Publications
Scholarship | open access | Podcasts | EditoriaL
Recent & Forthcoming
Essay: “Unfinished Business: On the Histories (and Futures) of Latin America-Africa Comparison.” Latin American-African Studies: Past, Present, Futures (Dossier), Global South Studies (29 March 2025) Link
Introduction: “South-South Constellations, Latin America and Africa,” with Sarah M. Quesada. Latin American-African Studies: Past, Present, Futures (Dossier), Global South Studies (29 March 2025) Link
Co-Editor (with Sarah M. Quesada): “Latin American-African Studies: Past, Present, Futures” (Dossier), Global South Studies (30 March 2025) Link
Book Chapter: “Los festivales son las verdaderas novelas: Pola Oloixarac’s Mona and the Latin American Writer on the World Literary Circuit.” In World Exhaustion in Latin American Literatures and Cultures / El agotamiento del mundo en las literaturas y culturas de América Latina. Ed. Gesine Müller and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025, pp. 37-52 Link
Article: “Distant Lands and Climes: Latin American Criticism, World Literature, and Other Axes for Comparison.” State of the Field: Latin American Criticism & Theory at the First Quarter of the Twenty-First Century. FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory 4.1 (2025): 99-120 Link
Essay: “New Frontiers for the Afronaut in Maisha Maene’s Mulika.” ASAP/Review (2 September 2024) Link
Podcast: “Machine, System, Code: Masande Ntshanga and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra.” Novel Dialogue 7.5 (6 June 2024) Link
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Book Chapter: “The Global South, Comparative Literature, and Practices of Comparison.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Global South, edited by Christopher J. Lee, Anne Garland Mahler, and Monica Popescu (expected 2025)
Book Chapter: “Aftermaths: Martín Luis Guzmán’s La sombra del Caudillo (1929) and Comparative Approaches to Teaching Political Disillusionment.” In Teaching the Mexican Revolution, edited by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado (expected 2026)
Monograph
The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South. Northwestern University Press, 2019
Info | Purchase (NUP) | Purchase (Amazon)
Journal Articles
“Distant Lands and Climes: Latin American Criticism, World Literature, and Other Axes for Comparison.” State of the Field: Latin American Criticism & Theory at the First Quarter of the Twenty-First Century. FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory 4.1 (2025): 99-120 Link
“Of Freedom and the Problem of the Future in Contemporary Diasporic African Speculative Fiction.” JALA: Journal of the African Literature Association 17.1 (2023): 132-150 Link
“Secret Histories: Detective Fiction, Hermeneutic Skepticism, and Bad Readers in the Contemporary African Novel.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 53.3 (2022): 49-79 Link
“The Contemporary Novel and the Global South: Relation, Recognition, and the Utopian Impulse.” Studies in the Novel 53.2 (2021): 165-85 Link
“Tales from the Corpolony: Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow and the Dictator-Novel in the Time of Transition.” Special Issue on Performances of Sovereignty in African Dictator-Fiction. Research in African Literatures 49.3 (2018): 223-40 Link
“Afronauts: On Science Fiction and the Crisis of Possibility.” Special Issue on African Science Fiction. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 3.3 (2016): 273-90 Link
“Beyond Metaphor: Juana Manuela Gorriti and Discourses of the Nation Under Juan Manuel de Rosas.” Latin American Literary Review 82.42 (2013): 26-46 Link
“Un Texto (Ex)Céntrico: Nation, Narrative, and Archive in Lucio V. Mansilla’s Una excursión a los indios ranqueles.” Latin American Literary Review 37.72 (2008): 52-82 Link
Book Chapters
“Los festivales son las verdaderas novelas: Pola Oloixarac’s Mona and the Latin American Writer on the World Literary Circuit.” In World Exhaustion in Latin American Literatures and Cultures / El agotamiento del mundo en las literaturas y culturas de América Latina. Ed. Gesine Müller and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025, pp. 37-52
Volume (De Gruyter) | pdf
“Coetzee’s Latin America.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook to J.M. Coetzee, edited by Andrew van der Vlies and Lucy Graham. Bloomsbury, 2023, pp. 359-71
Purchase (Bloomsbury) | pdf
“García Márquez and the Global South.” In The Oxford Handbook of Gabriel García Márquez, edited by Ignacio López-Calvo and Gene Bell-Villanda. Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 50-76
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“Marvelous Autocrats: Disrupted Realisms in the Dictator-Novel of the South Atlantic.” In The Global South Atlantic, edited by Kerry Bystrom and Joseph R. Slaughter. Fordham University Press, 2018, pp. 186-204
JSTOR | Purchase (Fordham) | pdf
“The Unfaithful Chronicler: On Writing about the Dictator in Henri Lopès’s Le Pleurer-rire.” In Unmasking the African Dictator: Essays on Postcolonial African Literature, edited by Gichingiri Ndigirigi. University of Tennessee Press, 2014, pp. 70-94
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“The Dictator and his Objects: The Status of the Fetish in the African Dictator-Novel.” In Unmasking the African Dictator: Essays on Postcolonial African Literature, edited by Gichingiri Ndigirigi. University of Tennessee Press, 2014, pp. 186-209
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Translations
“Towards a (Re)Writing of Africa and the Americas,” by Jean-Arsène Yao, with Sarah M. Quesada. Latin American-African Studies: Past, Present, Futures (Dossier), Global South Studies (29 March 2025) Link
“On Language and Empire: The Prologue to Grammar of the Castilian Language (1492).” PMLA 131.1 (2016): 197-208 Link
essays &c.
