Chronological List of Publications
2026
“David Lynch: That Which Is and Is Not,” American Book Review, forthcoming.
“Introduction,” Leonora Carrington, Opus Siniestrus: Selected Plays. NYRB, 2026 (forthcoming).
History of Surrealist Poetry. Co-Edited with Anna Watz. Cambridge University Press (under contract).
2025
Exploded Views: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry. University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
“Leonor Fini e il mondo della scrittura” (Leonor Fini in the Domain of Writing), Io sono Leonor Fini (exhibition catalogue), ed. Tere Arcq and Carlos Martin. Milan: Palazzo Reale, 2025.
2024
“Joined at the Hip,” The Brooklyn Rail (online). October 2024.
“The Silences of Double Edge Theatre,” Theatre Magazine 54:2 (2024), 134-137.
2023
with Rhonda Anderson, Larry Spotted Crow Mann, Stacy Klein, and Carlos Uriona, “Where’s Decolonization? The Ohketeau Cultural Center, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Arts Institutions.” Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History, ed. Tatiana Flores, Florencia San Martin, and Charlene Villaseñor Black. Routledge, 2023; 185-195.
“Libertad Bajo Palabra: Surrealism in the Americas,” The Cambridge History of American Modernism. Ed. Mark Whalan. Cambridge UP, 2023; 413-432.
“Introduction,” Philippe Soupault, The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle. Trans. Justin Vicari. Cambridge MA: Wakefield Press, 2023.
“Forgetting, Remembering, Reflecting: A Conversation with Laura Anderson Barbata,” Laura Anderson Barbata and Jonathan P. Eburne. ASAP/J (online), August 29, 2023.
“Digital, Viral, Magical: A Conversation with Joseph Nechvata,” Joseph Nechvatal and Jonathan P. Eburne. ASAP/J (online), August 14, 2023.
2022
“What Will You Make? The Bookstore as a Critical-Creative Act,” The Minnesota Review 99 (2022), 94-106. Special focus section on “Creative-Critical,” edited by Ranjan Ghosh.
“Worldmaking 101: Imagination and Reparation at Double Edge Theatre and Ohketeau Cultural Center,” HowlRound Theatre Commons (14 November 2022).
with Catriona McAra, “Radical Muses,” Routledge Companion to Surrealism, ed. Kirsten Strom. Routledge, 2022, 358-366
“Surrealism, Existentialism, and Fictions of Blackness,” Cambridge History of the Surrealist Novel, ed. Anna Watz. Cambridge UP, 2022, 295-312.
“Afrosurrealism as a Counterculture of Modernity,” Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance. Ed. Elliott King and Abigail Susik. PSU Press, 2022; 142-155.
“Curiosity Studies / Perry Zurn and Arjun Shankar in Conversation with Jonathan P. Eburne.” ASAP/J (online), January 3, 2022.
2021
“Decolonial Surrealisms,” Surrealism: Cambridge Critical Concepts. Ed. Natalya Lusty. Cambridge UP, 2021.
“Preface,” Gabriel Weisz, The Invisible Painting: My Memoir of Leonora Carrington. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2021.
“On the Intersection of Many Lines: An Interview with Ian Anderson,” Jonathan P. Eburne and Ian Anderson. ASAP/J (online), February 16, 2021.
2020
“Introduction: Read This Sitting Down,” ASAP/Journal 5: No. 3 (Fall 2020), Special “Humor Issue,” ed. Jonathan P. Eburne.
“How Do You Move through Grief? A Conversation with Wanda Raimundi Ortiz,” Jonathan P. Eburne and Wanda Raimundi Ortiz. ASAP/Journal 5: No. 3 (Fall 2020).
“Whose Autobiography? or The Culture Wars Didn’t Go Away: A Conversation with Martha Wilson,” Jonathan P. Eburne and Martha Wilson. ASAP/Journal 5: No. 3 (Fall 2020).
“What’s the Pebble in My Shoe? A Conversation with Sheila Pepe,” Jonathan P. Eburne and Sheila Pepe. ASAP/Journal 5: No. 3 (Fall 2020).
