Research

• Forthcoming
• Published
  • Monographs
  • Edited Collections
  • Articles
  • Book Chapters
  • Blog Posts
  • Encyclopedia Entries

Most of my research has been self-archived at Humanities Commons and indexed under ORCID ID 0000-0003-1637-4261.

Forthcoming

• “A New Set of Subject Markers in Old Nubian.” In Proceedings of the 2019 Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Conference, edited by Georg Ziegelmeyer et al. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe, forthcoming 2023.
• “Apostolic Memoirs in Old Nubian.” In Parabiblica Coptica, edited by Ivan Miroshnikov. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming 2023 (with Alexandros Tsakos).
• “Old Nubian.” In Global Christian Texts: Readings in Early Christianity from African, Middle Eastern and Asian Languages, edited by Vince Bantu and Nathan Gibson. Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming 2023.
• “Old Nubian.” UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. Forthcoming, 2023.
• “Proletgeology I: Against Georevisionism.” In A Biography of Daphne, edited by Mihnea Mircan and Helen Hughes. Leipzig: Spector Books, forthcoming 2023.
• Rënia e së ardhmes: Arti, korrupsioni dhe fundi i tranzicionit shqiptar, translated by Bledar Qalliu. Tirana: Pika pa Sipërfaqe, forthcoming 2023.
• “The Old Nubian Ps.-Chrysostomus’s In quattuor animalia in the Context of Coptic, Arabic, and Ge’ez Oral and Literary Traditions.” In Textes, images et objets entre l’Égypte copte et la Corne de l’Afrique chrétienne au Moyen Âge. Actes du séminaire HornEast (2017-2023), eds. Martina Ambu and Damien Labadie. Nubia. Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 2023 (with Damien Labadie and Alexandros Tsakos).

Published

Monographs

• A Reference Grammar of Old Nubian. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. Louvain: Peeters, 2021. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv1q26pvn.
• Cross-Examinations. Gent: MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2015.
• The Miracle of Saint Mina. Tirana/The Hague: Uitgeverij, 2012 (with El-Shafie El-Guzuuli). doi: 10.21983/P3.0216.1.00.

Edited Collections

• Disturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures. Earth: punctum books, 2020 (with Catherine E. Karkov and Anna Kłosowska). doi: 10.21983/P3.0313.1.00.
• Beta Exercise: The Theory and Practice of Osamu Kanemura. Earth: punctum books, 2019 (with Marco Mazzi). doi: 10.21983/P3.0241.1.00.
• ’Pataphilology: An Irreader. Earth: punctum books, 2018 (with Sean Gurd). doi: 10.21983/P3.0232.1.00.
• Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida. Earth: punctum books, 2017. doi: 10.21983/P3.0171.1.00.
• The Old Nubian Manuscripts from Attiri. Dotawo Monograph 1. Earth: punctum books, 2016 (with Vincent Pierre-Michel Laisney, Giovanni Ruffini, Alexandros Tsakos, Kerstin Weber-Thum, and Petra Weschenfelder). doi: 10.21983/P3.0156.1.00.
• Allegory of the Cave Painting. Milan: Mousse, 2015 (with Mihnea Mircan).
• Workers leaving the studio. Looking away from socialist realism. Brooklyn: punctum books, 2015. doi: 10.21983/P3.0115.1.00.
• Lapidari, 3 vols. Brooklyn: punctum books, 2015. doi: 10.21983/P3.0094.1.00; 10.21983/P3.0091.1.00; 10.21983/P3.0092.1.00.
• Pedagogies of Disaster. Brooklyn: punctum books, 2013 (with A. Staley Groves and Nico Jenkins). doi: 10.21983/P3.0050.1.00.
• continent. Year 1. Brooklyn: punctum books, 2012 (with Jamie Allen, Paul Boshears, Bernard Garnicnig, A. Staley Groves, and Nico Jenkins). doi: 10.21983/P3.0016.1.00.
• Follow Us or Die: Works from the High School Shooters Selected by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and Jonas Staal. New York/Dresden: Atropos Press, 2009.

