Publications

     Review Essays and Reviews                          

"Poststructuralism's Second Wave: Derrida." Review essay of Jacques Derrida, Séminaire
            La bête et le souverain, Volume II (2002-2003), Eds. Michel Lisse, Marie-Louise Mallet,
            and Ginette Michaud (Paris:  Éditions Galilée, 2010) in Genre 44.1 (Spring 2011):  93-104.

“Bourdieu's Self-Analysis.”  Review essay of Pierre Bourdieu, Esquisse pour une auto-analyse (Paris:
            Raisons d'agir, 2004) in SubStance:  A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism 106 (2005):
            184-88.

“Bourdieu against the Evils of Globalization.”  Review essay of Pierre Bourdieu, Contre-feux 2:  Pour
            un mouvement social européen (Paris:  Raisons d’Agir, 2001) in Symploke:  A Journal for the
            Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship  9.1-2 (2001): 61-64.                              
"Costly Compensations:  Postmodern Fashion, Politics, Identity."  Review essay of On Fashion, ed.
            Shari Benstock and Suzanne Ferriss (New Brunswick:  Rutgers UP, 1994) in Modern Fiction
            Studies  42 (Spring 1996):  111-28.

"Postmodernism, Pedagogy, and Cultural Criticism."  Review essay of Stanley Aronowitz and Henry
            Giroux, Postmodern Education:  Politics, Culture, and Social Criticism (Minneapolis:  U of
            Minnesota P, 1991) in Works and Days:  Essays in the Sociohistorical Dimensions of
            Literature and the Arts  20 (Fall 1992):  31-41.

"Postmodern Culture:  The Ambivalence of Fredric Jameson."  Review essay of Fredric Jameson,
            Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham:  Duke UP, 1991) in
            College Literature  19 (June 1992):  111-22.

"Deconstruction and Ethics."  Review essay of J. Hillis Miller, Versions of Pygmalion (Cambridge:
            Harvard UP, 1990) in Comparative Literature  44 (Spring 1992):  200-06. 

Review essay of John D. Caputo, Radical Hermeneutics:  Repetition, Deconstruction, and the
            Hermeneutic Project (Bloomington:  Indiana UP, 1987) in Philosophy and Literature  13
            (April 1989):  151-62.

Review of Jonathan Arac, Critical Genealogies (New York:  Columbia UP, 1987) and Joseph A.
            Buttigieg, ed., Criticism without Boundaries (Notre Dame:  U of Notre Dame P, 1987) in
            Modern Fiction Studies  34 (Summer 1988):  319-21.

Review of Roland Barthes, L'Obvie et l'obtus:  Essais critiques III (Paris:  Seuil, 1982) in SubStance:
            A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism  41 (1983):  91-92.

Review of The Yale Critics:  Deconstruction in America, ed. Jonathan Arac, Wlad Godzich, and
            Wallace Martin (Minneapolis:  U of Minnesota P, 1983) in MLN  98 (December 1983):
            1305-08.

Review of Rosalind Coward and John Ellis, Language and Materialism: Developments in Semiology
            and the Theory of the Subject (London:  Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977) in Clio:  An
            Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History  8 (Winter
            1979):  311-12.

Review of Aleksis Rannit and Eduard Wiiralt, Cantus Firmus, Translator Henry Lyman, Foreword
            by Norman Holmes Pearson (New Rochelle, NY:  Elizabeth Press, 1978) in Slavic and East
            European Journal  22 (Summer 1978):  237-39; and in International P.E.N. Bulletin of
            Selected Books  28.2 (1978):  38-40.

Review of Murray Krieger, Theory of Criticism:  A Tradition and Its System (Baltimore:  Johns
            Hopkins UP, 1976) in Clio  7 (Summer 1978):  463-66.

Review of Raymond B. Waddington, The Mind's Empire:  Myth and Form in George Chapman's
            Narrative Poems (Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins UP, 1974) in Sixteenth Century Journal  7
            (October 1976):  122-23.

Review of Hugh M. Richmond, The Christian Revolutionary:  John Milton (Berkeley:  U of
            California P, 1974) in Clio  5 (Spring 1976):  400.