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 Selected essays
  • “In the Deserts of Cartography: Building, Mapping, Dwelling.” The Map and the Territory: Exploring the Foundations of Science, Thought, and Reality. Eds. Shyam Wuppuluri and Francisco Antonio Doria. New York: Springer, 2018. 599–608.
  • “The Map and the Guide.” Teaching Space, Place, and Literature. Ed. Robert T. Tally Jr. London: Routledge, 2018. 1–9.
  • “The Space of the Novel.” Cambridge Companion to the Novel. Ed. Eric Bulson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 152-167.
  • “In the Suburbs of Amaurotum: Fantasy, Utopia, and Literary Cartography.” Spatial Modernities: Geography, Narrative, Imaginaries. Eds. Johannes Riquet and Elizabeth Kollmann. London: Routledge, 2018. 27-41. [revised version of 2014 ELN article]
  • “Of Other American Spaces: The Alterity of the Urban in the U.S. National Imaginary.” Space Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American City. Ed. Stefan L. Brandt and Michael Fuchs. Wien & Münster: LIT Verlag, 2018. 27–45.
  • “Giving Shape to Gloom; or, Keeping it Real in The House of the Seven Gables.” Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom. Eds. Christopher Diller and Samuel Coale. Norwalk, Conn.: AMS Press, 2017. 25–36.
  • “An Anagogical Education.” American Book Review 38.3 (March/April 2017): 6–7.
  • “Fredric Jameson and the Controversy over ‘Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism’,” Global South Studies (2017). [https://globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu/key-thinkers/fredric-jameson-and-controversy-over-%E2%80%9Cthird-world-literature-era-multinational] [1,782 words]
  • “In the File Drawer Labeled ‘Science Fiction’: Genre after the Age of the Novel.” Journal of English Language and Literature 63.2 (2017): 201–217.
  • “The Novel and the Map: Spatiotemporal Form and Discourse in Literary Cartography.” Space, Time, and the Limits of Human Understanding. Eds. Shyam Wuppuluri and Giancarlo Ghirardi. London: Springer, 2017. 479–485.
  • “The Reassertion of Space in Literary Studies.” Introduction, The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space. Ed. Robert T. Tally Jr. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. 1–6.
  • “The Southern Phoenix Triumphant: Richard Weaver, or, the Origins of Contemporary U.S. Conservatism.” b2o: An Online Journal of the boundary 2 editorial group (March 30, 2017): http://www.boundary2.org/2017/03/robert-t-tally-jr-the-southern-phoenix-triumphant-richard-weaver-or-the-origins-of-contemporary-u-s-conservatism/  [10,140 words]
  • “Three Rings for the Elven Kings: Trilogizing Tolkien in Print and Film.” Mythlore 131 (Fall/Winter 2017): 175–190.
  • “Adventures in Literary Cartography: Explorations, Representations, Projections.” Literature and Geography: The Writing of Space throughout History. Ed. Emmanuelle Peraldo. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2016. 20–36.
  • —. German translation to appear in Text und Karte: Eine Einführung in die Literaturgeographie. Eds. Barbara Piatti, Heinrich Detering, Lorenz Hurni, und Kathrin Winkler. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, [*2017?].
  • “Ecocritical Geographies, Geocritical Ecologies, and the Spaces of Modernity” (co-authored with Christine M. Battista). Ecocriticism and Geocriticism. Eds. Robert T. Tally Jr. and Christine M. Battista. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 1–16.
  • “Formed by Place: Spatiality, Irony, and Empire in Conrad’s ‘An Outpost of Progress.” Co-authored with Thais Rutledge. Transnational Literature 9.1 (November 2016). [8,405 words]
  • “Lukács’s Literary Cartography: Spatiality, Cognitive Mapping, and The Theory of the Novel.” Mediations 29.2 (Spring 2016): 113–124.
  • “Situating Geocriticism.” Introduction, American Book Review 37.6 (Sept.-Oct. 2016), 3–4.
  • “‘Why Space beyond Time Means Something in the Literary Studies?’: 2015 JELL Forum on Space and Literature: A Roundtable,” ed. Youngmin Kim, with Minwoo Yoon, Robert T. Tally Jr., Shelley Streeby, Thadious M. Davis, Thomas Corns, Scott Morgensen, Oscar V. Campomanes, and Klaudia Lee.  Journal of English Language and Literature 62.3 (September 2016): 463–499. [NR]
  • “An American Bakhtin: Jonathan Arac, or, the Vocation of the Critic in the Age of the Novel.” symplokē 23.1-2 (2015), 407–420.
  • “Spatiality’s Mirrors: Reflections on Literary Cartography.” Journal of English Language and Literature 61.4 (2015), 557–576.
