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Txetxu Aguado
Txetxu Aguado

65.  "Truthful Memories at the Memorial Site: Understanding Responses to Terrorism in Madrid." Bridges Across Cultures (Submitted)

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Jessica C. Beckman

"Picturing Spenser: Ruth Samson Luborsky on The Shepheardes Calender,Spenser Studies 40 (2026): 83-90. 

Rebecca E. Biron
Rebecca Elizabeth Biron

Elena Garro and Mexico's Modern Dreams. Bucknell University Press, 2013

Martina Broner

Peer Reviewed

"Disorienting Cinema: Sensing Beyond Extractivism in the Peruvian Amazon," Screen, vol. 66, no. 3, Autumn 2025, 263-283.

"Rethinking Format in the Amazon: Ecology and El abrazo de la serpiente," JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61, no. 1, Fall 2021, 7–26. Winner of Latin American Studies Association Film Studies Section Best Article Award.

Co-Editor with Hunter Vaughan and Martin Mhando, "Environmental Media at the Intersections: Green Storytelling, Practice, and Justice on the Screen and Behind the Scenes," Special Issue of Environmental Communication, vol. 19, no. 5, Summer 2025.

Forthcoming

"Tracking Cinematic Territory with Iracema," forthcoming, Camera Obscura.

"Sebastião Salgado and the Riverine Production of Photography," forthcoming, Hispanic Review.

Translations

Antonio Muñoz Molina, "The Lighthouse at the End of the Hudson," Places Lost and Found: Essays from the Hudson Review, Syracuse University Press, January 2021. First published in The Hudson Review, vol. 66, no. 1, 2013

Antonio Di Benedetto, Nest in the Bones: Stories, New York: Archipelago Books, 2017

Antonio Di Benedetto, "The Guide Dog of Hermosilla," Harper's, May 2017

Antonio Muñoz Molina, "Lives and Misfortunes of Lorenzo da Ponte," The Hudson Review, vol. 69, no. 2, 2016

Fiction

"Fire," Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, vol. 50, no. 1, 2017

"Milú en la nieve," Estados Hispanos de América, Sudaquia Editores, New York, 2016. First published in 20/40: 20 autores latinoamericanos menores de 40 años, vol. 3, Suburbano Ediciones, 2014.

Abundancia de cielo, New York: DíazGrey Editores, 2014

El ruido de la fiesta, Buenos Aires: Editorial Mancha de Aceite, 2011

 

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Nancy L. Canepa

The Enchanted Boot: A Cultural History of the Italian Fairy Tale Through Its Tellers. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2022. 

Michael A. Chaney

Reading Lessons in Seeing: Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel (2017).

William Cheng

SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS

Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2014). Foreword by Richard Leppert

Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good (University of Michigan Press, 2016). Foreword by Susan McClary.

Loving Music Till It Hurts (Oxford University Press, 2019).

 

EDITED VOLUMES

Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology (Oxford University Press, ed. with Greg Barz, 2019).

A Cultural History of Music in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury Academic, ed. with Danielle Fosler-Lussier).

 

ARTICLES

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Ayo A. Coly

"The Idea of Africa: Queer Visual Arts, Time, and the Postcolonial Archive." African Arts Spring 2026 • Vol. 59, No. 1

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Carlos Cortez Minchillo

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Heidi Denzel

Framing Islam: Faith, Fascination, and Fear in Twenty-First-Century German Culture (special issue of Colloquia Germanica, 2017, co-edited with Faye Stewart)

James (Jim) Dorsey

"Literature at War's End: The 'Prosecution' of Writers in Bungaku Jihyō." In Literature Among the Ruins: Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism, ed.Ueda, Atsuko, et al. Lantham, MD: Lexington Book, 2018, pps 159-175.

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Tarek El-Ariss

Water on Fire: A Memoir of War (New York: Other Press, 2024)

Aden Evens

The Digital and Its Discontents, University of Minnesota Press (2024).

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yasser elhariry / ياسر الحريري

 

BOOKS

 

This Book Is Full of Holes: Literary Bodies & the Invention of an Idiom. University of Regina Press, 2026/NYU PressThe Exquisite Corpse, 7.

