Articles


"Literature circa 1913," ch. in The New Art Spirit: The Armory Show at 100, ed. Kimberly Orcutt and Marilyn Kushner, New York Historical Society, forthcoming, 2013.


“The Novel and the Rise of Social Science,” ch. in The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Vol. 6: The American Novel 1870-1940, Ed. Priscilla Wald and Michael A. Elliott, Oxford, forthcoming.


“The American Modernists,” ch. in A Companion to 20th Century American Fiction, ed. David Seed. Blackwell, 2010, 11-23.


“By Any Other Name” a response to Vincent Pecora, “Culture as Theater/ Culture as Belief” Criticism 49.3 and 4 (Summer/Fall 2007).

 
Review of Before Cultures: The Ethnographic Imagination in American Literature, 1865-1920, by Brad Evans, Anthropological Quarterly 7:1 (Winter 2006) 183-5.

"Williams in a New Key" a response to New Keywords, ed. Bennett et al. Criticism 47:4 (2005) 561-66.

 
"Culture, Patriotism, and the Habitus of a Discipline; or, What Happens to American Studies in a Moment of Globalization?" Genre 38 (2005).

 "Naïve Modernism and the Politics of Embarrassment" in Disciplinarity and Practice: The (Ir)resistibility of Theory Eds. Stefan Herbrechter and Ivan Callus. Bucknell University Press, 2004, 154-177.

"The 'Culture' of American Studies" REAL(Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature) 19 (2004), 47-63.

 "Histories of the Other," review essay, American Literary History 15.3 (Fall 2003), 625-38.

 Comment on "Boas, Darwin, Science, and Anthropology" by Herbert S. Lewis Current Anthropology 42:3 (June 2001) 396-7.

"Haunted by Mass Culture," review essay, American Literary History 12.1-2 (Winter 2000), 298-317.

"Franz Boas and Professional Anthropology: On Mapping the Borders of the 'Modern'," Victorian Studies special issue on "Victorian Ethnography." 41.3 (Spring 1998), 455-83.


"Imagining Totality: Rhetorics of and versus 'Culture'," Common Knowledge 6.3 (Winter 1997), 51-72.

"Tracing 'Culture' in Modernist America," Letters (publication of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities), 5.2 (Spring 1997), 6-7.


"Taking Blondes Seriously," American Literary History 7.3 (Fall 1995), 525-554.

Review of Myth, Rhetoric, and the Voice of Authority: a Critique of Frazer, Eliot, Frye, and Campbell, by Marc Manganaro, American Literature (June 1995)

"Landscapes, Indians, and Photography in the Age of Scientific Exploration," in The Big Empty: Essays on the Land as Narrative, ed. Leonard Engel, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.

"Shopping for Identities: 'A Nation of Nations' and the Weak Ethnicity of Objects," Public Culture 3.2 (Spring 1991), 71-92.

 "Speaking From the Margins, (compares debates in current feminist theory and African philosophy), SAPINA Newsletter (Bulletin of the Society for African Philosophy in North America) 2.2-3 (May-December 1990), 67-80.

"Native American ‘Texts’ and the Problem of Authenticity," American Quarterly 41.2 (June 1989), 265-283.

 "History, Ethnography, Myth: Some Notes on the 'Indian-Centered' Narrative," Social Text  23 (Fall/Winter 1989), 144-160.


updated 10/17/11


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