Barsky is the author or editor of numerous books on narrative and
refugee law ("Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law: The Flight and Plight of Peoples Deemed 'Illegal',
Constructing a Productive Other: Discourse Theory and the Convention Refugee Hearing and ''Arguing and Justifying: Assessing the Convention Refugees' Choice of Moment, Motive and Host Country
), on radical theory and practice ("Zellig Harris: From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism", The Chomsky Effect: A Radical Works Beyond the Ivory Tower
, Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent'' and an edition of
Anton Pannekoek's
Workers Councils) on discourse and
literary theory (
Introduction à la théorie littéraire, an edited volume with
Michael Holquist titled
Bakhtin and Otherness, an edited collection with Eric Méchoulan titled
The Production of French Criticism, an edited collection titled
Marc Angenot and the Scandal of History, an edited collection with Saleem Ali for www.ameriquests.org on "Quests Beyond the Ivory Tower: Public Intellectuals, Academia and the Media") and on
translation — in both theory and practice (including the translation of Michel Meyer's
Philosophy and the Passions). He has been involved with a range of journals, including
SubStance, for which he served as an editor, and he is the founder of
415 South Street, a literary magazine at
Brandeis University,
Discours social/Social Discourse, and the international on-line journal AmeriQuests. His novel, "Hatched", appeared in 2016. Barsky has been the Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Professor at
Yale University, a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Toulouse, the Law School of the VU Amsterdam, under the auspices of the
Dutch Royal Society, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities,
University of Edinburgh. He is the faculty director of the W.T. Bandy Center, the founding director of Quebec and Canadian Studies, and the co-director, with Daniel Gervais, of the Literature and Law Seminar at the Robert Penn Warren Center. == Bibliography ==