 

Pacifist Invasions: Arabic, Translation & the Postfrancophone Lyric. Liverpool University Press, 2017. Contemporary French & Francophone Cultures, 48.

º review by Jane Hiddleston, Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies, vol. 9, nº 2, Autumn 2018, pp. 21–22 

 

EDITED COLLECTIONS

 

Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities, edited w/ Edwige Tamalet Talbayev. University of Virginia Press, 2026. Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Environmental Humanities, 52.

 

Literature as Sound Studies, edited w/ Liesl Yamaguchi. Bloomsbury, 2025. Bloomsbury Sound Studies.

 

Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean, edited w/ Isabelle Keller-Privat & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev. Palgrave, 2025. Mediterranean Perspectives, 13.

 

Abdelkébir Khatibi: Literature & Theory, edited w/ Matt Reeck. PMLA, vol. 137, nº 2, March 2022.

 

Sounds Senses. Liverpool University Press, 2021. Francophone Postcolonial Studies, 12.

º review by Aaron Prevots, The French Review, vol. 96, nº 1, October 2022, pp. 216–217

º review by Aimée Boutin, H-France Review, vol. 23, nº 9, March 2023

º review by Alison Rice, French Studies, 15 May 2023

 

The Postlingual Turn, edited w/ Rebecca L. Walkowitz. SubStance 154 (vol. 50, nº 1), Spring 2021.

 

Critically Mediterranean: Temporalities, Æsthetics & Deployments of a Sea in Crisis, edited w/ Edwige Tamalet Talbayev. Palgrave, 2018. Mediterranean Perspectives, 4.

 

Cultures du mysticisme. Expressions maghrébines, vol. 16, nº 2, Winter 2017.

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Veronika Fuechtner

A Global History of Sexual Science 1880-1960, co-edited with Douglas E. Haynes and Ryan Jones, with essays by the editors and Sanjam Ahluwalia, Chiara Beccalossi, Pablo Ben, Shrikant Botre (with Haynes), Kate Fisher and Jana Funke, Rainer Herrn, Rebecca Hodes, Rachel Hsu, Ralph Leck, Kirsten Leng, Kurt MacMillan, Mark McLelland, Ishita Pande, Michiko Suzuki, Robert Deam Tobin, Angie Willey. With an Afterword by Howard Chiang (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017).

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Gerd Gemünden

Lucrecia Martel (Urbana, IL: The Univesrity of Illinois Press, 2019)

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Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones

"Who Owns the World We Need to Know? Political Emancipation and Anti-Disinformation Pedagogy." Anti-Disinformation Pedagogy: Tackling the Power of Manipulative Media. HIOL 32 (2024): 222-241.

"El Rey y sus familias (o el problema de la abstracción real)." Bulletin of Spanish Studies 101.5-6 (2024): 727-750.

"Leyenda y pragmática del pueblo." Discursos de seducción: el mito y la leyenda en la cultura española. Madrid and Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana, 2023. 359-386

"15M/Melancolía." eHumanistas 53 (2022): 138-161.

"Bajo la esfinge de Mammon: El sentido trágico del diálogo entre cristianos y comunistas." Un siglo de comunismo en España (II). Ed. Francisco Erice. Madrid: Akal, 2022. 461-492.

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Lynn A. Higgins

BOOKS

Alain Resnais, Interviews (Editor and Introductory essay). University Press of Mississippi "Conversations with Filmmakers" series, 2021.
 

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Lucas Hollister

Beyond Return: Genre and Cultural Politics in Contemporary French Fiction. Liverpool UP, 2019

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Irene Kacandes

“’And What About Your Mother?’” On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence.  Edited Irene Kacandes.  Berlin: De Gruyter Verlag. 2022. 299-314.

