Avant-garde Orientalism: The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Reviewed in the online editions of American Literary History, Postcolonial Studies, Ariel: A Review of International English Literature and The French Review.
Jean Baudrillard, The Divine Left. Introduced by Jean-Louis Violeau. Sémiotext(e). 2014. English translation of the book La Gauche divine: Chroniques des annees 1977-1984. Bernard Grasset, 1985.
Savage Sight/Constructed Noise: Poetic Adaptations of Painterly Techniques in the French and American Avant-Gardes (Studies in the Romance Languages & Literatures, 276). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Reviews in Modern Language Quarterly (MLQ), French Studies, Symposium, South Atlantic Review.
Jean Cocteau and 'The Testament of Orpheus' With Lucien Clergue (photographer). Viking Studio, 2001.
Essays & articles:
"Another Kind of Colonial," Gianna C. T. Quach. Paris Lit Up, #8, 2020. Provided editorial advice and some revisions. The story is a modified version of a chapter from The Delightful Territory: A Chronicle of Displacement, a book I am co-authoring with Ms. Quach.
Review of The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats by David Stephen Calonne. American Literary History Online Review Series. Oxford University Press, 2018.
“Orientalist Divagations: Four French Authors in Egypt.” Studies in Travel Writing (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) 14.2 (June 2010): 197-213. Refereed journal.
"Absentminded Prolepsis: Global Slackers before the Age of Terror in Alex Garland's The Beach and Michel Houellebecq's Plateforme." Comparative Literature 59.2 (Spring 2007): 158-176. Refereed journal.
“A Reel Around the Fountain.” Al-Ahram Weekly (English edition). No. 799 (15-21 June 2006): 13. Book review of Egyptian Palaces and Villas by Shirley Johnston and Sherif Sonbol.
“Edward Said and the Avant-Garde.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 25 (July 2005): English section, 149. Refereed journal.
Introduction. The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers & Two Stories. By Henry James. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003.
“Plastic Language: John Ashbery’s ‘Europe.’” Word & Image (Taylor & Francis) 18.3 (April - June 2002): 153-161. Refereed journal.
“Max Jacob.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern French Poets. 258. Boston: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2002.
“Tracing Masterpieces.” Art in America 4 (April 2002): 39-41. Book review of Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney and Vermeer’s Camera by Philip Steadman.
“A. I. at Universal U.” The Nation 273.4 (July 23/30, 2001): 42-43. Book review of Thinks, a novel by David Lodge.
“Parodic Nostalgia for Aesthetic Machismo: Frank O’Hara and Jackson Pollock.” Journal of Modern Literature 23.3/4 (Summer 2000): 375-391. Refereed journal.
“‘And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name’: John Ashbery, the Plastic Arts, and the Avant-Garde.” Comparative Literature 50.4 (Fall 1998): 316-332. Refereed journal.
“Mary Kelly.” Artscribe (Summer 1990): 82-83.
"Inge Mahn." Artscribe (January-February 1990): 79.
“Rasheed Araeen.” Artscribe (May 1989): 75.
“Palazzo Grassi.” Travel & Leisure (November 1986): 76-78.
“Earth in the Works.” Art & Auction (June 1986): 72-76.
“Corporate Patronage.” Art & Auction (October 1985): 156-159.
Translations:
Henri Lefebvre, The Missing Pieces (prose poem). Sémiotext(e), 2014. English translation from the French of Les Unités perdues. Manuella, 2011. Included in Whitney Museum Biennial display, 2014.
Baudrillard, Architecture: Truth or Radicalism? Los Angeles: Sémiotext(e), 2014. English translation from the French of Vérité ou radicalité de l’architecture? Sens & Tonka, 2013. Whitney Museum Biennial, 2014.
Félix Guattari. “Institutional Practice and Politics,” “The Left as a Process Passion,” “The Postmodern Impasse” and “Nature at Issue” in Between Chaos and Complexity (anthology). Sémiotext(e), 2018 (anticipated publication date). New translations from the French.
Félix Guattari, “Capitalism: A Very Special Delirium,” “La Borde: A Clinic Like No Other,” “Cinema of Desire,” “Cinéma Fou,” “Molecular Revolutions” and “Desire is Power, Power is Desire” in Chaosophy: Texts and Interviews 1972-1977. Sémiotext(e), 2009. Translations from the French.
Félix Guattari. “Popular Free Radio” in Soft Subversions. Sémiotext(e), 1996. From the French.
Michel Foucault. “History and Homosexuality.” Foucault Live: Collected Interviews, 1961-1984. Semiotext(e), 1996. From the French (misattributed).
Antoine le Hardÿ de Beaulieu and Thierry Lamant. The Illustrated Guide to Oak Trees (book). English translation of Le Guide illustré des chênes. Geers, Belgique: Edilens, 2010. Ongoing.
F. T. Marinetti, The Allure of Egypt. English translation from the Italian of Il Fascino dell’Egitto. Mondadori, 1933. Ongoing.
Essays, reviews, and translations for The Personal Review (blog):
“Orientalist Divagations: Four French Authors in Egypt.” Studies in Travel Writing (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) 14.2 (June 2010): 197-213. Refereed journal.
"Absentminded Prolepsis: Global Slackers before the Age of Terror in Alex Garland's The Beach and Michel Houellebecq's Plateforme." Comparative Literature 59.2 (Spring 2007): 158-176. Refereed journal.
“A Reel Around the Fountain.” Al-Ahram Weekly (English edition). No. 799 (15-21 June 2006): 13. Book review of Egyptian Palaces and Villas by Shirley Johnston and Sherif Sonbol.
“Edward Said and the Avant-Garde.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 25 (July 2005): English section, 149. Refereed journal.
