Articles


"Williams in a New Key" a response to New Keywords, ed. Bennett et al. Criticism (2500 words), forthcoming. 

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

 "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.


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