Interviews
“Varieties of Displacement: An Interview with Rob Nixon.” (forthcoming).
“Sexual/Theoretical Politics: An Interview with Jane Gallop.” Diacritics (forthcoming).
“The Challenge of Criticism: An Interview with Bruce Robbins.” Symploke 26 (2018). Short version: “Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism.” LARB (Aug. 2018).
“Planting a Flag for Socialism: An Interview with Bhaskar Sunkara.” Symploke 26 (2018).
“Works and Days of an Editor: An Interview with David B. Downing.” Works and Days 36 (2018).
“Shakespeare and Scooby-Doo: An Interview with Terrance Hayes.” Iowa Review47.3 (Winter 2017/18): 168-87.
“Remaking Contemporary American Literature: An Interview with Amy Hungerford.” Symploke 25 (2017): 535-51.
“Historicizing African American Literature: An Interview with Kenneth W. Warren.” Symploke 25 (2017): 553-66.
“Ways of Reading: An Interview with Sharon Marcus.” minnesota review (2017): 83-102.
“The Studio of Literature: An Interview with Tom Lutz.” Symploke 24 (2016): 543-65.
“Change Agent: An Interview with Tamara Draut.” Symploke 24 (2016): 525-41. Shorter version: Public Books May 2016.
“The Institution of Contemporary Fiction: An Interview with Mark McGurl.” Contemporary Literature 57.2 (2016): 165-83.
“Extending American Literature: An Interview with Wai Chee Dimock.” Boundary 243.2 (2016): 163-78.
“The Generation In Between: An Interview with Jonathan Pontell.” Forthcoming.
“Historicizing African American Literature: An Interview with Kenneth W. Warren.” Boundary 2 (2015).
“Extending American Literature: An Interview with Wai Chee Dimock.” Boundary 2 (2015).
“The Political Education of Walter Benn Michaels: An Interview.” Symploke 22 (2014): 357-79.
“The Contemporist: An Interview with Terry Smith.” Symploke 22 (2014): 381-405.
“History Unabridged: An Interview with Stefan Collini.” Boundary 2 41.2 (2014): 113-37.
“Inferential Man: An Interview with Robert Brandom.” Symploke 21 (2013): 367-91.
“Rewriting the History of American Criticism: An Interview with Gordon Hutner.” Symploke 21 (2013): 347-66.
“Criticism and Connection: An Interview with Michael Walzer.” Symploke 20 (2012): 286-305.
“Rewriting Literary History: An Interview with Elaine Showalter.” Symploke 20 (2012): 269-85.
“The Drag of Masculinity: An Interview with Judith Halberstam.” Symploke 19.1-2 (2011): 361-80.
“The Wages of Globalization: An Interview with Lisa Lowe.” Symploke 19.1-2 (2011): 345-59.
“The Prurient Detective: An Interview with Wayne Koestenbaum.” Symploke 18.1-2 (2010): 367-82.
“True Stories: An Interview with Lee Gutkind.” Symploke 18.1-2 (2010): 349-66.
“History and Change: An Interview with Ralph Cohen.” NLH 40 (2009): 919-42.
“Science Stories: An Interview with Donna Haraway.” minnesota review 73-74 (2009-10): 133-63.
“Scholarly Reporter: An Interview with Andrew Ross.” minnesota review 73-74 (2009-10): 37-52.
“Higher Exploitation: An Interview with Marc Bousquet.” minnesota review 71-72 (2009): 101-22.
“Critical Self-Fashioning: An Interview with Stephen J. Greenblatt.” minnesota review 71-72 (2009): 47-61.
“The Capability of Philosophy: An Interview with Martha Nussbaum.” minnesota review 71-72 (2009): 63-86.
“Bellwether: An Interview with J. Hillis Miller.” minnesota review 71-72 (2009): 25-46.
“Reconstructing Culture: An Interview with Hazel Carby.” minnesota review 70 (2008): 87-104.
“The Clarity of Theory: An Interview with Jonathan Culler.” minnesota review 70 (2008): 67-86.
“A Life in Criticism: An Interview with M. H. Abrams.” minnesota review 69 (2007): 71-93.
“Writing with Texts: An Interview with David Bartholomae.” minnesota review 69 (2007): 95-113.
“The Geography of Accumulation: An Interview with David Harvey.” minnesota review 69 (2007): 115-37.
“A Memoir of Feminism: An Interview with Nancy K. Miller.” minnesota review 68 (2007): 75-90.
“The Work of Production in the Age of Cultural Studies: An Interview with James Schamus.” minnesota review 68 (2007): 91-105.
