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Articles (selection):

2023

• "Robert Motherwell's Opens and Elegies: Drawing as a Living Art," The Brooklyn Rail, February 2023

2022

• "New York Food Exhibitions," The Brooklyn Rail, October 2022
• "New York 1962-1964," The Brooklyn Rail, September 2022
• "Meeka Walsh's Malleable Forms: Selected Essays," The Brooklyn Rail, June 2022
• "Kathy Ruttenberg: Sunshine at Midnight," The Brooklyn Rail, March 2022
• "Are the Arts Essential?" The Brooklyn Rail, March 2022
• "Christopher Prendergast's Living and Dying with Marcel Proust," The Brooklyn Rail, March 2022
• "Surrealist Collaboration: Poetry, Art, Literature, Ingenuity and Life Itself," The Brooklyn Rail, February 2022

2021

• "Sacred Spaces," The Brooklyn Rail, December 2021
• "Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer," The Brooklyn Rail, November 2021
• "Lee Krasner: Collage Paintings 1938-1981," The Brooklyn Rail, April 2021

2020

• "Ernst and Tanguy Together," in catalog for SUPERUNKNOWN | Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy with Urs Fischer, Nahmad Contemporary, 2020
• "Henri Matisse in Black and White: Here the Painter and the Poet Meet," Fine Art Globe, December 15, 2020
• "Tjebbe Beekman: Symbiosis," The Brooklyn Rail, November 2020
• "Art of Contested History: Shadowboxing at Freedman Art in New York City" in Fine Art Globe, October 27, 2020
• "Repetition as Returning to the Met," in Fine Art Globe, September 29, 2020
• Andr&eactue; Breton's Nadja: fac-similé du manuscrit de 1927 The Brooklyn Rail, May 2020
• "Alice Paalen Rahon at the North Miami Museum,", London Review of Books, February 20, 2020
• "Max Ernst Collages," The Brooklyn Rail, February 2020
• "Specific Forms," The Brooklyn Rail, February 2020

2019

• "Stephen Antonakos: Late Light Gold Works 2010-2013," The Brooklyn Rail, December 2019
• "Essays in Experiment," in College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, Winter 2019
• "Painters of the East End," The Brooklyn Rail, July 2019
• "Surrealism in Mexico," The Brooklyn Rail, June 2019
• "Michel Lecomte," in International Encyclopedia of Surrealism, ed. Michael Richardson, Bloomsbury, 2019
• "The Symbolist Vision," The Brooklyn Rail, May 2019
• "Arakawa: Diagrams for the Imagination," The Brooklyn Rail, April 2019
• "Jon Schueler (1916-1992): Intensity and Identity," in The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature, ed. Monika Szuba and Julian Wolfreys, Palgrave, 2019
• "Stéphane Mallarmé's The Book and Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le Hasard," The Brooklyn Rail, February 2019

2018

• "James Rosenquist: His American Life," The Brooklyn Rail, December 2018
• "'The little shop of the mind': Reading the Readings", The Henry James Review, forum issue (Vol. 39 No. 3), Fall 2018
• introduction to Ideas Have No Smell: Three Belgian Surrealists Booklets, Fall 2018
• "Brancusi & Duchamp: The Art of Dialogue", The Brooklyn Rail, October 2018
• "Kay Sage: Passing Through," in Kay Sage: Catalogue Raisonné, 2018
• "Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art" The Brooklyn Rail, October 2018
• "PHILIP HUGHES: Vues d'en Haut," The Brooklyn Rail, July 2018
• "Losing Nothing: Arakawa and Madeline Gins," Gagosian Quarterly, Fall 2018
• "Moon Dancers: Yup'ik Masks and the Surrealists," The Brooklyn Rail, June 5th
• "SADE: Artists Under the Influence," The Brooklyn Rail, May 1st
• "The Collages of Helen Adam," The Brooklyn Rail, April 4th
• "Leon Golub: Raw Nerve," The Brooklyn RailThe Brooklyn Rail, April 4th
• Essay in Moon Dancers: Yup'Ik Masks and the Surrealists, Di Donna, 2018

