Fall 2024 - Gender and Sexuality
A Fanny Fern Reader
The most complete collection of works by the nineteenth century's most famous and groundbreaking woman journalist.
Sounding Bodies
Shows how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science shaped Victorian literary representations of gender, sexuality, and intimacy.
"Revolution in Poetic Language" Fifty Years Later
Revisits Julia Kristeva's magnum opus on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication to open up new paths of interdisciplinary inquiry.
Snapping Beans
Explores the role of the South in Black queer lesbian experiences of hurting and healing.
Religion and Women in India
Examines the intersections of gender, religion, and politics among various Indian religious communities, from early British rule to the late twentieth century.
Catholics across Borders
Illuminates the cross-border migration and settlement of Catholics from Canada to northern New York.
Bodies of Water
Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.
Black Feminist Writing
Draws on the rich history of Black feminist writing to help scholars manage the stress of writing and publishing academic books.
Going Along with Trans, Queer, and Non-Binary Youth
Engaging, self-reflective stories of conducting research on and with transgender, queer, and non-binary youth as they go about their everyday lives in New York City.
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.
Black Women and Resilience
A critical examination of the health disparities and collective resilience of Black women in the United States.
Nietzsche and Politicized Identities
Essays exploring to what extent Nietzsche's thought can aid us in understanding politicized identities.
The Origins of the Art and Practice of Professional Writing
Explores the origins of written communication to offer a counter-history to the separation of rhetoric/composition and technical/professional communication
The Cinema of the Real
Alters the landscape of Lacanian film theory by revealing an “emancipatory drive” in transnational cinema.
Eccentric Laughter
Dispels the idea that postwar British comedies were apolitical, arguing instead that they presented subversive, iconoclastic, queer experiments in living for a country that was rebuilding and reimagining itself after years of conflict.
From Eternity to Eternity
A vivid, firsthand account of life as a Buddhist nun, by the most respected female Zen master in Korea.
Brazilian Science Fiction Film
The first book-length account of Brazilian science fiction cinema.