Examines the relationship of lynching to black and white citizenship in the 19th and 20th century U. S. through a focus on historical, visual, cultural, and literary texts.

Examines Victorian conceptions of home and identity by looking at portrayals and accounts of middle-class emigration to Australia.

Argues for the importance of the neglected theme of slavery in Antigone.

Showcases the latest developments in literary Darwinism, a powerful approach that integrates evolutionary social science with literary humanism.

Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas's notion of "the Other. "

Provocative reinterpretation of Plato's Symposium.

Presents a new genealogy and synoptic overview of modern Irish fiction.

Examines the recent “War on Terror” and the increasing privatization of international policing through the lens of detective fiction and security and espionage narratives.

Traces the origins of contemporary analogies between queerness and blackness.

A survey of current critical perspectives on how North American indigenous peoples are viewed and represented transnationally.

Examines racial segregation in literature and the cultural legacy of the Jim Crow era.

Argues that Byron’s popularity marked the beginning of celebrity as a cultural identity.

Explores how Cuban Americans negotiate bicultural identities through cultural production.

Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid’s entire literary oeuvre.

Explores the development of the Chinese martial arts novel.

Shows how Ozick’s characters attempt to mediate a complex Jewish identity, one that bridges the differences between traditional Judaism and secular American culture.

Looks at Buddhist influences in American literature and how literature has shaped the reception of Buddhism in North America.

Examines the enormous popular appeal of vampires from early Greek and Slavic folklore to present-day popular culture.

Traces a lineage of pro-feminist black men to two early radical proponents of female equality.

Explores how the suffering of African American women has been minimized and obscured in U.S. culture.

Uses iconic dandy and queer figures to explore relationships between homosexuality, modernism, and modernity.

Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.

Questions whether current theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us truly to engage the Other.

Examines affect and the significance of space and place in the first six Canterbury Tales.

A spirited reading of Derrida’s view of ethics as transcendental and performative.