2017

• "Turnings" in New Critical Thinking: Criticism to Come, ed. Julian Wolfreys, Edinburgh University Press, 2017
• Measuring the Weight with Richard Serra, The Brooklyn Rail, December 13th
• "Remembering Linda Nochlin", The Brooklyn Rail, November 2nd
• "Art and Food", discussion with Charles Stuckey and Wyatt Allgeier, Gagosian Quarterly, Winter 2017
• " Robert Motherwell: Early Paintings | Enormity of the Possible", The Brooklyn Rail, October 5th
• "FIAT#LUX", The Brooklyn Rail, October 5th
• "Max Ernst--Big Brother: Teaching Staff for a School of Murderers", The Brooklyn Rail, May 1st, 2017
• Chapter on "Breton, Char, and French Poetry" in A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century, ed. by Christopher Prendergast, Princeton University Press, March 2017
• Sarah Plimpton The Noise of the Rain, in Books, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2017
• A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2017

  2016

• "SURREAL ENCOUNTERS: COLLECTING THE MARVELOUS Works from the Collections of Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller and Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch," The Brooklyn Rail, July 2016
• Jacob Collins with Mary Ann Caws: Thinking About Ateliers, interviewing Jacob Collins, The Brooklyn Rail, April 6
• Sarah Plimpton Black Light: New Works, The Brooklyn Rail, February 3

2015

• "Where Is Surrealism Now?" The Brooklyn Rail, December 2015
• "Undying Unica" The Brooklyn Rail, November 2015
• catalog for exhibit of Catherine Mosley "Up Down & Sideways," at the A.I.R. Gallery, October 15-November 15
• review of Robert Motherwell: the Making of an American Giant by Bernard Jacobson, for the Times Literary Supplement, October 7
• Cruel Theater, review of Antonin Artaud: Terminal Curses: The Notebooks 1945-1948 by Stephen Barber, for The Brooklyn Rail, September 8
• review of Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader, edited by Maura Reilly, Times Literary Supplement, September 25
• A Night of Philosophy in NYC, 04-24-2015 7 P.M. To 7 A.M., The Brooklyn Rail, May 2015
• "Seeing It Now," The Brooklyn Rail, March 2015
• "Jon Schueler 1975 - 1981, The New York Years", The Brooklyn Rail, February 2015

2014

• "Translator's Note: Two Poems by Yves Bonnefoy," Poetry, November 3, 2014
• Modern Art Cookbook interview and Margaret Walthour Lippitt's Lane Cake recipe, Wrightsville Beach Magazine, November 2014
• "Translating Communities", as guest editor of the Critic's Page, The Brooklyn Rail, November 2014
• "Dora Maar and Picasso," catalogue for "Picasso and the Camera," October 2014
• "In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris 1900-1910 - review", The Guardian, August 8, 2014

2013

• Article for the catalogue accompanying the exhibit Surrealism and the rue Blomet, Eykyn Maclean, New York, 2013
• "Elspeth Halvorsen: Seeing Through," for the exhibit at the Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 2013
• "Arts poétiques: le poème et le tableau," opening chapter of Chantiers du poème: Prémisses et pratiques de la création poétique moderne et contemporaine, ed. Hugues Azérad, Michael G. Kelly, Nina Paris et Emma Wagstaff (Volume 104 in the series Modern French Identities, ed. Peter Collier), Peter Lang, 2013
• "Doubling Back: Sarah Plimpton on the Page and the Wall", Hyperallergic, February 9, 2013

2012

• Entries on "The Prose Poem" and "Manifesto," 4th edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton University Press, 2012
• "Jean Arp: Reliefs and Becomings," catalogue for Jean Arp: A Collection of Wood Reliefs and Collages, Blain/Di Donna, New York, November, 2012
• "Jon Schueler's Song," wall text and catalogue for The Lobby Gallery, 499 Park Avenue (exhibited July 2012 - January 2013)
• André Masson: the Mythology of Desire; Masterworks from 1925-1945, catalogue for Blain/Di Donna, New York, April, 2012