“Leonor Fini’s Abhuman Family,” Surrealist Women’s Writing. Ed. Anna Watz. Manchester UP, 2020.
“Great Grandmother the Queen,” Queenzenglish. Ed. Kyoo Lee. New York: Roof Books, 2020.
“Fantômas and the Shudder of History,” 1913: The Year of French Modernism. Ed. Effie Rentzou and André Benhaïm. Manchester UP, 2020.
“Introduction,” Leonor Fini, Rogomelec. Trans. Serena Shanken Skwersky and William T. Kulik. Cambridge, MA: Wakefield Press, 2020.
2019
An Interview with Jonathan Eburne, Winner of the MLA’s James Russel Lowell Prize,” December 5, 2019.
Consulting Editor, Encyclopedia of Surrealism, Volumes I, II, III. Ed. Dawn Ades, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Stephen Harris, Michael Richardson, and Georges Sebbag. Bloomsbury, 2019.
2018
Outsider Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
“Introduction: Art, Process, Protest,” with Amy J. Elias and Melissa Karmen Lee. ASAP/Journal 3:2 (Spring 2018). Special issue co-edited by Jonathan P. Eburne, Amy J. Elias, and Melissa Karmen Lee.
“Throwing Your Voice: An Interview with Cathy Park Hong.” ASAP/Journal 3.1 (January 2018).
2017
“Introduction: Working in and on Nerds, Wonks, and Neo-Cons, This Year and to Come,” with Benjamin Schreier. The Year’s Work in Nerds, Wonks, and Neo-Cons. (Indiana UP, 2017).
“Introduction,” with Catriona McAra, in Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde, ed. Jonathan P. Eburne and Catriona McAra (Manchester UP, 2017).
“Poetic Wisdom: Leonora Carrington and the Esoteric Avant-Garde,” in Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde, ed. Jonathan P. Eburne and Catriona McAra (Manchester UP, 2017).
“Postmodern Precursors,” The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction, ed. Paula Geyh. (Cambridge UP, 2017).
“Dante, Bruno, Vico, S.Nob: The Wake in Mexico,” James Joyce Quarterly 52:2 (2017), 329-349.
Rpt. of “Adoptive Affinities: Josephine Baker’s Humanist International” in The Josephine Baker Critical Reader: Selected Writings on the Entertainer and Activist, ed. Mae Henderson and Charlene B. Regester (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017).
2016
“History of the Collection,” with Judith Roof. This Year’s Work in the Oddball Archive, ed. Jonathan Eburne and Judith Roof. (Indiana UP, 2016).
“Bargain Basement Thought,” Against Value in the Arts and Education, ed. Sam Ladkin, Robert McKay and Emile Bojesen. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
“Surrealism and the Dialectic,” Surrealism: Key Concepts. Ed. Kryzsztof Fijalkowski and Michael Richardson. (London: Acumen/Routledge, 2016).
“Crime/Insurrection,” The Blackwell Companion to Dada and Surrealism. Ed. David Hopkins (London: Wiley, 2016).
“Introduction: Cygenetics of Experimentalism,” with Judith Roof. ASAP/Journal 1:2 (May 2016), 169-181. Special issue coedited by Jonathan P. Eburne and Judith Roof.
“Savage Balm: Claude Cahun and Lise Deharme,” Intersections: Women Artists/ Surrealism/ Modernism. Ed. Patricia Allmer (Manchester UP, 2016).
Translation of Philippe Sers, Kandinsky: The Elements of Art. With Aurélie Matheron and Anna Navrotskaya. Thames & Hudson, 2016.
“Word of the Year: Surreal.” Los Angeles Review of Books Blog, December 31, 2016. Online
Review of Ara Merjian, Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris (Yale UP, 2014), in Modernism/modernity. 23:1 (January 2016), 249-251.
2015
“Sztuka outsiderska / teoria outsiderska” [Outsider Art/Outsider Theory], translated by Marcin Napiórkowski. Kultura Współczesna 3:87 (2015), 84-96.
“The Terror of Being Destroyed,” Critical Philosophies of Race. Special issue on James Baldwin. 3:2 (2015), 259-283.
