Articles, Essays, Reviews, Entries, Translations, & more

Articles

• “To Be Continued: Claude’ McKay’s ‘Group Life and Literature’,” for “Little Known Documents,” PMLA. [accepted; forthcoming issue TBD]

• “Posthumous in Marseille: Claude McKay’s Transnational Provenance(s),” American Literary History, August 37.3, 2025 [special issue on the centenary of the Harlem Renaissance]

• “ ‘A dozen impossible novels, half finished’: Reconstituting the French Manuscripts of Jack Kerouac,” Imperfect Itineraries: Literature and Literary Research in the Archives, Ed. Michael Paduano (Nancy: Éditions de l’Université de Lorraine, 2025)

• “The Essentials of Archival Prose,” The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac. Ed. Steven Belletto (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).

• “Going the Distance: Rocky Balboa & The Sweet Science of Endurance,” Museum of Unknown Boxers catalog, Stellenbosch University Museum, South Africa. Artworks and curation by Kurt Campbell, 2019.

• “Jack Kerouac’s Love Affair with Libraries” Journal of Beat Studies, Volume 7, 2019. [bilingual (French and English)]

• “Harlem is Now Here,” Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl / The Gordon Parks Foundation / The Art Institute of Chicago, 2016).

• “Amiable with Big Teeth: The Case of Claude McKay’s Last Novel.” Modernism/modernity, Volume 20, Number 3, September 2013. pp. 557-576.

• “A Country for Old Men: Unforgiven, The Shootist, and the Post-Heyday Western.” The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (formerly Cinema Journal) 51, No. 4 (Summer 2012). pp. 110-129.

• “The Comic-Book World of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction. 43.2 (Summer 2010). pp. 294-319.

Essays, Introductions, Reviews, & Encyclopedia Entries

• “The Author Who Didn’t Care to be Remembered: On the Curious Case of Ann Petry,” Literature Hub, October 4, 2019.

• “Un demi-siècle sous l’influence de Kerouac,” Le Devoir, October 2019. [in French]

• “Translator’s Note,” The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly-Translated Writings. Ed. Todd Tietchen, trans. Jean-Christophe Cloutier (New York: Library of America, 2016).

• “Les Travaux de Jean-Louis Kerouac",” La vie est d’hommage (Montréal: Boréal, 2016;2022) [in French]

• “Batman Year 100.” Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: HEROES & SUPERHEROES. Eds. Bart Beaty and Stephen Weiner. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2012).

• “Powerful Images Recollected in Tranquility.” Review of Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White, by Lila Quintero Weaver. Public Books, July 2012.

Translations

• Jack Kerouac. “The Night is My Woman” [La nuit est ma femme] and “On the Road: Old Bull in the Bowery” [Sur le chemin]. The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings. Ed. Todd T. Tietchen. (New York: Library of America, 2016), pp. 63-97; 173-237.

• Jean-Luc Nancy. “Answering for Sense.” A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy. Eds. James Bono et al. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. pp. 84-93.

• Willy Apollon, “Psychoanalytic knowledge and its transmission in the school.” Transmission II (a) the journal of culture and the unconscious VII: 1, 2007-2008. pp.11-19. With Steven Miller.

• Jean-Luc Nancy, “The Image: Mimesis & Methexis,” theory@buffalo, Issue #11, 2007. pp. 9-26. With Ron Estes.

• Bernard Baas, “Semblance: Putting Philosophizing to the Test.” UMBR(a): A Journal of the Unconscious. Semblance, no.1. Buffalo: Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture, 2007. pp. 85-97.Finding Aids for Archival Collections [Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University]

Finding Aids for Archival Collections [Columbia U’s RBML]

• The Barney Rosset Papers (2011-2012)

• The Erica Jong Papers (2010-2011)

• The Max J. and Ruth Clement Bond Papers (2010)

• The Samuel Roth Papers (2009-2010)

• The Barry Ulanov Papers (2009)