“Unfinished Business: On the Histories (and Futures) of Latin America-Africa Comparison.” Latin American-African Studies: Past, Present, Futures (Dossier), Global South Studies (29 March 2025) Link
“Introduction: South-South Constellations, Latin America and Africa,” with Sarah M. Quesada. Latin American-African Studies: Past, Present, Futures (Dossier), Global South Studies (29 March 2025) Link
“New Frontiers for the Afronaut in Maisha Maene’s Mulika.” ASAP/Review (2 September 2024) Link
“Reclaiming the Cosmopolitan.” Symposium: Sarah Quesada’s The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (2022), Syndicate: Lit (April 2023) Link
“The African Novel at the Vanguard.” Book Forum: The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing by Jeanne-Marie Jackson (Princeton UP, 2020), Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 9.2 (2022): 243-50 Link
“Introduction: New Critical Directions in Global South Studies, Continuing the Conversation,” with Anne Garland Mahler. CLS: Comparative Literature Studies 59.1 (2022): 1-10 Link
“Introduction: New Critical Directions in Global South Studies,” with Anne Garland Mahler. CLS: Comparative Literature Studies 58.3 (2021): 465-85 Link
“The Dictator as Heuristic: Trump, Zuma, and the Hazards of Comparison.” Dossier: Trump, Zuma, and the Grounds of US-South African Comparison. Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 21.4 (2020): 456-63 Link
“Representing Dictatorship in the Global South. Global South Studies (30 July 2019) Link
“Introduction: Dislocations.” The Global South 7.2 (2013): 1-10 Link
“Building Bridges,” with Shira Klein and Alexis Kuerbis. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning (March/April 2011): 57-58 Link
Book reviews
The Global South and Literature, ed. Russel West-Pavlov (Cambridge UP, 2018), Comparative Literature Studies 56.3 (2019): 609-612 Link
From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity by Anne Garland Mahler (Duke UP, 2018), Chasqui 47.2 (2018): R43-45 Link
In the Name of the Mother: Reflections on Writers and Empire and Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing by Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Review Essay). e-misférica 11.1 (2014): “The Decolonial Gesture” Link
The Nation Writ Small: African Fictions and Feminisms 1958-1988 by Susan Z. Andrade. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 33.1 (2013): 125-126 Link
Open access
“Unfinished Business: On the Histories (and Futures) of Latin America-Africa Comparison.” Latin American-African Studies: Past, Present, Futures (Dossier), Global South Studies (29 March 2025) Link
“Introduction: South-South Constellations, Latin America and Africa,” with Sarah M. Quesada. Latin American-African Studies: Past, Present, Futures (Dossier), Global South Studies (29 March 2025) Link
“Los festivales son las verdaderas novelas: Pola Oloixarac’s Mona and the Latin American Writer on the World Literary Circuit.” In World Exhaustion in Latin American Literatures and Cultures / El agotamiento del mundo en las literaturas y culturas de América Latina. Ed. Gesine Müller and Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025, pp. 37-52 Link
“Distant Lands and Climes: Latin American Criticism, World Literature, and Other Axes for Comparison.” State of the Field: Latin American Criticism & Theory at the First Quarter of the Twenty-First Century. FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism & Theory 4.1 (2025): 99-120 Link
“New Frontiers for the Afronaut in Maisha Maene’s Mulika.” ASAP/Review (2 September 2024) Link
“Reclaiming the Cosmopolitan.” Symposium: Sarah Quesada’s The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (2022), Syndicate: Lit (April 2023) Link
“Representing Dictatorship in the Global South. Global South Studies (30 July 2019) Link
Podcasts
“Machine, System, Code: Masande Ntshanga and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra.” Novel Dialogue 7.5 (6 June 2024) Link
“Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South (Northwestern UP, 2019)” (interview with Victoria Lupașcu). New Books Network (18 February 2024) Link
“They’re Not Metaphorical Demons: Mariana Enríquez and Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra.” Novel Dialogue 5.5 (1 June 2023) Link
Editorial Work
Co-Director (with Anne Garland Mahler and Leigh Anne Duck): Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South (2017 - present)
Book Reviews Editor (with Jonathan Abel): CLS: Comparative Literature Studies (2022 - present)
Editorial Collective (member): MFS: Modern Fiction Studies (2023 - present)
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Co-Editor (with Sarah M. Quesada): “Latin American-African Studies: Past, Present, Futures” (Dossier), Global South Studies (30 March 2025) Link
Co-Guest Editor (with Anne Garland Mahler): “New Critical Directions in Global South Studies: Continuing the Conversation” (Special Issue), CLS: Comparative Literature Studies 59.1 (2022) Link
Co-Guest Editor (with Anne Garland Mahler): “New Critical Directions in Global South Studies” (Special Issue), CLS: Comparative Literature Studies 58.3 (2021) Link
Guest Editor: “Dislocations” (Special Issue). The Global South 7.2 (2013) Link