Books
2028 (in preparation) On Second Thoughts: Literary Experiments in Recantation.
2026 (novel) Blot. Batis Books.
2021 Eliot and Beckett`s Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation. Edinburgh University Press.
Selected articles and book chapters
2027. (forthcoming). `By its own laws: Marlene van Niekerk and modernist autonomy`. In ??South African Modernism: A Critical History?, ed. Jade Munslow-Ong and Andrew van der Vlies. ?Cambridge University Press.
2026. (forthcoming). `The Structure of Scientific Recantations: Cormac McCarthy and the Literary Tradition of Literary Regret`. New Literary History 57.2.
2026. (forthcoming). `How to Undo Things with Words: J. L. Austin’s Quiet Recantations.’ Philosophy and Literature.
2025. `Atomic Allusion: Hamlet, Oppenheimer, and Cormac McCarthy`s Last Novels`. Notes and Queries (Open Access online; awaiting print allocation).
2024. `True Feints: Samuel Beckett and the Sincerity of Loneliness.` Journal of Modern Literature, 47.3: 56-70.
2024. `Poetic Licentiousness and the Destitutions of High Culture.` Critical Quarterly.
2023 `Alternative Avatars of the Plagiarist, or, An Embarrassment of Glitches.` Textual Practice.
2023 `Transgeneric Assessment: Modernist Affordances for the Student Essay.` Critical Arts.
2022 `Criteria of Embarrassment: JM Coetzee`s Jesus Trilogy and the legacy of modernist difficulty.` English Studies in Africa. 65.1: 58-71.
2021 `Samuel Beckett, Max Nordau, and the Worms of How It Is.The Explicator, 79.3: 101-103.
2020 `Mr Eliot`s Christmas Morning Service: Participation, Good Will, and Humility in Murder in the Cathedral. Literature and Theology, 34.2: 166-183.
2019 ‘A Defence of Wretchedness: Beckett’s Molloy and humiliation’. Journal of Modern Literature, 42.2: 93-101.
2019 `"What can you do with a story like this[?]": the expectations and explicitations of South African Fiction.` Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 31.2.
2017 `Banishing the Backward Devils: Eliot`s Quatrain Poems and "Gerontion". In The New Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot, ed. Jason Harding, 55-70. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Reviews and other writing
2026. Review: Ons wag vir Godot translated by Naomi Morgan. Herri 12.
2023 Essay: ChatGPTLon, or Prompts towards a Supreme Fiction. In Media Res. 15 May 2023.
2022 Essay: `The case of the acclaimed South African novel that ‘borrows’ from Samuel Beckett`. The Conversation, 4 July 2022.
2022 Review: Giving Way: Thoughts on Unappreciated Dispositions by Steven Connor. Philosophy and Literature 46.1: 244-7.
2021 Poem: `Except Names.` Stanzas Poetry Magazine?, no. 23 (July).
2021 Essay: `The poem not taken: Robert Frost and the inaugural tradition that isn`t`. Wild Court: https://wildcourt.co.uk/features/essays/the-poem-not-taken-robert-frost-and-the-inaugural-tradition-that-isnt/
2020 Review: `Samuel Beckett`s How It Is: Philosophy in Translation,` Journal of Beckett Studies.
2018 Review: ‘The Wartime Diary of WD Terry: A ‘Safrican’ at Cambridge, with selected letters 1938-1941, ed. Lawrence Wright,’ English Academy Review, 35.2.
2018 Review: ‘Natures of Africa: Ecocriticism and Animal Studies in Contemporary Cultural Forms, ed. F. Fiona Moolla,’ English Academy Review, 35.2.
2018 Review: ‘Losing the Plot: Crime, reality and fiction in postapartheid writing, by Leon de Kock,’ English Academy Review, 35.1.
2017 Review: ‘The Sellout by Paul Beatty,’ The Scores: A Journal of Poetry and Prose.