TEJU COLE

In addition to reviews in the press, my work has been the subject of a number of scholarly studies. A selection is below.

ADAMKIEWICZ, Ewa. “What’s the Matter with Multiraciality?: Race and the Multiracial Subject in Danzy Senna’s You Are Free and Teju Cole’s Open City,” M.A. thesis, American Studies, Universität Leipzig, 2015.

BA, Souleymane and Isabel Soto. “The problematics of openness: Cosmopolitanism and ace in Teju Cole’s Open City,” Atlantic Studies 18, no.3 (2021).

BEKERS, Elisabeth. “From ‘sepulchral city’ to ‘open city’: Hetero-images of Brussels in Joseph Conrad and Teju Cole,” Atlantic Studies 18, no.3 (2021).

BREGER, Claudia. “Transnationalism, Colonial Loops, and the Vicissitudes of Cosmopolitan Affect: Christian Kracht’s Imperium and Teju Cole’s Open City,” in Transnationalisms: Sexualities, Fantasies, and the World Beyond, eds. Elisabeth Herrmann, Carrie Prey-Smith, and Stuart Taberner (forthcoming).

DALLE NOGARE, Daniele. “The Wandering Julius: Teju Cole’s Open City and the (Quest)ion of Origins,” European Joint Master’s Degree in English and American Studies, Université Paris Diderot—Paris 7, 2018.

EPSTEIN, Josh. “Open City’s ‘Abschied’: Teju Cole, Gustav Mahler, and Elliptical Cosmopolitanism,” Studies in the Novel, 51, no.3 (2019): 412–432

GAMSO, Nicholas. “Exposure and Black Migrancy in Teju Cole,” New Global Studies 13, no.1 (2019): 60-79

HAENSELL, Dominique. “Going through the motions – Movement and metahistory in Teju Cole’s Open City,” Atlantic Studies 18, no.3 (2021).

HALLEMEIER, Katherine. “Literary Cosmopolitanisms in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief and Open City,” ariel: A Review of International English Literature 44, no.2-3 (2013): 239-250.

HARTWIGER, Alexander. “The Postcolonial Flâneur: Open City and the Urban Palimpsest,” Postcolonial Text 11, no.1 (2016).

INYANG, Utitofon Ebong. “(In)Sights from Àwòrán: Yorùbá Epistemologies and the Limits of Cartesian Vision in Teju Cole’s Open City,” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 9, no. 2 (2022): 216–236.

JACOBS, Karen. “Teju Cole’s Photographic Afterimages,” Image & Narrative 15, no.2 (2014): 87-105.

LAURET, Maria. “Teju Cole: Public intellectual,” Atlantic Studies 18, no.3 (2021).

MILLER, Stephen. Walking New York: Reflections of American Writers from Walt Whitman to Teju Cole, New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2014.

MUELLER, Monika. “Walking in New York City and Lagos: Spatial memory in Teju Cole’s novels,” Atlantic Studies 18, no.3 (2021).

O’GORMAN, Daniel. “Gazing Inward in Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City and Teju Cole’s Open City” in Fictions of the War on Terror: Difference and the Transnational 9/11 Novel. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015. 40-75.

ONIWE, Bernard Ayo. “Cosmopolitan Conversation and Challenge in Teju Cole’s Open City,” Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies 39, no.1 (2016): 43–65.

PAHL, Miriam. “‘Here is where we meet’: an interview with Teju Cole,” Atlantic Studies 18, no.3 (2021).

REESE, Sam and Alexandra Kingston-Reese. “Teju Cole and Ralph Ellison’s Aesthetics of Invisibility,” Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal 50, no.4 (2017): 103–119.

SMITH, Alexandra. “Writing Against the Image: Teju Cole, Ben Lerner, and the Aesthetics of Failure,” Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Arts, The University of Sydney, 2015.

SOLLORS, Werner. “Cosmopolitan Curiosity in an Open City: Notes on Reading Teju Cole by way of Kwame Anthony Appiah,” New Literary History, 49, no.2 (2018).

SOTO, Isabel. “‘Idea l’a need’ or, Enough Said: The Poetics of Reticence in Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief and Open City,” Atlantic Studies 18, no.3 (2021).

TINSON, Christopher M. “Every day is a possibility: Modernity, struggle, and the politics of solidarity in the writing of Teju Cole,” Atlantic Studies 18, no.3 (2021).

VERMEULEN, Pieter. “Flights of Memory: Teju Cole’s Open City and the Limits of Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism,” Journal of Modern Literature 37, no.1 (2014): 40-57.

VON GLEICH, Paula and Isabel Soto. “Critical perspectives on Teju Cole,” Atlantic Studies 18, no.3 (2021).