Demonstrates the fertility of the phenomenological tradition of philosophy for intergenerational justice and climate ethics.

Argues that the post-independence period was a unique era of literary experimentation in Hindi literature, which must be read in the contexts of both local and global cultural, social, and literary history.

Attends to the much-neglected sense of smell in and around modern poetry to suggest the possibility of a revolution of the senses.

A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1859 to the present.

Examines the reception of Brazil’s most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience.

Explores how China’s oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text—the Mao Commentary—in the mid-second century BCE.

Makes a case for the power of music and sound in the face of fascistic forces, from modernism to the present.

Reconsiders the figure of synaesthesia, understood as the combination of the senses and of the arts, in philosophy and literature.

Examines twentieth-century Mexican literature and philosophy within the broad panorama of Latin American and European existentialisms.

Addresses the question of how language affects the subject of speech through readings of confessional, philosophical, and fictional writings.

Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing.

An original reading of Blanchot's thought with far-reaching philosophical and literary implications.

Examines the place of book-to-film adaptations by one of Italy's most famous postwar film directors.

A major contribution to the study of South Asian literature, offering a landmark view of Mahābhārata studies.

A close study of one of the most prolific commentary writers in Islamic history.

A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.

Examines the place of Paris in French Jewish literary memory, a memory that, of necessity, grapples with the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Revisits, reassesses, and reclaims the legacy of May '68 in light of our present cultural and historical emergency.

Charts the vicissitudes of a distinctly modern and peculiarly human vulnerability—our intimate dependence on the fragile, time-bound cultural framework that we inhabit—in the history of the realist novel.

Explores the relationship between literature and philosophy in classical and contemporary Buddhist texts.

Explores the role of travel and translation in Brazilian literature and culture from the 1870s to the present.

Argues that we need to reinvent sovereignty as a motive for democratic political action while remaining alert to its dangers, specifically its relationship to violence.

Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience.

A study of Hu Feng as a literary critic and case study on how intellectual work can respond to political pressure.

Proposes a theoretically rich treatment of temporality within exile as "gerundive" time.