All Outputs (21)

‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This (2023)
Book Chapter

Halfway through Markovits’ novel about a scheme to regenerate Detroit’s neighbourhoods, the narrator, Greg Marnier (known as Marny), returns from his girlfriend’s apartment in the snow. On Mack Avenue, he starts to feel “scared” and reflects on “the... Read More about ‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This.

Other neighbourhoods, other worlds: Gentrification and contemporary speculative fictions (2023)
Journal Article

This article analyses three novels which employ speculative fictional elements to explore gentrification: Reggie Nadelson’s Londongrad (2009), K. Chess’s Famous Men Who Never Lived (2019) and N. K. Jemisin’s The City We Became (2020). Although these... Read More about Other neighbourhoods, other worlds: Gentrification and contemporary speculative fictions.

Book Review: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer (2023)
Journal Article

Autobodies: Detectives, Disorders, and Getting out of the Neighborhood (2021)
Journal Article

This article explores two detective stories featuring protagonists with neurological conditions. Lionel Essrog, the narrator of Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn (1999), suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome, and Mark Genevich, hero of Paul Tremblay’s... Read More about Autobodies: Detectives, Disorders, and Getting out of the Neighborhood.

Gentrification (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter uproots the border from the perimeter of the country, from the traditional dyad in which it is embedded and releases it in the urban landscape. The premise is that just as the category of space has been mobilized in the work of geographe... Read More about Gentrification.

Self-Dispersal and Self-Help: Paul Auster's Second Person (2020)
Journal Article

This article analyzes Auster’s employment of the second person in his twenty-first-century prose texts – Invisible, Sunset Park, Winter Journal and Report from the Interior – in order to challenge familiar humanistic readings of his work. Using theor... Read More about Self-Dispersal and Self-Help: Paul Auster's Second Person.

Those the dead left behind: Gentrification and Haunting in Contemporary Brooklyn Fictions. (2019)
Journal Article

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Gentrification in the House! John Lanchester’s Capital, Brian Platzer’s Bed-Stuy is Burning, and the House as Nexus of Glocal Forces. (2019)
Presentation / Conference

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The Blot Inside: Jonathan Lethem’s A Gambler’s Anatomy, Lack, Dissent, and Corporate Power (2018)
Journal Article

Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland; or The Transformation (1798) (2018)
Book Chapter

From a Long Way Away: New York and London in The Clash's 'Red Angel Dragnet' (2017)
Book Chapter

The Clash Takes on the World Transnational Perspectives on The Only Band that Matters (2017)
Book

Apocalypse after Apocalypse: Reggie Nadelson's Artie Cohen Novels. (2016)
Journal Article

This article looks at three New York crime novels by Reggie Nadelson - Disturbed Earth (2004), Red Hook (2005) and Manhattan 62 (2014). It argues that the atmosphere in these stories is, partly in response to 9/11, exaggeratedly apocalyptic, but that... Read More about Apocalypse after Apocalypse: Reggie Nadelson's Artie Cohen Novels..

“My thoughts shifted from the past to the future”: Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660 (2016)
Journal Article

This article explores time in Miné Okubo’s graphic memoir Citizen 13660. Drawing on the work of Homi Bhabha, and comics scholars like Thierry Groensteen, it argues that Okubo’s complex representation of time serves several functions. First, it underm... Read More about “My thoughts shifted from the past to the future”: Time and (autobio)graphic representation in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660.

An Interview with Emily Barton (2015)
Journal Article

Brooklyn fictions: the contemporary urban community in a global age (2015)
Book

Brooklyn Fictions: the Contemporary Urban Community in a Global Age takes Brooklyn as a case study for an exploration of these issues and for an interrogation of the intrinsic virtues of “community” as an idea.

Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction The Syndrome Syndrome (2013)
Book

Divided Loyalties, Changing Landscapes: William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw Novels (2013)
Journal Article

This article looks at the three William McIlvanney novels featuring detective Jack Laidlaw – Laidlaw (1977), The Papers of Tony Veitch (1983), and Strange Loyalties (1991). It examines the shift from third-person narration in the first two books to f... Read More about Divided Loyalties, Changing Landscapes: William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw Novels.

A Tale of Too Many Cities: The Clash’s ‘Ghetto Defendant’ and Transnational Disruptions (2010)
Journal Article

'Who was John Bartram? Literary and epistolary depictions of the Quaker' (2005)
Journal Article