• "Trading Pain for Knowledge, or, How the West Was Won," in "Martyrdom, Self-sacrifice, and Self-denial," special issue, Social Research 75, no. 2 (Summer 2008): 485-510. (PDF file*)
  
  
• "The Humanities in America," keynote for symposium "The Humanities in a New Era: Surviving or Setting the Agenda?," University of Copenhagen, April 23, 2008.
  
  
• "Genre and the Institution of Research: Three American Instances," PMLA 122, no. 5 (October 2007): 1635–1643. (PDF file*)
  
  
• "Criticism, Character and Tenure," interview of Geoffrey Galt Harpham by Scott McLemee, posted on Intellectual Affairs, InsideHigherEd.com, December 27, 2006. Reprinted by permission.
  
  
• "Science and the Theft of Humanity," American Scientist 94, no. 4 (2006): 296-98.
  
  
• "Between Humanity and the Homeland: The Evolution of an Institutional Concept," American Literary History 18, no. 2 (2006): 245-61. (PDF file*)
  
  
• "Derrida, Said, and Infinity," Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 6, no. 3 (2005): 24-29. (PDF file*)
  
  
• "Things and Theory," review-essay of Bill Brown, A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2003), Raritan XXV.2 (Fall 2005): 134-45. (PDF file*)
  
  
• "Beneath and Beyond the 'Crisis in the Humanities,'" in "Essays on the Humanities," special issue, New Literary History 36, no. 1 (2005): 21-36. (PDF file*)
  
  
• "Politics, Professionalism, and the Pleasure of Reading," Daedalus 134, no. 3 (2005): 68-75. (PDF file*)
  
  
• Cum Laude Induction Ceremony speech delivered at Durham Academy on April 10, 2005. (PDF file*)
  
  
• "Inadmissible Evidence: Terror, Torture, and the World Today," article appearing in Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 15, 2004. (PDF file*)
  
  
• "The National Humanities Center as an Institute for Advanced Study," commentary, September 21, 2004. (PDF file*)
  
  

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