Publications

"Storytelling and Writing in 'Our Time': Scrambled Flows of Desire in Silko's Ceremony," symploke, Vol. 25, No. 1 (University of Nebraska Press).

"Comparative Literature: From 'Crossroads" of the Humanities to 'Rhizome,'" chapter in Why the Humanities Matter (Ed. Lee Trepanier), 2017 (Lexington Books).

"Abolishing Aesthetics: Gestus in Brecht's Arturo Ui" Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Volume 70, No. 2, Fall 2016

"John Donne: Reminding the King of the Virtue of Liberality"

Southern Review (Journal of the Foreign Language and Literature Society of Okinawa), Issue No. 27, 2012

“Celan and Poetic Communication: The Poem and Becoming-Word”

Southern Review (Journal of the Foreign Language and Literature Society of Okinawa), Issue No.25, 2010

"Kuki Shuzo's Comparative Study of 'Iki': 'Subverting' Culture vs 'Uncoding' Culture" published in the proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference of the University of Colorado at Boulder East Asian Graduates Association: "Authenticity and Subversion: Tracking Change Through Asia," June 2006

“'Enigma of Song' and the Problem of Writing”

Southern Review (Journal of the Foreign Language and Literature Society of Okinawa), Issue No. 19, 2004

SOME WORK-IN-PROGRESS

Eternal Risk: Literature and Thresholds, book that examines relationship between literary writing and specific conditions of existence; one focus is how certain texts, written in the majoritarian language, resist capture and instead communicate a new mode of existence; my research includes the minoritarian writings of Paul Celan's poetry, Endo Shusaku's Silence, and Mishima Yukio's Sun and Steel

Kuki Shuzo and the Ethics of Being, monograph on Kuki's work on “iki” and Japanese aesthetics in the context of translatability and Western phenomenology

"Silence, A Chance, Blanchot and Beckett" critical essay on Blanchot's work and Beckett's radio plays.

"Endo's Silence: Christianity and Japan Deterritorialized," critical essay on Endo Shusaku's novel, Silence, and the "deterritorializing" of 16th-century Japan and Christianity; and reterritorializing of both by capitalism; invited to be part of an edited collection on "Paradigm Shifts During the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance" (a conference volume of the Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance series, published by Brepols Publishers, Belgium).