Academics · Demo University

Academic

RankDistinguished

As of2002 · CV

DepartmentColumbia English

UniversityColumbia

FieldEnglish

Scholarprofile

Totals

Publications219

Citations8,614

h-index39 · Scholar

Citations per year in post205.1

Years in post42 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count135 of 219

Share62%

Positions

Visiting Professor, Columbia University2001–2002

Visiting Professor, American Studies, New Yor…1995–1995

Visiting Professor, Harvard University1988–1988

Associate Professor, Rutgers University1987–1991

Assistant Professor, Rutgers University1984–1987

chargé de cours, Modern English Lit., Univers…1983–1984

maître-assistant, American Lit., University o…1981–1984

assistant, Modern English Lit., University of…1976–1981

and 3 more

Top venues 67 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 59 more hold at least one.

boundary 218

PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Asso…12

Social Text10

NOVEL A Forum on Fiction5

Interventions4

Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)4

Raritan4

South Atlantic Quarterly4

Publications per year

Works this academic published in each year, by the year each work appeared; an undated work is in no year, and a work two colleagues wrote counts for each of them. The kind, works and year filters decide which works are here at all.

Citations per year

Citations received in each year, from this academic’s verified Scholar profile, which counts every citation to everything they ever wrote: no publication filter reaches this line - not the kinds, not the works switch, not the year window on publication - and no journal weight either. It is a profile total, so it does not match the works listed below.