2011

• Surrealism: New Worlds, catalogue for Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, 2011
• "Meret Oppenheim's Fur Teacup," in Gastronomica, Fall 2011 (vol. 11 no. 3)
• "Ondine et Paradis," London Review of Books, September 8, 2011 (vol. 33 no. 17)
• "Surrealist Gaming: Rules and the Rest," in From Version to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art, ed. David H. Getsy, Pennsylvania State University Press

2010

• "The Sense of a Life: Re-assessing Simone de Beauvoir," in Women: a Cultural Review, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 198-210
• "How to House the Surrealist Imagination?", in The Surreal House, edited by Jane Alison, Yale University Press, 2010
• Entry on "Paris" for the Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, SAGE Reference, March 2010

2009

• "These Women Photographers: Scandal in Black and White," in the catalogue for the exhibit Angels of Anarchy: Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism, ed. Patricia Allmer, Manchester Art Gallery/Prestel Publishing
• "The Meeting Place of Poets," "The Surrealist Impulse, "Letters at Mourning," and "Writing Picasso" in Picasso and the Allure of Language, ed. Susan Greenberg Fisher, Yale University Press
• "Unica Zürn: Beyond Bizarre" for Unica Zürn: Dark Spring (Drawing Papers 86), The Drawing Center
• "Dora et Pablo,", essay for the Alde auction house catalogue "Quelque souvenirs de Dora Maar," sale held June 8, 2009 in Paris
• "Wilhelm Freddie: Againstness Wins Out," in the catalogue for the exhibit Wilhelm Freddie, at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Feb-June 2009
• "Poetry Can Be Any Damn Thing It Wants," Poetry magazine, Manifestos issue (February 2009)
• Translation of "Sans Récompense," an essay by Jean-François Chevrier to accompany "Vides (Voids)" at the Centre Pompidou (Beaubourg), February 2009

2008

• "Why is she in tears? Mary Ann Caws unravels the sorrowful tale behind Picasso's Weeping Woman, acquired by Tate with Art Fund help twenty years ago," Art Quarterly, Focus: Beauty and Cruelty issue (Winter 2008)
• "Right There," in Painting My World: The Art of Dorothy Eisner, Antique Collector's Club, 2008

2007

• "Desnos dans le noir," in Robert Desnos: le poète libre, (ed. Marie-Claire Dumas and Carmen Vásquez), Indigo & Côté-femmes, 2007
• "Small Things in Surrealist Film," Ornament issue of .Cent Magazine, Fall-Winter 2007 (Issue 11)
• "René Char: Resistance in Every Way," for The Brooklyn Rail's poetry section, Dec 07/Jan 08 issue
• "On the Horizontal: Women Writing on Writing Women," PMLA, March 2007

2006

• "Qu'est-ce que la poésie en France peut nous dire en ce moment?" in Sens et présence du sujet poétique. La poésie de la France et du monde francophone depuis 1980 ed. Michael Brophy and Mary Gallagher, "Faux Titre" series, Rodopi, 2006
• "Robert Motherwell and the Modern Painter's World" in Artists, Intellectuals, and World War II: The Pontigny Encounters at Mount Holyoke College, 1942-44 ed. Christopher Benfy and Karen Remmler, University of Massachusetts Press, 2006
• "In the surrealist light: André Breton," in Poems of André Breton (ed. Jean-Pierre Cauvin & Caws), Black Widow Press, 200, p. 1-10
• "Picassomania" (review of Elizabeth Cowling's edition of Visiting Picasso by Roland Penrose), London Review of Books, October 19, 2006 (vol. 28 no. 20)
• article on Proust in the Memories issue of .Cent Magazine, Spring 2006 (Issue 6)
• "Walking (Even Now) With Carolyn," The Scholar and Feminist Online, vol. 4 no. 2 (Writing a Feminist's Life: The Legacy of Carolyn G. Heilbrun), Spring 2006
• article on Dora Maar in Fashion Quarterly, March 16, 2006
• "Masterpiece: It Started With A Madeleine," in the Wall Street Journal, February 11, 2006
• "Surrealism," in A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, ed. David Bradshaw and Kevin J.H. Dettmar, Blackwell