Articles

• “Corrigenda to a ‘Dance for a Princess’ (DBMNT 1364).” Journal of Juristic Papyrology 52 (2022): 53–54.
• “An Old Nubian Sale from Gebel Adda.” Journal of Juristic Papyrology 52 (2022): 35–52.
• “On the Possible Meroitic Origin of the Old Nubian Titles ⲥⲁⲙⲉⲧ and ⲥⲁⲙⲉⲧⲓⳟⲟ.” Orientalia 91, no. 1 (2022): 117–32 (with Gilda Ferrandino). doi: 10.32060/Orientalia.1.2022.117-132.
• “Dongola 2018, Winter Season: Epigraphic Note.” Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 30, no. 2 (2021): 525–35 (with Adam Łajtar). doi: 10.31338/uw.2083-537X.pam30.2.19.
• “The Albanian Lapidar Survey,” Art Studies 19 (2021): 45–57. Translated as “Hulumtimit mbi lapidarët e Shqipërisë,” Studime për Artin 19 (2021): 47–60.
• “Potential Old Nubian Cognates for Meroitic aleqese.“ Sudan & Nubia 24 (2020): 292–300 (with Gilda Ferrandino).
• “Three Bilingual Greek–Old Nubian Psalms from Dongola (DP 2–4).“ Orientalia 89, no. 2 (2020): 287–316 (with Adam Łajtar). doi: 10.32060/Orientalia.2.2020.287-316.
• “Finding Old Nubian, Or, Why We Should Divest from Western Tongues.” postmedieval 11, nos. 2–3 “Confessions” (2020): 301–9. doi: 10.1057/s41280-020-00182-9.
• “An Old Nubian Lunary with a Greek Addition from Gebel Adda.” Le muséon 133, nos. 1–2 (2020): 13–30 (with Adam Łajtar). doi: 10.2143/MUS.133.1.3287659
• “An Old Nubian Curse from the Faras Cathedral.” Études & Travaux XXXII (2019): 81–88. doi: 10.12775/EtudTrav.32.005.
• “Two Old Nubian Texts from Akasha West.” Études & Travaux XXXII (2019): 89–97 (with Adam Łajtar). doi: 10.12775/EtudTrav.32.006
• “Rubrication Patterns in Two Old Nubian Texts from Serra East.” Études & Travaux XXXII (2019): 99–110 (with Alexandros Tsakos). doi: 10.12775/EtudTrav.32.007.
• “For Sale: Geography in Old Nubian Land Sales.“ Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 6 (2019): 89–111. doi: 10.5070/D66146253.
• “An Old Nubian Letter from the Daughter of an Eparch.” Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 5 (2018): 91–98 (with Alexandros Tsakos). doi: 10.5070/D65110022.
• “Subject Clitics: New Evidence from Old Nubian.” Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 3, no. 1, art. 7 (2018). doi: 10.5334/gjgl.503.
• “A Dance for a Princess: The Legends on a Painting in Room 5 of the SW Annex of the Monastery on Kom H in Old Dongola.” The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 47 (2017): 117–35.
• “The Etymology of the Toponym ‘Dorginarti (Notes on Medieval Toponymy 6).’” Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 4 (2017): 273–76 (with Alexandros Tsakos). doi: 10.5070/D64110000.
• “The Etymology of the Toponym ‘Pourgoundi (Notes on Medieval Toponymy 5).’” Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 4 (2017): 267–72 (with Alexandros Tsakos). doi: 10.5070/D64110008.
• “In Search of the Nubian Master-Builders: An Architectural Drawing from the Cathedral in Faras, Appendix: Prayer of a Young Woman.” Polish Archeology in the Mediterranean 25 (2016): 826–27.
• “Old Nubian Relative Clauses.” Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 2 (2015): 9–57. doi: 10.5070/D62110018.
• “The Disturbing Object of Philology.” postmedieval 5, no. 4 (2014): 442–55. doi: 10.1057/pmed.2014.32.
• “Remarks toward a Revised Grammar of Old Nubian.” Dotawo: A Journal of Nubian Studies 1 (2014): 165–84. doi: 10.5070/D61110015.
• “By Any Language Necessary: Quentin Meillassoux and the Question Concerning Signification in Philosophy.” Quaderna 2 (2014).
• “Staatstaal en taalstaat: Een inleiding tot Albanese taalpolitiek.” nY 18 (2013).
• “I was thinking sparrow Lena stick…”: Or, How Gombrowicz Exposed Philosophy’s Immaturity.” Frakcija 66/67 (2013), 138–47. Translated to Croatian as “Ja sam mislio vrabac Lena…”, ili: : Kako je Gombrowicz razotkrio nezrelost filozofije,” trans. Marina Miladinov, Frakcija 66/67 (2013), 128–37.
• “Heidegger’s Mom and the Joke of Democracy: Fictional Notes on the Political.” Berfrois, October 24, 2012.
• “The Poetry of Jean Daive.” continent. 2, no. 2 (2012): 82–98.
• “Tekendichtheid: Over Jean Daives Narration d’équilibre 2: ‘Sllt’.” Parmentier 21, no. 2 (2012): 65–71.
• “Cumposition: Theses on Philosophy’s Etymology.” continent. 2, no. 1 (2012): 44–55.
• “De mens als masochistisch dier: Over De honden van Hervé Guibert.” nY 12 (2012): 606–9.
• “The Missing Link / Monument for the Distribution of Wealth.” continent. 1, no. 4 (2011): 242–52 (with Jonas Staal).
• “Mijn hoogte blootsvoets op zeeniveau: Over Ridefinizione van Alessandro De Franceso” Parmentier 20, no. 4 (2011): 89–91.
• “Anders Breivik: On Copying the Obscure.” continent. 1, no. 3 (2011): 213–23.
• “Greek Returns: The Poetry of Nikos Karouzos.” continent. 1, no. 3 (2011): 201–7 (with Nick Skiadopoulos).
• “The Poetry of Nachoem M. Wijnberg.” continent. 1, no. 2 (2011): 129–35.
• “Circulating Philosophy: A Note on Two Apparent Misquotations in Alain Badiou’s Logics of Worlds.” Theory & Event 14.2 (2011). doi: 10.1353/tae.2011.0025.
• “The Poetry of Adam Staley Groves.” continent. 1, no. 1 (2011): 51–58.

