Argues that Indigenous hip hop is the latest and newest assertion of Indigenous sovereignty throughout Indigenous North America.

Uses real-life episodes of psychosis and recovery to show how poetic paradigms for thinking about psychiatric symptoms can enlarge contemporary understandings of mental illness and improve long-term treatment outcome.

Addresses an understudied yet highly significant aspect of the work of the influential artist Andy Warhol: his exploration of anniversaries.

Investigates the cultural value of film violence.

Advances critical conversations in Native American literary studies by situating its subject in global, transnational, and modernizing contexts.

Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.

English-language translations of traditional plays from the marionette puppet theater of Northern China.

Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Draws on theology and queer theory to argue for the power of humiliating pleasures in a culture oriented very strongly to denying any enjoyment that is not about success.

Presents a major new interpretation of the Ashcan School of Art, arguing that these artists made the working class city at the turn of the century a subject for beautiful art.

Explores how white supremacist groups use popular music and culture to teach hate and promote violence.

A story of self, braided to a story of American culture.

Chronicles the conflict between religious and secular forces in Israel.

Examines how postfeminism and postracialism intersect to perpetuate systemic injustice in the United States.

Contends that the narrative and aesthetic qualities of the documentary genre enable new understandings of animals and animal/human relationships.

Examines literary responses to the impact of economic and technological globalization in Latin America.

Considers how our ideas about mathematics shape our individual and cultural relationship to the field.

Addresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures.

Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s.

A bracing critique of human rights law and activism from the perspective of the Global South.

Analyzes the diverse roles and pervasive presence of disability in Latin American literature and film.

Explores how the USHMM and other museums and memorials both displace and disturb the memories that they are trying to commemorate.

Explores spoken word poetry as a tool for social justice, critical feminist pedagogy, and new ways of teaching.

Frames menstruation as a site of resistance, defiance, and shamelessness, showcasing the work of those who fight back against shame and silence.

Argues that Indian cinema’s deep nineteenth-century past continues to play a vital role in its twenty-first-century present.