“The Work of Teaching Literature in the Age of Mechanical Education.” PMLA 131.5 (2016): 1471-79.
“The occupation of Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean.” sx salon 22 (2016).
“‘The independence so hardly won has been maintained’: C.L.R. James and the U.S. Occupation of Haiti.” Cultural Critique 87 (2014): 38-59.
“Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow and Postcolonial Pedagogy.” Research in African Literatures 43.2 (2012): 138-154.
“Performing Postcoloniality in the Jamaican Seventies: The Harder They Come and Smile Orange.” Postcolonial Text 6.1 (2011).
“The Public Sphere and Jamaican Anticolonial Politics: Public Opinion, Focus, and the Place of the Literary.” Small Axe 32 (2010): 56-82.
“Post-Grenada, Post-Cuba, Postcolonial: Rethinking Revolutionary Discourse in Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 12.1 (2010): 64-73.
- Reprinted in The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics. Ed. Shalini Puri. New York: Routledge, 2010.
“Bita Plant as Literary Intellectual: The Anticolonial Public Sphere and Banana Bottom.” Journal of West Indian Literature 17.1 (2008): 54-67.
“Authority and the Occasion for Speaking in the Caribbean Literary Field: George Lamming and Martin Carter.” Small Axe 20 (2006): 19-39.
“Ways of Looking: The Global Vision of V.S. Naipaul.” South Asian Review 26.1 (2005): 358-374.
“How Cristina Garcia Lost Her Accent, and Other Latina Conversations.” Latino Studies 3.1 (2005): 3-18.
“Shadows, Funerals and the Terrified Consciousness in Frank Collymore’s Short Fiction.” The Journal of West Indian Literature 12.1-2 (2004): 184-196.
“Another ‘Our America’: Rooting a Caribbean Aesthetic in the Work of José Martí, Kamau Brathwaite and Edouard Glissant.” Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 2.2 (2004).
“The World, the Text, and the Caribbean Writer: Representation in the Work of V.S. Naipaul.” Atlantic Literary Review 3.3 (2002): 1-14.
- Reprinted in V.S. Naipaul: Critical Essays, Volume III. Ed. Mohit K. Ray. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2005. 1-16.
“Tink is you dawson dis yana: Imitation and Creation in Robert Antoni’s Divina Trace.” A Review of International English Literature 32.4 (2001): 21-45.