For books, see Research.
Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Just Add Global,” Interventions 2023 (25.5). On the rise of the field descriptor “Global Anglophone” and its effects on postcolonial studies.
“Novel Theory Beyond Democracy,” invited contribution to cluster on democracy and the American novel, American Literary History 35.1 (January 2023).
“Revolutionary Violence and the Rise of the Art Novel,” Novel (November 2020). On modernist literature’s response to Russian revolutionary politics and literature.
"Taking the Future into Account," PMLA (January 2019). On the problem of writing for the future in an era of climate change.
"The Princess Among the Polemicists: Aesthetics and Protest at Midcentury." American Literary History 29.1 (Spring 2017): 26-49. Awarded the 1921 Prize from the American Literature Society for best article, untenured category. On invocations of modernism in Black American midcentury aesthetic theory and revolutionary politics.
"How not to Re-read Novels: The Critical Value of First Reading." Journal of Modern Literature 39.3 (Spring 2016): 76-94. On a methodology for close-reading the experience of reading a novel for the first time.
"A Case for Literary Transhistory: Ngugi's Use of Conrad." Modern Language Quarterly 75.3 (September 2014): 411-437. On interpreting Conrad through the perspective of African fiction.
“Conrad’s Faulkner.” Essays in Criticism LXII.1 (January 2012): 83-99.
Chapters in Edited Collections
"From Bolshevism to Bloomsbury: The Garnett Translations and Russian Politics in England." In the Bloomsbury Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group, eds. Stephen Ross and Derek Ryan, 2017.
"Four Generations, One Crime." In Crime Fiction as World Literature, eds. David Damrosch, Theo D'Haen, and Louise Nilsson, Bloomsbury, 2017.
"Modernist Binge Watching." In The Contemporaneity of Modernism, eds. Michael D'Arcy and Mathias Nilges, Routledge, 2016.
Selected Other Writing
Contribution to cluster on writing as process, Modernism/Modernity Print+.
"Allegory as Alibi?" and "The Anxiety of Spectatorship," in Post45's "The Slow Burn: Twin Peaks."
For a more complete list or formal CV including conference presentations, e-mail me at bronstein at stanford dot edu.