Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
鈥 World Literature and Ecology: The Aesthetics of Commodity Frontiers, 1890-1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
鈥 The Caribbean Novel since 1945: Cultural Practice, Form, and the Nation-State (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2012)
鈥 Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System Co-edited with Chris Campbell and Kerstin Oloff (Palgrave, 2021)
鈥 The Caribbean: Aesthetics, World-Ecology, Politics. Co-edited with Chris Campbell and including co-written editors鈥 introduction. (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2016)
鈥 Special journal issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 48.5 (2012) on Postcolonial Studies and World Literature, co-edited with James Graham and Sharae Deckard; includes co-written editors鈥 introduction
鈥 Perspectives on the 鈥極ther America鈥: Comparative Approaches to Caribbean and Latin American Culture. Co-edited with Kerstin Oloff; includes co-written editors鈥 introduction. (New York: Rodopi, 2009)
Selected Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
鈥 鈥淭he 鈥榗atastrophic consciousness of backwardness鈥: Culture and Dependency Theory in Latin America and the Caribbean.鈥 New Formations 103 (2021): 103-33
鈥 鈥溾楾ime鈥檚 carcase鈥: Waste, labour, and finance capital in the Atlantic world-ecology.鈥 Atlantic Studies 16.1 (2019): 72-89.
鈥 鈥溾業t鈥檚 the mass that counts鈥: striking energies in working-class fiction.鈥 Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 53.3 (2017): 303-315
鈥 鈥淏lack was never more beautiful鈥: Ecology, Culture, and the Oil Boom in Trinidad,鈥 Journal of West Indian Literature 24.2 (2016): 27-45
鈥 鈥淪trange Correspondences: Late Capitalism and Late Style in the Work of Wilson Harris and John Berger鈥, in Ariel 47.1 (2016): 163-191
鈥 鈥淭ime and Tidalectics Wait for No Nam: Catastrophe and Creativity in the Work of Kamau Brathwaite鈥, Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 14.2 (2014): 108-22
鈥 鈥淪pectres in the Forest: Gothic Form and World-Ecology in Edgar Mittelholzer鈥檚 My Bones and My Flute鈥, in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 44 (18.2) (2014): 53-68
鈥 鈥淭he 鈥榠mpossible quest for wholeness鈥: Sugar, Cassava, and the Ecological Aesthetic in The Guyana Quartet鈥, in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 49.2 (2013): 148-60
鈥 鈥淲orld-Economy, World-Ecology, World Literature鈥, in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 16.1 Postcolonial/Global Ecologies (2012): 15-30***
鈥 鈥溾榃hen you take thing out the earth and you en鈥檛 put nothing back鈥: Nature, Form and the Metabolic Rift in Jan Carew鈥檚 Black Midas鈥, in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 46.2 (2011): 237-55
鈥 鈥淭he Unfinished Body: Narrative, Politics, and Global Community in Wilson Harris鈥檚 The Infinite Rehearsal鈥, in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 43.1 (2007): 18-31. Reprinted in: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 297 (Gale/Cengage Learning, 2010)
Selected Articles in Books
鈥 鈥淓nergy Regimes鈥 in Jennifer Wenzel et al., eds. Fueling Culture (U of Minnesota P, 2017).
鈥 鈥淏elaboring Masculinity: Ecology, Work, and the Body in Michel Ponnamah鈥檚 D茅rive de Josaphat鈥 in Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016). 283-300.
鈥 鈥淐ommodity Frontiers, Caribbean Natures, and the Aesthetics of Ecological Revolution鈥 in John Parham and Louise Westling, eds. A Global History of Literature and the Environment (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
鈥 鈥淪tyle as Habitus: World Literature, Decolonization, and Caribbean Voices鈥, in Bourdieu and Postcolonial Studies, ed. Raphael Dalleo (Liverpool UP, 2016): 119-36
鈥 鈥淥il on Sugar: Commodity Frontiers and Peripheral Aesthetics鈥, in Global Ecologies: Postcolonial Approaches to the Environmental Humanities, eds. Anthony Carrigan, Elizabeth DeLoughrey, and Jill Didur (Routledge, 2015): 268-85
鈥 鈥淓ric Walrond and the Proletarian Arts Movement鈥 in Eric Walrond: The Critical Heritage, eds. Louis Parascandola and Carl Wade (University of the West Indies Press, 2012): 128-146
鈥 鈥溾楴ot woman enough everywhere鈥: Gender, Nation, and Narration in the Work of Patrick Chamoiseau鈥 in The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Writing, Politics, Sexualities, eds. Benedicte Ledent, Maria Cristina Fumagalli, and Roberto Del Valle Alcala (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012): 74-89
鈥 鈥淭he Manioc and the Made-in-France: Reconsidering Creolization and Commodity Fetishism in Caribbean Literature and Theory鈥 in Breaking Ground: Readings in Caribbean History and Culture, ed. D.A. Dunkley (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2011)