Some things to let you know about: Meanwhile, I will be giving talks in Spring 2026 at Stanford (mid-March; probably includes a writing workshop for graduate students), the University of Florida (late March), and Indiana University-Indianapolis (April), where I’ll also … Continue reading
Out in February 2021 from Columbia University Press, Humanist Reason is a book in three parts: (1) a history of the modern justifications of the humanities; (2) a philosophical genealogy of those justifications, and an argument for their dismantling; (3) … Continue reading
Translated by me and the fabulous Lea Pao, this book by the German philosopher of science known for “methodical constructivism” is now available in English from the University of Minnesota Press. Lea and I added a couple sentences that weren’t … Continue reading
The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities, now out from Columbia; more or less a guide on how to write literary criticism for graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies. Comes free with two jokes about fascists … Continue reading
So a group of people at the University of Pittsburgh (including the excellent Gayle Rogers) is reading On Literary Worlds, and they sent a few questions. I’ve pasted my (slightly cleaned up) responses and their questions below. EH: Thanks to you … Continue reading
Siobhan Phillips has a long review of On Literary Worlds up at the LA Review of Books. The first paragraph made my heart quake a bit, but it gets easier to bear (if you’re me) from there on, and in the long … Continue reading
A collaborative blog on politics, culture, and academic life. Continue reading
My most recent book, on the aesthetic physics of the sociallly and imaginatively possible. (Amazon) Continue reading
On the history of sympathy. Winner of the 20120 Modernist Studies Association Book Price. Continue reading
Towards a deconstructive history of China. Continue reading
On the relationship of fantasy to orientalism. Continue reading