Publications 219 works

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Year	Title	Venue	Kind	Citations
1998	Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation	University of Minnesota Press eBooks	edited volume	1,747
1998	Introduction part I: Actually existing cosmopolitanism	—	article	1,250
1998	Comparative cosmopolitanisms	—	article	582
1986	The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below	Medical Entomology and Zoology	book	515
1999	Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress	Choice Reviews Online	book	511
1993	Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism	—	article	454
1993	Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture	—	book	269
2007	Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State	Princeton University Press eBooks	book	245
2012	Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence	—	book	191
2017	The Beneficiary	—	book	151
1990	Intellectuals: Politics, Aesthetics, Academics	Medical Entomology and Zoology	edited volume	150
2007	Cruelty is Bad: Banality and Proximity in Never Let Me Go	NOVEL A Forum on Fiction	article	149
2002	The Sweatshop Sublime	—	article	141
2015	Infrastructuralism	Modern fiction studies	edited volume	138
2017	Cosmopolitanisms	New York University Press eBooks	edited volume	135
2011	Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World	—	edited volume	132
2007	The Smell of Infrastructure	boundary 2	article	110
1994	Secularism, Elitism, Progress, and Other Transgressions: On Edward Said's 'Voyage In,'	Social Text	article	99
2017	Not So Well Attached	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	94
1992	Comparative Cosmopolitanism	Social Text	article	90
1994	Introduction, A Symposium on Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism	Social Text	article	83
2004	Reflections on Culture and Cultural Rights	South Atlantic Quarterly	article	80
1994	Althusser's Object	Social Text	article	72
2005	Commodity Histories	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	67
2001	Very Busy Just Now: Globalization and Harriedness in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled	Comparative Literature	article	65
1996	MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER+ SOKAL, ALAN PRANK ON SOCIAL-TEXT	—	article	59
1988	American Intellectuals and Middle East Politics: An Interview with Edward W. Said	Social Text	article	51
1983	Homelessness and Worldliness	diacritics	article	48
2022	Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction	Stanford University Press eBooks	book	39
1992	Death and Vocation: Narrativizing Narrative Theory	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	39
1987	The Politics of Theory	Social Text	article	38
1995	Some Versions of U.S. Internationalism	Social Text	article	35
1992	Colonial Discourse: A Paradigm and its Discontents	Victorian Studies	article	30
2013	Is the Postcolonial Also Postsecular?	boundary 2	article	28
1995	Murder and Mentorship: Advancement in The Silence of the Lambs	boundary 2	article	27
1984	Shooting Off James' Blanks: Theory, Politics, and The Turn of the Screw	The Henry James review	article	27
2015	Blue Water: A Thesis	Review of International American Studies (International Ame…	article	23
1994	Upward Mobility in the Postcolonial Era: Kincaid, Mukherjee, and the Cosmopolitan Au Pair	Modernism/modernity	article	23
1991	Oppositional Professionals: Theory and the Narratives of Professionalization	—	article	23
2015	Prolegomena to a Cosmopolitanism in Deep Time	Interventions	article	22
1990	Interdisciplinarity in Public: The Rhetoric of Rhetoric	Social Text	article	22
2013	Why I Am Not a Postsecularist	boundary 2	article	21
2003	Soul Making: Gayatri Spivak on Upward Mobility	Cultural Studies	article	20
1996	Anatomy of a Hoax	Tikkun	article	20
1982	Feeling Global: Experience and John Berger	boundary 2	article	19
2011	Is Literature a Secular Concept? Three Earthquakes	Modern Language Quarterly	article	18
2010	Victorian Cosmopolitanism, Interrupted	Victorian Literature and Culture	article	17
1995	The Weird Heights: Cosmopolitanism, Feeling, and Power	differences	article	17
2012	Many Years Later: Prolepsis in Deep Time	The Henry James review	article	16
2007	Afterword	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	16
1999	Celeb-Reliance: Intellectuals, Celebrity, and Upward Mobility	Postmodern Culture	article	16
1999	Presentism, Pastism, Professionalism	Victorian Literature and Culture	article	16
1991	Othering the Academy: Professionalism and Multiculturalism	Social Research: An International Quarterly	article	16
1997	Cosmopolitanism and Boredom	Theory & Event	article	15
2016	A Starting Point for Politics	The Nation	article	14
2003	The Newspapers Were Right: Cosmopolitanism, Forgetting, and ‘The Dead,’	Interventions	article	14
1997	Sad Stories in the International Public Sphere: Richard Rorty on Culture and Human Rights	Public Culture	article	14
2009	Chomsky’s Golden Rule	New Literary History	article	13
2002	What’s Left of Cosmopolitanism?	Radical philosophy	article	13
1998	Science Envy: Sokal, Science, and the Police	Radical philosophy	article	13
2013	Do Something, Quick!	boundary 2	article	12
1997	Head Fake: Mentorship and Mobility in Hoop Dreams	Social Text	article	12
