- The silent social order of the theory classroom, an ethnography of undergraduate literary theory courses at Cornell University, in Social Epistemology, April 2008. See also the published version and the original 2004 BA thesis.
- The will to knowledge and cultural crisis in universities, at Rethinking the University, April 2008.
- Knowledge as ideology: Lycée philosophy classes and the category of the intellectual, at the Semiotics Workshop in October 2007.
- The case of the Bad Writing Contest: Literary theory as commodity and literary theorists as brands, at Michicagoan in May 2007.
- Bureaucratic order and social purification in literary theory classrooms, at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association in November 2006.
- The social relations of student politicization: Parisian crowd formation in 1968, a fairly abstract commentary on dialectical social theory, not published.
commentary on academic culture:
- Chicago Maroon op-ed on business influence on campus, oct. 21, 2008.
- Anthropology as trauma and as transformation, in the January 2008 edition of Anthropology News.
- Marginality, trauma, democratization (and ambivalence): Rethinking graduate education, at the November 2007 AAA Annual Meetings.
- On the socialization of graduate students in anthropology, in the april 2007 edition of Anthropology News.
- Letter to the New York Times about suicides on campus, dec. 8, 2004.
work in progress:
- Theory's dreams: an analysis of Systems - about the introductory theory class in my department.
- Literary theory as commodity and literary theorists as brands - my MA thesis, a much longer version of the paper mentioned above.
- Vulnerable intellectualism - on the difficulty of critical inquiry about and within academic institutions.