Book Chapters

• “Scholarship as Biography: An Allegorical Reading of the Philological Work of G.M. Browne.” In Disturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures, edited by Catherine E. Karkov, Anna Kłosowska, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, 29–71. Earth: punctum books, 2020.
• “Translating Greek to Old Nubian: Reading between the lines of Ps.-Chrysostom’s In venerabilem crucem sermo.” In Caught in Translation: Versions of Late-Antique Christian Literature, edited by D. Batovici & M. Toca, 204–240. Leiden: Brill, 2020 (with Alexandros Tsakos).
• “Language on Pause: Hamacher’s Seconds of Celan and Daive.” In Give the Word: Responses to Werner Hamacher’s “95 Theses on Philology,” edited by Ann Smock and Gerhard Richter, 104–28. Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
• “Women in the Southwest Annex.” In Dongola 2015–2016: Fieldwork, Conservation, and Site Management. PCMA Excavation Series 5, edited by Włodzimierz Godlewski, Dorota Dzierzbicka, and Adam Łajtar, 75–78. Warsaw: University of Warsaw Press, 2018 (with Adam Łajtar). doi: 10.31338/uw.9788323534877.pp.75-78.
• “Postface.” In Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida, edited by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, 217–25. Earth: punctum books, 2017. doi: 10.21983/P3.0171.1.16.
• “The Old Nubian Morpheme -ⲁ in Nominal and Verbal Predicates.” In Nubian Voices. Studies in Christian Nubian Culture, vol. II. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement 27, edited by A. Łajtar, G. Ochała & J. van der Vliet. Warsaw: Raphael Taubenschal Foundation, 2015.
• “Return to Reading.” In Allegory of the Cave Painting, edited by Mihnea Mircan & Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, 201–22. Milan: Mousse, 2015.
• Foreword to Marco Mazzi. Uninspired Architecture. Florence: Maschietto Editore, 2014.
• “A Passion for Yes: Coming Out and Affirmation.” In Pedagogies of Disaster, edited by Nico Jenkins, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, and Adam Staley Groves. 175–84. Brooklyn: punctum books, 2013. doi: 10.21983/P3.0050.1.14. Translated to Albanian as “Një Pasion për po-në: Dalja hapur dhe pohimi,” trans. Jonida Gashi. In Pedagogies of Disaster, 185–90. doi: 10.21983/P3.0050.1.15.
• Preface to Alessandro De Francesco. Augmented Writing. Rome: La Camera Verde, 2013.
• “‘I’m like the Unicorn’: Desiring Language.” In Relational Syntax, edited by Marco Mazzi, 259–87. Florence: Maschietto Editore, 2012.
• “The Old Nubian memorial for King George.” In Nubian Voices: Studies in Christian Nubian Culture. The Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplement 15, edited by A. Łajtar and J. van der Vliet, 225–62. Warsaw: Raphael Taubenschal Foundation, 2011.
• “Meer informatie.” In Wat we missen kunnen, edited by Daniël van der Meer et al., 169–75. Amsterdam: Babel & Voss, 2010.
• “Epilogue.” In Dearest Tinkebell, edited by Katinka Simonse, 688–97. Amsterdam: d’jonge Hond, 2009.

Blog Posts

• “A Vision Statement for Thinking, Writing, and Publishing Otherwise in the University without Condition.” punctum books (blog), January 18, 2022 (with Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy).
• “Prioritizing Metadata Output Formats for Thoth.” COPIM (blog), February 3, 2021.
• “Open Metadata in Thoth.” COPIM (blog), November 24, 2020.
• “Scholar-led Open Access Publishers Are Not “Author-Chutes”.” punctum books (blog), August 3, 2020 (with Eileen Joy).
• “Viral Open Access in Times of a Global Pandemic.” punctum books (blog), March 19, 2020.
• “Why CC BY-NC Licenses Are Still Necessary in Open Access Book Publishing.” punctum books (blog), February 14, 2020.
• “Here’s What You Can Do with Your Overhead.” punctum books (blog), December 11, 2019.
• “What the Ronell–Reitman Case Tells Us about the Predatory University.” punctum books (blog), August 22, 2018.
• “Publishing as Activism: punctum books, Aaron Swartz, and the Medieval Sudan.” punctum books (blog), July 25, 2017.

Encyclopedia Entries

• “Old Nubian.” The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa. October 28, 2021. doi: 10.1002/9781119399919.eahaa00449.