Cultural Studies
Celestial Signs and Classical Rhetoric in Early Imperial China
Considers how sign-reading fit into broader understandings of the human and cosmic worlds in Han times.
Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain
The first book-length study to address the impact of the legacies of slavery on Spanish cultural representations and institutions.
The Celluloid Atlantic
Offers a fresh look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period.
Perversions of the Market
An engaging analysis of the catastrophic ways capital perverts market dynamics by a leading scholar of Deleuze.
An Eye for Hitchcock
A series of fascinating and groundbreaking meditations on six films directed by the legendary Alfred Hitchcock.
Expanding Cinemas
Explores experimental cinema and alternative film formats from across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic, from the 1960s to the present.
Brazilian Science Fiction Film
The first book-length account of Brazilian science fiction cinema.
Freedom Is Not Enough
Shows the surprising ways T. S. Eliot's work sheds light on—and proves useful to—the contemporary struggle for a freer and more just world.
Laughing on the Brink of Humanity
Stretching from antiquity to AI, a provocative study of the joyless laughter that emerges at the boundary of the human and the inhuman.
The Life of the Soul
Offers a comprehensive and nuanced treatment on the topic of reincarnation in Judaism, covering a wide range of kabbalistic and philosophical sources.
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.
Crisis TV
Wide-ranging, in-depth analysis of Spanish-language television fiction after the 2008 global financial crisis.
Emporialism
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.
Childhood, Philosophy, and Dialogical Education
Offers both theoretical and practical insights into the dialogue between adults and children as a democratic model for schooling.
Novel Pedagogy
Explores Victorian writers’ conception of the novel’s potential to become serious knowledge and differentiate itself from other educational genres.
Bodies of Water
Explores how watery spaces provoke radical modes of screening queer corporeality in a diverse range of contemporary Latin American films.
Truth-Seeking in an Age of (Mis)Information Overload
Offers a thorough, multidisciplinary picture of the informational challenges of our media ecosystem, as well as collaborative strategies for addressing them.
Leisure
Intellectual history of leisure and the use of that history to grapple with its potential future.
The Overlooked Pillar
Elevates in systematic ways the importance of organizational thinking about sustainability and emphasizes the importance of cultural organizations in facilitating societal sustainability goals.
Theatres of Value
Explores the value of Shakespeare for theatrical businesspeople and audiences in nineteenth-century New York City.
From Havana to Hollywood
Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.
Transatlantic Bondage
A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico.
Impact/Impasse
Makes a case for the value—and ultimately impact—of seemingly mundane moments in college classrooms.
Deeper Learning with Psychedelics
Through a philosophical lens, this book explores the powerful educational capabilities of classic psychedelics.
Listening to Others
A collection of original essays and previously untranslated critical writings on the renowned Brazilian documentary filmmaker, Eduardo Coutinho.