Book + Performance Reviews
Most of the following are reviews I’ve written for academic manuscripts, though I’ve also ventured (briefly) into the art of (extended) performance reviews.
Earthly Things: Immanence, New Materialisms, and Planetary Thinking
edited by Karen Bray, Heather Eaton, and Whitney Bauman | Fordham University Press, 2023
Review published by H-Environment
Ecospatiality: A Place-Based Approach to American Literature
by Lowell Wyse | University of Iowa Press, 2021
Review published in Environmental History, vol. 27, no. 3, 2022
Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry
by Perry Zurn | University of Minnesota Press, 2021
Review originally published on Art Discourse, June 2021
The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature
by Jennifer Wenzel | Fordham University Press, 2020
Review published in H-Environment
The Voice of the Text and its Body: The Continuous Reform of Euphrase Kezilahabi’s Poetics
by Roberto Gaudioso | Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2019
Review published in Journal of the African Studies Association; pre-print edition available via the link below
What’s Next? Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art
by Linda Weintraub | Intellect Ltd., 2019
Review published in The Goose, vol. 18, no. 1
Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas
by Macarena Gómez-Barris | University of California Press, 2018
Review originally published on Art Discourse, October 2019
Cather Among the Moderns
by Janis P. Stout | University of Alabama Press, 2019
Review published in Modernism/modernity, vol. 26, no. 4, 2019, pp. 902–904
How Art Can Be Thought: A Handbook for Change
by Allan deSouza | Duke University Press, 2018
Review originally published on Discursive Impulse, October 2018
Voices from the Aftermath: Reflections on Dorothée Munyaneza’s “Unwanted”
Review essay of Unwanted, a performance piece by the Rwandan artist Dorothée Munyaneza, in collaboration with Holland Andrews and Alain Mahé
Performed in September 2017 as part of the TBA Festival,
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art
Originally published in Discursive Impulse, September 2017
The Swahili Novel: Challenging the Idea of “Minor Literature”
by Xavier Garnier, translated by Rémi Tchokothe and Frances Kennett
James Currey, 2013
Review published in Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, vol. 3, no. 3, 2016, pp. 402–404