Pursues an inquiry into the cultural and linguistic dissonances that Spanish creates in the United States.

Provides insight into the ritual lures and effects of mass media spectatorship, especially regarding the pleasures, risks, and purposes of violent display.

Explores the interdisciplinary dimensions of black studies.

An analysis of how Oprah's Book Club has changed America's reading habits.

Examines the implications and meanings of the makeover and aesthetic surgery industry in American popular culture.

Reads modern philosophy (and the university) as rooted in an audiocentric fantasy.

Argues that deconstruction is not a critical methodology or theory but that which makes any act of good reading possible.

Explores how Rich's work has influenced feminist scholarship on motherhood.

A comprehensive examination of Kristeva's work from the seventies to the nineties.

A history and social psychology of punk music.

Analyzes the explosive connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and resistance in fiction by Latin American women writers.

Unravels the rich complexities of the colonial travel experience.

Problematizes traditional ethnographic research methods, offering instead self-reflexive critical practices.

Explores how medical and social maps helped shape modern perceptions of space.

Shows the full breadth and scope of Edward Said's work and of his role as a public intellectual.

Examines deconstruction, New Historicism, postcolonialism, and other contemporary theoretical movements in their historical contexts.

Explains why the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more difficult to do so.

Examines the history of science in light of recent theories of sexuality and the body.

Examines this forceful emotion from philosophical, literary, and art historical perspectives.

Explores how filmmakers and screenwriters have used comedy and science fiction to extend the boundaries of the Frankenstein narrative.

Interdisciplinary essays on the role of high theory in politics and popular culture.

Applies Foucault's ideas to a cultural studies framework.

Examines both the benign and harmful aspects of identity politics.

Explores the ways that stereotypes of heterosexuality are portrayed and constructed in film.

Explores how whiteness is culturally constructed in American films.