Lada Kolomiyets
Lada Kolomiyets

Refereed Publications (selected: English-language only)

Under contract (contributing editor):

Living the Independence Dream: Ukraine and Ukrainians in Contemporary Socio-Political Context. Edited by Lada Kolomiyets. Vernon Press. 2024. Series in Social Equality and Justice. ISBN: 978-1-64889-861-7 https://vernonpress.com/book/1941

Chapters Contributed to Edited Volumes:

"A People's Cyber War: Ukraine's Digital Folklore and Popular Mobilization" (Chapter 7). In Living the Independence Dream: Ukraine and Ukrainians in Contemporary Socio-Political Context. Ed. by Lada Kolomiyets (Vernon Press, 2024), 149-193. 

"Cultural Translation in Michael Naydan's Novel Seven Signs of the Lion." In Normativity and Resilience in Translation and Culture, edited by Emma Oki, Agnieszka Pantuchowicz, and Anna Warso. Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2024.

"Translating Russian Literature in Soviet and Post-Soviet Ukraine." In Russian Literary Translation in the Global Context, edited by Muireann Maguire and Catherine McAteer. Open Book Publishers, 2024, pp. 295–320 (Co-author Oleksandr Kalnychenko). DOI https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0340.17

"The First Comprehensive Treatments of Translation in Eastern Europe (1950s-60s)." Chapter 7. In The Routledge Handbook of the History of Translation Studies, edited by Anna Lange, Christopher Rundle, and Daniele Monticelli. 1st Edition. Routledge. March 20, 2024, pp. 127-149 (Co-author Oleksandr Kalnychenko). ISBN 9781138388055.

"Between censorship and nation building: the first Ukrainian lecture courses on translation studies from a historical perspective" in Translation Studies in Ukraine as an Integral Part of the European Context, edited by Martin Djovčoš, Ivana Hostová, Mária Kusá, Emília Perez (Bratislava, Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2023), 63-89.

"Translation in Ukraine during the Stalinist Period: Literary Translation Policies and Practices", in Translation under Communism. Rundle, Christopher, Anna Lange, and Daniele Monticelli (eds.). Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022, рp. 141-172 (Co-authored with Oleksandr Kalnychenko).

"Translation as an Instrument of Russification in Soviet Ukraine", in Translation and Power. Harmon, Lucyna and Dorota Osuchowska (eds.). Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften, 2020, pp. 29-43.

"Shakespeare's Engagement in Ukrainian Cultural Renaissance of the 1920s-1930s", in "A Sea-Change into Something Rich and Strange": Shakespeare Studies in Contemporary Ukraine. Torkut, Nataliya M. and Yurii I. Cherniak (eds.). Liha-Pres (Lviv-Toruń), 2020, pp. 43-60.

"Translation as an Asymmetric Response to Soviet Colonialism in the Works of Ukrainian Dissident Poet-Translator Hryhoriy Kochur", in Protest and Dissent. Conflicting Spaces in Translation and Culture. Pantuchowicz, Agnieszka and Anna Warso (eds.). Peter Lang GmbH, 2020, pp. 89-103.

"The labor camp poetry of Hryhoriy Kochur: Challenges for a Translator", in National Identity in Literary Translation. Barciński, Łukasz (ed.). Peter Lang GmbH, 2019, pp. 91-101.

"The Untranslatable Ethnic: Always an Outsider? (A Brief Review of Ukrainian-to-English Literary Translation Practices)", in Culture(s) and Authenticity: The Politics of Translation and the Poetics of Imitation. Pantuchowicz, Agnieszka and Anna Warso (eds.). Peter Lang GmbH, 2018, pp. 41-57.

"Identifying Shifts in the Allusiveness of a Source Text through Post-Soviet Translation as Deconstruction of the Target-Language Audience's Soviet Identity", in Identity and Translation Trouble, ed. by Ivana Hostová, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK): Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, рp. 35-59.

