Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.

Groundbreaking analysis of how colonialism created new conceptual categories and spatial forms that reshaped rural societies.

Argues for postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice.

Examines how cities of various sizes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are making walkability improvements a part of their overall urban revitalization strategy.

Considers how dangerous beasts in horror films illuminate the human-animal relationship.

Examines Hegel's insights regarding the complexity and significance of embodiment in human life, identity, and experience.

Examines the relation between Indian diplomacy and nineteenth-century Native American literature.

Juxtaposes Antonio Gramsci’s work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice.

Argues that the photographic negative gives a new way of understanding Victorian debates surrounding origins and copies as well as reality and representation.

An innovative comparative study of the role of racial stereotypes in expressing state power under globalization.

Drawing on the film-philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, argues that skepticism is an ethical problem that pervades contemporary film.

Investigates how depictions of young people in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America use artifice to destabilize pre-existing narratives of truth, news, and fact.

An interdisciplinary analysis of gender, race, empire, and colonialism in fin-de-siècle Spanish literature and culture across the global Hispanic world.

Analyzes parallel developments in post–Cold War literature and film from Cuba and Angola to trace a shared history of revolutionary enthusiasm, disappointment, and solidarity.

Offers a feminist theory of ignorance that sheds light on the misunderstood or overlooked epistemic practices of women in literature.

Biography of the early years of A. Bartlett Giamatti, who would become Yale University’s first non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant president and commissioner of Major League Baseball.

Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.

Examines the role that Japanese girls’ magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.

Systematically addresses the philosophical implications of the postcolonial.

Draws from the work of Jacques Lacan to provide innovative readings of Romantic literature in the long nineteenth century.

Considers the impact of neo-racism during the Obama presidency.

Explores how journalists think and talk about changes in the news environment, with a focus on the increase in opinion and commentary.

Analyzes six films as allegories of capitalism’s precarious state in the early twenty-first century.

Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present.

The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones.