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Simon Gikandi

Academic

RankDistinguished

As of2022 · CV

DepartmentPrinceton English

UniversityPrinceton

FieldEnglish

Totals

Publications71

Citations2,242

h-index23 · OpenAlex citations of CV works

Citations per year in post56.0

Years in post40 from the CV positions

Coverage

Works with a count53 of 71

Share75%

Positions

President, Modern Language Association of Nor…2019–2019

Chair, Department of English, Princeton Unive…2018–

1st Vice-President, MLA2018–2018

Director, Program in African Studies, Princet…2017–2018

2nd Vice-President, MLA2017–2017

Editor, Publications of the Modern Languages…2011–2016

Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Princet…2008–2022

Professor of English, Princeton University2004–2008

and 9 more

Top venues 31 venues

The 8 holding the most of these works; 23 more hold at least one.

PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Asso…11

Research in African Literatures10

Modernism/modernity3

Cambridge University Press eBooks2

English Studies in Africa2

Modern Language Quarterly2

Nineteenth Century Contexts2

Transition2

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Publications 71 works

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Year	Title	Venue	Kind	Citations
1996	Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism	Medical Entomology and Zoology	book	711
2001	Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality	South Atlantic Quarterly	article	229
2011	Slavery and the Culture of Taste	Princeton University Press eBooks	book	160
2000	Ngugi wa Thiong'o	Cambridge University Press eBooks	book	128
2003	Picasso, Africa, and the Schemata of Difference	Modernism/modernity	article	126
1991	Reading Chinua Achebe	—	book	93
2006	Preface: Modernism in the World	Modernism/modernity	article	82
2003	The Encyclopedia of African Literature	—	edited volume	80
2015	Rethinking the Archive of Enslavement	Early American literature	article	59
2012	Realism, Romance, and the Problem of African Literary History	Modern Language Quarterly	article	53
1987	Reading the African Novel	The International Journal of African Historical Studies	book	53
2000	Pan-Africanism and Cosmopolitanism: The Case of Jomo Kenyatta	English Studies in Africa	article	51
2001	Chinua Achebe and the Invention of African Culture	Research in African Literatures	article	47
1999	Nuruddin Farah and Postcolonial Textuality	World Literature Today	article	31
2001	Race and the Idea of the Aesthetic	University of Michigan Library Repository	article	30
2013	The Fantasy of the Library	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	27
2019	Arrow of God: The Novel and the Problem of Modern Time	Research in African Literatures	article	26
2007	The Ghost of Matthew Arnold: Englishness and the Politics of Culture	Nineteenth Century Contexts	article	26
2007	The Columbia Guide to East African Literatures in English Since World War II	Columbia University Press eBooks	book	25
2008	The Postcolonial Wizard	Transition	article	23
2001	Theory, Literature, and Moral Considerations	Research in African Literatures	article	22
2002	Race and Cosmopolitanism	American Literary History	article	21
1991	E. K. Brathwaite and the Poetics of the Voice: The Allegory of History in 'Rights of Passage,’	Callaloo	article	19
2001	Africa and the Idea of the Aesthetic: From Eurocentrism to Pan-Africanism	English Studies in Africa	article	18
1992	Ngugi's Conversion: Writing and the Politics of Language	Research in African Literatures	article	13
2014	Afterword: Outside the Black Atlantic	Research in African Literatures	article	11
2014	Provincializing English	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	10
2000	Traveling Theory: Ngugi’s Return to English	Research in African Literatures	article	10
1992	Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature	—	book	10
2012	This Thing Called Literature…What Work Does It Do?	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	8
1991	Chinua Achebe and the Postcolonial Aesthetic: Writing, Identity, and National Formation	Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature	article	8
1989	Narration in the Post-Colonial Moment: Merle Hodge’s Crick Crack Monkey	—	article	6
2015	The Fragility of Languages	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	5
2001	Cultural Translation and the African Self: A (Post)colonial Case Study	Interventions	article	4
1994	Englishness, Travel, and Theory: Writing the West Indies in the Nineteenth Century	Nineteenth Century Contexts	article	3
2013	In the House of Criticism	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	2
2012	The Work of the Book in the Age in the Age of Electronic Reproduction	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	2
2005	W. E. B. Du Bois and the Identity of Africa	Journal of African studies	article	2
2019	Phantom Time: Literary History at the Edge of the Nation	Modern Language Quarterly	article	1
2016	Looking Back on the Black Aesthetics	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	1
2014	Between Slavery and Taste: A Response	Research in African Literatures	article	1
2014	Nelson Mandela: The Absent Cause	Journal of the African Literature Association	article	1
2013	From Penn Station to Trenton: The Language Train	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	1
2003	Comment: Civilising Subjects	Journal of British Studies	article	1
1999	Paule Marshall and the Search for the African Diaspora	New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids	article	1
1997	Aesthetic Reflection and the Colonial Event: The Work of Art in the Age of Slavery	II - University of Michigan. International Institute/The…	article	1
2020	Presidential Address 2020--Literature and the Right to Be Human	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	0
2020	Picasso and Africa, Again	Art Journal	article	0
2018	Ngugi Reflections on his Life of Writing	—	edited volume	0
2017	In Memory of the Doyen of African Literature	Transition	article	0
2016	Reading at the Limits	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	0
2013	Response: Rethinking the Public/Private	Cultural Studies	article	0
1994	Culture and Reasonableness	Contemporary Literature	article	0
2021	Song of Lawino: Song of Lawino: Translation, Textuality, and the Making of an African Reading Public	Postcolonial text	article	—
2016	The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean Since the 1950s, Vol. 11, The Oxford History of the Novel in English	—	edited volume	—
2012	Outside Africanism	—	article	—
2007	Editor’s Column (contributor): “The End of Postcolonial Theory	PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of Ame…	article	—
2006	Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Nationalism	—	article	—
2006	Modernism and Transnationalism	Modernism/modernity	edited volume	—
2004	The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature	Cambridge University Press eBooks	edited volume	—
2003	The Short Century: On Modernism and Nationalism	New Formations	article	—
2002	Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman, Norton Critical Edition	—	book	—
1998	Ham Mukasa, Uganda's Katikiro in Britain, a new edition with a comprehensive introduction	—	book	—
1996	Introduction: Africa, Diaspora, and the Discourse of Modernity	—	article	—
1996	In the Shadow of Hegel: Cultural Theory in an Age of Displacement	Research in African Literatures	article	—
1996	The ‘Black Atlantic,’	Research in African Literatures	edited volume	—
1993	Moments of Melancholy: Ngugi and the Discourse of Emotionalism	—	article	—
1991	Literature in Africa (1960-90)	Africa Today	article	—
1991	The Epistemology of Translation: Ngugi, Matigari, and the Politics of Language	Research in African Literatures	article	—
1991	Language, Ideology, Desire: Rereading The Road	—	article	—
—	Re-Imagining Africa	—	edited volume	—