Alex Young

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

“Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: Decolonization and Democracy in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes” American Literary History 35.1 (forthcoming Winter 2023).

“‘The Vigorous New Vernacular’: Settler Colonialism and the Politics of Irony in Roughing It.” Mark Twain Annual (Forthcoming Fall 2022).

"Settler Colonial Studies and/as The Transnational Western: Resistance and Representation in Academic Discourse and Cultural Production." History of the Present 11.1 (April 2021): 80-105.

“Introduction: United States Gun Culture and the Performance of Racial Sovereignty.” Co. Au. Lindsay Livingston. Lateral:The Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 9.1 (Spring 2020).

“The Necropolitics of Liberty: Sovereignty, Fantasy, and United States Gun Culture.” Lateral:e The Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 9.1 (Spring 2020).

“Keyword: Settler.” “On The Occasion of the 50th Anniversary,” Special Issue of Western American Literature 53.1 (Spring 2018): 75-80.

“If I am Native to Anything: Western American Literature and Settler Colonial Studies.” Co. Au. Lorenzo Veracini. Western American Literature 52.1 (Spring 2017): 1-23.

“Introduction: On Joan Didion.” Co. Au. Daniel Worden. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 31.3 (Autumn 2016): 581-585.

“The Settler Unchained: Constituent Power and Settler Violence.” Social Text 33.3 (Autumn 2015): 1-18.

“Introduction: The Significance of the Frontier in an Age of Transnational History.” Co. Au. Erik Altenbernd. Settler Colonial Studies 4.2 (2014): 127-150.  

“Settler Sovereignty and the Rhizomatic West, or the Significance of the Frontier in Postwestern Studies.” Western American Literature 48.1-2 (2013): 115-140.  

“A Terrible Beauty: Settler Sovereignty and the State of Exception in Home Box Office’s Deadwood.” Co. Au. Erik Altenbernd. Settler Colonial Studies 3:1 (2013): 27-48.

Edited Special Issues and Special Features

“United States Gun Culture and the Performance of Racial Sovereignty.” Co. Ed. Lindsay Livingston. Special feature of Lateral: the Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 9.1 (Spring 2020).

“Settler Colonial Studies and Western American Culture.” Co. Ed. Lorenzo Veracini. Special issue of Western American Literature 52.1 (Spring 2017).

“Style as Character: Joan Didion’s Genres.” Co. Ed. Daniel Worden. Special feature of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 31.3 (Autumn 2016): 581-617.

“The Significance of the Frontier in an Age of Transnational History.” Co. Ed. Erik Altenbernd. Special feature of Settler Colonial Studies. 4.2 (2014): 127-191.

Chapters in Edited Collections

 “‘The Queen of the Mad Frontier’: Settler Colonialism and Jack Spicer’s Queer Politics,” in Left in The West. Ed. Gioia Woods. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018: 254-276.

“A Terrible Beauty: Deadwood, Settler Colonial Violence, and the Post 9/11 State of Exception.” Co. Au. Erik Altenbernd. in The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire. Ed. Jennifer Greiman and Paul Stasi. New York: Bloomsbury Group, 2012 (Abridged version of Settler Colonial Studies article): 82-103.

Response Essay

“A Response to ‘On Colonial Unknowing’.” Theory and Event 20.4 (2017): 1035-1041.

Review Essay

“Indigenous Mobility and Settler State Transfer: The Exiles in Historical Context.” Co. Au. Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne. Special issue of Transfers: International Journal of Mobility Studies 5.2 (2015): 146-150.

Reviews

The Other Americans, Laila Lalami, High Country News (December 2020).

The Beneficiary, Bruce Robbins. Postcolonial Studies (Winter 2019).

The End of the Myth: from the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America, Greg Grandin. High Country News (September 2019).

Morta Las Vegas: CSI and the Problem of the West, Nathaniel Lewis and Stephen Tatum. Western Historical Quarterly 49.2 (April 2018): 231-232.  

Captivating Westerns: The Middle East in the American West, Susan Kollin. Montana: The Magazine of Western History 66.1 (Spring 2016): 75-76.