PUBLICATIONS:
Books: Closed Encounters: Literary Politics and Public Culture, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998
Articles:
“Au Seuil, entre la vie et la morte,” in Traces de vie à Auschwitz: Un Manuscript clandestin, ed. Philippe Mesnard, Paris: Bord de l’eau, 2022, 71-82
“Facing the Sonderkommando: Son of Saul and the Dynamics of Witnessing,” Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MJJEN42IVGN27MV2ZEQ3/full?target=10.1080/17504902.2019.1637502
“Circuitous Journeys: The Migration of Objects and the Trusteeship of Memory,” co-authored with Aubrey Pomerance, in Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement, eds. Leora Auslander and Tara Zahra, Cornell: Cornell UP, 2018, 248-276
“The Witness Against the Archive: Towards a Microhistory of Christianstadt,” in Microhistory of the Holocaust, eds. Tal Bruttmann and Claire Zalc, Oxford: Berghahn, 2017, 300-314
“Beckett in Times of Crisis,” A review of Lance Duerfahrd, The Work of Poverty: Samuel Beckett’s Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis, in Postmodern Culture 24:2 (2014): https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v024/24.2.wallen.html
“Testimony and Taboo: The Perverse Writings of Ka-Tzetnik 135633,” Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, 28.1 (2014): 1-16
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/D9GpW8giMRwraDTI3asZ/full
“The Lure of the Archive: The Atlas Projects of Walid Raad,” Comparative Critical Studies, 8.2-3 (2011): 277-93 Lure of the Archive
“Twemlow’s Abyss,” Partial Answers 9.2 (2011): 391-403
“Migrant Visions: The Scheunenviertel and Boyle Heights, Los Angeles,” in Transit und Transformation, ed. Verena Dohrn, Göttingen, Germany: Wallstein Verlag, 2010, 320-35 Migrant Visions
“Falling Under an Evil Influence,” in Promoting and Producing Evil, ed. Nancy Billas, New York: Rodopi, 2010, 67-93
“Narrative Tensions: The Eyewitness and the Archive,” Partial Answers 7.2 (2009): 261-278 Download (pdf)
“The Death and Discontents of Theory,” in Framing Theory’s Empire, ed. John Holbo, West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2007, 133-136
“Sociable Robots und das Posthumane,” in Geschlechter-Revisionen: zur Zukunft von Feminismus und Gender Studies in den Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaften, eds. Sabine Lucia Müller and Sabine Schülting, Königstein, Germany: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, 2006, 165-189 Download
“From the Archives,” co-written with Arnold Dreyblatt, in Sign Here!: Handwriting in the Age of New Media, ed. Sonja Neef, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006, 134-149 Download (pdf)
“Criticism as Displacement,” in Theory’s Others: An Anthology of Dissent, eds. Daphne Patai and Will Corral, New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2005, 476-490
“Arnold Dreyblatt’s T Projekte,” in Inschriften: Arnold Dreyblatt, Frankfurt: Museum Judengasse, 2005, 17-22
“We Really Do Not Know How to Disagree with Each Other,” part of “Symposium: Teaching the Conflicts at 20 Years,” Pedagogy 3.2 (2003): 253-56
“Reste und erhaltene Spuren,” in Arnold Dreyblatt: Aus den Archiven, Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2003: 98-100.
“Physiology, Mesmerism, and Walter Pater’s ‘susceptibilities to influence,” in Walter Pater: Transparencies of Desire, eds. Laurel Brake, Leslie Higgins, and Carolyn Williams, Greensboro, NC: ELT Press, 2002, 73-93
“Professional Discord,” College English 64.3 (2002): 84-95
“Alive in the Grave: Walter Pater’s Renaissance,” ELH 66 (1999): 1033-1051
“Knowing Better: Cultural Criticism, and the Pedagogical Imperative in the 1990s,” co-authored with Richard Burt, Diacritics 29.1 (1999): 72-91
“Memory Arena,” http://www.dreyblatt.de, 1998
“The Poverty of Conversation,” The Yale Journal of Criticism 9 (1996): 405-19
“Teachers, Not Advocates: Towards an Open Classroom,” in Advocacy in the Classroom: Propaganda versus Enlightenment, edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks and Phyllis Franklin, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996, 224-31
“Nachwort” in Who’s Who in Central and Eastern Europe 1933, by Arnold Dreyblatt, Berlin: Janus Press, 1995, 228-230
“Between Text and Image: The Literary Portrait,” a/b: Auto/biography Studies 10 (1995): 50-65
“Political Correctness: The Revenge of the Liberals” in The Administration of the Aesthetic: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere, ed. Richard Burt, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994, 340-369
Illustrating Salome: Perverting the Text?” Word & Image 8 (1992): 124-32
“Reflection and Self‑Reflection: Narcissistic or Aesthetic Criticism?” Texas Studies in Language and Literature 34 (1992): 300-22
“The End of Illusion in L’Eve future,” in Modernity and Revolution in Late Nineteenth-Century France, eds. Barbara T. Cooper, Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 1992, 34-40
“Salammbô and the Resistance of the Aesthetic,” Romance Notes 30 (1990): 237‑45
“On Pater’s Use and Abuse of Quotation,” The Arnoldian 14 (1987): 1‑20