Selected Publications:
Periodizing Jameson; or, the
Adventures of
Theory in Post-Contemporary Times
(forthcoming)
Ontologies of the Possible: Science
Fiction, Utopia, and Globalization
(forthcoming)
Some Recent
Essays:
“Lacan avec Greimas: Formalization, Theory, and the ‘Other Side’ of the
Study of Culture.” Minnesota Review
77 (2011).
“Science fiction.” In Cambridge
Companion to American Fiction after 1945. Ed. John Duvall.
Cambridge University Press. 2012.
Foreword: Crossing the Border with
Darko Suvin.” In “Suvin Illuminated: A Life in Letters.” by Darko
Suvin. Paradoxa 23. 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 (2011).
“Marxist Theory;” “Ideology;”
“Fantasy/Science Fiction” In The Encyclopedia of the Novel.
Ed. Peter
Logan. (2011).
“The Beat Cops of History; or, the Paranoid Style in American
Intellectual Politics.” Arizona
Quarterly 66, no. 2 (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 (2010).
“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
University Press. 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 Burling (MacFarland, 2009).
“Darko Suvin.” In Fifty Key Figures
in Science Fiction. Eds. Mark Bould et al. Routledge
(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, 2009).
“Greimas avec Lacan; or,
From the
Symbolic to the Real in Dialectical Criticism.” Criticism 51, no. 2 (2009).
“Jameson’s Modernisms; or, the
Desire Called Utopia.” Diacritics
37, no. 4 (2007).
“Recognizing the Patterns.” New Literary History 38, no. 1
(2007).
"“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
(2006).
“Here or Nowhere: Utopia, Modernity, and Totality,” In
Utopia-Method-Vision, eds. Tom
Moylan and Raffaella Baccolini (Peter
Lang: 2007).
"Periodizing Jameson." In On Jameson:
From Postmodernism to Globalization, eds. Caren Irr and Ian
Buchanan
(SUNY Press: 2006).
"Postmodernism." In The
Edinburgh
Dictionary of
Continental Philosophy,ed. John Protevi (Edinburgh
University
Press: 2005).
"Utopian Fiction," & "Science Fiction." In
Encyclopedia
of Literature and Politics, ed. M.
Keith Booker (Greenwood Press: 2005).
"Utopia." In A Companion to
Science Fiction, ed. David Seed. (London: Blackwells, 2005).
On-line
writings:
“Alan Moore, ‘Secondary Literacy,’ and the Modernism of the Graphic
Novel.” ImageTexT 5, no. 3 (2010).
“‘An Unfinished Project
that was Also a Missed Opportunity’: Utopia and
Alternate History in Hayao Miyazaki's My
Neighbor Totoro.” ImageTexT,
special issue: “Animé and Utopia" (2010).
"The Day It Changed." The Gainesville Sun, November
9, 2008.
"WALL-E's World." The Satellite, November 9, 2008.
"Demandez l'impossible." The
Satellite,
September 16, 2008.
"On World Bank Literature: A
Review of Bret Benjamin’s Invested
Interests: Capital, Culture, and
the World Bank." Politics and Culture 1 (2008).
“Más allá de las clausuras de la
guerra fría: repeticiones y revisiones en el ciclo
Terminator.” LiberArte: La Revista Virtual del Colegio
de Artes Liberales, Universidad San Francisco de Quito. 1,
no. 1 (2005).
Complete
list of Publications