Articles in academic journals (English-language only): 

"Deconstruction of Russia's Newspeak in Ukrainian Humorous Translation and Digital Folklore." Ideology and Politics Journal, special issue "Critical Perspectives on Language and Power in Ukraine and Kazakhstan." Editors of this issue: Natalia Kudriavtseva & Debra A. Friedman. Issue 2 (24), 2023, p. 128-166. DOI: 10.36169/2227-6068.2023.02.00006

"The politics of literal translation in Soviet Ukraine: The case of Gogol's 'The tale of how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich'". Translation and Interpreting Studies. The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association. Online First publication. Available online: 21 October 2022. http://doi.org/10.1075/tis.21020.kol

"Manipulative Mistranslations in Official Documents and Media Discourses on Contemporary Ukraine". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. The Journal of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. Volume 37 (Number 3–4), 2020. Pages 367-405.

"A Psycholinguistic Analysis of the First Ukrainian Syllabi on General and Special Methodology of Translation by Mykhailo Kalynovych and Mykola Zerov". East European Journal of Psycholinguistics. 2020, Volume 7, Number 2, pp. 135-154. https://doi.org/10.29038/eejpl.2020.7.2.kol

"The Psycholinguistic Factors of Indirect Translation in Ukrainian Literary and Religious Contexts". East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2019, 6(2), pp. 32–49. https:/doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3637712 

"(Re)translating Horace into Ukrainian Modernity: From Mykola Zerov to Andrii Sodomora". East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Volume VI, No. 2 (2019), pp. 73-112. https://ewjus.com/index.php/ewjus/article/view/531/232

"Women-translators of Belles-lettres in Soviet Ukraine of the 1920s-1930s: Educational, Cultural and Sociopolitical Profiles / Les Traductrices Litteraires en Ukraine Sovietique des Annees 1920-1930: Profils Educatif, Culturel et Sociopolitique". Style and Translation: Collected Works, Kyiv: TSNU, 2019, Issue 1(5), pp. 41-74.

"Taras Shevchenko Translated and Retranslated by Vera Rich: A Lifelong Search for Poetic Perfection". Respectus Philologicus, Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty and The Jan Kochanovski University in Kielce, Faculty of Humanities, 2018, Nr. 34 (39), pp. 147-161. https://www.journals.vu.lt/respectus-philologicus/article/view/12099

"An ethno-ecological approach to multiple English translations of the poem Доля [Fate/Destiny] by Taras Shevchenko". Studia Slawistyczne: Etnolingwistyka i Komunikacja Międzykulturowa, Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL (Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II), 2017, Issue 4, р. 525-548.

"Vera Rich as a Translator of Taras Shevchenko: Working Towards Greater Semantic and Rhythmic Accurateness". Studia Filologiczne Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego, 2016, Vol. 29, pp. 43-62.

"From illusory precision to fateful misrepresentation of meaning in the translation of political documents". Scientific Messenger of the UNESCO Department of Kyiv National Linguistic University. Philology, Pedagogy, Psychology: Collection of papers, Kyiv: KNLU Publishing Centre, 2017, Issue 34, pp. 57-67.

"Ukrainian Romanticism and the Modern Ukrainian Psyche". The Ukrainian Quarterly: A Journal of Ukrainian and International Affairs. Vol. LXXII, Numbers 1-4 (Spring-Winter 2016), pp. 8-36.

"The Essentialized Kobzar by Taras Shevchenko in Michael Naydan's English Projection", 2014. Style and Translation: Collected Works, Kyiv: TSNU, 2015, Issue 1(2), pp. 155-187.

"Three Profiles of the Translator in the Complete Poetry of Taras Shevchenko Translated from the Ukrainian by Peter Fedynsky". The Ukrainian Quarterly: A Journal of Ukrainian and International Affairs. Vol. LXX, Number 1-4 (Spring-Winter 2014), pp. 18-39.

"Translation Engagement in National Renaissance Policies: A Survey of English-to-Ukrainian Literary Translations of American and Canadian Authors in the 1920s-30s". Style and Translation: Collected Works, Kyiv: TSNU, 2014, Issue 1(1), pp. 52-67.

Yuliya Komska
Yuliya Komska

with Michelle Moyd and David Gramling, Linguistic Disobedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language. Palgrave Pivot, 2018.

John Kopper

Apollon Bezobrazov.  By Boris Poplavsky.  Trans., introd., and ed. by John Kopper.  Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2015.

