Cultural Studies
Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African American Narratives
Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory.
Fifties Ethnicities
Demonstrates how written and visual representations worked to construct definitions of ethnicity in midcentury America.
Virtual Intimacies
Uses ethnography and cultural analysis to track scenes of intimate connection and disconnection among gay men across an array of media sites.
Indigenous Bodies
An interdisciplinary exploration of indigenous bodies.
Mutual Othering
Explores interactions between Europeans and Moroccans on both sides of the straits in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Good White People
Argues for the necessity of a new ethos for middle-class white anti-racism.
Slouching towards Gaytheism
Argues that homophobia will not be eradicated in the United States until religion is ended.
Why Europe Is Lesbian and Gay Friendly (and Why America Never Will Be)
Offers an analysis of the political economy of care in order to explain how lesbian and gay citizens in Europe benefit from equality more than those in the United States.
The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art
Uses autobiographical and cultural narratives related to art research and practice to explore, experiment, and improvise multiple correspondences between and among learners’ own lived experiences and understandings, and those of others.
Lost in Transition
Looks at the fate of Hong Kong’s unique culture since its reversion to China.
Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood
Provides a model for queering motherhood that resists racist, neoliberal, and hetero- or homonormative ideals of “good” mothering.
The Better Story
Illuminates the emotional significance of stories in response to racial traumas related to the Middle East.
Zines in Third Space
Develops third-space theory by engaging with zines produced by feminists and queers of color.
Conversations with Remarkable Native Americans
Entertaining and enlightening interviews with some of today’s most important Native Americans.
The Structures of Love
Reframes the terms of cultural analysis with a fresh take on transference theory in Freud and Lacan and a critical engagement with the philosophy of Alain Badiou.
Rebellious Histories
Traces the emergence of creative texts focusing on the nineteenth-century slave trade to make sense of the radicalized effects of global capitalism.
Fashion Talks
Essays on the politics of everyday style.
Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge
A wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the martial arts.
Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions
Innovative analysis of the relationship of gender to East Asian economic development.
Reading Human Nature
Showcases the latest developments in literary Darwinism, a powerful approach that integrates evolutionary social science with literary humanism.
Proving Up
Uses the interdisciplinary approach of evolutionary economics to explore the history of land domestication in the United States.
Reading Derrida and Ricoeur
Offers a constructive new approach to the debate between hermeneutics and deconstruction.
Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination and the Dilemmas of Commemoration
Examines how Israeli society has commemorated Yitzhak Rabin.
Destination Dictatorship
Examines the relationship of Spain’s 1960s tourist boom to Franco’s right-wing dictatorship.
Policing Narratives and the State of Terror
Examines the recent “War on Terror” and the increasing privatization of international policing through the lens of detective fiction and security and espionage narratives.