  • “The Geopolitical Aesthetic of Middle-earth: Tolkien, Cinema, and Literary Cartography.” Topographies of Popular Culture. Eds. Maarit Piipponen and Markku Salmela. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2016. 11–34.
  • —. First published in Russian as “Геополитическая эстетика Средиземья: Толкиен, кино и литературная картография,” trans. Arja Rosenholm. Топография популярной культуры: Сборник статей. Ed. Arja Rosenholm. Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2015. 196–223.
  • “The World, the Text, and the Geocritic.” The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said: Spatiality, Critical Humanism, and Comparative Literature. Ed. Robert T. Tally Jr. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 1–16.
  • “Beyond the Flaming Walls of the World: Fantasy, Alterity, and the Postnational Constellation.” The Planetary Turn: Art, Dialogue, and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century. Eds. Amy J. Elias and Christian Moraru. Evanston: Northwestern U. P., 2015. 193–210.
  • “Giving Shape to Gloom; or, Keeping it Real in The House of the Seven Gables.” Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom: Contexts, Materials, Approaches. Eds. Sam Coale and Christopher Diller. New York: AMS Press, 2015.
  • “Power to the Educated Imagination!: Frye, Marcuse, and the Utopian Impulse.” Educating the Imagination: Essays in Honour of Northrop Frye on the Centenary of His Birth. Eds. Alan Bewell et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. 83–95.
  • “Geocriticism in the Middle of Things: Place, Peripeteia, and the Prospects of Comparative Literature.” Géocritique: État les lieux / Geocriticism: A Survey. Eds. Clément Lévy and Bertrand Westphal. Limoges: Pulim, 2014. 6–15.
  • “In the Suburbs of Amaurotum: Fantasy, Utopia, and Literary Cartography.” English Language Notes 52.1: Imaginary Cartographies, ed. Karen Jacobs (Spring/Summer 2014): 57–66.
  • —. Reprinted in Spatial Modernities: Geography, Narrative, Imaginaries. Eds. Johannes Riquet and Elizabeth Kollmann. London: Routledge, 2018. [6,002 words]
  • “L’ineffable esprit du lieu: critique du nationalisme américain par Washington Irving dans ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’.” Otrante: Art et Littérature Fantastiques 35: Washington Irving au Temps des Nations, eds. Arnaud Huftier and Scott Sprenger (Spring 2014): 119–133.
  • “Textual Geographies: Real-and-Imagined Spaces in Literature, Criticism, and Theory.” Reconstruction 14.3 (2014). [http://reconstruction.eserver.org/Issues/143/Tally.shtml]. [4,916]
  • “Topophrenia: The Place of the Subject.” Reconstruction 14.4 (2014). [4,206 words] [http://reconstruction.eserver.org/Issues/144/Tally.shtml].
  • “World Literature and Its Discontents.” Journal of English Language and Literature (Seoul, Korea) 60.3 (2014): 401–419.
  • “Lost in Grand Central: Dystopia and Transgression in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.” Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature. Eds. Brett Grubisic, Gisèle M. Baxter, and Tara Lee. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier U. P., 2014. 357–371.
  • “Bleeping Mark Twain?: Censorship, Huckleberry Finn, and the Functions of Literature.” From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life. Eds. Claire Oberon Garcia, Vershawn Ashanti Young, and Charise Pimentel. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 133–142. [rev. rpt. of journal article]
  • “Mapping Narratives.” Introduction, Literary Cartographies: Spatiality, Representation, and Narrative. Ed. Robert T. Tally Jr.. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 1–12.
  • “Places Where the Stars Are Strange: Fantasy and Utopia in Tolkien’s Middle-earth.” Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey. Eds. Janet Croft and John William Houghton. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. 41–56.
  • “Until the Dragon Comes: Geocriticism and the Prospects of Comparative Literature.” Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature 3.2 (February 2014). [2,135 words]
  • “A Geocriticism of the Worldly World.” Foreword to Bertrand Westphal, The Plausible World: A Geocritical Approach to Space, Place, and Maps. Trans. Amy Wells. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xi–xvi.
  • “Bleeping Mark Twain?: Censorship, Huckleberry Finn, and the Functions of Literature.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 6.1 (Spring 2013): 97–108.
  • “On Kurt Vonnegut.” Kurt Vonnegut: Critical Insights. Ed. Robert T. Tally Jr. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2013. 3–17.
  • “‘Some men ride on such space’: Charles Olson’s Call Me Ishmael, the Melville Revival, and the American Baroque.” 49th  Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies 31 (Spring 2013): 1–31. [http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk/back/issue31/Tally.htm]
  • “How Utterly Thou Hast Murdered Thyself: Poe’s Comedic Double-Take in ‘William Wilson’.” Doppelgänger, Polygänger, Alter Egos. Komik und Gewalt, Band 3. Eds. Sabine Müller and Christian Hoffstadt. Bochum/Freiberg: Projeckt Verlag, 2012. 25–35.