Introduction. The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers & Two Stories. By Henry James. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003.
“Plastic Language: John Ashbery’s ‘Europe.’” Word & Image (Taylor & Francis) 18.3 (April - June 2002): 153-161. Refereed journal.
“Max Jacob.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern French Poets. 258. Boston: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2002.
“Tracing Masterpieces.” Art in America 4 (April 2002): 39-41. Book review of Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney and Vermeer’s Camera by Philip Steadman.
“A. I. at Universal U.” The Nation 273.4 (July 23/30, 2001): 42-43. Book review of Thinks, a novel by David Lodge.
“Parodic Nostalgia for Aesthetic Machismo: Frank O’Hara and Jackson Pollock.” Journal of Modern Literature 23.3/4 (Summer 2000): 375-391. Refereed journal.
“‘And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name’: John Ashbery, the Plastic Arts, and the Avant-Garde.” Comparative Literature 50.4 (Fall 1998): 316-332. Refereed journal.
“Mary Kelly.” Artscribe (Summer 1990): 82-83.
"Inge Mahn." Artscribe (January-February 1990): 79.
“Rasheed Araeen.” Artscribe (May 1989): 75.
“Palazzo Grassi.” Travel & Leisure (November 1986): 76-78.
“Earth in the Works.” Art & Auction (June 1986): 72-76.
“Corporate Patronage.” Art & Auction (October 1985): 156-159.
Translations:
Henri Lefebvre, The Missing Pieces (prose poem). Sémiotext(e), 2014. English translation from the French of Les Unités perdues. Manuella, 2011. Included in Whitney Museum Biennial display, 2014.
Baudrillard, Architecture: Truth or Radicalism? Los Angeles: Sémiotext(e), 2014. English translation from the French of Vérité ou radicalité de l’architecture? Sens & Tonka, 2013. Whitney Museum Biennial, 2014.
Félix Guattari. “Institutional Practice and Politics,” “The Left as a Process Passion,” “The Postmodern Impasse” and “Nature at Issue” in Between Chaos and Complexity (anthology). Sémiotext(e), 2018 (anticipated publication date). New translations from the French.
Félix Guattari, “Capitalism: A Very Special Delirium,” “La Borde: A Clinic Like No Other,” “Cinema of Desire,” “Cinéma Fou,” “Molecular Revolutions” and “Desire is Power, Power is Desire” in Chaosophy: Texts and Interviews 1972-1977. Sémiotext(e), 2009. Translations from the French.
Félix Guattari. “Popular Free Radio” in Soft Subversions. Sémiotext(e), 1996. From the French.
Michel Foucault. “History and Homosexuality.” Foucault Live: Collected Interviews, 1961-1984. Semiotext(e), 1996. From the French (misattributed).
Antoine le Hardÿ de Beaulieu and Thierry Lamant. The Illustrated Guide to Oak Trees (book). English translation of Le Guide illustré des chênes. Geers, Belgique: Edilens, 2010. Ongoing.
F. T. Marinetti, The Allure of Egypt. English translation from the Italian of Il Fascino dell’Egitto. Mondadori, 1933. Ongoing.
Essays, reviews, and translations for The Personal Review (blog):
Multiple zoom classes at SVA and Pace University in the course of the pandemic, 2020-2022.
“Savage Sight/Constructed Noise." Revised and expanded lecture on my first book, first given at the American University in Cairo, 2004.
“Avant-garde Orientalism: An Introduction.” Lecture based on my new book Avant-garde Orientalism: The Eastern ‘Other’ in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry. Posted November 24, 2018.
“Transcendence in Marcel Proust: Reading Swann’s Way.” Originally given as lecture at the School of Visual Arts, New York City, November 1917.
“The Mask of Valery Larbaud: Vehicles of Poetry and the Sadness of Travel.” Book review of The Poems of A. O. Barnabooth by Valery Larbaud (Black Widow Press, 2008). Translated by Ron Padgett and Bill Zavatsky. Posted June 18, 2017.
“Alternative Futures: Baudelaire’s ‘Le Voyage.’” An excerpt from Avant-garde Orientalism (formerly Alternative Futures). Posted September 2015.
“American Voices: Zora Neale Hurston. Vernacular Artifice in Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Pedagogical essay for online course in American literature. Posted May 2015.
“The Concupiscence of Cubism.” Exhibition review of “Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 20, 2014 – February 16, 2015. Posted February 2015.
“Henri Michaux: ‘Seize the Landscape.’” Translation of “Empoigner le paysage.”
“American Voices: T. S. Eliot. Allusions, Quotations, Footnotes, Translations.” Pedagogical essay for my online course in American literature. Posted January 2014.
“The Fine Line Between Art and Accident.” Exhibition review of “Drawing Surrealism” at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, Jan. 21 – April 21, 2013. Posted March 2013
“Robert Desnos: ‘I Have Dreamed of You So Much.’” Translation of “J’ai tant rêvé de toi” (poem).
“American Voices: Ernest Hemingway. Indian Giving.” Essay on Hemingway’s “Indian Camp” from In Our Time. Posted November 2012.
“Mughal Miniatures and English Enlargements.” Exhibition review of “Princes and Painters of Mughal Delhi, 1707 – 1857” at The Asia Society Museum, February 7 – May 6, 2012. Posted May 2012.
“Invitation to the Voyage.” Translation of “L’Invitation au voyage” (poem) by Charles Baudelaire.
“Boy-O-Rama.” Film review of Stephen Lennhoff’s Rhythm & Blues.
“Subordinate Conjunctions.” Book review of French Lessons (novel) by Ellen Sussman.
“One Act Play.” Book review of Second Acts (novel) by Tim Brown.
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