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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. "Bunker Busting and Bunker Mentalities, or Is It Safe to Be Underground?." The Rhetoric of Safety, Special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly 107:2 (2008): 213-229.
  2. "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.
  3. "Here, There, Anywhere." Spec. issue "After 9/11: European Perspectives," Contemporary French Civilization 29:2 (Summer/Fall, 2005): 89-109.
  4. "Vitesse et présent dans Lucien Leuwen." L'Année stendhalienne 4 (2005): 149-61.
  5. "Technologies of Speed, Technologies of Crime." Spec. issue "Investigating Crime," Yale French Studies :108 (2005): 8-19.
  6. "Infinite Archives." Spec. issue "Overload," SubStance 33:3 (Fall, 2004): 148-61.
  7. "Writing, Movement/Space, Democracy: On Jacques Rancière’s Literary History." Spec. issue "Jacques Rancière," SubStance 33:1 (2004): 126-40.
  8. "Momentarily." SubStance 32:1 (Spring, 2003): 12-14.
  9. "Confessions of an Almost-Thematic Critic." Contemporary French Civilization 26:2 (Fall, 2002): 243-52.
  10. "A Moratorium on Suspicion." PMLA 117:3 (May, 2002): 487-90.
  11. "Text, Context: Transatlantic Sokal." Spec. issue "France/USA: The Culture Wars," Yale French Studies 100 (2001): 25-40.
  12. "Effets collatéraux." Cahiers du CRIN 38 (2001): 63-72.
  13. "Monkey Business." Texte: Revue de critique et de théorie littéraire 25/26 (July, 1999): 181-196.
  14. "Pensée probabiliste et récit policier." Spec. issue "L'écrit de la science", Alliage 37-38 (January, 1999): 100-109.
  15. "Reading Corpses: Interpretive Violence." SubStance 26:2 (1998): 92-105.

Articles in a Collection

  1.  "Serres sur Zola: Mythe et espaces." Les Cahiers de l'Herne. Ed. François L'Yvonnet and Christane Frémont. 2010, 188-95.
  2.  "Michel Serres." History of Continental Philosophy. Ed. Alan Schrift. Durham, UK: Acumen Press, 2010, 6:177-95.
  3.  "La Communication instantanée: Au Bonheur des dames." Émile Zola: Mémoire et sensations Ed. Véronique Cnockaert. Montreal: XYZ éditeur, 2008, 241-251.
  4.  "Michel Serres." Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought Ed. Lawrence Kritzman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, 658-61.
  5.  "Science and Philosophy." Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought Ed. Lawrence Kritzman. Columbia University Press, 2006, 329-34.
  6.  "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.