Siraj Ahmed

Books

• Archaeology of Babel: Comparative Literature, Critical Method, Colonial Law (Stanford University Press, 2017).
  • Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, 2017
• The Stillbirth of Capital: Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012).

Selected Essays

• ‘Postcolonial Studies,’ Blackwell Companion to Literary Theory, ed. David Richter (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming).
• ‘Thinking at the Enlightenment’s Limit,’ Cultural Critique(forthcoming).
• ‘Dispossession and Civil Society: The Ambivalence of Enlightenment Political Philosophy’ in The Dispossessed Eighteenth Century, ed. Jordana Rosenberg and Chi-ming Yang (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), a special issue of The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 55.2-3 (Summer/Fall 2014), 153-74.
• ‘Notes from Babel: Toward a Colonial History of Comparative Literature,’ Critical Inquiry 39.2 (Winter 2013), 296-326.
• ‘Orientalism and the Permanent Fix of War’ in The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory, ed. Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009; paper, 2013).
• ‘The Theater of the Civilized Self: Edmund Burke and the East India Trials,’ Representations 78 (Spring 2002), 28-55. Reprinted in Edmund Burke, ed. Iain Hampsher-Monk (Burlington: Ashgate, 2009), a volume in the International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought.