Publications

• “First Encounters: Knowledge Interpretation on the Front-Lines of Cross-Cultural Encounters,” Global Media Journal 2012: Volume 5, Issue 1, pp. 53-74. http://www.gmj.uottawa.ca/1201/v5i1_barsky_e.html
• “Zellig Harris: Language and Politics”, New Left Project, http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/zellig_harris_language_and_politics
• “The Savage Pilgrimage: D. H. Lawrence’s Dialogic Journeys upon Monte Verità, the Mountain of Truth,” ‘In Fuga’, Università Catolica, 2014.
• “Noam Chomsky”, for International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition,  2014.
• “Teaching Narrative Theory in the Undergraduate Classroom,” David Herman, Brian McHale and James Phelan, ed., Teaching Narrative Theory, NY, MLA, 2010.
• “Accessing Contextual Assumptions in Dialogue Interpreting The Case of Illegal Immigrants in the United States,” in The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Translation (2010).
• “Safe Spaces in an Era of Gated Communities and Disproportionate Punishment, for special issue on “The Humanities at Work in the World,”Profession, MLA, 2008.
• “Academia in the Era of Homeland Security,” A special issue of Works and Days, entitled “Academic Freedom and Intellectual Activism in the post 9/11 University,” issues 51-54, February 2009.
• “From Problematology to the ‘Problem’ of the Dialogical Body,” International Journal of Philosophy 8.32.1 (2007): 415-434.
• “Activist Translation in an Era of Fictional Law,” Translation and Social Activism, ed. Sherry Simon, TTR XVIII.2 (2007): 17-48.
• “From Discretion to Fictional Law,” SubStance 109 vol. 35.1 (Summer 2006): 116-146.
• “Marc Angenot and the Scandal of History,” Yale Journal of Criticism 17.2 (Fall 2004): 163-182.
• “The History of Ideas is not a Comic Book: An interview with Marc Angenot,” Yale Journal of Criticism 17.2 (Fall 2004): 183-199.
• “Cold War Beats” an entry for the Beat Encyclopedia, CA: ABC-CLIO Publishing, 2005.
• “Stories from the Court of Appeal,” Dis/Locations, eds. Mike Baynham and Anna de Fina, Manchester, UK and Northampton, MA: St. Jerome’s Press, 2005, 217-238.
• «La problématologie dialogique: quelle role joue le questionnement dans les domains de la littérature et du droit?» in Clive Thomson et André Collinot, Mikhail Bakhtine et la pensée dialogique, London, Mestengo Press, 2005, 55-63.
• Passion, Language and the Body: An unpublished Tribute to Michael Holquist, originally delivered at the Whitney Humanities Center Yale University, February 2005.
• “Discourse Analysis Theory,” Littérature &sociologie, sociocritique, discours social, un hypersite.
• “Introduction” to The American Production of French Theory a special issue of Robert F. Barsky and Eric Méchoulan (eds.) SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism 97, volume 31.1 (2002), 3-9.
• “Introduction” to Philosophy and the Passions, by Michel Meyer. University Park: Penn State Press, 2001, i-xxviii.
• “Postmodernism”, entry for Encyclopaedia of Postmodernism, London; NY: Routledge, 2001, pp. 119-123.
• “Magic and Language, or Why Bernard Bloch, Noam Chomsky, Allen Ginsberg, Zellig Harris, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Bell Telephone, IBM and the US Military Thought it was Sexy / Useful / Exciting to Study Linguistics in the 1950s” Postures, (April 2001), 87-214.
• “Le carnavalesque,” Main Blanche: Journal des études littéraires mars 2001, vol. 7 # 5.
• “Residues of the 1930s”, SubStance: A Review of Theory and Criticism 93 (2000): 118-124.
• “Intellectuals on the Couch: The Sokal Hoax and Other Impostures intellectuelles”. SubStance: A Review of Theory and Criticism 90 (1999): 105-119.
• Introduction à la théorie littéraire. Ste Foy:Presses de l’Université du Québec, 1998.
• “Outsider Law in Literature: Construction and Representation in Death and the Maiden,”  SubStance 1998.
• “Bakhtin as Anarchist? Language, Law and Creative Impulses in the Work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Rudolph Rocker”, South Atlantic Quarterlyspecial issue Bakhtin/Bakhtin, ed. Peter Hitchcock, 97.3, Summer 1998: 623-642.
• “The Discourse(s) of Literature and the Law”, Bakhtin and Dialogism, Ed. Rachel Falconer. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.
• “The Interpreter as Intercultural Agent in Convention Refugee Hearings”, The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication 2.1 (1996): 45-63.
• “The Construction of the Other and the Destruction of the Self: The Case of the Convention Hearings”, in Encountering the Other(s), Ed. Gisela Brinker Gabler. NY: SUNY P, 1995, pp. 79-100.
• (with Denise Helly) “Women Through the Eyes of Writers Who Immigrated to Québec in the 1980s,” Ethnic Writing, Ed. by Alan L. McLeod. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Private, 1996, pp. 168-80.
• “The Interpreter and the Canadian Convention Refugee Hearing: Crossing the potentially life threatening boundaries between ‘coccode-e-eh,’ ‘cluck-cluck,’ and ‘cot-cot-cot.’” Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction,6.2 (1994) 131-156.
• “Venture A Farewell to Discours social, The Non-Cartesian Subject,” Discours social / Social Discourse 6.1-2 (1994): 245-249.
• “Making Love With [Bakhtin]”. Gay and Lesbian Quarterly 1.2 (1994): 135-141.
• “The Construction of the Productive Other” (feature article), Vice Versa, Spring 1992.
• “Introduction: Bakhtin, Otherness and a Social Role for Interpretative Work,” in Robert F. Barsky and Michael Holquist, editors, Bakhtin and Otherness, Discours social/Social Discourse, Vol. 3, nos. 1-2 (1990): vii-x.
• “Dialogue: Conversations Between Robert F. Barsky and Michael Holquist,” in Robert F. Barsky and Michael Holquist, editors, Bakhtin and Otherness, Discours social/Social Discourse, Vol. 3, nos. 1-2 (1990): 1-22
• “Re-Vitalising the Memory Through Narrative: Bakhtin’s Dialogism and the Realist Text,” in Robert F. Barsky and Michael Holquist, editors,Bakhtin and Otherness, Discours social/Social Discourse, Vol. 3, nos. 1-2 (1990): 147-166.
• “Narratology and the Convention Refugee Claim”, Discours social / Social Discourse, Vol. I, no. 3, pp. 265-286.