“What Is an Intellectual Woman? An Interview with Toril Moi.” minnesota review 67 (2006): 65-82.
“Public Essayist: An Interview with Michael Bérubé.” minnesota review 67 (2006): 85-103.
“The Counter-Memory of Postmodernism: An Interview with William Spanos.” minnesota review 67 (2006): 47-63.
“Publishing Ideas: An Interview with Eric Zinner.” minnesota review 67 (2006): 105-22.
“Class Matters: An Interview with Adolph Reed.” minnesota review 65-6 (2006): 103-19.
“The Culture of Books: An Interview with Janice Radway.” minnesota review 65-6 (2006): 133-48.
“Articulating Feminism: An Interview with Rita Felski.” minnesota review 63-4 (2005): 127-39.
“Culture and Policy: An Interview with Mark Bauerlein.” minnesota review 63-4 (2005): 159-77.
“Visualizing Books: An Interview with Ken Wissoker.” minnesota review 63-4 (2005): 141-57.
“Toward a Sociology of Literature: An Interview with John Guillory.” minnesota review 61-2 (2004): 95-109.
“Editor as Ambassador: An Interview with Jennifer Crewe.” minnesota review 61-2 (2004): 207-21.
“In Defense of Academic Publishing: An Interview with Willis Regier.” minnesota review 61-2 (2004): 193-207.
“Style: An Interview with Laura Kipnis.” minnesota review 58-60 (2003): 63-78.
“A Sense of History: An Interview with Arif Dirlik.” minnesota review 58-60 (2003): 79-92.
“History and Hope: An Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley. minnesota review 58-60 (2003): 93-109.
“Against Identity: An Interview with Walter Benn Michaels.” minnesota review 55-7 (2001): 124-42.
“Only Connect: An Interview with Gerald Graff.” minnesota review 55-7 (2001): 87-101.
“Stanley Agonistes: An Interview with Stanley Fish.” minnesota review 52-4 (2000): 115-26.
“New New York Intellectual: An Interview with Louis Menand.” minnesota review 52-4 (2000): 141-57.
“The Last Generalist: An Interview with Richard Powers.” Cultural Logic 2 (1999): . Rpt. in minnesota review 52-4 (2000): 95-114.
“Politics and Philosophy: An Interview with Nancy Fraser.” minnesota review 50-1 (1998): 143-59.
“Editorial Instinct: An Interview with William P. Germano.” minnesota review 48-9 (1997): 105-17.
“Editorial Catalyst: An Interview with Niko Pfund.” minnesota review 48-9 (1997): 119-39.
“Editing Not Academic: An Interview with Cecelia Cancellaro.” minnesota review 48-9 (1997): 141-50.
[With Clifford Manlove.] “Editorial Experience: An Interview with Beverly Jarrett.” minnesota review 48-9 (1997): 151-67.
“English in America Updated: An Interview with Richard Ohmann.” minnesota review n.s. 45-6 (1996): 57-75.
[With Mike Hill.] “Undisciplined: An Interview with Andrew Ross.” minnesota review n.s. 45-6 (1996): 77-94.
“Questioning Cultural Studies: An Interview with Paul Smith.” minnesota review n.s. 43-4 (1995): 84-98.
“Writing in Concert: An Interview with Cathy Davidson, Alice Kaplan, Jane Tompkins, and Marianna Torgovnick.” minnesota review n.s. 41-2 (1994): 53-74. Rpt. in Confessions of the Critics. Ed. H. A. Veeser. New York: Routledge, 1996. 156-76.
“Sedgwick Unplugged (An Interview with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick).” minnesota review n.s. 40 (1993): 52-64.
Reviews
Review of Eyal Amiran and John Unsworth, eds., Essays from Postmodern Culture, Tom Cohen, Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock, and Vincent Leitch, Postmodernism. South Atlantic Review 62.1 (1997): 186-192.
Review of David Lehman, Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man. College Literature 20.2 (1993): 237-40.
“Deconstruction-Bashing.” Review of John M. Ellis, Against Deconstruction. Criticism 34 (1992): 435-37.
Review of David Lehman, Signs of the Times. South Atlantic Review 57.3 (1992): 105-107.
Review of Lindsay Waters & Wlad Godzich, eds. Reading de Man Reading and Werner Hamacher et al., eds. Responses: On Paul de Man’s Wartime Journalism. minnesota review 37 (1991): 126-29.Review of Christopher Norris, Paul de Man: Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology. minnesota review 33 (1989): 121-24.