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Literary Studies
Interviews with scholars of literature about their new books.
May 1, 2024
Natural Magic
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for p…
April 30, 2024
Shakespeare's Adolescents
Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern Culture (Manchester UP, 2024) by Dr. Victoria Sparey…
April 30, 2024
Transpacific Cartographies
Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the U.S. (Rutgers University Press, 2023) examines how contemporary Chinese…
April 30, 2024
What Is a Classic in History?
What is a classic in historical writing? How do we explain the continued interest in certain historical texts, even when their accounts and interpreta…
April 28, 2024
Literary Optics
In Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda (Syracuse UP, 2024), Maha AbdelMegeed offers a compelling and far-reaching alternative to the …
April 28, 2024
Tree Spirits Grass Spirits
A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito--part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential …
April 27, 2024
Imagining Musical Pasts
Imagining Musical Pasts: the Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson (Clemson University Press, 2023) by Kr…
April 26, 2024
Unexpected Routes
Unexpected Routes: Refugee Writers in Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2023) by Dr. Tabea Alexa Linhard chronicles the refugee journeys of six write…
April 25, 2024
You Write Because You Want to Feel Free
Although Katie Kitamura feels free when she writes—free from the “soup of everyday life,” from the political realities that weigh upon her, and even a…
April 23, 2024
Novel Palestine
Palestinian writing imagines the nation, not as a nation-in-waiting but as a living, changing structure that joins people, place, and time into a dist…
April 23, 2024
Christian Shakespeare
The enigma of William Shakespeare's religious beliefs has long tantalized scholars and enthusiasts alike. Vernon Press's latest publication, Christian…
April 20, 2024
The Arabic Prose Poem
The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice (Edinburgh UP, 2021), by Huda Fakhreddine, examines one of the most controversial poetic forms in Ar…
April 18, 2024
Questioning Borders
Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomad…
April 18, 2024
The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki
The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki, the monumental Sanskrit epic of the life of Rama, ideal man and incarnation of the great god Visnu, has profoundly affected t…
April 18, 2024
Helena De Bres on Life-Writing (JP, EF)
How does the past live on within our experience of the present? And how does our decision to speak about or write down our recollections of how things…
April 17, 2024
Who Is Big Brother?
An intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state--our foremost political essayist and author of Animal Farm and Ninetee…
April 17, 2024
Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters
Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honored fantastical texts and tales which were founded in the milieu of patriarchy, parent…
April 16, 2024
Sensing the Sinophone
Through an original framework of literary sensory studies, Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction (Cambria, 2022) provides …
April 14, 2024
The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales
Adam Kabat’s The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan (Columbia UP, 2023) is an in-depth introduction to the …
April 14, 2024
A Nose and Three Eyes
Written by iconic Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, this classic of love, desire, and family breakdown smashed through taboos when first publish…