Lawrence D. Kritzman

The Columbia History of Twentieth Century French Thought , (Editor and contributor), (2006).

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David LaGuardia

Book:  Théories critiques et littérature de la Renaissance : mélanges offerts à Lawrence Kritzman. Volume of essays co-edited with Todd Reeser (Paris:  Classiques Garnier, 2021).

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Annabel Martín
Annabel Martín

Books

 · La gramática de la felicidad: Relecturas franquistas y posmodernas del melodrama.  Madrid: Libertarias/Prodhufi (2005).

Andrew L. McCann

Popular Literature, Authorship and the Occult in Late Victorian Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Michael McGillen

Shapes of Time: History and Eschatology in the Modernist Imagination. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. (Series: "Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures and Thought"). 

"Reality's Return: On the Inconsolability of Memory in Sebald." Gegenwartsliteratur: A German Studies Yearbook 22 (2023): 265–288. 

"Husserl's Image Worlds and the Language of Phenomenology." Phenomenology to the Letter: Husserl and Literature. Eds. Rochelle Tobias, Kristina Mendicino, and Philippe P. Haensler. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. 23–44. 

"Orientation in Pictures: Multistable Spaces in Kafka and Beckett." Word & Image, 36.3 (2020): 225–236.

"Free Variation from the Archive of Culture: Blumenberg and Husserl on Phenomenological Description." Leistungsbeschreibung / Describing Cultural Achievements: Literarische Strategien bei Hans Blumenberg / Hans Blumenberg's Literary Strategies. Eds. Timothy Attanucci and Ulrich Breuer. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020. 73–94.

"Historical Passages and Scenes of Transport in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage." The Germanic Review, 93.2 (2018): 130–154.

"Erich Auerbach and the Seriality of the Figure." New German Critique, no. 133 (2018): 111–154. 

"Zwischen Bildlichkeit und Auflösung des Bildes: Ästhetik des Religiösen in Hugo Balls expressionistischen Gedichten." Expressionismus 3 (2016): 83–91. 

"Lapsarian Repetitions: Iterations of the Fall in Kafka and Kierkegaard." Kafka und die Religion in der Moderne / Kafka, Religion, and Modernity. Eds. Manfred Engel and Ritchie Robertson. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014. 93–115.

"Theology's Weimar Moment: History before the Eschatological Limit." The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law. Eds. Leonard Kaplan and Rudy Koshar, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012. 269–287.

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Klaus Mladek

A Politics of Melancholia: Plato to Arendt (Princeton University Press, 2023, with George Edmondson).

In the Wake of the Plague: Eros and Mourning, eds. Klaus Mladek and James Godley (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, forthcoming).

"Gerechtigkeit," in Enzyklopädie der Genauigkeit, eds. Markus Krajewski, Antonia von Schöning & Mario Wimmer (Konstanz: Konstanz University Press & Wallstein, 2021), 184-197.

In English We Trust: Can We Be Global Citizens Without Knowing Foreign Languages? (The Hill, 4/4/19) (with Kristin O'Rourke)

Whatever Happened to Justice for All? (Los Angeles Review of Books, 1/11/18)

Why justice is more important than the rule of law (The Conversation, 12/19/17)

Reclaiming the Populist Moment (Alternet, 10/9/17)

Merkel Won, So Why Aren't Germans Celebrating? (Cognoscenti, 9/27/17)

Gorsuch and the Crisis of Poetic Justice (The Huffington Post, 5/5/17)

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Graziella Parati

Diversity and Decolonisation in Italian Studies, co-edited with Simone Brioni, Marie Orton, and Gaoheng Zhang, Special issue of Italian Studies in Southern Africa (Fall 2022)

Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives (Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2021) co-edited with Marie Orton and Ron Kubati.

Migrant Writers and Urban Space in Italy: Proximities and Affect in Literature and Film (London: Palgrave McMillan, 2017).

Italy and the Cultural Politics of WWI (Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016).

New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies: Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices (volume 1)

New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies: The Arts and History (volume 2)

(Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2012).