2. Refugee, Border and Migration Studies

• “First Encounters: Knowledge Interpretation on the Front-Lines of Cross-Cultural Encounters,” Global Media Journal 2012: Volume 5, Issue 1, pp. 53-74.
• Accessing Contextual Assumptions in Dialogue Interpreting The Case of Illegal Immigrants in the United States, in The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Translation (2010).
• “Methodological issues for the study of migrant incarceration in an era of discretion in law in the southern USA,” edited by Ilse van Liempt/Veronika Bilger. The Ethics of Migration Research Methodology: Processes, Policy and Legislation in Dealing with Vulnerable Immigrants. Sussex, Sussex Academic Press, 2009.
• “Safe Spaces in an Era of Gated Communities and Disproportionate Punishment, for special issue on “The Humanities at Work in the World,”Profession, MLA, 2008.
• “Academia in the Era of Homeland Security,” A special issue of Works and Days, entitled “Academic Freedom and Intellectual Activism in the post 9/11 University,” issues 51-54, February 2009.
• Report on Immigrant Incarceration for the Tennessee Department of Corrections, 2008.
• “Activist Translation in an Era of Fictional Law,” Translation and Social Activism, ed. Sherry Simon, TTR XVIII.2 (2007): 17-48.
• “Montreal, Quebec and Canada in the Americas?” in “Quebec and Canada in the Americas,” a special issue of AmeriQuests (www.ameriquests.org), 3.1, 2006.
• Research Project on “Issues in Inter-Cultural Relations Among Inmates Held for Immigration Concerns,” sponsored by the Center for the Americas and the Tennessee Department of Corrections
• “Troubled Quests: An Introduction to AmeriQuests in an Era of ‘Illegals’,” AmeriQuests 2.1, 2006.
• Preliminary Research Report on “Inter-Cultural Relations Amongst Inmates Held for Immigration Concerns,” for Continuing Legal Education, Knoxville, March 2006.
• “Fictional Law,” special issue on Literature and Law, SubStance 109 vol. 35.1, 116-146.
• AmeriQuests, a journal on the Quests to the Americas, at www.ameriquests.org.
• “Commemorating the Unthinkable” for Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region: Ten Years on from Genocide,  International Insights (June 2005): 25-49.
• With Vera Kutzinski, “Introduction to Ameriquests”1.1 (Fall 2004), www.ameriquests.org.
• Review of Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls, in Journal of Refugee Studies 2001, 14, 205-7.
• Arguing and Justifying: Assessing the Convention Refugee Choice of Moment, Motive and Host Country. Ashgate Press, 2001.
• Constructing a Productive Other: Discourse Theory and the Convention Refugee Hearing . John Benjamins, 1994.
• “An Essay on the Free Movement of Peoples,” Refuge (May 2001): 84-93.
• “The Hypocrisies of Free Trade”, The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 24.1-2, ed. Imre Szeman, 175-181.
• “The Motives for Departure and the Choice of Host Country: Arguing the Canadian Refugee’ Choices” Contemporary International Issues: An Academic and Policy Journal 1.1, Special issue:  “Explaining Contemporary Immigration and Refugee Intake Policies,” edited by John G. G. Halstead and Cornelius H.W. Remie, 1999.
• “The Interpreter as Intercultural Agent in Convention Refugee Hearings”, The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication 2.1 (1996): 45-63.
• “The Construction of the Other and the Destruction of the Self: The Case of the Convention Hearings”, in Encountering the Other(s), Ed. Gisela Brinker Gabler. NY: SUNY P, 1995, pp. 79-100.
• (with Denise Helly) “Women Through the Eyes of Writers Who Immigrated to Québec in the 1980s,” Ethnic Writing, Ed. by Alan L. McLeod. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers Private, 1996, pp. 168-80.
• “The Interpreter and the Canadian Convention Refugee Hearing: Crossing the potentially life threatening boundaries between ‘coccode-e-eh,’ ‘cluck-cluck,’ and ‘cot-cot-cot.’” Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction.
• “The Construction of the Productive Other” (feature article), Vice Versa, Spring 1992.
• “Narratology and the Convention Refugee Claim”, Discours social / Social Discourse, Vol. I, no. 3, pp. 265-286.
• “Arguing the American Dream à la Canada: Former Soviet Citizens’ Justification for their Choice of Host Country,” Journal of Refugee Studies8.2 (1995): 125-141.
• “Arguing the Choice of Host Country: Jewish Refugees From Israel and the Multicultural Society”, in Multiculturalism, Jews and the Canadian Identity, ed. by Howard Adelman and John Simpson. Magnes Press, 1996, pp. 219-62.
• “Arguing the American Dream,” in American Dream: 1930-1995. Ed. Jean-François Côté, U of Ottawa P.

