Kenneth J. Surin | Scholars@Duke

Kenneth J. Surin
Professor Emeritus of Literature

(Ph.D. Birmingham, England, 1977) is Professor of Literature and Professor of Religion and Critical Theory. He trained initially as an analytical philosopher. His teaching areas include anglophone literatures outside England, philosophy (both analytical and continental), critical theory, marxism, state theory, and international political economy.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor Emeritus of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018

Contact Information

101F Science Building, Duke East Campus, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90670, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0670
ksurin@duke.edu (919) 684-4364

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Birmingham 1977
- B.A., University of Reading (England) 1972
Duke Appointment History
- Professor of Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993 - 2018
- Professor in the Department of Religion, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 - 2018
- Director, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2007 - 2010
- Director, Center for European Studies, Council for European Studies, Office of Area Studies and International Studies 2005 - 2008
- Interim Director, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003
- Acting Director, Program in Literature, Literature, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2001
- Associate Professor with Tenure, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1989 - 1993
- Visiting Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1987 - 1989
Research
Selected Grants
- Political Order and Modernity awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2005
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Surin, K. J. Can There Be A Delinking Strategy For The Nations Of The Caribbean?. Indiana University Press, 2011.
  - Surin, Kenneth. Freedom Not Yet: Liberation and the Next World Order. Duke University Press, 2009.
  - Surin, K. J. The Turnings of Darkness and Light: Essays in Philosophical and Systematic Theology. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  - Surin, K. J., ed. Christ, Ethics and Tragedy: Essays in Honour of Donald M MacKinnon. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  - Surin, K. J. Theology and the Problem of Evil. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
- Academic Articles
  - Surin, K. “The abyss looks back.” American Book Review 39, no. 2–3 (January 1, 2018): 6–7.
  - Surin, K. “Surroundings: Deleuze and Guattari.” Canadian Journal of Communication 41, no. 3 (January 1, 2016): 403–10. https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2016v41n3a3168.
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  - Surin, K. J. “What I Learned from Stuart Hall.” Cultural Critique, 2015.
  - Surin, K. J. “Empire Ten Years After: Much Gratitude, Some Reservations.” Theory and Event: An Online Journal of Political Theory, 2015.
  - Surin, K., and S. Salaita. “"Marxism, without guarantees": What I learned from stuart hall.” Cultural Critique 89 (January 1, 2015): 136–49.
  - Surin, K. J. “What Will It Take to Stop Israel? Truth and Justice.” The Other Journal: An Intersection of Theology and Culture, August 2014.
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  - Yanlin, S. “Western Marxism in the Post-Financial Crisis Era: An Interview with Kenneth Surin, conducted by Shi Yanlin.” International Critical Thought 4 (2014): 1–9.
  - Surin, K. “Marxism and religion.” Critical Research on Religion 1, no. 1 (April 1, 2013): 9–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050303213476107.
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  - Surin, K. J. “Freedom Not Yet: Liberation and the Next World Order.” Research on Marxist Aesthetics 14 (2012): 170–82.
  - Surin, K. J. “Lacoue-Labarthe dans un texte où il analysait le rapport de la littérature à la philosophie’. Que vous inspire cette proposition?.” Contemporary French & Francophone Studies 16 (2012).
  - Surin, K. J. “Reflections on Freedom not Yet: Liberation and the Next World Order.” Research on Marxist Aesthetics 14 (2012): 170–82.
  - Surin, K. J. “Can there be a Marxist Conception of Value that is not ‘Productivist’?.” Research on Marxist Aesthetics 12 (2012): 161–69.
  - Surin, K. J., and W. Jie. “Interview on Marxism and Aesthetics (conducted by Wang Jie, Dean of Humanities, Shanghai Jiaotong University).” Research on Marxist Aesthetics 14 (2012): 142–60.
  - Surin, Lowell. “Can there be a Delinking Strategy for the Nations of the Caribbean?.” The Global South 6, no. 1 (2012): 55–55. https://doi.org/10.2979/globalsouth.6.1.55.
