Publications

Articles

“Es’kia Mphahlele and the Literary Project of African Humanism.” College Literature. Forthcoming spring 2025.

“Beyond the Liberal Subject: Susan Kiguli and the Lyric Poem in 1990s Uganda.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (Special issue on “Poetics of the Global South,” edited by Nathan Suhr-Sytsma and Ryan Topper). 26.3-4, 2024, 553-574. Taylor and Francis

“Teaching Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard as Part of a Decolonial Literature Syllabus.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 23.4, 2023, 567–575. Duke UP

“Infrastructure and the Valences of the Literary in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 63.4, 2022, 500-512. Taylor and Francis

“‘Reading and Writing… Loudly’: Ikhide R. Ikheloa, Online Criticism, and African Literary Studies.” Social Dynamics. 47.1, 2021, 154-171. Taylor and Francis

“The Archival Politics of the Postcolonial Special Collection: A Case Study in Literary Value and Amos Tutuola.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 50.2-3, 2019, 137-161. Project Muse

“Wealth in Fiction: Animism, Capitalism, and Ben Okri’s The Famished Road Trilogy.” The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 5.3, 2018, 318-337. Cambridge UP

“The Textual Politics of the Land in the Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa.” Research in African Literatures 48.4, 2017, 78-93. JSTOR Project Muse

“Universalism and the Specificity of the Literary in Frantz Fanon’s ‘On National Culture’”. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 19.6, 2017, 764-780. Taylor and Francis

Edited Volume

African Literatures as World Literature. Essay volume co-edited with Madhu Krishnan. Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2022. Bloomsbury Bloomsbury Collections

Book Series

African Language Literatures in Translation (ALLT). Co-edited with Christopher Ouma, Duke University. Under contract with University of Georgia Press. To publish 2 translations of African language literary works per year. First volumes expected 2025.

Introductory Essays

“African Literatures and the Problem of the ‘World’.” Co-written with Madhu Krishnan. African Literatures as World Literature. Bloomsbury Collections

“Marxism and African Literary Studies Today.” African Identities 18.1-2, 2020, 1-17. Taylor & Francis

“Introduction: Reflections on Postcolonial Animations of the Material.” Co-written with Rosemary Jolly. The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 5.3, 2018, 296-303. Cambridge UP

Introduction to forum on Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World Literature in Comparative Literature Studies 53.3, 2016, 503-504. JSTOR Project Muse

As Editor/Convener

“African Literatures and the Question of Form.” Journal special issue edited with Rosemary Jolly. Comparative Literature Studies. In progress, forthcoming fall 2024.

“Marxism and African Literatures.” African Identities 18.1-2. Journal double special issue. 2020. Taylor and Francis

“Animating Theories of the Material: Approaching Animist Being in Postcolonial Literatures.” Special issue edited with Rosemary Jolly. The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 5.3, 2018. Cambridge UP

“Forum on Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature.” Convened a discussion on the Warwick Research Collective’s recent book in Comparative Literature Studies 53.3, 2016, 503-561. JSTOR Project Muse

Reviews

Review of Meron Hadero, A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 6252, January 27 2023, 25.

Review of Pas d’or pour Kalsaka/No gold for Kalsaka (film) in African Studies Review. 65.4, 2022, E35 – E37. Cambridge UP

“Tracing the Memory of Africa Across the Atlantic Divide.” Review of The Cultural Memory of Africa by Leila Kamali. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 20.3, 2011 (2020), 383-390. Project MUSE

Review of L’Orage Africain: un continent sous influence (film) in African Studies Review 62.3, 2019, E55-E57. Cambridge UP

Review of Thank You for the Rain (documentary film) in African Studies Review 61.3, 2018, 252-254. Cambridge UP Project MUSE

Review of Faces of Change – Kenya Series (documentary film) in African Studies Review 61.2, 2018, 277-279. Cambridge UP Project Muse

“The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Documentarian’s Gaze.” (Scholarly review essay). African Studies Review 60.2, 2017, 275-281. Cambridge UP Project Muse

Review of When China Met Africa (documentary film) in African Studies Review 59.2, 2016, 319-321. Cambridge UP Project Muse