Criticism

Books

Forthcoming review: Jeanne-Marie Jackson, The African Novel of Ideas in Philosophy and Literature

Review of Bret W. Davis, Zen Pathways in The Los Angeles Review of Books (June 19, 2022)

Review of Souleymane Bachir Diagne. Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition. In Critical Inquiry 46 (3):698-699 (2020)

“The contested worlds of world literature” (Review of Michael Allan, In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt) in The Immanent Frame, August 2017. 

“Prehistories of the Postcolonial: On Philosophy, Politics, and Polemic in Timothy Brennan’s Borrowed Light,” extended book review,  Journal of Modern Literature 38.4 (2015), pp 168-177

Editor, ASAP/J symposium about Asad Haider’s book Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump. Contributions by: Nasia Anam, Noor Abed & Anthea Behm, Danilo Correale, Thom Donovan, Genevieve Hyacinthe, Jen Liu, Cliff Mak, Rit Premnath, Shellyne Rodriguez, and Daniel Tucker & Dan S. Wang.

Art

Catalog Essays

“Lines of Development.” Sreshta Rit Premnath, Those Who Wait. Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 11 October 2019 – 5 January 2020

“That Everything Remains: On the Art of Runo Lagomarsino.” Moderna Museet, Stockholm. 12 November 2019 – 22 March 2020

“Allegories of Painting: Meleko Mokgosi’s Democratic Intuition: Lex and Love.” Williams College Museum of Art, 17 March 2017 – 17 September 2017

Selected Reviews

Lucas Blalock: Florida, 1989 (Brooklyn Rail)

Derek Fordjour’s SELF MUST DIE (ASAP/J)

Brandon Ndife: MY ZONE (Brooklyn Rail)

Brendan Fernandes: Contract and release (Brooklyn rail)

The power of intention: reinventing the prayer wheel (Brooklyn rail)

As if: alternative histories from then till now (Brooklyn rail)

Luke Stettner: ri ve rr hy me sw it hb lo od (Brookln rail)

Hexsa’a̱m: To Be Here Always (ASAP/J)

For, By, and About Class: Fred Lonidier’s Challenge to Art Criticism (ASAP/J)

Carlos Motta: histories for the future (Miami rail)

The other new abstraction: Shadi Harouni’s Paved Over and Other Stories (On verge)