Still Shocking: 21st-Century Encounters with Modernism. Monograph.
Selected Publications
Books in Progress
Virginia Woolf, A Sketch of the Past. [1939-41] Scholarly edition. Transcribed, edited, introduced, and annotated. Under contract with Princeton University Press.
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse. [1927] Introduced and annotated for The Norton Library. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. Forthcoming 2026.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
“On Jacob’s Room: The Figure and Ground of Protest.” With Sarah Cole, Anne Fernald, and Paul St. Amour. Modern Fiction Studies. Special Issue: Women Thinking in Public, eds. Debra Rae Cohen and Catherine Keyser. Vol. 70. No. 3 (Fall 2024): 385-408.
“Encounters with Modernism: Ian McEwan, Jhumpa Lahiri, and the Ethics of Abstraction.” In Modernism’s Contemporary Affect, ed. David James. Modernism/modernity Print-Plus. Vol. 3, Cycle 4. December 11, 2018.
“Metamodernism: Narratives of Revolution and Continuity.” With David James. PMLA: Journal of the Modern Language Association of America. Vol. 129: No. 1 (January 2014). 87-100.
“The Boy of La Mancha: J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus.” Contemporary Literature. Vol. 54: No. 3 (Winter 2013). 643-53.
“Making It New: Persephone Books and The Modernist Project.” Special Issue: Women’s Fiction, New Modernist Studies, and Feminism, ed. Anne Fernald. Modern Fiction Studies. Vol. 59: No. 2 (Summer 2013). 241-87.
“Modernist Ashes, Postcolonial Phoenix: Jean Rhys and the Evolution of the English Novel in the 20th Century.” Modernism/modernity. Vol. 13. No. 3 (September 2006): 487-505.
“Modernity’s (Yellow) Perils: Dr. Fu-Manchu and English Race-Paranoia.” Cultural Critique. Vol. 62 (January 2006): 162-94.
“Orienting Virginia Woolf: Race, Aesthetics, and Politics in To the Lighthouse.” Modern Fiction Studies. Vol. 50: No. 1 (Spring 2004): 58-84. (Recipient of The 2004 Margaret Church Modern Fiction Studies Memorial Award)
“At the Crossroads of Two Empires: Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala and the Limits of Hybridity.” Journal of Asian American Studies. Vol. 6: No. 2 (June 2003): 177-198.
Special Issues and Edited Features in Peer-Reviewed Journals
“Time is a Feminist Medium: A Roundtable Conversation with Chitra Ganesh, Aditi Sriram, and Kelly Tsai.” Moderator, guest editor and author of Introduction. A.S.A.P. | The Journal of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. Vol. 3. No. 1 (January 2018): 13-39.
Mind the Gap! Modernism and Feminist Praxis. Guest editor and author of Introduction. Modernism/modernity: Print-Plus. Vol. 2. Cycle 2. August 7, 2017. (Contributors: Madelyn Detloff, Anne Fernald, Cherene Sherrard Johnson, Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, and Ewa Ziarek)
The Art of Exploration: Papers from the 15th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference. Guest editor, with Rishona Zimring. Special section of Literature Compass. 4: 2. (2007), 470-507. (Contributors: Maria diBattista, Gill Lowe, Benjamin Harvey, Emily Setina, Anne Fernald, Claudia Olk, Martha Klinoromos, Thaine Stearnes, and Sara Gerend)
Book Chapters
“Strange God: Now, Eliot.” Afterword for Eliot Now. Eds. David Chinitz and Megan Quigley. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. 221-31.
“Virginia Woolf: Family and Place.” The Oxford Handbook to Virginia Woolf. Ed. Anne Fernald. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 7-26.
“To the Lighthouse and the Art of Race.” The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. Ed. Allison Pease. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 92-109.
“Racial Politics, Avant-Garde Poetics: Wyndham Lewis’s BLAST and Modernist Form.” Modernism. Eds. Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2007. 573-89. (The anthology received the 2008 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize)
Reprints
“Orienting Virginia Woolf: Race, Aesthetics, and Politics in To the Lighthouse.” In Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, ed. Margaret Homans. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2023. 312-26. Reprinted from Modern Fiction Studies. Vol. 50: No. 1 (Spring 2004).
“Metamodernism: Narratives of Revolution and Continuity.” With David James. In The New Modernist Studies Reader: An Anthology of Essential Criticism. Eds. Sean Latham and Gayle Rogers. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. 318-333.
“Race and Modernist Form.” In Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. Ed. Paul B. Armstrong. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2016. 424-34. Excerpted and reprinted from Race and the Modernist Imagination.
“Modernity’s (Yellow) Perils: Dr. Fu-Manchu and English Race-Paranoia.” Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear, eds. John Kuo Wei Chen and Dylan Yeats. London: Verso, 2014. Excerpted and reprinted from Race and the Modernist Imagination.
“Orienting Virginia Woolf: Race, Aesthetics, and Politics in To the Lighthouse.” Virginia Woolf: An MFS Reader, edited by Maren Linett. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 2009. 300-26. Reprinted from Modern Fiction Studies. Vol. 50: No. 1 (Spring 2004).
Book Reviews, Roundtables, and Interviews
“Different Rooms: Merve Emre’s Edition of A Room of One’s Own.” With Anne Fernald. TLS-Times Literary Supplement. “In Brief.” No. 6385. August 15, 2025. 25.
“J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace at 25: A Roundtable Discussion.” With Derek Attridge, Elleke Boehmer, and Ankhi Mukherjee. Public Books. August 9, 2025.
“Language is a Place: A Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri.” LARB: Los Angeles Review of Books. May 22, 2021.
“Women Making Modernism, ed. Erica DelSandro (University Press of Florida, 2020).” Book review. Women’s Writing. 2021.
“Wild States of Being: Domenico Starnone’s Ties. Trans. Jhumpa Lahiri.” Book review. Public Books. July 16, 2017.
“Jhumpa Lahiri’s Modernist Turn: In Altre Parole.” Book review. Public Books. Feb. 15, 2016.
“Ankhi Mukherjee’s What is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (Stanford UP, 2014).” Book review. Modernism/modernity. Vol. 23. No. 1 (January 2016): 255-7.
“Biology, Destiny, Purity: Jonathan Franzen’s Purity.” Book review. LARB: Los Angeles Review of Books. September 1, 2015.
“Falling Faintly: Ian McEwan’s The Children Act.” Public Books. December 1, 2014.
“Jhumpa Lahiri’s Real America: On The Lowland.” LARB: Los Angeles Review of Books. October 9, 2013.
Podcasts, Blog Posts, Interviews, and Other Short Publications
“Autobiographical Fragments.” New York Public Library Research Blog. August 3, 2022.
“Comparing Jacob’s Room and Beethoven’s Third.” Celebrating Modernism: Oxford University Press Blog. August 9, 2022.
“Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse: An Extended Reflection.” LITERATE Podcast: The New York Public Library’s “Books of the Century.” Episode 6. Hosted by Erica Lombard and Alicia Broggi. Nov. 12, 2020.