1996	Less Disciplinary Than Thou: Criticism and the Conflict of the Faculties	Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)	article	12
1990	Nation and Narration	—	book	10
1990	Intellectuals in Decline? Russell Jacoby, The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe	Social Text	article	10
1988	The History of Literary Theory: Starting Over	Poetics Today	article	10
2007	Not Without Reason: A Response to Akeel Bilgrami	Critical Inquiry	article	9
1997	Just Doing Your Job: Lessons of the Sokal Affair	Yale journal of criticism/The Yale journal of criticism	article	9
1993	The Phantom Public Sphere	University of Minnesota Press eBooks	edited volume	9
1999	Disjoining the Left: Cultural Contradictions of Anti-Capitalism	Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)	article	8
1992	The East is a Career: Edward Said and the Logics of Professionalism» en Michael Sprinker (ed.) Edward Said: A Critical Reader	—	book	8
2025	Atrocity: A Literary History	Stanford University Press eBooks	book	7
2017	Introduction	New York University Press eBooks	article	7
2007	Gatekeeping	Raritan	article	7
2012	On the Rentier	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	6
2005	Homework: Richard Powers, Walt Whitman, and the Poetry of the Commodity	Ariel	article	6
2005	Temporizing: Time and Politics in the Humanities and Human Rights	boundary 2	article	6
1986	Deformed Professions, Empty Politics	diacritics	article	6
1985	Professionalism and Politics: Toward Productively Divided Loyalties	Profession	article	6
1985	The Representation of Servants	Raritan	article	6
2020	Single? Great? Collective? On Allegory and Ideology	South Atlantic Quarterly	article	5
2019	No Fault Murder: Neoliberalism and Nordic Noir	boundary 2	article	5
1997	Today, tomorrow: The intellectual in the academy and in society	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	5
2010	Too Much Information	NOVEL A Forum on Fiction	article	4
2009	Progressive politics in transnational space	Radical philosophy	article	4
2008	Infrastructure as Political Unconscious	Minnesota Review	article	4
2006	In the Long Run	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	4
2009	Information and Emotion: On the Ambitions of the Contemporary Novel	Romanic Review	article	3
2007	Remapping Genre	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	3
1995	The Seduction of the Unexpected	Nineteenth Century Contexts	article	3
1992	Social text	—	book	3
1987	John Berger's Disappearing Peasants	Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)	article	3
2024	After Atrocity	The Nation	article	2
2016	Interview with Orhan Pamuk	boundary 2	article	2
2015	The Performance of Poverty: On ‘Althusser’s Dramaturgy and the Critique of Ideology’	differences	article	2
2014	Fredric Jameson on the Taking of Sides	Victorian Studies	article	2
2009	Coerced Confessions	Minnesota Review	article	2
2009	Against Literary Imperialism: Storming the Barricades of the Canon	Monthly Review	article	2
2008	In Public, Or Elsewhere: Stefan Collini on Intellectuals	Modern Intellectual History	article	2
2005	Addressing human rights	boundary 2	article	2
2003	The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Vol. 5	—	edited volume	2
1994	Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation.	Contemporary Literature	article	2
1993	Zionism and Daniel Deronda	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	2
1992	Cultural Politics	Millennium Journal of International Studies	article	2
2025	Teaching Politically: Global Perspectives on Pedagogy and Autonomy	—	book	1
2023	Modernity as the Villain of the Piece	—	article	1
2020	Class, Culture, and Killing	boundary 2	article	1
2020	A Little Muzhik, Muttering to Himself: Poor People in Rich People’s Books	boundary 2	article	1
2015	Public Works	FORUM University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Cultu…	article	1
2015	Cosmopolitanism in Time	The Journal of English Language and Literature	article	1
2009	Introduction	boundary 2	article	1
2008	On the Prize Essay	Twentieth Century Literature	article	1
2006	Responses to the AAC and U Statement.	Liberal education	article	1
2001	Eyes on the Skies: A Brief Note on Eric Lott and Cosmopolitanism	Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)	article	1
2001	Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism: A Symposium	—	article	1
1991	Two Days Before the War	Public Culture	article	1
1989	Falling into Criticism	American Literary History	article	1
1984	The Butler Did It: On Agency in the Novel	Representations	article	1
1982	Power and Pantheons: Literary Tradition in Some Literary Reviews	Literature & History	article	1
1979	DICKENS AND THE LITERARY SERVANT: A Comment on NN Feltes''The Greatest Plague of Life'	Literature & History	article	1
2026	Protest and Privilege at Columbia	South Atlantic Quarterly	article	0
2024	Atheism in the Grand Scheme of Things	Critical Quarterly	article	0
2021	Stuart Hall: A Peerless Mediator	Soundings	article	0
2021	What Is Ethnic Studies For?	symplokē	article	0
2020	But What About Love	symplokē	article	0
2017	Live Fire: On Ron Haviv's The Lost Rolls	boundary 2	article	0
2011	Investing in Realism: An Interview with Bruce Robbins	Synthesis an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Stu…	article	0
2009	Deadwood: Academic Freedom and Smart People	South Atlantic Quarterly	article	0
