Thieme, John (2012) Postcolonial Mappae Mundi. Le Simplegadi, 10. pp. 47-56. ISSN 1824-5226
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 (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 (2003) Caliban’s New Masters: Creolizing Archetypes in Kamau Brathwaite’s Arrivants Trilogy. Commonwealth Essays and Studies, SP5. pp. 27-39.
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 (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 (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) '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 (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) 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) 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 (2007) R.k. Narayan (Contemporary World Writers). Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719059278
Thieme, John, Gandhi, Leela, Thieme, John and Ezekiel, Nissim (2005) Nissim Ezekiel: Collected Poems (Introduction). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195672497
Thieme, John (2003) Post-Colonial Studies: The Essential Glossary. Hodder Arnold. ISBN 034076175X
Thieme, John (2001) Postcolonial Con-texts: Writing back to the Canon. Continuum. ISBN 0826454666