- American literature, especially the contemporary Jewish-American Novel
- The literature of the city, especially New York
- Current project: “9/11: the Discursive Responses”
- Director of the Ghent Urban Studies Team (GUST), an interdisciplinary research group which studies the city both in its material and in its cultural aspects. GUST regularly organizes workshops and conferences, manages research projects and published The Urban Condition: Space, Self and Community in the Contemporary Metropolis (1999) and Post Ex Sub Dis: Urban Fragmentations and Constructions (2002). For further information, see www.gust.ugent.be.
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- “’Nakedness’ or Realism in Updike’s Early Short Stories,” The Cambridge Companion to John Updike , ed. Stacey Olster (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 29-42.
- “9/11 as the End of Irony: Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World ,” CinematoGraphies: Fictional Strategies and Visual Discourses in 1990s New York City , eds. Günter Lenz, Dorothea Löbbermann, Karl-Heinz Magister (Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag, 2006), pp. 45-73.
- “Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers : 9/11 and the Representation of Trauma,” Modern Fiction Studies , 52, No. 4 (2006), pp. 980-1004.
- “Do We Have to Ditch the Canon,” Reading without Maps? Cultural Landmarks in a Post-Canonical Age , ed. Christophe Den Tandt (Frankfurt: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 33-40.
- “ Ragtime and Jazz : Recapturing New York’s Golden Age,” Public Space, Private Lives: Race, Gender, Class and Citizenship in New York, 1890-1929 , eds. William Boelhower and Anna Scacchi (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2004), pp. 305-311.
- "Saul Bellow," Engelstalige literatuur na 1945. Deel 2: Proza. Andere Continenten , eds. Elke D'Hoker and Ortwin de Graef (Leuven: Peeters, 2004), pp. 51-67.
- "Philip Roth," Engelstalige literatuur na 1945. Deel 2: Proza. Andere Continenten , eds. Elke D'Hoker and Ortwin de Graef (Leuven: Peeters, 2004), pp. 183-198.
- “New York as a Maze: Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold (1992),” Postmodern New York City: Transfiguring Spaces , eds. Günter H. Lenz and Utz Riese (Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag, 2003), pp. 99-108.
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