Essays

Here you can find links to a selection of some of the journal articles and book chapters that I have written:

• “The Book, Meaning, and Densities of Essential Forms in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe,” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory vol. 35, no. 1 (2024): 18-38.

• “At First Blush: New Materialism and Computational Literary Studies” in K. Howaldt and K. Merten (eds). New Materialist Literary Theory: Critical Conceptions of Literature for the Anthropocene, 63-77. Lanham, MA: Lexington Books, 2024.

• “Technology and Literary Criticism” in S. Chan, K. Mak and S.M. Leung (eds). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities, 247-258. London: Routledge, 2024.

• “Introduction: An Orientation” in G. Hamilton and C. Lau (eds). Mapping the Posthuman, 1-24. London: Routledge, 2024 (with Carolyn Lau).

• “Densities and Fugitive Vectors” in K. Mak (ed). Advances in Techno-Humanities: Case Studies from Culture, Philosophy and the Arts, 28-43. London: Routledge, 2023.

• “J.G. Ballard’s Shanghai” in L. Bernstein and C. Cheng (eds). Revealing/Reveiling Shanghai: Cultural Representations from the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, 143-158. New York: SUNY Press, 2020.

• “Shklovsky and World Literature” in S. Gratchev and H. Mancing (eds). Viktor Shklovsky’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy, 139-150. Lanham, MA: Lexington Books, 2019.

• “Aporia and Diaspora: The Unliveable Life in Dinaw Mengestu’s How to Read the Air,” Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 12 no. 2 (2018): 153-165.

• “Defamiliarization and the Act of Reading World Literature” in R. Braidotti, K.Y. Wong, and A.K.S. Chan (eds). Deleuze and the Humanities: East and West, 11-26. London & New York: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018.

• “The Communion of Clouds: Becoming-woman in Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians,” Australian Literary Studies: Special Issue on J.M. Coetzee, vol. 33 no. 1 (2018). https://doi.org/10.20314/als.23561c8f3f.
  

• “Writing from the Outside? Post-1997 Expatriate Writing in Hong Kong,” Wasafiri, vol. 32 no. 3 (2017): 18-24 (with David Huddart).

• “On World Literature: When Goethe Met Boltzmann,” Textual Practice, vol. 28 no. 6 (2014): 1015-1033.

• “Pepetela’s Proposal: Desire and Anarchy in The Return of the Water Spirit,” African Identities, vol. 11 no. 4 (2013): 343-352.

• “The Man without Others: Deleuze’s Structure-Other,” IAFOR Journal of Ethics, Religion & Philosophy, vol. 1 no. 1 (2013): 11-19.

• “Uncertainty and the Future: A Reading of V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Love Marriage,” South Asian Review, vol. 33 no. 3 (2012): 155-170.