BOOKS

Life Between Two Deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.

Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Reviews have appeared in Science Fiction Studies 89; Utopian Studies 13, no. 2; Politics and Culture: An International Review of Books, 2002, no. 3; American Literature 76, no. 1; Cultural Logic (2006); Comparative Literature 57, no. 2. Political Theory, Vol. 36, No. 2.

SCHOLARLY ESSAYS AND ARTICLES

forthcoming    “Things as They Were or Are: On Russell Banks’s Global Realisms.” In Capitalist Realism. Eds. Alison Shonkwiler and Leigh Claire La Berge.
forthcoming    “The Ends of Culture; or, Late Modernism, Redux.” In Literary Materialisms. Eds. Mathias Nilges and Emilio Sauri (Palgrave).
forthcoming    “Hegel or Spinoza (or Hegel); Spinoza and Marx.” Mediations.
forthcoming    Introduction for new edition of Robert C. Elliott, The Shape of Utopia. Ralahine Utopian Studies Classics (Peter Lang).
forthcoming    “Strugatskys, Roadside Picnic (1972) and Tarkovsky, Stalker (1979).” In When Worlds Collide: The Critical Companion to Science Fiction Film Adaptations. Ed. Peter Wright. Liverpool University Press.
forthcoming    “H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (1898), The War of the Worlds (1953), War of the Worlds (2005).” In When Worlds Collide: The Critical Companion to Science Fiction Film Adaptations. Ed. Peter Wright. Liverpool University Press.
forthcoming    “George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four (1949) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1984).” In When Worlds Collide: The Critical Companion to Science Fiction Film Adaptations. Ed. Peter Wright. Liverpool University Press.