3. The Milieus of Noam Chomsky and Zellig Harris

• “Zellig Harris: Language and Politics”, New Left Project, http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/zellig_harris_language_and_politics
• Zellig Harris: From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism. MIT Press, 2011.
• Chomsky’s Challenge: The Pertinence of Bakhtin’s Theories, translated into Creole, by Susan Basen, Santo Domingo de Guzmán, Dominican Republic
• “Beyond the Chomsky-Harris Comparison”, www.berfrois.com, August 1, 2011.
• The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works Beyond the Ivory Tower, MIT Press, 2007, 2009.
• “Safe Spaces in an Era of Gated Communities and Disproportionate Punishment, for special issue on “The Humanities at Work in the World,”Profession, MLA, 2008.
• “Academia in the Era of Homeland Security,” A special issue of Works and Days, entitled “Academic Freedom and Intellectual Activism in the post 9/11 University,” issues 51-54, February 2009.
• “Anarchism, the Chomsky Effect and the Descent from the Ivory Tower,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 23.5 (2006): 446-452.
• “Intellectuals Who Quest Beyond the Ivory Tower,” (with Saleem Ali) AmeriQuests 3.2 (summer 2006)
• “The Chomsky Effect: Episodes in Academic Activism,” AmeriQuests 3.2 (summer 2006).
• “Noam Chomsky,” an entry for the Encyclopedia of Human Development, Sage Publishing, 2005, Vol 1, 260-262.
• “Universal Grammar,” an entry for the Encyclopedia of Human Development, Sage Publishing, 2005, Vol 3, 1288-1291.
• “Kibbutz,” an entry for the Encyclopedia of Human Development, Sage Publishing, 2005, Vol 2 757-8.
• Workers Councils, by Anton Pannekoek. A new and revised edition, with comments by Robert Barsky, Noam Chomsky, Ken Coates and Peter Hitchcock. London/SF: AK Press.
• “Introduction” for Anton Pannekoek’s Workers’ Councils, Oakland CA; Edinburgh UK, 2003, i-vii.
• “Interview with Noam Chomsky” for Anton Pannekoek’s Workers’ Councils, Oakland CA; Edinburgh UK, 2003, viii-xvi.
• “Interview with Ken Coates” for Anton Pannekoek’s Workers’ Councils, Oakland CA; Edinburgh UK, 2003, xvii-xxii.
• “Interview with Peter Hitchcock” for Anton Pannekoek’s Workers’ Councils, Oakland CA; Edinburgh UK, 2003.
• “Challenging Israel’s ‘High Moral Ground’”, Wochenzeitung (Switzerland), translated into German by Lothar Baier, 2002.
• “Einsteinian and the Zionists”, Urim V’Tumim: Journal of Jewish Expression and Judaic Studies 14.1 (December 2002), 14-18.
• “Noam Chomsky and Computer Sciences” for Dictionary of Computer Sciences, Fitzroy-Dearborn, 2002.
• “Magic and Language, or Why Bernard Bloch, Noam Chomsky, Allen Ginsberg, Zellig Harris, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Bell Telephone, IBM and the US Military Thought it was Sexy / Useful / Exciting to Study Linguistics in the 1950s” Postures, (April 2001), 87-214.
• “Bakhtin as Anarchist? Language, Law and Creative Impulses in the Work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Rudolph Rocker,” South Atlantic Quarterlyspecial issue Bakhtin/Bakhtin: Studies in the Archive and Beyond, 97.3, Summer 1998: 623-642.
• “Chomsky’s Challenge: The Pertinence of Bakhtin’s Theories,” Dialogism 1.1 (1998): 92-106.
• “Noam Chomsky Meets the Scottish Enlightenment,” The Herald (Glasgow), January 1998 (electronic version http://www.e2-herald.com/131297/e1.html.
• Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent. MIT Press, 1998.
• “Noam Chomsky and Rudolph Rocker,” (talk given at The Chomsky Circle, Vertigo Books, Washington, D.C.), available on video via CSPAN,http://38.217.109.100/abtbook1.htm
• “Literary Knowledge: Marc Angenot and Noam Chomsky,” Dialogism and Cultural Criticism, Ed. by Clive Thomson and Hans Raj Dua. London, Ontario: Mestango P, 1995, pp. 21-46.