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  - Surin, K. “Introduction: "Theory Now"?.” South Atlantic Quarterly 110, no. 1 (December 1, 2011): 3–17. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2010-019.
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  - Surin, K. J. “Kenneth Surin Interviewed by Wang Jie on Marxism and Aesthetics.” Edited by Wang Jie. Research on Marxist Aesthetics, 2011.
  - Surin, K. J. “On Producing the Concept of Solidarity.” Rethinking Marxism 23 (2010): 446–57.
  - Surin, K. J. “A Genealogy of Comparative Literature in the USA.” Edited by A. Behdad and D. Thomas, 2010.
  - Surin, K. ““Retrospect/prospect”: Notes on modern theology after twenty-five years.” Modern Theology 26, no. 1 (January 1, 2010): 4–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0025.2009.01571.x.
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  - Surin, K. J. “1000 Political Subjects (Chinese translation).” Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (Wenyi Lilun Yanjiu) 9, no. 2 (2009).
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  - Wenyi, L. Y. “The Positioning of Literary Theory in the Context of Globalization” (全球化语境下文学系的定位与构建—杜克大学文学系主任肯尼斯·苏林教授访谈录).” Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 9, no. 2 (2009).
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  - Surin, K. “Conceptualizing trauma, but what about Asia?.” Positions 16, no. 1 (December 23, 2008).
  - Surin, K. “Can a "chosen" people have a "true" politics?'.” Angelaki Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 12, no. 1 (December 1, 2007): 145–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/09697250701309700.
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  - Surin, K. J. “Review of Kevin Hart, The Dark Gaze.” Modern Theology 23 (2007): 152–54.
  - Surin, K. J. “Control Societies and the Managed Citizen.” Junctures: New Zealand Journal of Critical Dialogue, no. 8 (2007): 11–25.
  - Surin, K. “The dark gaze: Maurice blanchot and the sacred – Kevin Hart.” Modern Theology 23, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 152–54. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0025.2007.00365.x.
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  - Surin, K. “Fandom: Colin "pine tree" meads.” South Atlantic Quarterly 105, no. 2 (December 1, 2006): 429–46. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-105-2-429.
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  - Surin, K. “Theology and marxism: The tragic and tragi-comic.” Literature and Theology 19, no. 2 (December 1, 2005): 112–31. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/fri015.
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  - Surin, K. “World ordering.” South Atlantic Quarterly 104, no. 2 (December 1, 2005): 185–97. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-104-2-185.
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  - Surin, K. J. “Postpolitical Citizenship.” Polygraph 16/17 (2005): 47–57.
  - Surin, K. “The night can sweat with terror as before: Afterthoughts.” South Atlantic Quarterly 102, no. 4 (December 1, 2003): 895–913. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-102-4-895.
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  - Surin, K. J. “'The Night Can Sweat with Terror as Before.” South Atlantic Quarterly 102 (2003): 893–911.
  - Surin, K. J. “Getting the Picture: Donald Davidson on Robert Morris's Blind Time Drawings (Drawing with Davidson).” South Atlantic Quarterly 101 (2002): 133–69.
  - Surin, K. J. “Delre Is World-Historical': Political Knowledge.” Capitalism and Schizophrenia Polygraph 14 (2002): 129–41.
  - Surin, K. “The sovereign individual, subalternity, and becoming-other.” Angelaki Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 6, no. 1 (December 1, 2001): 47–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/713650370.
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  - Surin, K. J. “The Sovereign Individual and Michael Taussig's Poetics of Defacement.” Nepantla 2, no. 1 (2001): 203–17.
  - Surin, K. “Dossier on empire.” Rethinking Marxism 13, no. 3–4 (January 1, 2001): 89–94. https://doi.org/10.1080/089356901101241767.
