Poetic Force: Poetry after Kant (Stanford UP, 2014)
"Ur-ability: Force and Image from Kant to Benjamin," Philosophy of the Image, eds. Robert Mitchell and Jacques Khalip (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2011)
"Culture and Messianism: Disinterestedness in Arnold," Victorian Studies 50.4 (Summer, 2008).
"On Poetic Reason of State: Baudelaire and the Multitudes," Partial Answers 5/2 (June 2007).
"Benjamin's Barbarism," Germanic Review. Special Issue on Walter Benjamin. (2006)
Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
"'Images de papier': Deleuze, Benjamin, Melville," Tropismes 12 (Winter, 2004), 245-64.
"Benjamin Now: Afterthoughts on The Arcades Project," boundary 2 30.1 (Spring, 2003), 191-97.
Co-editor of Special Issue of boundary 2 entitled "Benjamin Now: Critical Encounters with Benjamin's Arcades Project." boundary 2, 30.1 (Duke University Press, 2003).
"Virtual Paris: Benjamin's Arcades Project." In Benjamin's Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory. Ed. Gerhard Richter. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002: 204-25.
"Just Fooling: Notes on Paper in Poe," Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 11.1 (Spring, 1999), 38-67.
"The Coming of Paper: Aesthetic Value from Ruskin to Benjamin," Modern Language Notes 114. 5 (December, 1999), 962-990.
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, translation with notes and introduction, (co-translator with Howard Eiland). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999 (paperback edition, 2002)
"The Financial Imp: Ethics and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Fiction," Novel: A Forum on Fiction 29. 2 (Winter, 1996), 165-83.
Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
"Losing One's Place: Domesticity and Displacement in Dickens's Bleak House," Modern Language Notes 108, 5 (December, 1993), pp. 875-90; Rpt: Critical Approaches to Charles Dickens's Bleak House. New Casebooks Series. Ed. Jeremy Tambling (London: Macmillan, 1998).