2005

• "A Woman Reading Baudelaire," in The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire, ed. Rosemary Lloyd, Cambridge University Press
• Jerome Hill: Living the Arts (biographical essay in monograph form), Jerome Foundation

2004

• "Looking: Literature's Other," for issue on The Changing Profession, commissioned article for PMLA, October 2004 (vol. 119 no. 5), pp. 1293-1314
• "Writing, Teaching, Being Two of Us: An Autofiction," in Living with a Writer, ed. Dale Salwak, Palgrave Macmillan, October 2004
• "The Construction in Question," (about Arakawa and Madeline Gins: To Not To Die), INTERFACES: Image/Texte/Language no. 21-22 (Architecture Against Death/Architecture Contre la Mort), vol. II: From Utopia to Poesis
• "Cards on the Table" (review of Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvellous in Everyday Life by Katharine Conley), London Review of Books, June 3 (vol. 26 no. 11)
• art catalogue, Hedda Sterne: From Then to Now, Mark Borghi Fine Art (Bridgehampton, NY), May, 2004
• "Carolyn's Reading These Last Days," (response to Carolyn Heilbrun's last essay, "Rereading"), PMLA, March, 2004

2003

• "There's More To France Than a Veto Threat," Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2003
• "Retranslation and its Surrealist Delights," Modernism and Translation, ed. Adam Piette, Edinburgh University Press, 2003
• "Bonnefoy traduit Yeats," in Yves Bonnefoy et l'Europe du XXe Siecle, ed. Micele Finck, Daniel Lancon and Mayse Staiber, Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2003
• "Traduire Ostinato," Critique, Louis-René des Forêts issue, Janvier-Fevrier, 2003

2002

• "Reading Andre Breton," Context, no. 11, 2002
• catalogue essay, "Mask and Metamorphosis," Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, 2002
• catalogue essay, Tabitha Vevers, Flying Dreams, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 2002
• "Bloomsbury's Mallarmé," in Australian Divagations: Mallarme and the 20th Century, ed. Jill Anderson, Peter Lang, 2002
• Selection of "Literary Manifestos," Pen America: A Journal for Writers and Readers, no. 3 "Tribes," 2002

2001

• "Tom Philips: Treating and Translating," Mosaic, 2001
• "Retranslation and its surrealist delights," Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Autumn 2001 (vol. 5 no. 2)
• "Yves Bonnefoy, Mallarmé, et Wallace Stevens," Littérature et Nation N° 25: Yves BONNEFOY et le XIXe siècle, Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais, 2001
• "The Destiny of Robert Desnos," in Happy Birthday Robert Desnos, ed. Marie-Claire Barnet and Eric Robertson, 2001
• "Translation of/into American Poetry," "H.D," "DADA," etc., in Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The 20th Century, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001

2000

• "Hedda Sterne: the Last of the Irascibles," Art Papers, Sept/Oct, 2000
• "The Modernist Art of Sarah Austin: Growing Up in Drama," catalogue essay for the exhibit Sarah G. Austin: Meditations on Modernism (curated by Kimberly Varnados), Pavel Zoubok, Inc. New York, September 2000; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT, November 2000
• "Mallarmé Here and Now," L'esprit créateur, Re-casting Mallarmé issue, Fall 2000 (vol. 40)
• "Suzanne Valadon:Not Just His Mummie," in Women Seeking Expression: France 1789-1914 , ed. Rosemary Lloyd and Brian Nelson, Monash Romance Studies 6, 2000
• "Le regard de Robert Desnos," in Robert Desnos pour l'an deux mille, ed. Marie-Claire Dumas and Katherine Conley, Gallimard, 2000
• "Samuel Beckett Translating," in Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui no. 8: Poetry and Other Prose/Poésies et autres proses, Rodophi, 2000
• "Paysage et Philosophie," in De la Création Poetique: Autour de l'Oeuvre de Jacques Garelli, Encre Marine