  • “Meta-Capital: Culture and Financial Derivatives.” Works and Days 59/60, Vol. 30: Special issue on Culture and Crisis, ed. Joseph G. Ramsey (2012): 230–47. [reprinting essay first published in Cultural Logic 12.1 (2010): http://clogic.eserver.org]
  • “Nobody’s Home: The Spectral Existentialism of The Graveyard Book.” Neil Gaiman and Philosophy. Eds. Tracy Bealer et al. Chicago: Open Court, 2012. 169–82.
  • “The Way of the Wizarding World: Harry Potter and the Magical Bildungsroman.” J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter. New Casebooks. Eds. Cynthia J. Hallett and Peggy Huey. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 36–47.
  • “I am the Mainstream Media (and So Can You!)” The Stewart/Colbert Effect: Essays on the Real Impact of Fake News. Ed. Amar Amarasingam. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. 149–63.
  • “On Geocriticism.” Introduction, Geocritical Explorations: Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies. Ed. Robert Tally. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 1–9.
  • “Mundus totus exilium est: Reflections on the Critic in Exile.” Transnational Literature 3.2 (May 2011). [5,455 words]
  • “Post-American Literature.” 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies 25 (Spring 2011): 1–20. [5,845] [http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk/back/issue25/tally.htm]
  • “This Space that Gnaws and Claws at Us: Foucault, Cartographics, and Geocriticism.” Épistémocritique: Littérature et Saviors IX (Autumn 2011). [5,808 words]
  • “The Timely Emergence of Geocriticism.” Translator’s Preface, Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Places, by Bertrand Westphal. Trans. Robert T. Tally Jr. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. ix–xiii.
  • “Let Us Now Praise Famous Orcs: Simple Humanity in Tolkien’s Inhuman Creatures.” Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature 111/112 (Fall/Winter 2010), 17–28.
  • “Neutral Grounds, or The Utopia of the City in the Era of Globalization.” Journal of Contemporary Literature 2.2 (July 2010): 134–48.
  • “The Nightmare of the Unknowable, or, Poe’s Inscrutability.” Studies in Gothic Fiction 1.1 (2010): 3–12.
  • “Nomadography: The ‘Early’ Deleuze and the History of Philosophy.” Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 5.11: Special issue on Gilles Deleuze, ed. Daniel W. Smith (Winter 2010): 15–24.
  • “Radical Alternatives: The Persistence of Utopia in the Postmodern.” New Essays on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Ed. Alfred Drake. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010. 109–21.
  • “Sartre, Marcuse, and the Utopian Project Today.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 12.1 (March 2010). [6,507 words] [http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol12/iss1/]
  • “Apocalypse in the Optative Mood: Galápagos, or, Starting Over.” New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut. Ed. David Simmons. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 113–31.
  • “Reading the Original: Alienation, Writing, and Labor in ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’.” Alienation. Bloom’s Literary Themes. Vol. ed. Blake Hobby. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2009. 1–10.
  • “‘We are what we pretend to be’: Existential Angst in Vonnegut’s Mother Night.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice. 3.1 (Spring 2009). 94–115.
  • “Whale as a Dish: Culinary Rhetoric and the Discourse of Power in Moby-Dick.” Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Eds. Marie Drews and Monika Elbert. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 73–87.
  • “A Postmodern Iconography: Vonnegut and the Great American Novel.” Reading America: New Perspectives on the American Novel. Eds. Elizabeth Boyle and Anne-Marie Evans. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2008. 163–78.
  • “Anti-Ishmael: Novel Beginnings in Moby-Dick.” LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory 18.1 (January–March 2007): 1–19.
  • “‘Literature Proper’: Genre Problems in an Early American Literature Survey.” Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice  1. 2 (Spring 2007): 123–141.
  • “Poetics of Descent: Irreversible Narrative in Poe’s ‘MS. Found in a Bottle’.” Studies in Irreversibility: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Benjamin Schreier. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. 83–98.
  • “‘Spaces that before were blank’: Truth and Narrative Form in Melville’s South Seas Cartography.” Pacific Coast Philology 42 (2007): 181–98.
  • “‘Believing in America’: The Politics of American Studies in a Post-National Era.” The Americanist XXIII (2006): 69–81.
  • “Jameson’s Project of Cognitive Mapping: A Critical Engagement.” Social Cartography: Mapping Ways of Seeing Social and Educational Change. Ed. Rolland G. Paulston. New York: Garland, 1996. 399–416.