In addition to academic essays, I publish in a wide range of public-facing venues. Selected links to this writing are below:
Op-ed on faculty compensation, “Do You Know How Much Your Colleagues Make?”, in the Chronicle Review, January 2023.
Conversation with Novuyo Rosa Tshuma in The Hopkins Review, Fall 2022 issue.
Review of Yewande Omotoso’s novel An Unusual Grief for The Hopkins Review, November 2022.
Tribute essay,“Kwasi Wiredu’s Golden Rule,” Africa Is a Country, May 2022.
Short essay on African fiction’s visibility in 2021, The New York Times, January 2022.
Interview with Mphuthumi Ntabeni, “The Xhosa Literary Revival,” Africa Is a Country, March 2021.
Review essay, “On New Zimbabwean Literature,” in n+1‘s OVERTIME issue, Winter 2019.
Contributor to “Opening the Book: Part I” on the Modernism/modernity Process blog, December 2018.
Short essay, “Obituary for an Aura,” on Popula, August 2018.
Review, “Cursed Masculinity,” of Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu, Public Books, July 2017.
Class Interview with South African writer Masande Ntshanga on Brittle Paper, March 2017.
Review of Mike McCormack’s Goldsmiths Prize-winning Solar Bones in 3:AM Magazine, January 2017.
Review essay “Doing Philosophy Better” on Mark de Silva’s Square Wave, n+1, August 2016.
Essay, “Farewell to Pnin: The End of the Comp Lit Era,” 3:AM Magazine, July 2016.
Review essay on “The South African Novel of Ideas,” n+1, October 2015.
Essay, “The South African State of Emergency,” Africa in Words, May 2015.
Essay on the PEN/Charlie Hebdo protest, “Against Cosmo-conscientiousness,” n+1, May 2015.