2008	The Public and the V2	Architectural Design	article	0
2001	The Aesthetic and the International: A Commentary on Chantal Mouffe	Grey Room	article	0
2000	Theory and Practice: A Tribute to Jeff Williams	Open Collections	article	0
1995	The Culture Wars for Grown-Ups	Transition	article	0
1994	Pathetic Substitutes	Assemblage	article	0
1991	Tenured Radicals, the New McCarthyism, and PC	New Left Review	article	0
1985	English as a National Discipline	Harvard Educational Review	article	0
2026	Life Wisdom: Learning from Kluge and Kiefer	boundary 2	article	—
2026	The Good Rich Man?	—	article	—
2026	March into the Ruins	—	article	—
2026	More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI	Critical AI	article	—
2025	The Law Is Not Always to Be Trusted	—	article	—
2025	Belittled Magazine: Thirty Years After the Sokal Affair	—	article	—
2025	Optimist Prime	—	article	—
2025	Teaching Politically	—	edited volume	—
2025	Report on Columbia	boundary 2	article	—
2025	The Promise of Welfare in the Postwar British and Anglophone Novel	NOVEL A Forum on Fiction	article	—
2025	The Shame of the Educated	Safundi	article	—
2025	Only Noticed When It Fails	NOVEL A Forum on Fiction	article	—
2024	Fredric Jameson’s Never-ending Story	—	article	—
2024	Everything Everywhere All at Once All of the Time	—	article	—
2024	Kicking an Open Door	—	article	—
2023	A Tradition of Defiance	—	article	—
2023	Timothy Bewes, Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age	American Literary History	article	—
2022	The Possibility of Progress: An Interview with Bruce Robbins	boundary 2	article	—
2021	When the Towers Fell	—	article	—
2021	Sameness	—	article	—
2021	A Theory of Thorstein Veblen	—	article	—
2021	Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice	NOVEL A Forum on Fiction	article	—
2020	A Dismal Jubilee	—	article	—
2020	Museum of Difference	—	article	—
2019	Atrocity in Deep Time	—	article	—
2018	Marxism Without Progress	—	article	—
2018	Bad Atrocity Writing	—	article	—
2018	Emancipation from the Burden of History: On Hayden White, 1928-2108	—	article	—
2017	The Red Emigrant	The Nation	article	—
2017	Discipline and Parse: The Politics of Close Reading	—	article	—
2016	Power Talking: A Commentary on Balibar	—	article	—
2016	Looking at Atrocities with John Berger	—	article	—
2016	The Logic of the Beneficiary	—	article	—
2016	Anti-Semitism?	—	article	—
2016	Roundtable on Susan Stanford Friedman's Planetary Modernisms	Interventions	article	—
2016	Hope	—	article	—
2016	Proving the Impossibility of Progress	—	article	—
2015	The Detective Is Suspended	—	article	—
2015	A Laboratory Sitting on a Graveyard: Greece and the Neoliberal Debt Crisis	—	article	—
2015	Zionism and the New McCarthyism	—	article	—
2015	Barbarians at the Gates	—	article	—
2015	Is That All There Is?	—	article	—
2015	Working on TV	—	article	—
2014	The Monster of Governmentality	—	article	—
2014	How Much History Does the American Left Need?	—	article	—
2014	Subaltern-Speak	—	article	—
2014	The Financial Sector as a Zone of Moral Confusion	—	article	—
2014	Terminally Uncool, Unfunny, Lame	—	article	—
2014	Love Fest	—	article	—
2014	Gaza: Beginnings	—	article	—
2013	Reading from Left to Right: A Symposium on American Dreamers and The Reactionary Mind	—	article	—
2013	Party of the Indebted	—	article	—
2013	Lend Me Your Ears	—	article	—
2013	Unreliable Voices from Europe	—	article	—
2013	The Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Ulrich Beck’s German Europe	—	article	—
2013	Balibarism!	—	article	—
2012	Realism with Benefits: Of Zombies and Commuters	—	article	—
2012	Europe on the Brink: Habermas and the Currency Crisis	—	article	—
2011	States of Welfare	—	edited volume	—
2011	Orange Juice and Agent Orange	—	article	—
2010	Roundtable on Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination, 1830-1880	Journal of Victorian Culture	article	—
2008	Outside Pressure	—	article	—
2008	Du cynisme et des droits	—	article	—
2008	Afterword	—	article	—
2007	Gatekeeping: On Terry Eagleton	Raritan	article	—
2006	Academic Freedom and Educational Responsibility: A Response	Liberal education	article	—
2004	Solidarity and Worldliness	—	article	—
2003	Reply on “The Sweatshop Sublime”	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	—
2003	Cerebral Love: Rousseau, the Novel, and the State	—	article	—
2002	How Not To Criticize The Clash of Civilizations	—	article	—
1999	A Parvenu Theory of Postcoloniality	Interventions	article	—
1997	Intellectuals in the 21st Century	—	article	—
1996	Reply	—	article	—
1994	Literature, Localism, and Love	Surfaces	article	—
1994	Against Policy	Transition	article	—
1993	Reply	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	—
1992	Reply	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	—
1992	Mission impossible: les intellectuels sans la culture	Surfaces	article	—
1990	The Tone of Victimage: A Response to Mark Krupnick on Edward Said	Tikkun	article	—
1987	Poaching Off the Disciplines	Raritan	article	—
1983	Edgar Allan Poe and the Life of Literature	—	article	—
1979	1936--The Sociology of Literature	—	article	—
1979	Dickens and the Literary Servant	Literature & History	article	—
—	On Taxes	boundary 2	article	—

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