2023. “An Abstract Architecture: John Keene’s Counternarratives.” Post 45. 

2023. “Anticolonialism as Theory.” Representations, 162.1: 1-10.  

2023. “The U.S. and Geomodernism.” Cambridge History of American Modernism, ed. Mark Whalan. Cambridge University Press: 33-46.  

2023. “Afro-Futurist Speculations and Diaspora.” Cambridge Critical Concepts, Diaspora, ed. Angela Naimou. Cambridge University Press: 112-125. 

2022. “Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees.” American Literary History. 34.3: 853-862.

2022. “National Allegory and Beyond: Postcolonial Critique Now.” PMLA 137.3: 521-528.

2022. “Twentieth-Century Western Man of Color: Richard Wright, Race, and Rootlessness,” eds. Leslie Bow and Russ Castronovo, The Oxford Handbook to Twentieth Century American Literature: 171-188.

2022. “Standing at the Border.” American Literary History, 34.1: 186-198.

2021. “When Was the Afropolitan? Thinking Literary Genealogy.” PMLA 136.5” 778-784.

2020. “We Are All Migrants: The Refugee Novel and the Claims of Universalism.” Modern Fiction Studies 66.2 Summer 2020: 239-259. [Winner of the Margaret Church Memorial Prize for 2020].

2020. “No Mere Slogans.” Review of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents. Random House, 2020. The Los Angeles Review of Books, September 1, 2020.

2020. “Remembering Slavery, Remaking Race.” Response to symposium on Runaway Genres, Humanity Journal.

2019. “Postcolonial, Still.” Response to Forum on Forms of the Global Anglophone. Post 45.

2019. “On Transnational Analogy: Thinking Race and Caste with W.E.B. Du Bois and Rabindranath Tagore.” Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 16.1: 54-71.

2019. “All of It Is Now: Slavery and the Post-Black Moment in Contemporary African American Literature.” Timelines of American Literature, eds. Cody Marrs and Christopher Hager. Johns Hopkins University Press: 228-242.

2018. “Un-American: Refugees and the Vietnam War.” PMLA 133 (2): 378-383.

2018. “No Strangers Here.” Los Angeles Review of Books.

2017. “We Need New Diasporas.” American Literary History, 29 4.1 (Winter): 640-663.

2017. “Third World Problems.” College Literature 44.4 (Fall): 467-474.

2017. “The Logic of Analogy: Slavery and the Contemporary Refugee.” Dossier on Contemporary Refugee Time-Spaces, ed. Angela Naimou. Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development. 8.3 (Winter): 543-546. 

2017. “The Genres of Guantánamo Diary: Postcolonial Reading and the War on Terror.” The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. Special issue on Postcolonial Reading Publics, ed. Ankhi Mukherjee, 4.1: 69-87. 

2017. “Coming Home from Irony.” Interview with Percival Everett, Los Angeles Review of Books.

2017. “The Transnational Turn and Postcolonial Studies.” Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature, ed. Yogita Goyal. Cambridge University Press, 53-71. 

2017. “Introduction: The Transnational Turn.” Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature, ed. Yogita Goyal. Cambridge University Press, 1-15. 

2016. “Black Diaspora Literature and the Question of Slavery.” Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies, eds. Leslie Eckel and Claire Elliott, 146-160. 

2016. “Romance and Realism.” Oxford History of the Novel in English. Volume 11: The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950, ed. Simon Gikandi. Oxford University Press, 301-315.

2016. “African American Literature, Criticism, and Theory.” The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, eds. Sangeeta Ray, Henry Schwarz, José Luis Villacañas Berlanga, Alberto Moreiras, and April Shemak. Blackwell.

2015. “Gender and Geomodernisms.” Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel, ed. Joshua Miller.  Cambridge University Press, 89-105.

2014. “A Deep Humanness, A Deep Grace.” Interview with Chris Abani, Research in African Literatures 45.3: 227-240. 

2014. “African Atrocity, American Humanity: Slavery and Its Transnational Afterlives.” Research in African Literatures. 45.3, 48-71.  

2014. “Africa and the Black Atlantic.” Research in African Literatures. 45.3, v-xxv.

2014. “Black Nationalist Hokum: George Schuyler’s Transnational Critique.” African American Review. 47.1, 21-36. 

2011. “The Pull of the Ancestors: Slavery, Apartheid, and Memory in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying and Cion.” Research in African Literatures. 42.2, 147-169. 

2010. “Towards an African Atlantic: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Diasporic Theater.” Atlantic Studies. 7.3, 241-261. 

2006. “The Gender of Diaspora in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby.” Modern Fiction Studies. 52.2, 393-414. 

2003. “Theorizing Africa in Black Diaspora Studies: Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies.  12.1, 5-38.