ARTICLES

“Language(s) of Self-Representation: Toward a Postcolonial Theory of Voice” Critical Times, April 2023, 41-59.

“Heterodox Philology: A Conversation with Gauri Viswanathan” Philological Encounters, Vol. 6, 2021, 243-264.

“Translating Whispers: Reading, Recitation, Realism” SubStance 154, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2021, 10-26.

“Dying to Read: Reflections on the Ends of Literacy” New Literary History, Volume 51, Number 2, Spring 2020, 281-298.

“Hermenêutica” (A Hermeneutical Approach) Debates do NER, Vol. 2, No. 26, 2019, 211-216.

“Picturing Other Languages: Reflections on Photography and Philology” College English, Volume 82, Number 1, September 2019, 94-112. 

“Old Media/New Futures: Revolutionary Reverberations of Fanon’s Radio” PMLA, “New Geographies of Reading,” 134.1, Spring 2019, 188-193.

“Re-Reading the Arab Darwin: The Lewis Affair and Naguib Mahfouz’s Palace of Desire” Modernism/Modernity, Volume 23, Number 2, 2016. 319-340.

“Scattered Letters: Translingual Poetics in Assia Djebar’s L’Amour, La Fantasia” Philological Encounters, Volume 2, Issue 1. 2016, 180-198.

“You, The Sacrificial Reader: Poetics and Pronouns in Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘al-Qurban’” Friederike Pannewick and Georges Khalil (eds.), Commitment and Beyond: Reflections on/of the Political in Arabic Literature since the 1940s, (Wiesbaden: Reichert-Verlag, 2015), 185-199.

“The Hermeneutics of the Other: Intersubjectivity and the Limits of Narration in Rashid al-Daif’s How the German Came to His Senses” Ken Seigneurie (ed.), What Makes a Man?, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015), 214-227.

“Fictional Futures and Literary Pasts: Reflections on Houellebecq’s Submission” Telos-scope, December 2015.

“Queer Couplings: Formations of Religion and Sexuality in The Yacoubian Building” The International Journal of Middle East Studies, 44:4, 2013, 253-269.

“How Adab Became Literary: Formalism, Orientalism and the Institutions of World Literature” Journal of Arabic Literature 43: 2-3, 2012, 172-196.

“Deserted Histories: The Great Pyramid and Early Film Form” Early Popular Visual Culture, 6:2, July 2008, 159-170.

“Reading With One Eye, Speaking With One Tongue: The Problem of Address in World Literature” Comparative Literature Studies, Volume 44, no. 1-2, Fall 2007, 1-19. Awarded the A. Owen Aldridge Prize

“Fanon and the Flesh of Language: Towards a Material Linguistics of Colonial Subjection” Equinoxes, Number 4, Winter 2004.

“The Location of Lebanon: Portraits and Places in the Videography of Jayce Salloum” Parachute, Volume 108 Beyrouth_Beirut, Fall 2002, 164-176; Simultaneously published as “Le Lieu Liban: Portraits et Sites dans L’Art Vidéo de Jayce Salloum” translated by Denis Lessard.