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  - Surin, K. J. “On Not Being Sure About the 'Post' in 'Postcolonial': Afterthoughts on Postcolonial Religious Studies.” Sophia: An Australian Journal of Cross Cultural Philosophy of Religion 39 (2000): 208–26.
  - Surin, K. J. “Afterthoughts on Diaspora.” South Atlantic Quarterly 98 (1999): 275–325.
  - Surin, K. J. “Standing Schumpeter on his Head: Robert Brenner's Economics of Global Turbulence.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 19 (1999): 53–60.
  - Surin, K. J. “The Future States of Politics: Deleuze and the Future of Politics.” Culture Machine 1, no. 1 (January 1999).
  - Surin, K. J. “The Reanimation of Dependency Theory in the Age of Finance Capital.” Cultural Logic 1, no. 2 (July 1998).
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  - Surin, K. “The ‘Epochality’ of Deleuzean Thought.” Theory, Culture &Amp; Society 14, no. 2 (January 1, 1997): 9–21. https://doi.org/10.1177/026327697014002003.
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  - Surin, K. J. “On Producing the Concept of a Global Culture.” South Atlantic Quarterly 94 (1995): 1179–99.
  - Surin, K. “"Reinventing a physiology of collective liberation": Going "beyond marx" in the marxism(s) of negri, guattari, and deleuze.” Rethinking Marxism 7, no. 2 (January 1, 1994): 9–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/08935699408658095.
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  - Surin, K. J. “'The Continued Relevance of Marxism' as a Question: Some Propositions.” Polygraph, no. 6 (1993): 39–71.
  - Surin, K. J. “Transform the World, Change Life: Michael Taussig's Poetics of Destruction and Revelation.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 92 (1993): 261–94.
  - Surin, K. J. “Some Programmatic Notes on James's Politics of Culture.” Clr James Journal 2 (1991): 8–10.
  - Surin, K. J. “The Evils of Theodicy: A Perspective.” Horizons [Usa] 18 (1991): 290–95.
  - Surin, K. J. “The Undecidable and the Fugitive: Mille Plateaux and the State-Form.” Substance [Usa], no. 66 (1991): 102–13.
  - Surin, K. “Four perspectives-I.” Horizons 18, no. 2 (January 1, 1991): 290–95. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0360966900025172.
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  - Surin, K. “'The sign that something else is always possible': Hearing and saying "jesus is risen" and hearing the voices of those who suffer: Some textual/political reflections.” Literature and Theology 4, no. 3 (November 1, 1990): 263–77. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/4.3.263.
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  - SURIN, K. “A CERTAIN ‘POLITICS OF SPEECH’: ‘RELIGIOUS PLURALISM’ IN THE AGE OF THE McDONALD'S HAMBURGER.” Modern Theology 7, no. 1 (January 1, 1990): 67–100. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0025.1990.tb00236.x.
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  - Surin, K. J. “Marxism(s) and 'the Withering Away of the State'.” Social Text [Usa], no. 27 (1990): 35–54.
  - Surin, K. J. “C. L. R. James's Materialist Aesthetics of Cricket.” Polygraph [Usa], no. 4 (1990): 111–49.
  - Surin, K. J. “Towards a 'Materialist' Critique of 'Religious Pluralism': A Polemical Examination of the Discourse of John Hick and Wilfred Cantwell Smith.” The Thomist [Usa] 53 (1989): 655–74.
  - SURIN, K. “MANY RELIGIONS AND THE ONE TRUE FAITH‘: AN EXAMINATION OF LINDBECK'S CHAPTER THREE.” Modern Theology 4, no. 2 (January 1, 1988): 187–209. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0025.1988.tb00164.x.
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  - SURIN, K. “THE TRINITY AND PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION: A STUDY OF DAVID BROWN'S THE DIVINE TRINITY.” Modern Theology 2, no. 3 (January 1, 1986): 235–56. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0025.1986.tb00116.x.
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  - Surin, K. J. “Christology, Tragedy and "Ideology".” The Thomist [Usa] 89 (1986): 283–91.
