Twenty-four contemporary writers reflect on life in New York City’s biggest underdog, the “forgotten borough” of Queens.

Discusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.

Examines how colonial and postcolonial violence is understood and conceptualized through Indigenous storytelling.

Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.

Examines the importance of Leo Bersani’s work for queer theory, psychoanalysis, literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, and film studies.

A lively and intimate selection of letters on life, literature, and art from one of America’s finest prose stylists.

An interdisciplinary consideration of Paul Gilroy's contributions to cultural theory and understandings of modernity.

An interdisciplinary study of the rise of empirical observation in the Spanish arts and sciences as the principle vehicle for acquiring knowledge about the natural world.

Examines Antigone’s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature.

Offers a psychocritical reading of Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past).

An abbot’s ghost searches for an intelligent monk to exhume his manuscript from a hellish crypt and learn the truth that monks lack two things: freedom of inquiry and benevolence.

A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered “deviant” in the nineteenth-century American imagination.

Explores how a younger and more sensitive form of masculinity emerged in the United States after World War II.

Examines the political dimensions of Aristophanes’ comic poetry.

Provocative reading of the role masochism plays in structuring the aesthetics and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

A hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature.

Analyzes contemporary technological society through the lens of Greek tragedy.

Studies the influence of the plastic arts on the major writers of Latin American modernism.

Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.

A collection of student essays that captures the passionate engagement their generation brings to the Harry Potter phenomenon.

Describes several key roles of Canto 18 in the structure of the Commedia.

Probing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language.

Psychoanalytic perspectives on Kristeva's fiction.

Uncovers a new chapter in the story of American modernist poetry.

Examines how six writers reconfigure African American subjectivity in ways that recall postmodernist theory.