1999

• "Mallarmé on Watch," in A Painter's Poet: Stéphane Mallarmé and his Impressionist Circle, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1999
• "Joseph Cornell," in Allgemeines Kunstlerlexikon: Artists of the World Throughout the Ages, 1999
• "Taking our Time with Things: Virginia Woolf's Object Lessons," Things in Virginia Woolf's Works (colloquy of the Soci&eactue;t&eactue; d'Etudes Woolfiennes), Fall 1999
• "Translation of the Self: Ruskin and Wharton," Massachusetts Review, Summer 1999 (vol. 40 no. 2)
• "Degas and Igitur: Yves Bonnefoy's Photographers," PMLA vol. 114, May 1999

1998

• "Remembering Jacqueline Remembering André," in André Breton, Greenwood Press, 1998
• "Surrealism," Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, 1998

1997

• "French Theory and Criticism 4. Early Twentieth Century" and "Baudelaire, Charles," in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997
• "To the Lighthouse: Breaking in With the Other," Approaches to Teaching “To the Lighthouse,” Modern Language Association, 1997
• "Provence as a Personal Poetry", Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Autumn 1997 (vol. 1 no. 2)
• "Robert Motherwell: Working through the Night," in Robert Motherwell on Paper: Drawings, Prints, Collages, Abrams, 1997
• "A Note and Suggestions for Further Reading," in French Ways and Their Meaning (Edith Wharton), Berkshire House, 1997

1996

• Foreword for The Lost Steps: Les Pas Perdus, André Breton, translated by Mark Pollizotti, University of Nebraska Press, 1996 (paperback, 2010)
• "The Ethics of Translation," in On Translating French Literature and Film, (ed. Geoffrey T. Harris), Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature no. 16, 1996
• "Carrington and Lytton / Alone Together" (Bloomsbury Heritage Series), Cecil Woolf, 1996
• "William Carlos Williams and René Char: Two Poets Injured in the Street," William Carlos Williams Review, 1996
• "Regardez-les regarder: Tzara/Breton," in Chasse croisé: Tzara et Breton, ed. Henri Béhar, 1996
• "Poème long, poème court," in Le Sujet lyrique en question (Modernités no. 8), Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 1996

1995

• "Le Geste généreux de Jacques Dupin," in Jacques Dupin, Presses de Lyon, 1995
• "Poésie et espoir," in Mélanges en honneur de Léopold Sédar Senghor, ed. Mohamed Boughali, Université Cadi Ayyad, 1995
• "Poetry and the Holocaust," Romance Notes: In Honor of Edouard Morot-Sir, ed. Van Kelly, 1995
• "Toyen" and "Vanessa Bell" in Dictionary of Women Artists, Fitzroy Dearborn, 1995; republished in Concise Dictionary of Women Artists, 2001

1994

• "Decentering the Invitation, To Take the Trip," L'esprit créateur, Le Centre absent (homage à Micheline Tison-Braun) issue, Fall 1994 (vol. 34)
• "Building Space," in Transformations in Personhood and Culture after Theory: The Languages of History, Aesthetics, and Ethics, ed. Christie Mcdonald and Gary Wihl, Penn State Press, 1994
• "Paul Auster: The Invention of Solitude," The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 1994 (vol. 14 no. 1)
• "Inappropriations," in Understanding French Poetry: Essays for a New Millenium, ed. Stamos Metzidakis, Garland, 1994
• "Seeing and Saving, or, What Can a Woman Do for the Late Henry James?" Raritan, Spring 1994
• "Ian Hamilton Finlay: Back to Poetry," Chapman, issue 78–9 (Ian Hamilton Finlay, ed. Alec Finlay), 1994
• "Translation and the Art of Friendship, Signed Mallarmé and Whistler," in the Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, no. 42, 1994
• "An Erotics of Representation: Fashioning the Icon with Man Ray," in On Fashion, ed. Shari Benstock and Suzanne Ferriss, Rutgers University Press, 1994
• "Dancing with Mallarmé and Seurat (and Loie Fuller and La Goulue)," in Artistic Relations: Literature and the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century France (ed. Peter Collier and Robert Lethbridge), Yale University Press, 1994.
• "Bloomsbury in Cassis," revised edition (Bloomsbury Heritage Series), Cecil Woolf, 1994.