  - Surin, K. J. “The Trinity and Philosophical Reflection.” Modern Theology 2 (1986): 235–56.
  - Surin, K. “Contemptus mundi and the disenchanted world: Bonhoeffer's "discipline of the secret" and adorno's "strategy of hibernation".” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 53, no. 3 (September 1, 1985): 383–410. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIII.3.383.
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  - Surin, K. J. “Theistic Arguments and Rational Theism.” The International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion [Usa] 16 (1984): 128–38.
  - Surin, K. “Theistic arguments and rational theism.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 16, no. 2 (January 1, 1984): 123–38. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00136571.
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  - Surin, K. J. “Atonement and Moral Apocalypticism.” New Blackfriars [Uk] 64 (1983): 323–35.
  - Surin, K. “Revelation, salvation, the uniqueness of christ and other religions.” Religious Studies 19, no. 3 (January 1, 1983): 323–43. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500015274.
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  - Surin, K. “Theodicy?.” Harvard Theological Review 76, no. 2 (January 1, 1983): 225–47. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017816000001310.
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  - Surin, K. “The self-existence of god: Hartshorne and classical theism.” Sophia 21, no. 3 (October 1, 1982): 17–36. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02789813.
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  - Surin, K. J. “The Self-existence of God.” Sophia [Australia] 21 (1982): 17–36.
  - Surin, K. “Atonement and Christology.” Neue Zeitschrift Fur Systematische Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie 24, no. 1–3 (January 1, 1982): 131–49. https://doi.org/10.1515/nzst.1982.24.1-3.131.
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  - Surin, K. “The Impassibility of God and the Problem of Evil.” Scottish Journal of Theology 35, no. 2 (January 1, 1982): 97–115. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930600015696.
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  - Surin, K. J. “Tragedy and the Soul's Conquest of Evil.” New Blackfriars 62 (1981): 521–32.
  - Surin, K. J. “Creation, Revelation and the Analogy Theory.” Journal of Theological Studies [Uk] 32 (1981): 401–22.
  - Surin, K. J. “Can the Experiential and the Phenomenological Approaches be Reconciled?.” British Journal of Religious Education 2 (1980): 99–103.
- Book Sections
  - Surin, K. “Force.” In Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts, 21–32, 2013.
  - Surin, K. J. “Can there be a Marxist Conception of Value that is not ‘Productivist’?”.” In Proceedings of the Sino-British Conference on Marxism, Culture, and Aesthetics, edited by Robert Spencer, 103–12. Central Compilation and Translation Press, 2012.
  - Surin, K. J. “Neoliberal Property Relations.” In Property and Aesthetics in Contemporary Globalization, edited by J. Huimin. Shanghai international Studies University Press, 2012.
  - Surin, K. “Comparative Literature in America: Attempt at a Genealogy.” In A Companion to Comparative Literature, 65–72, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444342789.ch5.
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  - Surin, K. J. “On Producing the Concept of the Concept-Image.” In Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media, edited by R. Mitchell and J. Khallip, 171–80. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2011.
  - Surin, K. J. “Existing not as a Subject but as a Work of Art: the Task of Ethics or Aesthetics?.” In Deleuze and Ethics, edited by D. W. Smith and N. Jun, 142–53. Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
  - Surin, K. J. “C.L.R. James as Writer on Cricket.” In Cambridge Companion to Cricket, edited by A. Bateman and J. Hill, 131–43. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  - Surin, K. J. “‘On Going ‘Beyond the Pale of the Human’ (ケネススリン人間の境界を越えてゴーイングオン長原豊、エディタ ).” In Restoration of Political Economy and Political Philosophy (政治経済学の政治哲学的復権 ), edited by Naghara Yutaka, 265–91. Hosei University Press, 2011.
  - Surin, K. J. “A Genealogy of Comparative Literature in the USA.” In Blackwell Companion to Comparative Literature, edited by Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas, 65–72. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
  - Surin, K. J. “Bowlers and Bowling at the 2011 Cricket World Cup.” In The 2011 Cricket World Cup Analyzed, edited by J. Gemmill. Taylor and Francis, 2011.
