• “From Discretion to Fictional Law,” SubStance (Summer 2006): 1-52.
• "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.
• “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, i-xxviii.
• “Magic and Language” 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.
• 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 Quarterly special 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 Function of the Intercultural Interpreter”, 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 (1993) 131-156.
• “Venture A Farewell to Discours social, The Non-Cartesian Subject,” Discours social / Social Discourse 6.1-2 (1994): 245-249.
• “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

• Research Project on "Issues in Inter-Cultural Relations Among Inmates Held for Immigration Concerns," http://www.vanderbilt.edu/americas/English/Barsky.php.  
• Preliminary Research Report on "Inter-Cultural Relations Amongst Inmates Held for Immigration Concerns," for Continuing Legal Education, Knoxville, March 2006. 
• "Activist Translation in an Era of Fictional Law," Traduction, Terminologie Rédaction (TTR), 2006, 1-54.
• "Fictional Law," special issue on Literature and Law, SubStance 109 vol. 35.1, 1-30.
• 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.
• 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 Function of the Intercultural Interpreter”, 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 Studies 8.2 (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.

• People are Dangerous: Reflections on the Chomsky Effect, MIT Press, forthcoming.
• Zellig Harris's America. MIT Press, forthcoming.
• “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.
• “Bakhtin as Anarchist? Language, Law and Creative Impulses in the Work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Rudolph Rocker,” South Atlantic Quarterly special 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.

• “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.
•  (with Patricia Foxen) Denise Helly, “Social cohesion and Ethnic Minorities,” for the Canadian Journal of Anthropology and Sociology (2003).
• (with Patricia Foxen) 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

• 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 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 Research 30, 1999.
• Review of Theodore Ziolkowski, The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, for Literary 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, for Discours 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 Discourse Vol. 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 for Asian 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 the Oxford 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.