Recent Lectures and Keynotes
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"The Humanities in a Global Age." Democracy and the Humanities | A Symposium commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Establishment of the National Endowment for the Humanities | September 25, 2015
“How to Talk about the Value of the Humanities in the Age of the Corporate University” | Purdue-Calumet University, October 23rd, 2014
"Practical Matters: Remaking the Humanities PhD in the Age of Alt-Ac" | Keynote Address | The Future of Doctoral Studies in the Humanities University of South Florida | February 9, 2017
“Accidental Editor: How I wrote The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, and Why”
Loyola University Chicago | October 2012
Selected Publications
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"How Not to Defend the Liberal Arts," Inside Higher Ed, October 27, 2014
"Introduction" to The Humanities "Crisis" and the Future of Literary Studies
State of the Discipline: Comparative Literature and Transdisciplinarity in Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature, issue 3.2 February 2014
“Junot Diaz Redefines Macho.” An interview with the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. In These Times, April 14, 2008
“Locating Disciplinary Change: The Afterlives of Area and International Studies in the Age of Globalization” appeared in the Winter, 2006 issue of American Literary History (Vol. 18, No. 1)
“Fated to Unoriginality: The Politics of Mimicry in Derek Walcott’s Omeros,” Callaloo (Vol. 29, No. 2), 2006.
“The Post-Post Colonial Condition: Globalization and Historical Allegory in Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke,” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature (Vol. 36, 1-2), January-April, 2005.
"Beyond Discipline? Globalization and the Future of English," PMLA, January 2001.
