Dante as protector and purifier of the Church.

Explores the voices of current and former Catholic nuns as they share their lived experiences with Catholicism, both in accordance and in conflict with the institutional Church.

Assesses the limits and possibilities of humanism for engaging with issues of pressing political and cultural concern.

A love story told against the backdrop of “the writing life. ”

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

Investigates the ways in which new technologies and theories of photography, phonography, moving images, and digital media engage with a diverse set of texts by British Romantic writers.

Brings Kafka’s fiction into conversation with philosophy and political theory.

Analyzes the theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature through psychoanalytic theory.

Revises key psychoanalytic concepts that influence interpretive practices in the humanities and formulates a new approach to reading fiction.

Reveals the rhetorical strategies African American writers have used to promote Black women’s recovery and wellness through educational and entertainment genres and the conservative gender politics that are distributed when these efforts are sold for public consumption.

Engages in a critical reanalysis of historical Ibero-American experimental poetry in order to demonstrate how the contemporary digital vanguard owes much to this tradition.

Reframes philosophical understanding of, and engagement with, tragedy.

Discusses the work of a central, but poorly understood, figure in the development of Persian Sufism, Aḥmad al-Ghazālī.

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

Addresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban futures.

The poems of Anna Margolin (1887–1952), appearing here both in the original Yiddish and in English translation.

A creative study of Maurice Blanchot’s theory of literary voice.

Describes a Platonic personal spirituality based on reason that is readily accessible to people today.

Discusses the conditions of possibility for intercultural and comparative philosophy, and for crosscultural communication at large.

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

Explores how memoirs of widowhood can help us understand the reality of bereavement and the critical role of writing and reading in recovery.

First English translation of these important works by two of Spain’s most gifted writers and intellectuals.

Provides an incisive account of women’s porn and queer porn of the 1980s and 1990s.

Explores the existential significance of literacy.

A poetic, philosophical, and political account of Nietzsche’s importance to Bataille, and of Bataille’s experience in Nazi-occupied France.