Books:
— Out of Mind: A Media-Theoretical Critique of Meditation (under contract University of Chicago Press)
— The Buddha in the Machine: Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West (Yale University Press, 2014).
* Winner of the Heyman Prize for Outstanding Publication (Yale University)
* Winner of the Harry Levin Prize for the Best First Book Published in the Field of Comparative Literature (American Comparative Literature Association)
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
— “Surface Writing,” Representations 165 (2024): 1-36.
— “World Futures.” Critical Inquiry (Spring 2016).
— “Technê-Zen and the Spiritual Quality of Global Capitalism.” Critical Inquiry: 38 (Autumn 2011): 17-70.
— “The Chinese Parrot: Technê-Pop Culture and the Oriental Detective Film.” Modernism/modernity: 18.1 (2011).
— “The Technê-Whim: Lin Yutang and the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter.” American Literature 82.2 (2010): 389-419. *** Winner of the 2010 Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in American Literature; read the ALS report here, pp. 9-11.
— “Global English Ideography and the Dissolve Translation in Hollywood Film.” Cultural Critique 72 Spring (2009): 89-136.
— “‘I Like Machines’: Boris Artzybasheff’s Machine Aesthetic and the Ends of Cyborg Culture.” Technoculture: Special Issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities 23.1 (2007): 120-142.
— “Decolonizing Cathay: Teaching the Scandals of Translation through Angel Island Poetry.” Transformations: Special Issue on Teaching in Translation 17.2 (2007): 15-30.
— “‘Doing History’: Nuruddin Farah, Subaltern Studies, and the Postcolonial Trajectory of Silence.” Research in African Literatures 37.4 (2006): 161-176.
— “Naked Creatures: Robinson Crusoe, The Beast, and The Sovereign.” Comparative Critical Studies 2.3 (2005): 337-348. (for Jacques Derrida’s responses to this essay when it was still a seminar paper, click here).
— “A Marvelous Work and a Possession: Book of Mormon Historicity in an Era of Postcolónialism.” Dialogue 38.4 (2005): 37-55.
Essays in Edited Volumes:
— “Beyond Computation: Scenario Planning and the Spiritual Art of Multiple Futures,” Futures, ed. by Jenny Andersson and Sandra Kemp (Forthcoming: Oxford University Press, 2021).
— “The The Yin and Yang of G. Spencer Brown’s Laws of Form,” in Alphabetum III (The Netherlands: West Den Haag, 2019), published in collaboration with Liverpool University and the Laws of Form 50th Anniversary Conference.
— “The Ghost and the Machine: Plates and Paratext in the Book of Mormon,” Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon, ed. by Elizabeth Fenton and Jared Hickman (Oxford University Press, 2019).
— “Introduction to Special Issue on Time,” co-authored with Christina Lupton, University of Warwick, ELH, 85.2 (Summer 2018).
— “Modernist Scandals: Ezra Pound’s Translations of ‘The’ Chinese Poem.” Orient and Orientalisms in American Poetry and Poetics. Ed. by Sabine Sielke and Christian Kloeckner. Frankfurt: Lang, 2009: 145-165.
Smaller Publications and Reviews:
— “Cults, Yoga, and #YouToo: What the HBO Docuseries Breath of Fire Reveals about ‘New’ Religious Experiences,” Los Angeles Review of Books (Dec. 5, 2024)
— “Novel Values: Review of The Value of the Novel by Peter Boxall,” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 50.2 (2017): 279-282.
— “This Will Kill That: Silicon Valley’s Mission of Media Transcendence,” Paprika: Weekly Broadsheet of the Yale School of Architecture, XXI, 4.13.2017.
— Review of Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism, in Critical Inquiry (Autumn 2016).
— Review Essay on The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood (Yale UP, 2014), Neocybernetics and Narrative (Minnesota, 2014), and Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia (Peter Lang, 2014), in American Literature (2015).
— “Review of Modernism and the Orient,” in Twentieth-Century Literature 59.3 (2013): 513-519.
— “Review of Pacific Rim Modernisms,” in Comparative Literature Studies 49.1 (2012): 126-129.
— “Nuruddin Farah,” The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Gen. ed. Brian W. Shaffer. Vol 3: World Fiction. Ed. John Clement Ball. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2010.
— “Theory and the Democracy to Come: Review of Jacques Derrida, Rogues: Two Essays on Reason.” Postmodern Culture 15.4 (2005): Review.