1993

• "Poetry and Music, a Roundtable Discussion with Pierre Boulez," Paroles Gelées: UCLA French Studies, vol. 11, 1993
• "Just Enough: Jacques Dupin's Gesture," preface to Jacques Dupin: Selected Poems, ed. Paul Auster, Wake Forest University Press, 1993
• "Exquisite Essentials: On the Cadavre Exquis," catalogue essay for the exhibit The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, New York Drawing Center, 1993.
• "Jacques Garelli," in Contemporary World Writers, St. James Press, 1993
• "The Prose Poem," in New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993
• "Starting Out Now Again, With Poetry," introduction to Parallels: Artists/Poets, Midmarch Arts Press, 1993

1992

• "Richard Howard on Proust," The French American Review, 1992.
• "Poetry in the Margins," North Carolina Humanities Review, initial issue, Fall 1992
• "Edmond Jabès: Sill and Sand," L'esprit créateur, French Poetry Since the War issue, Summer 1992 (vol. 32)
• "How She Matters Now," Massachusetts Review, Summer 1992 (vol. 33 no. 2)
• "L'oeil fixe, les yeux croisés," Pleine marge, 1992
• "Ladies Shot and Painted: Female Embodiment in Surrealist Art," reprinted in the The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, ed. Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, HarperCollins, 1992

1991

• "Joseph Cornell," "Kurt Schwitters," "Adami," in Contemporary Masterworks, St. James Press, 1991
• "L'Invention de l'amour / l'amour de l'invention," in Études françaises, vol. 26 no. 3 (Inventions, ed. Christie McDonald), 1991
• "Le Moi dans le Surrealisme," publications of the French Institute, Bonn, 1991
• "Selections from the Diary of Joseph Cornell" (editor), Arts Magazine, April, 1991
• "Ruskin's Madness and Ours," Victorian Literature and Culture, 1991
• "Cognitive Poetics and Passionate Reading in Ruskin and Hopkins," Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate, no. 3, 1991
• "Personal Criticism and the Margins of Poetry," in Visions of the Other / Visions de l'autre, ed. Margaret R. Higonnet and Sumie Jones, in the Proceedings of the XIIIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, 1991

1990

• "Edmond Jabès: Exile and Presence," Dalhousie French Studies, Fall-Winter 1990 (vol. 19)
• "Joseph Cornell: l'invention de la boîte surréaliste," Études françaises, 1990
• "Under-Reading at Noon, 'Midi,' with Leconte de Lisle," in Nineteenth Century French Poetry, ed. Christopher Prendergast, Cambridge University Press, 1990
• "Against Completion: Ruskin's Drama of Dream, Lateness and Loss," in Sex and Death in Victorian Literature, ed. Regina Barreca, Macmillan, 1990
• "Ruskin's Rage and Ours: The Dramatic Style," Browning Institute Studies, vol. 18, 1990

1989

• "Automatic Writing is Born" (letter to the editors), New York Review of Books, vol. 36 no. 4, 1989
• "Narrative Voice and Second Reading: Relation and Response," Poetics Today, Winter 1989
• "Beholding Nothing in Mallarmé," Lit, vol. 1, 1989
• "Presidential Note," American Comparative Literature Association Newsletter, Winter 1989
• "Madness in a (M)other Tongue: Artaud's Address," French Forum, January 1989 (vol 14. no 1)
• "The Place of Poetry, the Poetry of Place," A New History of French Literature, ed. Denis Hollier, Harvard University Press, 1989
• "Livre des marges, Livre du partage : méditation sur deux textes d'Edmond Jabès," in Écrire le livre autour d'Edmond Jabès, Editions de la Montagne, 1989

