Fall 2024 - Area Studies
A Lover of God
Collects and interprets the literary legacy of Nūrī, an early Sufi master known for his ecstatic behaviour, eccentric acts, and passionate poems of mystical love.
Religion of Love
A groundbreaking study of Farid al-Din ʿAṭṭār, one of Persian literature's greatest poets.
Education among Indigenous Palestinians in Israel
An expansive, in-depth analysis of education among indigenous Palestinians in Israel over seven decades.
Heidegger's Conversations
Offers the first comprehensive study of Martin Heidegger's five conversational texts.
Killing Children in British Fiction
Investigates how British fiction and film use dangerous and endangered children to explore conflicts over the future, from the Thatcher to Brexit eras.
Common Scents
Attends to the much-neglected sense of smell in and around modern poetry to suggest the possibility of a revolution of the senses.
Crisis TV
Wide-ranging, in-depth analysis of Spanish-language television fiction after the 2008 global financial crisis.
Emporialism
A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1859 to the present.
Expanding Cinemas
Explores experimental cinema and alternative film formats from across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic, from the 1960s to the present.
Politics and Government in Israel, Fourth Edition
Offers coverage of Israeli politics and government using an institutional and behavioral perspective, covering the context for the operation of politics, the machinery of government, and the foreign policy setting within which the government operates.