2012    “Science fiction.” In Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945. Ed. John Duvall. Cambridge University Press. 56-67.
2011     “Lacan avec Greimas: Formalization, Theory, and the ‘Other Side’ of the Study of Culture;” Minnesota Review 77. 62-86.
2011    Foreword: Crossing the Border with Darko Suvin.” In “Darko Suvin: A Life in Letters,” by Darko Suvin. Paradoxa 23. 9-19.
2011    ““The Mysterious Qualities of This Alleged Void”: Transvaluation and Utopian Urbanism in Rem Koolhaas’s S,M,L,XL.” In Imagining and Making the World: Reflections on Architecture and Utopia. Ed. Nathaniel Coleman. Peter Lang. 283-98.
2011    “Marxist Theory.” In The Encyclopedia of the Novel. Ed. Peter Logan. Wiley-Blackwell. 504-08.
2011    “Ideology.” In The Encyclopedia of the Novel. Ed. Peter Logan. Wiley-Blackwell. 413-17.
2011    “Science Fiction, Fantasy.” In The Encyclopedia of the Novel. Ed. Peter Logan. Wiley-Blackwell. 727-30.
2010     “Alan Moore, ‘Secondary Literacy,’ and the Modernism of the Graphic Novel.” ImageTexT 5, no. 3.
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2010     “The Beat Cops of History; or, the Paranoid Style in American Intellectual Politics.” Arizona Quarterly, 66, no. 2. 149-67.
2010    “Emerging from the Flood in Which We Are Sinking; or, Reading with Darko Suvin (Again).” Preface to Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction, and Political Epistemology, by Darko Suvin. Peter Lang. xv-xxxiii.
2009                        “Darko Suvin.” In Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction. Eds. Mark Bould et al. Routledge.
2009                     “Ken MacLeod's Permanent Revolution: Utopian Possible Worlds, History, and the Augenblick in the ‘Fall Revolution’.” In Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction. Eds. Mark Bould and China Miéville. Pluto Press/Wesleyan UP.
2009                        “ ‘The Dead are Our Redeemers’: Culture, Belief, and United 93.” American Multiculturalism After 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives. Eds. Derek Rubin and Jaap Verheul. Amsterdam University Press. 77-88.
2009                      “Learning to Live in History: Alternate Historicities and the 1990s in The Years of Rice and Salt.” In Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable: Critical Essays. Ed. William J. Burling. MacFarland. 98-114.
2009                      “Jameson’s Modernisms; or, the Desire Called Utopia.” Diacritics 37, no. 4 (Winter, 2007). 3-20.
2008                                   'More than a Minimum Agenda: On Bret Benjamin's Invested Interests: Capital, Culture, and the World Bank.' Politics and Culture.
2007                                   'Here or Nowhere: Utopia, Modernity, and Totality.' In Utopia Method Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming, eds. Tom Moylan and Raffaella Baccolini. Peter Lang. 113-129.
2007                                   'Recognizing the Patterns.' New Literary History 38, no. 1. 183-200.
2006                                   'The Pretty Woman Goes Global: Or, Learning to Love 'Americanization' in Notting Hill.' In 'Circulations: 'America' and Globalization.' ed., Patricia Ventura. Genre, 38, no. 3. 309-326.
2006                                   'Periodizing Jameson.' In On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization, eds. Caren Irr and Ian Buchanan. SUNY Press. 241-280.
2005                                   'Postmodernism.' In The Edinburgh Dictionary of Continental Philosophy, ed. John Protevi. Edinburgh University Press. 458-462.
2005                                   'Utopian Fiction.' In The Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, ed. M. Keith Booker. Greenwood Press. 729-733.
2005                                   'Science Fiction.' In The Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, ed. M. Keith Booker. Greenwood Press. 635-640.
2005                                   'Utopia.' In A Companion to Science Fiction, ed. David Seed. Blackwell. 79-94
2005                                   'M's all' de las clausuras de la guerra fr'a: repeticiones y revisiones en el ciclo Terminator.' LiberArte: La Revista Virtual del Colegio de Artes Liberales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
2004                                   'October 3, 1951 to September 11, 2001: Periodizing the Cold War in DeLillo's Underworld.' In 'Neorealism: Between Innovation and Continuation,' eds. Thomas Claviez and Maria Moss. Amerikastudien/American Studies 49, no. 1. 51-63.
2003                                   'Where the Prospective Horizon is Omitted: Naturalism and Dystopia in Fight Club and Ghost Dog.' In Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination, eds. Tom Moylan and Raffaella Baccolini. London: Routledge. 167-185.
2003                                   'Soldierboys for Peace: Cognitive Mapping, Space, and Science Fiction as World Bank Literature.' In World Bank Literature, ed. Amitava Kumar. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 280-296.
2002                                   'Spatial Criticism: Critical Geography, Space, Place, and Textuality.' In Introducing Criticism at the Twenty-First Century, ed. Julian Wolfreys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press: 179-201.
2000                                   ''A Nightmare on the Brain of the Living': Messianic Historicity, Alienations, and Independence Day.' Rethinking Marxism 12. no 1: 65-86.
1999                                   'The Last Bomb: Historicizing History in Terry Bisson's Fire on the Mountain and Gibson and Sterling's The Difference Engine.' The Comparatist 23: 141-151.
1998                                   'Horizons, Figures, and Machines: The Dialectic of Utopia in the Work of Fredric Jameson.' Utopian Studies 9, no. 2: 58-73. Battisti Award winner for best essay.
1994                                   ''Life as He Would Have It:' The Invention of India in Kipling's Kim.' Cultural Critique no. 26: 129-159.
1993                                   'On Zamyatin's We: A Critical Map of Utopia's 'Possible Worlds'.' Utopian Studies 4, no. 2: 94-116. Battisti Award winner for best essay.
1991                                   'The Terminator and the New World Order.' The Missing Link 9, no 3.

REVIEWS

2011 Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction, by Lisa Yaszek. Configurations 19, no. 1 (2,450 words).

2001 The Jameson Reader, by Fredric Jameson. Edited by Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks. Utopian Studies 12, no. 2 (1,780 words).

1999 Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, by Eva Illouz. Utopian Studies 10, no. 2. (2,359 words).

1999 Advertising and Commodity Culture in Joyce, by Garry Leonard. James Joyce Literary Supplement 13, no. 2 (Fall). (2,736 words).

1999 Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, by Mike Davis. Earthmatters 43 (Summer). (853 words).

FILM REVIEWS

2008 “WALL-E’s World.” Satellite 7, no. 11 (December, 2008).
2008 “Demandez l’Impossible: Godard, May ’68, and intellectuals.” Satellite 7, no. 9 (September, 2008): 4.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Books:

“Periodizing Jameson; or, The Adventures of Theory in Post-Contemporary Times."

“Ontologies of the Possible: Science Fiction, Globalization, and Radical Politics;” accepted by the Ralahine Utopian Studies book series. Editor, Tom Moylan (Peter Lang).

"The Battle for John Brown's Body: Representing Radicalism in 20th Century America."

"Kim Stanley Robinson"

Editor for new edition of Robert C. Elliott, The Shape of Utopia, Ralahine Utopian Studies book series. Editor, Tom Moylan (Peter Lang).

'Other Modernisms.'

updated 3/15/12