Cultural Studies
Become Who You Are
Two texts—one novella and one essay—that exemplify Dohm’s passionate arguments for gender equality.
Roll Over Adorno
Moves from Beethoven to Buffy to examine the blurred nexus of elite and popular culture in the twenty-first century.
Nietzsche and Embodiment
Examines the significance of Nietzsche’s writings for contemporary debates about embodiment.
Empire and Poetic Voice
Explores the relation of post-colonization authors to literary traditions.
On Jameson
Offers an interrogation of Jameson's critical legacy.
Deconstructing Sport History
Presents a broad spectrum of critical approaches that question traditional sport history.
AIDS and American Apocalypticism
Looks at how both anti-gay and AIDS activists use apocalyptic language to describe the AIDS crisis.
Speaking the Lower Frequencies
Shows how using texts from popular culture in the classroom can help young people to become critical consumers of media without losing the pleasure they derive from it.
Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture
Explores the role and function of the autopsy in Western culture, from Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lecture to The X-Files and CSI.
Murder on Trial
A historical romp through the fascinating subject of murder jurisprudence in the United States from the colonial period to the present, showing how changing social mores have influenced the application of murder law.
Calling Cards
Explores personal and professional issues in the study of race, gender, and culture.
Postcolonial Whiteness
Explores the undertheorized convergence of postcoloniality and whiteness.
Reinhabiting Reality
Argues that the environmental crisis is symptomatic of much deeper crises in modern civilization.
Female Infanticide in India
Examines female infanticide in colonial and postcolonial India.
Radical Relevance
Exemplifies the struggles of scholars to work toward a more shared agenda for social change.
Post-Marxist Theory
An introduction to the philosophical, economic, historical, feminist, and cultural versions of post-Marxist theory.
African Fiction and Joseph Conrad
Interrogates the "writing back to the center" approach to intertextuality and explores alternatives to it.
TechnoLogics
Uses literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis to explore the emerging logic of the posthuman.
Muslim Narratives and the Discourse of English
Examines novels and short stories by Muslim authors who write in English.
Redreaming America
Pursues an inquiry into the cultural and linguistic dissonances that Spanish creates in the United States.
Theatres of Human Sacrifice
Provides insight into the ritual lures and effects of mass media spectatorship, especially regarding the pleasures, risks, and purposes of violent display.
Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture
Explores postcolonial discourse from the standpoint of feminism and writers in minority languages.
Black Studies as Human Studies
Explores the interdisciplinary dimensions of black studies.
Reading Oprah
An analysis of how Oprah's Book Club has changed America's reading habits.
Amending the Abject Body
Examines the implications and meanings of the makeover and aesthetic surgery industry in American popular culture.