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“Fiction: From the 1980s to the Present.” (Co-written with Robert Kilpatrick.) American Literary Scholarship 117 (2019).

“Critical Theory and Cultural Studies.” English Studies in the 21^stCentury. Ed. Bruce McComiskey. NCTE, forthcoming.

“The Book History of Theory.” Special Cluster from MLA Theory Forum. Symploke 27 (2019): 443-49.

“The Rise of the Critical Interview: The Formation of a Genre and the Institution of Theory.” NLH 50.2 (Winter 2019): 1-22.

“University Studies.” The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory. Ed. Jeffrey DiLeo. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018. 323-32.

“Criticism Live: The History and Practice of the Critical Interview.” Special issue on Literary Interviews. Biography 41.2 (2018): 235-55.

“The Debt Experience.” The Debt Age. Ed. Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Peter Hitchcock, and Sophia McClennen. New York: Routledge, 2018. 83-96.

“Generation Jones and Contemporary American Fiction.” ALH28.1 (2016): 94-122.

“Innovation for What? The Politics of Inequality in Higher Education.” Dissent(Winter 2016): 109-16.

“The Need for Critical University Studies.” A New Deal for the Humanities. Ed. Gordon Hutner and Feisal Mohammed. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2015. 145-59.

“Teaching the Professions.” Special issue on “The Professions.” Radical Teacher (2014). Online.

“The Remediation of Higher Education and the Harm of Student Debt.” Comparative Literature 50 (2013): 43-51.

“The Neoliberal Bias: On Neil Gross’s Why Are Professors Liberal?” Los Angeles Review of Books 16 June 2013. Rpt. as “Is There a ‘Liberal Bias’ in Academia?” Salon 18 June 2013. Online.

“The Plutocratic Imagination (On Contemporary American Fiction).” Dissent (Winter 2013): 93-97.

“The Teachings of Student Debt.” Student Financing of Higher Education: A Comparative Perspective. Ed. Donald E. Heller and Claire Callender. London: Routledge, 2013.

“The Little Magazine and the Theory Journal.” Critical Inquiry 39.2 (2012): 402-11.

“The Rise of the Academic Novel.” ALH 24.3 (2012): 561-89.