PUBLICATIONS:
Peer Reviewed:
* “Looking into Walcott’s Homer: Omeros between epic and mock-epic,” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 26:3/4 (Summer 2024), in special issue Poetics from the Global South (eds. Nathan Suhr-Sytsma and Ryan Topper), pp. 332-352.
* “Gross and Blended Visions: Frank Stanford, Édouard Glissant, and the Participatory Epic,” The Global South 19:1 (Spring 2026), in special issue Gulf South, Global South (ed. Leigh Anne Duck), forthcoming.
* “Including [Caribbean] History: Pound’s Cantos as New World Epic,” invited contribution to The Cantos as Global Poem (ed. Roxana Preda), Ezra Pound Center for Literature at Clemson University Press, revision in progress.
Book Reviews:
* Review of Randolph Healy’s The Electron-Ghost Casino, Chicago Review 68:3/4 [forthcoming].
* Review of Maurice Scully’s Things that Happen and Kenneth Keating’s (ed.) A Line of Tiny Zeroes in the Fabric: Essays on the Poetry of Maurice Scully, Irish University Review 52:2.
SELECTED RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
* “Sylvia Wynter’s Ethnopoetics,” for “Primitivism Reconsidered” (MLA Transdisciplinary Committee on Anthropology and Literature), Modern Language Association, January 2027.
* “So far to have made nothing: Merle Hodge’s Translations of Léon-Gontran Damas,” for seminar “Comparative Caribbean Modernisms” (organized by J. Dillon Brown), American Comparative Literature Association, May 2025.
* “Folk,” for roundtable “Keywords, Questions, Concepts: Our Postcolonial Categories” (MLA Postcolonial Forum Executive Committee), Modern Language Association, January 2025.
* “‘A New Parochial Wholeness’: Folk Form in Kamau Brathwaite’s The Arrivants,” for seminar “Postcolonial Formalism” (organized by Arthur Rose), American Comparative Literature Association, March 2024 [invited].
* “Muldoon, Walcott, and the Inevitability of Mock-Epic,” for roundtable “The Global South and Ireland” (LLC Irish), Modern Language Association, January 2024.
* “Gem Schools and Others: Maurice Scully’s Things That Happen,” for roundtable “Playing it Forward: SoundEye Poetics, their conditions and their legacies” (organized by David Lloyd), American Conference for Irish Studies, May 2022 [invited].