  - Surin, K. J. “Revisiting Empire: some Small Reservations and Much Gratitude.” In Proceedings of Pittsburgh Conference on EMPIRE, edited by Tim Murphy and Giuseppina Mecchia. University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
  - Surin, K. J. “Can there be a notion of Absolute Value?.” In Sino-British Forum on Marxist Aesthetics 2011, edited by Robert Spencer. Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2011.
  - Surin, K. J. “The Strange Fate of Property in Neoliberal Times.” In Proceedings off International Conference on Property and Aesthetics, edited by Jin Huimin, 2011.
  - Surin, K. J. “The Politics of the South East Asian Smog Crises: a Classic Case of Rentier Capitalism at Work?.” In New Directions in Sustainable Design, edited by A. Parr and M. Zaretsky, 137–51. Routledge, 2010.
  - Surin, K. J. “C.L.R. James as writer on cricket.” In Cambridge Companion to Cricket, edited by A. Bateman and J. Hill. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  - Surin, K. J. “A Genealogy of Comparative Literature in the USA.” In Blackwell Companion to Comparative Literature, edited by A. Behdad and D. Thomas. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
  - Surin, K. “Afterword: Religion and philosophy between the modern and postmodern.” In Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion, 329–36, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_18.
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  - Surin, K. J. “What is ‘Post’ in ‘Postcolonial’?.” In Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion, edited by A. Irvine and P. Billimoria, 229–36. Ashgate, 2009.
  - Surin, K. J. “The South East Asian Smog Crises.” In New Directions in Sustainable Design, edited by Adrian Parr and Michael Zaretsky. Routledge, 2009.
  - Surin, K. J. “Afterword: Religion and Philosophy between the Modern and Postmodern.” In Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion, edited by A. Irvine and P. Billimoria, 229–36. London: Ashgate, 2009.
  - Surin, K. “The Frankfurt School, the Marxist Tradition, Culture and critical thinking: Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, JuÈrgen Habermas.” In Modern European Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide, 156–65, 2006.
  - Surin, K. J. “Rewriting The Ontological Script Of Liberation: On The Question Of Finding A New Kind Of Political Subject.” In Ontology in Practice, edited by John Milbank, Slavoj Zizek, and Creston Davis, 240–66. Duke University Press, 2005.
  - Surin, K. J. “’Now Everything must Be Reinvented’: Negri and Revolution.” In The Philosophy of Antonio Negri, edited by T. Murphy and A. -. K. Mustapha, 205–42. Pluto Press, 2005.
  - Surin, K. J. “Force.” In Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts, edited by Charles J. Stivale, 19–30. Acumen Press, 2005.
  - Surin, K. J. “Liberation.” In The Enclyclopedia of Religion. Macmillan, 2004.
  - Surin, K. J. “Postmodernity.” In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Protestantism, edited by H. Hillerbrand. London: Routledge, 2004.
  - Surin, K. “Getting the picture: Donald Davidson on Robert Morris's Blind Time Drawings IV (Drawing with Davidson),” 101:132–69, 2002.
  - Surin, K. J. “Dealing in Straight Power Concepts": the Quest for Justice After September 11.” In Strike Terror No More: Theology, Ethics, and the New War, edited by Jon L. Berquist, 86–43. London: Chalice Press, 2002.
  - Surin, K. J. “Hostage to an Unaccountable Planetary Executive: the Flawed "Washington Consensus" and Two World Bank Reports.” In World Bank Literature, edited by Amitava Kumar, 238–57. University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
  - Surin, K. J. “The Frankfurt School.” In The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory, edited by Julian Wolfreys, 158–67. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002.
  - Surin, K. J. “A Question of an Axiomatics of Desires: The Deleuzean Imagination of Geoliterature.” In Deleuze and Literature, edited by I. Buchanan and J. Marks, 167–93. Edinburgh University Press, 2000.
