Recent Articles

• “Back Door Man: Howlin’ Wolf and the Sound of Jim Crow.” American Quarterly (2011).
• “Bob Dylan’s ‘Love and Theft.’” The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, ed. Kevin Dettmar  (2009).
• “Perfect Is Dead: Karen Carpenter, Theodor Adorno, and the Radio; Or, If Hooks Could Kill.”  Criticism (2008). Rpt. in American Literature’s Aesthetic Dimensions, ed. Christopher Looby and Cindy Weinstein (Columbia, 2012) and Pop When the World Falls Apart: Music in the Shadow of Doubt, ed. Eric Weisbard (Duke, 2012).
• “Criticism in the Vineyard: Twenty Years After ‘Race,’ Writing, and Difference.” PMLA (2008).
• “Semi-Mojo, or, Shaft in Scarsdale: Michael Rogin and Comparative American Studies.” Comparative American Studies (2008).
• “’You Make Me Feel So Young’: Sinatra & Basie & Amos & Andy.” e-misferica (2008).
• “National Treasure, Global Value, and American Literary Studies.” American Literary History (2008).
• “Class.” Keywords for American Cultural Studies, ed. Glenn Hendler and Bruce Burgett (NYU, 2007).
• “A Wrongheaded Focus on Class” (on Walter Benn Michaels, The Trouble With Diversity). Chronicle of Higher Education Review (2006).
• “The Truman Show: Five Years After 9/11.” First of the Month (2006).
• “The Wages of Liberalism: An Interview with Eric Lott.” minnesota review (2005).
• “Anti-American Studies.” Prospects: The Annual of American Cultural Studies (2005).
• “Chants Demagogic.” Yale Journal of Criticism (2005).
• “The First Boomer: Bill Clinton, George W., and Fictions of State.” Representations (2004).
• “Gadfly Interview with Eric Lott: On Bob Dylan’s ‘Love and Theft.’” Gadfly Online (2001).
• “Minding the Messenger: A Symposium on Spike Lee’s Bamboozled” (with Stanley Crouch, Clyde Taylor, Margo Jefferson, and Michele Wallace). Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (2001).
• Foreword, Stephen Steinberg, The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America, 3rd ed. (Beacon, 2000).
• “After Identity, Politics: The Return of Universalism.” New Literary History (2000).

Invited Lectures

• Cornell University, April 2012
• UCLA, April 2012
• Graduate Center, City University of New York, March 2012
• University College Dublin, Clinton Institute for American Studies, March 2012
• University of California-Irvine, November 2011
• Syracuse University, Stephen Crane Lecture, October 2011
• Dartmouth College, American Studies Institute, June 2011
• University of Western Sydney, June 2011
• National Taiwan Normal University, May 2011
• Hampshire College, Eric Schocket Memorial Lecture, April 2011
• New York University, December 2010
• Yale University, October 2010
• Pennsylvania State University, September 2010

Honors

• Cornell University Society for the Humanities Fellowship, 2011
• Princeton University Council for the Humanities Visiting Fellowship, 2001
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1996
• Modern Language Association Best First Book Prize, 1994
• Organization of American Historians Avery O. Craven Book Award, 1994
• Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award, 1994
• American Studies Association Rourke Prize for Best American Quarterly Article, 1992
• Carter G. Woodson Institute Fellowship, 1989
• American Studies Association Wise-Susman Prize, 1988