Explores Victorian writers’ conception of the novel’s potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.

Offers both theoretical and practical insights into the dialogue between adults and children as a democratic model for schooling.

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.

Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.

Offers a thorough, multidisciplinary picture of the informational challenges of our media ecosystem, as well as collaborative strategies for addressing them.

Intellectual history of leisure and the use of that history to grapple with its potential future.

Elevates in systematic ways the importance of organizational thinking about sustainability and emphasizes the importance of cultural organizations in facilitating societal sustainability goals.

Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.

Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.

Through a philosophical lens, this book explores the powerful educational capabilities of classic psychedelics.

A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.

Makes a case for the value—and ultimately impact—of seemingly mundane moments in college classrooms.

Turns to theories and cultural representations of psychosocial life to reflect on, and better understand, the challenges of learning in times of social strife.

Shows how the myth of the American frontier persists as an ever-present, oppressive set of ideas about space, mobility, and race in the mid-twentieth-century literature of Los Angeles.

Examines the increasingly reciprocal nature of Franco-Japanese cultural exchange through films that center on nuclear issues.

Aims to rethink Europe under the sign of openness and hospitality, starting from the Mediterranean—the sea that is so important for the history of the entire West—a sea of differences with a deep unitary root conceived as a paradigm for rethinking new and original forms of social and political coexistence.

Draws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s to the present.

A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.

Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.

Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future.

Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism.

Explores how Black women have continually used sound to convey stories and forge community across generations.

Makes a case for the power of music and sound in the face of fascistic forces, from modernism to the present.

The neglected small group swing sound of the 1940s–60s takes its place in the pantheon of jazz literature.

Examines literary depictions of “mannish” pregnant women and metaphors of male pregnancy to reframe the relationship between creativity and gender in modernism.