“Introduction: The Avant-Garde at War,” Criticism 51:4 (2015) (appeared 2017). Special Issue edited by Jonathan P. Eburne.
“Approximate Life: The Cybernetic Adventures of Monsieur Wzz…,” Surrealism, Comics, and Science Fiction, ed. Gavin Parkinson. (Liverpool UP, 2015).
“Dada, Futurism, and Raymond Roussel,” 1922: Literature, Culture, Politics, ed. Jean-Michel Rabaté. (Cambridge UP, 2015).
With Aaron Jaffe, review of David L. Martin, Curious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred (MIT, 2011), in Criticism 51:4 (Fall 2015) (appeared 2017), 685-689.
“A Little Brass Anthology of Hate Poems.” Avidly. July 15, 2015. Online.
“Monad (for Bob Brown).” In Bob Brown, 1450-1950, ed. Craig Saper. (Roving Eye Press, 2015).
2014
“Introduction: Poetry Games,” with Andrew Epstein. Comparative Literature Studies 51:1 (Winter 2014). Special issue co-edited by Jonathan P. Eburne and Andrew Epstein.
“Zombie Arts and Letters,” This Year’s Work at the Zombie Research Center, ed. Edward Comentale and Aaron Jaffe. (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2014).
“Comme une érosion unique”: les provocations d’Infra-noir,” Surréalisme de Bucharest, ed. Monique Yaari. Collection Pleine Marge/ Peter Lang, 2014.
“Garveyism and its Involutions,” African American Review 47:1 (Spring 2014), 1-19.
Review of Roger Lockhurst, The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy (Oxford UP, 2012), in Textual Practice. (April 2014); online.
“A Pleasure to Burn.” The Los Angeles Review of Books. April 30, 2014. Online.
“Palace Art Squat.” The Brooklyn Rail. November 5, 2014. Online.
2013
“Leonora Carrington et la connaissance universelle,” Mélusine 33 (2013), 231-233.
With Matthew Hart and Aaron Jaffe, “An Interview with Tom McCarthy.” Contemporary Literature 54:4 (December 2013), 657-682.
Review of Pim Higginson, The Noir Atlantic: Chester Himes and the Birth of the Francophone African Crime Novel. (Liverpool UP, 2011), in CLS: Comparative Literature Studies 50:4 (2013); online.
2012
“Surrealism,” The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Fourth Edition. (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2012).
Translation of Michel Wieviorka, “A Critique of Europe,” in New Literary History 43:4 (Autumn 2012).
2011
“Breton’s Wall, Carrington’s Kitchen: Surrealism and the Archive,” Intermédialités: Histoire et théorie des arts, des lettres et des techniques. n° 18, automne 2011 (appeared 2012), 17-43.
“Leonora Carrington, Mexico, and the Culture of Death,” Journal of Surrealism and the Americas. Special Issue on Surrealism and Women, ed. Katharine Conley. 7-8 (Spring 2011), 19-32.
“‘A Work Whose Importance Still Escapes Us’: Joyce After Surrealism,” Journal of Modern Literature 34: 2 (Winter 2011), 139-153.
“Noir Fiction,” The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Fiction, ed. Patrick O’Donnell, David Madden, and Justus Nieland. (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).
Review of Richard D. Sonn, Sex, Violence, and the Avant-Garde: Anarchism in Interwar France. (Pennsylvania State UP, 2010), in The American Historical Review 116:5 (December 2011), 1579-1580.
“Surrealist Photography and the Inner Life of Paris.” Review of Therese Lichtenstein, ed. Twilight Visions: Surrealism and Paris (U. California Press, 2009), in H-Urban (March 2011). Web.
Review of Leonard Cassuto, Hard-Boiled Sentimentality (Columbia, 2008) in Modern Fiction Studies 57:1 (Spring 2011), 154-158.
2010
“Introduction: What is an Avant-Garde?” with Rita Felski. New Literary History 41:4 (Autumn 2010), v-xv. Special issue co-edited by Jonathan P. Eburne and Rita Felski.
Translation of Philippe Sers, “The Radical Avant-Garde and the Contemporary Avant-Garde,” in New Literary History 41:4 (Autumn 2010), 847-854.
