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Selected academic publications

The Structure of Scientific Recantations: Cormac McCarthy and the Literary Tradition of Scientific Regret

New Literary History (forthcoming)

By its own laws: Marlene van Niekerk and modernist autonomy

South African Modernisms: A Critical History (CUP, forthcoming)

True Feints: Samuel Beckett and the Sincerity of Loneliness

Journal of Modern Literature 47.3 (2024)

Poetic Licentiousness and the Destitutions of High Culture

Critical Quarterly (2024)

Alternative Avatars of the Plagiarist, or,
An Embarrassment of Glitches

Textual Practice (2023)

You Equals Not-I: avowal, disavowal, and second-person narration in Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat

Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2023)

Transgeneric assessment: modernist affordances for the student essay

Critical Arts (2023)

Criteria of Embarrassment: J.M. Coetzee’s ‘Jesus trilogy’ and the legacy of modernist difficulty

English Studies in Africa 65.1, 2022

Mr Eliot’s Christmas Morning Service:
Participation, Good Will, and Humility in Murder in the Cathedral

Literature and Theology 34.2, 2020

A Defense of Wretchedness: Molloy and Humiliation

Reprinted in On Beckett, On!

Journal of Modern Literature 42.4, 2019

“What can you do with a Story Like This[?]”:
The Expectations and Explicitations of South African Fiction

Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 31.2, 2019

Banishing the Backward Devils: Eliot's Quatrain Poems and “Gerontion”

In The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot, 2017

For a full list of academic publications, click here.

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