4. Selected Translations

• “What Can Literature do? From Literary Sociocriticism to a Critique of Social Discourse” by Marc Angenot, Yale Journal of Criticism 17.2 (Fall 2004): 217-232.
• “A State of Social Discourse” by Michel Pierssens, Yale Journal of Criticism, 17.2 (Fall 2004): 255-262.
• Denise Helly, “Social cohesion and Ethnic Minorities,” for the Canadian Journal of Anthropology and Sociology (2003).
• Denise Helly, “Ethnic and National Minorities” for the Canadian Journal of Anthropology and Sociology (2002).
• Philosophy and the Passions, a translation (with a preface, introduction and bibliography) of Le Philosophe et les Passions (Livre de Poche) for Penn State Press Literature and Philosophy Series, dir. Anthony Cascardi, 2000..
• “Rhetoric and the Theory of Argument” by Michel Meyer. Revue Internationale de Philosophie 196.2 (1996): 325-358.
• “The Problematological Interpretation of the Cogito: Is There a Distinctive Argumentative Structure in The Meditations?” by Michel Meyer.Revue internationale de Philosophie 195 (1996): 23-49.
• “The Representamen, The Sign and the Abduction”, by Jean Fisette, Pierce Papers. Toronto Semiotic Circle, 1996.
• “The Mirror, The Beaker and the Touchstone: or, What Can Literature Do For Science?” by Jean Marc Lévy Leblond, SubStance 71/72: 1 26.
• “The Political Regulation of Cultural Plurality: Foundations and Principles,” by Denise Helly, for Canadian Ethnic Studies / Études Ethniques au Canada 25.2 (1993): 15 35.
• [with Sydney Mintz] “Introduction” Chinese Emigration: The Cuba Commission Report. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, pp. 1 30.
• [with Dominique Michaud] “Bakhtin and Postmodernism: An Unexpected Encounter. Notes on Jean-Paul Goude’s ‘Marseillaise’,” by Régine Robin. Discours social / Social Discourse 3.1-2 (1991): 229 232.
• “Following the Thread,” by Marc Angenot. Science Fiction Studies, 16.2 (July 1989): 218 222.

