Writing

On the life of Robert Hooke for the Times Literary Supplement
On Kevin Killian’s Selected Amazon Reviews for Sidecar (New Left Review)
On fact-checking a rumor about Hegel and American Spirit cigarettes for Kiosk
On rat cities and the behavioral sink for Places Journal
On Deir Yassin and postage stamps for Kiosk
On Carl Linnaeus and Homo sapiens for Cabinet
On waiting, antechambers, and atriums for ArtReview
On ecstatic swings for the Times Literary Supplement
On the erotic dimensions of rocking chairs in the nineteenth century for The Public Domain Review
On uncaging the nightingale for the Times Literary Supplement
On the autograph fiend for History Today
On Yevgeny Zamyatin for The Economist
On the eyes of statues for The Brooklyn Rail
On 24 hours at Dau, Paris for Hyperallergic
On blood writing for 3:AM
On how I wrote a book for Modernism/modernity
On Don DeLillo for The Cambridge Humanities Review
On booby traps for 3:AM
On vagabond humanism for the Times Literary Supplement
On the poetics of stone for the Los Angeles Review of Books
On Albrecht Dürer’s pillow studies for Nemunas (Lithuanian translation by Aistė M. Grajauskaitė)
On Claude Mellan’s The Sudarium of Saint Veronica for El Món d’Ahir (Catalan translation by Laura Gas)

On sacrifice for Cambridge Themes in Irish Literature and Culture: Religion (forthcoming)
On vowels and the sirens’ song for World Picture Journal
On signatures as political gestures for Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics
On intertextual dreaming for James Joyce Quarterly
On the nightingale, Marie de France, T. S. Eliot, and sonic territoriality for Comparative Literature
On Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, naming and nation for Essays in Criticism
On modernism, transportation, and the etymological imagination for Modernism/modernity
On the animation of containers for Journal of Modern Literature
On lithic preservation for Irish Studies Review
- British Association for Irish Studies, Essay Prize winner
On J.M. Coetzee’s cybernetic syntax for Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui
On Frederick Marryat for Notes & Queries
On the mechanosphere for Deleuze Studies
On the signature of all things for Humanities
On Abraham, Isaac, and cold-war cinema for the Journal of Religion and Film
On Aaron Jaffe’s The Way Things Go for Critical Quarterly
On The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney for the James Joyce Quarterly
On Samuel Beckett and pots for the University of Indiana Press blog
On some of my research into place-names for 9 West Road