1988

• "Truth-Telling and the Fictions of Humor," in Last Laughs: Perspectives on Women and Comedy, ed. Regina Barreca, Gordon and Breach, 1988
• "Artful Mosaic: Proust Recalled with a Kierkegaardian Twist," Style, Fall 1988 (vol. 22 no. 3)
• "Le genre dialogué: Blaise Cendrars et 'l'autre," Sud, 1988.
• "Strong-Line Poetry: Ashbery's Dark Edging and the Lines of Self," in The Line in Postmodern Poetry, ed. Robert Frank and Henry Sayre, University of Illinois Press, 1988

1986

• "Just Missing Michaux: A Post-Modernist Reading," L'esprit créateur, Henri Michaux issue, Fall 1986 (vol. 26)
• "Literal or Liberal: Translating Perception," Critical Inquiry, vol. 13 no. 1 (Autumn 1986)
• "Ladies Shot and Painted," in The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Susan Suleiman, Harvard University Press, 1986
• "Gestures Toward the Self: Representing the Body in Modernism; Cloaking, Re-Membering, and the Elliptical Effect," in Modernism: Challenges and Perspectives, ed. Monique Chefdor, Ricardo Quinones, and Albert Wachtel, University of Illinois Press, 1986
• "The Conception of Engendering / The Erotics of Editing," in The Poetics of Gender, ed. Nancy K. Miller, Columbia University Press, 1986

1985 and earlier

• "On Not Being a Stranger," in Approaches to Teaching Camus's “The Plague”, ed. Steven G. Kellman, Modern Language Association of America, 1985
• "A Double Allegiance," in The Road Retaken: Women Reenter the Academy, ed. Irene Thompson and Audrey Roberts, Modern Language Association of America, 1985
• "Aperitives and Imperatives: Perceptual Fictions," L'esprit créateur, Literature and Perception issue, Summer 1984 (vol. 24)
• "Winging It, or Catching Up with Kierkegaard and Some Swans," Yale French Studies, no. 66, 1984
• "The Self-Defining Prose Poem: On Its Edge," in The Prose Poem in France (co-ed. with Hermine Riffaterre), Columbia University Press, 1983
• "A Double Reading by Design: Breughel, Auden, and Williams," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Spring 1983 (vol. 41 no. 3)
• "Interferences, or Reading Between," L'esprit créateur, The Poet as Art Critic issue, Winter 1982 (vol. 22)
• "Maximization with No Margins: Reading the Commonplace," L'esprit créateur, The Maxim issue, Fall 1982 (vol. 22)
• "The Incipient Frame-Up, or the Verbal Eye," L'esprit créateur, Autobiography in Twentieth-Century French Literature issue, Fall 1980 (vol. 20)
• "Mallarmé and Duchamp: Mirror, Stair, and Gaming Table," L'esprit créateur, Dada issue, Summer 1980 (vol. 20)
• "Queneau, Raymond," in Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature, ed. Jean-Albert Bédé and William B. Edgerton, Columbia University Press, 1980
• "Whatever is Fitting in a Text (On Being Buttoned in a Scene)," in Intertextuality: New Perspectives in Criticism, ed. Jeanine Parisier Plottel and Hanna Charney, New York Literary Forum, 1978
• "Robert Desnos and the Flasks of Night," Yale French Studies, no. 50, 1974
• "A Rereading of the Traces," L'esprit créateur, Samuel Beckett issue, Fall 1971 (vol. 11)
• "Péret: Plausible Surrealist," Yale French Studies, no. 31, 1964

Book Reviews

• Art Journal
• French Review
• French Studies
• The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
• London Review of Books
• The Romanic Review

Other

• Contributor to "Tower Two," a collective poem about 9/11 for The People's Poetry Gathering