Cultural Studies
Victorian Fetishism
Examines the importance of fetishism in nineteenth-century cultural theory.
Aging by the Book
Uncovers the origins of midlife anxiety in Victorian print culture.
Paradigm City
Materially grounded analysis of contemporary film, literature, and music in Hong Kong that resists the superficial stereotypes of the “global city. ”
Caribbean Genesis
Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid’s entire literary oeuvre.
Measured Meals
Provides an alternative history of nutrition in the U.S. that focuses on the power of scientific language.
Belonging Too Well
Shows how Ozick’s characters attempt to mediate a complex Jewish identity, one that bridges the differences between traditional Judaism and secular American culture.
My Life at the Gym
Personal accounts celebrating the place of exercise in women’s lives—and as the site of women’s community.
Constructing the Nation
Philosophers and social theorists of color examine how racism can creep into defensive forms of nationalism.
The Trauma Controversy
Provides multiple and accessible perspectives on trauma both as a condition and as a cultural phenomenon.
Vampire God
Examines the enormous popular appeal of vampires from early Greek and Slavic folklore to present-day popular culture.
Perpetual Adolescence
Explores the arrested development of American culture.
Summer Pleasures, Winter Pleasures
A light-hearted cookbook that reflects the historical and culinary heritage of the Hudson Valley.
Queer Externalities
Provocative take on the negative effects of increasing queer visibility and assimilation on the lives of queer people and politics in the U. S.
Wine - A Gentleman's Game
How one man and his family made their dream of owning a winery come true--and helped revitalize New York's winemaking industry in the process.
Religious Festive Practices in Boston's North End
A comprehensive cultural and historical portrait of Italian American identities in Boston’s North End.
Going Blind
Memoir and meditation on blindness.
Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture
Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.
The Politics of Identity
Makes the surprising claim that identity politics can facilitate rather than undermine worker solidarity.
Intertwinings
Connects Merleau-Ponty’s thought to themes and issues central to continental philosophy today.
Disciplining the Holocaust
Explores the relationship between disciplinarity and contemporary ethics of scholarship about the Holocaust.
Race after Sartre
Examines Jean-Paul Sartre’s antiracist politics and his contributions to critical race theories, postcolonialism, and Africana existentialism.
Expelling Hope
Demonstrates the many devastating and interrelated threats that punitive policies like “zero tolerance” pose to youth, schooling, and democracy.
Otherwise Occupied
Questions whether current theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us truly to engage the Other.
Burning Darkness
Encourages a deep reading of a selection of essential Spanish films.
The Erotics of Corruption
A provocative retelling of the story of political corruption in the modern period.