Selected Publications:

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Life Between Two Deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. Culture in the Long 1990s

(Duke University Press: 2009)

Reviews and discussions can be found at:
 PopMatters (2009)
Reviews in Cultural Theory 1, no. 2 (2010)
Utopian Studies 21, no. 2 (2010)
Postmodern Culture 20, no. 1 (2009)
American Literature 82, no. 4 (2010)



Imaginary Communities:
Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity

(University of California Press: 2002)

Reviews and discussions can be found at:
Politics and Culture 2002, #3
Science Fiction Studies 30, no.  (2003)

Utopian Studies 13, no. 2 (2002)
American Literature 76, no. 1 (2004)
Comparative Literature 57, no. 2 (2005)
Cultural Logic  (2006)
Political Theory 36, no. 2 (2008)
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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).


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