  - Surin, K. J. “Culture/Cultural Criticism.” In A Handbook for Postmodern Biblical Interpretation, edited by A. K. M. Adam, 49–54. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2000.
  - Surin, K. J. “Liberation.” In Critical Terms for Religious Study, edited by M. C. Taylor, 173–85. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
  - Surin, K. J. “’On Producing the Concept of a Global Culture’.” In Nations, Cultures, and Identities, edited by V. Y. Mudimbe, 199–219. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.
  - Surin, K. J. “’The Continued Relevance of Marxism’ as a Question: Some Propositions.” In Marxism Beyond Marxism, edited by C. Casarino, R. Karl, and S. Makdisi, 181–213. (London: Routledge, 1996.
  - Surin, K. J. “’The Future Anterior’: On Going Beyond C.L.R. James’s Beyond a Boundary.” In Rethinking C.L.R. James, edited by Grant Farred, 87–104. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996.
  - Surin, K. J. “Suffering.” In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ethics, Theology, and Society, 803–5. London: Routledge, 1996.
  - Surin, K. J. “C.L.R. James’s Materialist Aesthetics of Cricket.” In Liberation Cricket: West Indies Cricket Culture, edited by H. M. Beckles and B. Stoddart, 313–41. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995.
  - Surin, K. J. “Raymond Williams on Tragedy and Revolution.” In Cultural Materialism: On Raymond Williams, edited by Christopher Prendergast, 143–72. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
  - Surin, K. J. “The Problem of Evil.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Thought, 192–99. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1993.
  - Surin, K. J. “Taking Suffering Seriously.” In The Problem of Evil: Selected Readings, edited by Michael Peterson, 339–49. University of Notre Dame Press, 1992.
  - Surin, K. J. “C.L.R. James's Materialist Aesthetics of Cricket.” In Intellectuals and Society in the Caribbean: Vol. 1, edited by A. Hennessy, 131–62. London & New York: Macmillan, 1992.
  - Surin, K. J. “Towards a "Materialist" Critique of "Religious Pluralism".” In Religious Pluralism and Unbelief: Studies Critical and Comparative, edited by Ian Hamnett, 114–29. New York and London: Routledge, 1990.
  - Surin, K. J. “A "Politics of Speech": Religious Pluralism in the Age of the McDonald’s Hamburger.” In Christian Uniqueness Reconsidered, edited by Gavin D. Costa, 192–212. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1990.
  - Surin, K. J. “Some Aspects of the Grammar of ’Incarnation’.” In Christ, Ethics, and Tragedy, edited by Kenneth Surin, 93–116. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  - Surin, K. J. “North American Theologies: Process Theology.” In The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theologians of the Twentieth Century, edited by David Ford, 103–14. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989.
  - Surin, K. J. “Articles on ’Experience’ and ’The Experiential Approach to Religious Education’.” In A Dictionary of Religious Education, edited by J. M. Sutcliffe. London: SCM Press, 1980.
- Other Articles
  - Surin, K. J. “Entries on Marx, Micropolitics, Partial Objects, Socius, Spinoza, State, Control Society and State theory, Materialism and Philosophy.” Edited by A. Parr. Deleuze Dictionary. Columbia University Press, 2006.
- Book Reviews
  - Surin, K. J. “Review Essay of Grant Farred’s In Motion, at Rest.” Cultural Critique, 2015.
- Journal Issues
  - Surin, K. J., ed. “Vicissitudes of Theory.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 2002.
  - Surin, K. J. “The World Trade Organization.” Edited by C. A. Gregory. Workplace: A Journal of Academic Labor, May 2000.
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- Conference Papers
  - Surin, K. J. “Can there be a Marxist Conception of Value that is not ‘Productivist’?.” In Proceedings of the Sino British Conference on Marxism, Culture, and Aesthetics, 103–12. Central Compilation and Translation Press, 2012.
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