Thieme, John (2013) After the Bounty: Botany and Botanical Tropes in Caribbean Writing. In: Re/membering Place. Peter Lang, Bern and New York. ISBN 978-3-0343-1281-3
Thieme, John (2012) Postcolonial Mappae Mundi. Le Simplegadi, 10. pp. 47-56. ISSN 1824-5226
Thieme, John (2011) "Not Equatorial black, not Mediterranean white": Denis William' Other Leopards. In: African Athena: New Agendas. Open University Press, Oxford and New York, pp. 311-25.
Thieme, John (2011) "Spheres of Possibility": Transforming Postcolonial Linguistic Spaces. In: Postcolonialism/Postcommunism: Intersections and Overlaps. University of Bucharest Press, Bucharest.
Thieme, John and Spendore, Paola (2010) Black British Writing: Sea Changes (Special Edition plus Introduction of Textus: English Studies in Italy). Textus: English Studies in Italy, 23 (2).
Thieme, John (2009) "Out of place"?: The poetics of space in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry tide and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost. Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 31 (2). pp. 32-43.
Thieme, John (2009) Global Positioning in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide. Muse India, 24.
Thieme, John (2008) '"All o' we is one": Carnival Forms and Creolization in Earl Lovelace's 'The Dragon Can't Dance' and 'Salt'. In: Caribbean Literature after Independence: The Case of Earl Lovelace. London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, pp. 146-60. ISBN 1900039915
Thieme, John (2008) "Lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon": Romantic Spice, Postcolonial Spice. In: Literatures in English: Priorities of Research. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, pp. 149-65. ISBN 3860573211
Thieme, John (2007) R.k. Narayan (Contemporary World Writers). Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719059278
Thieme, John (2007) 'A Future They Must Learn': Transforming Power Relations in Natives of My Person. In: The Locations of George Lamming. Macmillan, pp. 132-150. ISBN 9781405067829
Thieme, John (2007) Repossing the Slave Past: Caribbean Historiography and Dennis Scott's 'An Echo in the Bone. In: Theatre and Slavery: Ghosts at the Crossroads. Border Crossings, pp. 43-51. ISBN 1-904718-06-2
Thieme, John (2007) Derek Walcott. In: Amerika und die Norm: Literatursprache als Modell. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, pp. 37-47. ISBN 9783484507265
Thieme, John, Gandhi, Leela, Thieme, John and Ezekiel, Nissim (2005) Nissim Ezekiel: Collected Poems (Introduction). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195672497
Thieme, John (2004) "So Few Rainbows Any More"? Cinema, nostalgia and the concept of "home" in Salman Rushdie's fiction. Le Simplegadi, 2 (2). pp. 47-54. ISSN 1824-5226
Thieme, John (2004) Amitav Ghosh. In: A Companion to Indian Fiction in English. Atlantic, pp. 251-275. ISBN 8126903104
Thieme, John (2004) The Double Making of R.K. Narayan. In: Critical Spectrum: Essays in Literary Culture in Honour of Professor C.D. Narasimhaiah. New Delhi: Pencraft, pp. 172-91. ISBN 81-85753-64-4
Thieme, John (2003) Post-Colonial Studies: The Essential Glossary. Hodder Arnold. ISBN 034076175X
Thieme, John (2003) A Different "Othello Music": Djanet Sears’s Harlem Duet. In: Contemporary Canadian Drama: National Identity and International Perspectives. Talon Books, pp. 81-91. ISBN 0889224757
Thieme, John (2003) Restaging the Island: Caribbean and Canadian Responses to The Tempest. In: Migrating the Texts: Hybridity as a Postcolonial Literary Construct. L'Harmattan, pp. 115-36. ISBN 8888684344
Thieme, John (2003) Caliban’s New Masters: Creolizing Archetypes in Kamau Brathwaite’s Arrivants Trilogy. Commonwealth Essays and Studies, SP5. pp. 27-39.
Thieme, John (2003) The World Turn Upside Down: Carnival Patterns in The Lonely Londoners. In: Something Rich and Strange: Selected Essays on Sam Selvon. Peepal Tree Press, pp. 51-64. ISBN 1900715732
Thieme, John (2002) Patchwork Quilts, Trade Routes and Other (Inter-) Networks: Reflections on Literature and Globalization. In: Globalisation, SPELL (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature). Gunter Narr Verlag, pp. 13-30. ISBN 3823346903
Thieme, John (2002) Pauline Melville. In: Modern British Women Writers: An A-Z Guide. Greenwood Press, pp. 230-35. ISBN 0313016585
Thieme, John (2001) Postcolonial Con-texts: Writing back to the Canon. Continuum. ISBN 0826454666