Monograph:
Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature (SUNY Press, 2025).
Edited Collection:
Co-edited with Nathan Suhr-Sytsma. “Poetics from the Global South,” special double issue of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 26.3-4 (2024): 381-608.
Peer-reviewed Articles & Book Chapters:
Co-authored with Dominic O’Key and Arthur Rose. “Postcolonial Close Reading.” Close Reading: Geshichte, Praktiken, Lektionen. Ed. Stefanie Heine, Rahel Villinger, Sandro Zanetti. Forthcoming.
“Uncanny Animism: Reframing the World-Gothic with Amos Tutuola.” Cambridge Companion to World Gothic Literature. Ed. Rebecca Duncan and Rebekah Cumpsty. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Forthcoming.
“Man Gave Name to All the Animals,” The Poetry of Bob Dylan: Thirty Essays on Thirty Songs. Ed. Mike Chaser. New York: Bloomsbury, 2025. 121-26.
Co-authored with Nathan Suhr-Sytsma. "Introduction: Poetics from the Global South." Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 26.3 (2024): 381-91.
Co-authored with Sam Durrant. "Cosmological Trauma and Postcolonial Modernity." The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma. Ed. Colin Davis and Hanna Meretoja. London: Routledge, 2020. 187-200.
"Trauma and the African Animist Imaginary in Aminatta Forna's The Memory of Love and Delia Jarrett-Macauley's Moses, Citizen & Me. English Language Notes 57.2 (2019): 86-98.
"The Sacrificial Foundation of Modernity in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman." Research in African Literatures 50.1 (2019): 53-79.
"Intersubjective Movement, Transsubjective Life: The Opening Vignette of Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins." Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings 18.2 (2018): 28-42.
"Calvinist Rhetoric in Robinson Crusoe's Earthenware Episode." Journal of Contemporary Thought 36.2 (2012): 115-24.
Reviews:
Review of Wole Soyinka: Literature, Activism, and African Transformation by Bola Dauda and Toyin Falola. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 10.2 (2023): 261-63.
Review of Postsecular Poetics: Negotiating the Sacred and the Secular in Contemporary African Fiction by Rebekah Cumpsty. Journal of the African Literature Association 17.1 (2023): 231-33.
"Report on Rwanda." Leeds African Studies Bulletin 79 (2018): 157.
Review of Insurgent Testimonies: Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern Anglophone Literature by Nicole M. Rizzuto. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 63.4 (2017): 782-85.
"Can Child Soldiers be Saved?" Review of Beasts of No Nation by Cary Joji Fukunaga. Public Books. 1 Dec. 2015.
"Michel Foucault, the Theologian?" Review of Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault by Mark D. Jordan. Symplokē 23 (2015): 534-37.
"Returning to Trauma." Review of Literature in the Ashes of History by Cathy Caruth. Parallax 21.1 (2015): 124-27.
Review of The Postcolonial Eye by Alison Ravenscroft. International Journal of Indigenous Studies 8.2 (2015): 55-57.