t: 212.854.6463 e: bwr2001@columbia.edu Office Address: 605 Philosophy Hall 1150 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 Read Select Publications Please note: All files are in PDF format unless otherwise indicated. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader (which is required for PDF files), you may download it, free of charge, here. "Enchantment? No, Thank You" in George Levine, ed., The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays For How We Live Now (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011), 74-94. Review of Gilbert Achcar, The Arabs and the Holocaust, n+1 Book Review, January 2011. "Orange Juice and Agent Orange," Occasion (Stanford), in "States of Welfare," January 2011. "Chomsky's Golden Rule," New Literary History 40:3 (Autumn 2009), 547-565; published in Turkish in earlier version, Varlik (Istanbul), 2009. "The Worlding of the American Novel," Leonard Cassuto, ed., The Cambridge History of the American Novel (Cambridge and NY: Cambridge UP, forthcoming); also in British and American Literature Studies (Shanghai), 11 (2009), 369-388. "Deadwood: Academic Freedom and Smart People," South Atlantic Quarterly 108:4 (Fall 2009), 741-749. Reviews of Srinivas Aravamudan, Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language and Aamir R. Mufti, Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture, Modern Language Quarterly 69:4 (December 2008), 572-577. Roundtable on Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination, 1830-1880, Journal of Victorian Culture, 2010. "Comparative National Blaming: W.G. Sebald and the Bombing of Germany," Austin Sarat and Nasser Hussain, eds., Forgiveness, Mercy, and Clemency (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007), 138-155. "Commodity Histories," PMLA 120:2 (March 2005), 454-463. "Temporizing:Time and Politics in the Humanities and Human Rights," boundary 2, 32:1 (Spring 2005), 191-208. "Reflections on Culture and Cultural Rights" (with Elsa Stamatopoulou), South Atlantic Quarterly, 102: 2/3 Spring/Summer 2004, 421-436. "Can There Be Loyalty in The Financier? Dreiser and Upward Mobility," Leonard Cassuto and Clare Virginia Eby, eds., Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 112-126. "Cosmopolitanism, America, and the Welfare State," "Theories of American Culture/ Theories of American Studies" ed Winfried Fluck and Thomas Claviez, REAL - Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature, 19:5 (2003), 201-224; Genre (Fall 2005), forthcoming. "Soul Making: Gayatri Spivak on Upward Mobility," Cultural Studies, 17:1 (2003), 16-26. "The Sweatshop Sublime," PMLA 117:1 (January 2002), 84-97; also Helen Small, ed. The Public Intellectual (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), 179-202. "Pretend What You Like: Literature Under Construction," Liz Beaumont Bissell, ed., The Question of Literature: The Place of the Literary in Contemporary Theory (Manchester and NY: University of Manchester Press, 2002), 190-206. "Very Busy Just Now: Globalization and Harriedness in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled," Comparative Literature 53:4 (Fall 2001), 426-441; re-published in Globalization and the Humanities, ed. David Leiwei Li (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004), 233-248). Also reprinted in revised form as "Post-Haste: Elevators, Trams, and Globalization" in the Ghent Urban Studies Team (GUST), ed., Post Ex Sub Dis: Urban Fragmentations and Constructions (Brussels, 010 Publishers, 2002), 221-230. "Disjoining the Left: Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism," boundary 2 26:3 (Fall 1999), 29-38. "Celeb-Reliance: Intellectuals, Celebrity, and Upward Mobility," Postmodern Culture 9:2 February 1999 (online journal); reprinted in Radical History Review, 76:1 (1999), 1-12. Review of Scott Lucas, The Betrayal of Dissent and D.J. Taylor, George Orwell: The Life, The Nation, December 6, 2004, 40-42. Exchange with Christopher Hitchens, The Nation, December 27, 2004, 2.