“Anti-Menckenism: Nathanael West, Robert M. Coates, and the Provisional Avant-Garde,” Modern Fiction Studies 56:3 (2010), 518-543.
“The Chef-Drive: Cooking Beyond the Pleasure Principle,” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites 14:2 (March 2010), 179-187.
“The Future of Irrevolution: Surrealism and Mediation in the 1950s,” Contemporary French Civilization 34:2 (Spring 2010), 67-90.
Review Essay: George Baker, The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris (MIT, 2007); Gen Doy, Claude Cahun: A Sensual Politics of Photography (IB Tauris, 2007); David Hopkins, Dada’s Boys: Masculinity After Duchamp (Yale UP, 2007); Natalya Lusty, Surrealism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Ashgate, 2007); Amy Lyford, Surrealist Masculinities: Gender Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Post-World War I Reconstruction in France (U California P, 2007); Ian Walker, So Exotic, So Homemade: Surrealism, Englishness and Documentary Photography (Manchester UP, 2007). In History of Photography 34:1 (February 2010), 101-108.
Review of Mark Antliff, Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France 1909-1939 (Duke, 2007), in The Canadian Journal of History 45:1(Spring/Summer 2010), 136-138.
“Dildo Cay,” in “Very Bad Books.” American Book Review 31:2 (January/February 2010), 5.
2009
“Introduction: Chester Himes, 1909-2009,” with Kevin Bell. African American Review 45:2/3 (Summer/Fall 2009) (appeared 2011), 225-231. Special section co-edited by Kevin Bell and Jonathan P. Eburne.
“Modernism’s Weird Sisters.” Review of Christine Coffman, Insane Passions: Lesbianism and Psychosis in Literature and Film (Wesleyan UP, 2006), in Journal of Modern Literature 32: 3 (Spring 2009), 176-178.
Review of Nancy Grace, Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination (Palgrave, 2007) and Michael Hrebeniak, Action Writing: Jack Kerouac’s Wild Form (Southern Illinois, 2006), in Studies in the Novel 41:3 (Fall 2009), 384-387.
2008
Surrealism and the Art of Crime. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008.
“Adoptive Affinities: Josephine Baker’s Humanist International,” S&F Online, special issue on Josephine Baker, ed. Kaiama Glover. Double Issue 6.2-6.2: Fall 2007/Spring 2008. Rpt. The Josephine Baker Critical Reader: Selected Writings on the Entertainer and Activist, ed. Mae Henderson and Charlene B. Regester (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017), 292-301.
“Misère de la pornographie: Du surréalisme à l’écriture féminine.” Plaisir, souffrance et sublimation, ed. Jean-Michel Devesa. (Bordeaux: Pleine Page, 2008).
Translation of Robert Desnos, “The Third Manifesto of Surrealism,” “A Description of the Next Revolt,” and “Modern Imagery,” The Essential Writings of Robert Desnos, ed. Mary Ann Caws. Boston: Black Widow Press (2008).
Review of Willard Bohn, Marvelous Encounters: Surrealist Responses to Film, Art, Poetry, and Architecture (Bucknell UP, 2005), in The French Review 81:6 (Spring 2008), 1273.
Review of Isabelle Casta, Nouvelles mythologies de la mort (Honoré Champion, 2006), in Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate 61: 4 (2008), 503-505.
Review of Grant Farred, Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football (Temple UP, 2007), in The Center Daily Times (October 12, 2008), 4.
Review of Michael Sheringham, Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present (Oxford UP, 2006), in CLS: Comparative Literature Studies 45:3 (Fall 2008), 396-398.
Review of Haim Finkelstein, The Screen in Surrealist Art and Thought (Ashgate, 2007), in Symploke 16:1-2 (2008), 389-391.
2007
Review of Caroline Rupprecht. Subject to Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender (Northwestern UP, 2006), in German Quarterly 80:4 (Fall 2007), 556-558.
2006
“Anti-Humanism and Terror: Surrealism, Theory, and the Postwar Left” Yale French Studies 109 (2006), 39-51.
“Locked Room, Bloody Chamber,” Surrealism: Crossings/Frontiers, ed. Elza Adamowitz (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2006).
