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Books

  1.  Real Time: Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola.  Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
  2.  Circumstances: Chance in the Literary Text.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.
  3.  Models of Power: Politics and Economics in Zola's Rougon-Macquart.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.

Edited Volumes

  1.  Joyful Cruelty: Towards a Philosophy of the Real. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. (Ed. and trans.)
  2. Co-editor with Josué V. Harari. Hermes: Literature, Philosophy, Science. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Special Issues

  1. Co-Editor with Franc Schuerewegen, After 9/11: European PerspectivesSpec. issue of Contemporary French Civilization 29:2 (Summer/Fall, 2005).
  2.  OverloadSpec. issue of SubStance 33:3 (Fall, 2004).
  3. Co-editor with Lawrence Schehr, Reading ViolenceSpec. issue of SubStance 26:2 (Fall, 1998).

Articles in a Journal

  1. "Serres sur Zola: Mythe et espace." Special issue of Cahiers de l'Herne  (forthcoming 2008).
  2. "Bunker Busting, or, Is It Safe to be Underground?." Special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly  (forthcoming 2008).
  3. "Gustave Le Rouge et La Conspiration des milliardaires: M.A.D. avant la lettre." Spec. issue "Science et littérature," Alliage 57-58 (2006): 169-76.
  4. "Here, There, Anywhere." Spec. issue "After 9/11: European Perspectives," Contemporary French Civilization 29:2 (Summer/Fall, 2005): 89-109.
  5. "Vitesse et présent dans Lucien Leuwen." L'Année stendhalienne 4 (2005): 149-61.
  6. "Technologies of Speed, Technologies of Crime." Spec. issue "Investigating Crime," Yale French Studies :108 (2005): 8-19.
  7. "Infinite Archives." Spec. issue "Overload," SubStance 33:3 (Fall, 2004): 148-61.
  8. "Writing, Movement/Space, Democracy: On Jacques Rancière’s Literary History." Spec. issue "Jacques Rancière," SubStance 33:1 (2004): 126-40.
  9. "Momentarily." SubStance 32:1 (Spring, 2003): 12-14.
  10. "Confessions of an Almost-Thematic Critic." Contemporary French Civilization 26:2 (Fall, 2002): 243-52.
  11. "A Moratorium on Suspicion." PMLA 117:3 (May, 2002): 487-90.
  12. "Text, Context: Transatlantic Sokal." Spec. issue "France/USA: The Culture Wars," Yale French Studies 100 (2001): 25-40.
  13. "Effets collatéraux." Cahiers du CRIN 38 (2001): 63-72.
  14. "Monkey Business." Texte: Revue de critique et de théorie littéraire 25/26 (July, 1999): 181-196.
  15. "Pensée probabiliste et récit policier." Spec. issue "L'écrit de la science", Alliage 37-38 (January, 1999): 100-109.
  16. "Reading Corpses: Interpretive Violence." SubStance 26:2 (1998): 92-105.

Articles in a Collection

  1.  "Michel Serres." History of Continental Philosophy Ed. Alan Schrift. Acumen Press, forthcoming 2008.
  2.  "La Communication instantanée: Au Bonheur des dames." Émile Zola: Mémoire et sensations Ed. Véronique Cnockaert. forthcoming 2008.
  3.  "Michel Serres." Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought Ed. Lawrence Kritzman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, 658-61.
  4.  "Science and Philosophy." Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought Ed. Lawrence Kritzman. Columbia University Press, 2006, 329-34.
  5.  "Promenades in Paris: Rastignac Maps the City." Approaches to Teaching Balzac's Le Père Goriot Ed. Michal Ginsburg. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2000, 81-89.

Book Reviews

  1. Franc Schuerewegen, "Balzac contre Balzac: les cartes du lecteur". Nineteenth-Century French Studies 22:3-4 (January, 1994): 555-57.