)
- Wreathed in Pastiche: Max Beerbohm’s Christmas Garland (1912)
- Season’s Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (1928)
- The World’s First Costume Book: François Desprez’s Collection of Various Clothing Styles (1562)
- Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein’s Monster
- Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920)
- A Melting Cauldron: The Book of Hallowe’en (1919)
- Pantographia: A Specimen Book of All the Alphabets Known on Earth (1799)
- A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words (1860)
- “Those Disturbers of my Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)
- Specimens of Fancy Turning (1869)
- The Comic Natural History of the Human Race (1851)
- My Body is a
TempleFour-Story House: Analogical Diagram from Tobias Cohen’s Ma’aseh Tuviyah (1708) - Unidentified Floating Object: Edo Images of Utsuro-bune
- Denishawn Dance Film (ca. 1916)
- Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons
- Peking Opera Characters (ca. 1900)
- Punctuation Personified (1824)
- Shy Guy (1947)
- Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth (1833)
- Blights of the Bookish: An Essay on Disease Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons (1768)
- Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship (1890)
- Law and Ordure: Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (1891)
- Dool-Hoff: A Dutch Maze with New Jerusalem at its Centre (1705)
- Downhill from Here: The Slant Book (1910)
- A Treatise Concerning the Properties and Effects of Coffee (1792)
- James Ensor, The Deadly Sins (ca. 1904)
- Battles of the Sexes: Duels between Women and Men in 1400s Fechtbücher
- The Book of Bread (1903)
- A Bestiary of Loss
- Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874)
- Trimalchio in Newburyport: Timothy Dexter’s A Pickle for the Knowing Ones
- Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)
- Peter Fabris’ Illustrations for William Hamilton’s Campi Phlegraei (1776–79)
- It Started with Muybridge (1964)
- Portrait of Charlotte du Val d’Ognes (1801)
- Fearful Symmetry: Inkblot Books (1859–1915)
- Alexander in the Bathysphere
- Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies (1757–95)
- Ostentatio Genitalium in Renaissance Art
- Earth Messages: Nikola Tesla in his Laboratory (ca. 1899)
- Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493)
- Unnatural Selection: Emil Schachtzabel’s Pigeon Prachtwerk (1906)
- The Holkham Bible Picture Book (ca. 1330)
- Resurrection on Repeat: Rules and Orders of the Humane Society (1787)
- Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate
- Gustave Zander and the 19th-Century Gym
- Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)
- Imaging Inscape: The Human Soul (1913)
- Theresa Babb’s Photographs of Friendship (ca. 1898)
- Aspirated Aspirations: Alfred Leach’s The Letter H (1880)
- Design’s from Kimono Pattern Books (ca. 1902)
- An Iconic Line: Claude Mellan’s The Sudarium of Saint Veronica (1649)
- “When London is in Ruins”: Gustave Doré’s The New Zealander (1972)
- Adolf Schmidt’s Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (1890)
- A Monster in the Heart: Edward May’s A Most Certain and True Relation (1639)
- A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle (1749)
- Figure/Ground: Alphonse Allais’ April Fools Album (1897)
- 700 Years of Dante’s Divine Comedy in Art
- Festooned: Martin Gerlach’s Decorative Groupings (1897)
- John Uri Lloyd’s Etidorhpa (1895)
- Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)
- Seeking Enlightenment: Denis Diderot’s Letter on the Blind (1749)
- Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (1864)
- Alien Aqueducts: The Maps of Martian Canals
- Clouds of Unknowing: Edward Quin’s Historical Atlas (1830)
- The Zodiac Man
- On the Road: The Woman and the Car (1909)
- Visualizing Migraines: The Attempts of Hubert Airy to Depict Scintillating Scotomata
- A Remembrance of Aerial Forms: Odilon Redon’s À Edgar Poe (1882)
- On Sprezzatura: Baldassare Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier (1528)
- Visualizing History: The Polish System
- English Translation of Finland’s Epic Poem, The Kalevala (1898)
- The Story of Napoleon’s Death Mask (1915)
- Serviette Sculptures: Mattia Giegher’s Treatise on Napkin Folding (1629)
Short Reviews for Aesthetica
- On Lee Miller
- On William Eggleston
- On Marja Helander
- On Nancy Princenthal’s Unspeakable Acts
- On Vitra’s Atlas of Furniture Design
- On Studio Morison’s MOTHER