“On Murder, Considered as One of the Surrealist Arts: Robert Desnos in the Shadow of Jack the Ripper,” Surrealism in the New Century: Celebrating Robert Desnos, eds. Marie-Claire Barnet and Eric Robertson (Dublin: Philomel Press, 2006).
Review of John Cullen Gruesser, Confluences: Postcolonialism, African American Literature Studies, and the Black Atlantic (Georgia UP, 2005) in Modern Fiction Studies 52:3 (2006), 748-752.
Review of Dafydd Jones, ed. Dada Culture: Critical Texts on the Avant-Garde (Rodopi, 2006), in Symploke 14:1-2 (2006, appeared 2007): 344-346.
2005
“The Transatlantic Mysteries of Paris: Chester Himes, Surrealism, and the Série Noire” PMLA 120: 3 (May 2005), 806-821.
“Paris, Capital of the Black Atlantic,” Introduction to “Paris, Modern Fiction, and the Black Atlantic,” with Jeremy Braddock. Modern Fiction Studies 51:4 (Winter 2005), 731-740. Special issue co-edited by Jeremy Braddock and Jonathan P. Eburne.
Translation of Michel Fabre, “René, Louis, and Léopold: Senghorian Negritude as a Black Humanism,” with Randall Cherry. Modern Fiction Studies 51:4 (Winter 2005).
2004
“Violette Nozières et la réécriture alchimique du viol,” Pleine Marge 40 (December 2004), 61-77.
Translation of Louis Aragon, “A Note on Freedom” (1925); René Char, “Untitled [Violette Nozières]” (1933); René Crevel, “Response to an Inquiry on Suicide” (1925) and “Notes toward a Psycho-Dialectic” (1933); Maurice Heine, “An Open Letter to Luis Buñuel” (1931); André Masson, “The Tyrrany of Time” (1926); Pierre Naville, “Fine Arts” (1925); Benjamin Péret, “Untitled [Violette Nozières]” (1933). In Surrealism, ed. Mary Ann Caws (London: Phaidon Press, 2004).
Review Essay: “Object Lessons: Surrealist Art, Surrealist Politics.” Texts Reviewed: Steven Harris, Surrealist Art and Thought in the 1930s: Art, Politics, and the Psyche (Cambridge UP, 2004) ; Johanna Malt, Obscure Objects of Desire: Surrealism, Fetishism, and Politics (Oxford UP, 2004); David Bate, Photography and Surrealism: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Social Dissent (I.B. Tauris, 2004), and Jean Clair, Du surréalisme considéré dans ses rapports au totalitarianisme et aux tables tournantes (Mille et une nuits, 2003). In Modernism/ Modernity 12.1 (2005), 175-181.
Review Essay: The Edges of Surrealism.” Texts reviewed: Katharine Conley, Robert Desnos, Surrealism, and the Marvelous in Everyday Life (Nebraska UP, 2003); Claudine Frank, ed., The Edge of Surrealism: A Roger Caillois Reader (Duke UP, 2003); and Eric Zafran, Surrealism and Modernism (Yale UP, 2003), in Journal of Modern Literature 26: 3/4 (Spring 2004), 148-153.
2003
“Chandler’s Waste Land,” Studies in the Novel 35: 3 (Fall 2003), 366-382.
“Surrealism Noir,” Surrealism, Politics, and Culture, ed. Raymond Spiteri and Donald LaCoss (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2003), 91-110.
2002
“The Cheerless Art of Industry: Marcel Duchamp and the Smithee Readymade,” Directed by Allen Smithee, ed. Jeremy Braddock and Stephen Hock (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 2001), 229-247.
2000
“That Obscure Object of Revolt: Heraclitus, Surrealism’s Lightning-Conductor,” Symploke 8: 1-2 (Spring 2000), 180-204.
1998
Review Essay, Dalia Judovitz, Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit (U California P, 1998); and David Joselit, Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941 (MIT Press, 1998). In Other Voices 1:2 (September 1998). http://www.othervoices.org/1.2
1997
“Trafficking in the Void: The Consumption of Otherness in the Beat Generation.” Modern Fiction Studies 43:1 (Spring 1997), 53-92.