Book Project

Criminal Cities: The Postcolonial Novel and Cathartic Crime. Forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press.

Published

“Abir Mukherjee’s Historical Crime Novels and the Contemporary Postcolonial” was published in the Spring 2022 issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection.

“‘Gorgeously and Permanently Overrun’: The Contemporary Anglophone Novel and Crisis” was published in The Global South in 2022.

“‘A Triumph Over Distance and Time’: Zadie Smith’s Multiracial Working-Class Novels” is a chapter in the volume Locating Classed Subjectivities: Intersections of Space and Working-Class Life in 19th, 20th, and 21st Century British Writing (Routledge, 2022).

“Criminal Cities: Economics and Empire in Belfast and Johannesburg” is a chapter in the  volume The Economics of Empire: Genealogies of Capital and the Colonial Encounter (Routledge, 2021).

“‘In Those Days The Little City of Srinigar Died With the Light’: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness as New Urban Gothic” is a chapter in the volume The New Urban Gothic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

“‘We Don’t Have Trains in Palestine’: Tracking Transportation in Kate Jessica Raphael’s Palestinian Detective Novels” was published in the 2019 issue of Studies in Crime Writing. 

“‘An Act of Geographical Violence’: Crime, Literature, and the Colonial Compulsion” is published online with The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and in volume 57.1 (2022) in print.

“Ghost Stories, Ghost Estates: Melancholia in Irish Recession Literature” is available in the Winter 2017 issue of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st Century Writings.  A link to the article may be found here.

“Nowhere and Northwest, Brent and Britain: Geographies of Elsewhere in Zadie Smith’s NW” was published in the Spring 2015 issue of the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association.  A link to that journal’s table of contents is located here. The full article may be found on JSTOR or Project MUSE.