5. Selected reviews

• Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern, Yale UP, in AmeriQuests 12.2 (2016), http://ameriquests.org/index.php/ameriquests/article/viewFile/4240/2177
• Mark Canuel, ‘Justice, Dissent and the Sublime’, Review 19, http://www.nbol-19.org/view_doc.php?index=297.
• Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth Century Law, Literature and History, by Margot Finn, Michael Lobban and Jenny Bourne Taylor, eds. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Reviewed by Robert Barsky on 2011-03-07 for Review 19.
• Review article of Sophia A. McClennen, Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010 in Modern Drama (2011).
• Review of Margot Finn, Michael Lobban and Jenny Bourne Taylor, eds., Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History. Houndsmills UK; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, for New Books Online-19 (2011).
• Review of Christine L. Krueger, Reading for the Law: British Literary History and Gender Advocacy (Victorian Literature and Culture Series). Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2010, for New Books Online-19 (2011).
• Review of Edward W. Soja, Seeking Spatial Justice. Minnesota: U of Minnesota P, 2010, for Le travail/Labor (2011).
• Review of Richard A. Posner, Law and Literature, Revised and Enlarged Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2009, for New Books Online 19, 2009
• Review of Michael Welch, Scapegoats of September the 11th: Hate Crimes and State Crimes in the War on Terror, for Le travail/Labor 61 (Spring 2008): 270-272.
• Review of Jonah Raskin, American Scream: Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ and the Making of the Beat Generation, University of California Press, 2004, for AmeriQuests 1.2, 2006.
• Review of Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls, in Journal of Refugee Studies 2001, 14, 205-7.
• Review of Wai Chee Dimock, Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy. University of California Press, 1997 [1996], for Literary Research 31, 1999.
• Review of Richard A. Posner, Law and Literature, Revised and Enlarged Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1998, for Literary Research30, 1999.
• Review of Theodore Ziolkowski, The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, forLiterary Research 29, 1998.
• Review of Robin West, Caring for Justice. New York University Press, 1997, “The Limits of Caring in Justice” for Literary Research 16.32 (1999): 233-239.
• Review of Michael Gardiner, The Dialogics of Critique: M.M. Bakhtin and the Theory of Ideology, for Slavic Review 53.1 (Spring 1994): 306-308.
• Review of Peter Hitchcock, The Dialogics of the Oppressed. Minnesota: U of Minnesota P, 1992. for Discours social/Social Discourse 6.3-4, (1994).
• Review of Stephen L. White, The Unity of the Self. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991, for Discours social/Social Discourse 5.3 4 (1993): 192-194.
• Review of M. Pierrette Malcuzynski. Entre-Dialogues avec Bakhtin, for Slavic Review 53.4 (Winter 1994): 1198-1199.
• Review of Critical Studies II, 1 2, 1990: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Epistemology of Discourse, Ed. Clive Thomson, for Semiotic Inquiry 12.3.
• Review of Pierre Bourdieu, Language and Symbolic Power. Harvard UP, 1981, for Modern Language Quarterly 52.4, December 1991, pp. 466-468.
• Review of Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson and Edward Said, Nationalism, Colonialism, Literature. Minnesota: U Minnesota P, 1990, forDiscours Social / Social Discourse 4.1 2, pp. 179-180.
• Review of Cohan, Stevan and Linda M. Shires. Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction. NY: Routledge, 1988, for Literary Research 18, pp. 16-17.
• Review of Chamberlain, Daniel Frank, Narrative Perspective in Fiction: A Phenomenological Mediation of Reader, Text, and World. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1990, for Literary Research 18, p.14.
• Review of Literature, Language and Politics, Ed. Betty Jean Craige. Athens & London: U of Georgia P, 1988, for Literary Research 14 15, pp. 14-15.
• Review of George Levine, Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction. Cambridge MA: Harvard UP, 1988, for Literary Research 13 pp. 25-26.
• Review of Violence and Truth: On the Work of René Girard. Paul Dumouchel, Ed. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1988, for Literary Research 11, pp. 12-13.
• Review of Buitenhuis, Peter. The Great War of Words: British, American and Canadian Propaganda and Fiction, 1914-1933. Vancouver: U of BC P, 1987, for Literary Research 11, pp. 15-16.
• Review of Dick, Susan et al. Essays for Richard Ellman: Omnium Gatherum. Montréal: McGill UP, 1989, for Discours social/Social DiscourseVol. 2, 4 pp. 207-208.
• Review of Morton Beiser, Strangers at the Gate: The Boat People’s First Ten Years in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999 forAsian Pacific Migration Journal 9.3 2000, 387-388.
• Review of Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls. By Teresa Hayter. London; Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press, 2000, for theOxford Journal of Refugee Studies, 2001.
• Review of Joe Thomas, Ethnocide: A Cultural Narrative of Refugee Detention in Hong Kong. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 1999 for Oxford Journal of Refugee Studies, 2000.