The Cultures of Italian Migration co-edited with Anthony Tamburri (Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP 2011).

Multicultural Literature in Contemporary Italy, co-edited with Marie Orton (Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007).

Migration Italy: The Art of Talking Back in A Destination Culture (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005). Released in paperback in 2014.

Italian Cultural Studies, co-edited with Anthony Tamburri, Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg, and Ben Lawton (Boca Raton: Bordighera Press, 2002).

Italian Feminist Theory and Practice: Equality and Sexual Difference co-edited with Rebecca West, (Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002).

Italian Cultural Studies co-edited with Ben Lawton, (Boca Raton: Bordighera Press, 2001).

Mediterranean Crossroads: Migration Literature in Italy, (Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999).

Public History, Private Stories: Italian Women's Autobiographies, (Minneapolis and London: Minnesota UP, 1996).

Beatriz Pastor

Books:

Roberto Arlt y la rebelion alienada.  Hispamérica, 1981.

El Discurso Narrativo de la Conquista:  Mitificacion y Emergencia. Colección Premio Casa de las Américas, 1983.  Second Revised Edition: Ediciones del Norte, l988.Third edition: July l998.

The Armature of Conquest: Spanish Accounts of the discovery of America, l492-1589. Stanford University Press, l992. Paperback edition 1995.

El segundo descubrimiento: La Conquista de América narrada por sus coetáneos. New revised edition with EDHASA. Published June 2008.

El jardín y el peregrino. Ensayos sobre el pensamiento utópico latinoamericano: l492-1700 . Amsterdam, Rodopi Ed. Fall l995. Revised and expanded edition. Mexico, UNAM. Published April 2000.

Lope de Aguirre y la rebelión de los Marañones, Critical edition. Clásicos Castalia. December 2010.

Cartografías utópicas de la Emancipación. Madrid, Editorial Iberoamericana, April 2015.

Tras las huellas del tiempo: Nueve calas. (Forthcoming Fall 2019) Mexico, Editorial Porrúa.

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Israel Reyes

Book: Humor and the Eccentric Text in Puerto Rican Literature.  Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.

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Roopika Risam

Anti-Racist Community Engagement: Principles and Practices. Stylus, 2023.

Digital Humanities Pedagogies in Times of Crisis Special Issue. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 17, no. 2, 2023.

Minimal Computing Special Issue. Digital Humanities Quarterly 16, no. 2, 2022.

The Digital Black Atlantic. Debates in the Digital Humanities Series. University of Minnesota Press, 2021. [Open access version available here.]

South Asian Digital Humanities: Mediations Across Technology's Cultural Canon. Routledge, 2020.

Intersectionality in Digital Humanities. Arc Humanities Press, 2021.

New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy. Northwestern University Press, 2018.

 

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Jonathan Smolin (2023)
Jonathan Smolin

The Politics of Melodrama: The Political and Cultural Lives of Ihsan Abdel Kouddous and Gamal Abdel Nasser (Stanford University Press, 2025).

Silvia Spitta

Against Ruins: El Cusco de Martín Chambi. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. (NYC: Hemi Press 2020).

Del archivo a las calles. El Cusco de Martín Chambi. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Trans. Catalina Arango (NYC: Hemi Press 2021).

 

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Robert St. Clair

Books

Counter-Modernities in Ninteenth-Century French Literature: Constellations of Loss in Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Flaubert (Oxford University Press, 2025)

https://academic.oup.com/book/60628

Constellations of Loss... is a book of literary criticism exploring a counterview of modernity in late nineteenth-century French literature (1848-1891), one that discerns an interlocking set of figures, events, and narratives of historical loss or failure at the heart of literary modernity. Stated simply, it is about the view of progress as seen from below, from the 'loser's point of view,' that we find in the works of poets like Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud as well as the novelist Gustave Flaubert. But if this book is in some broad sense preoccupied with the meaning of the failures that stick with us—that is, with the potential political resources, the potential other narratives of the present opened up by loss and defeat, failure and error—we ought to note that what brings together this corpus of writers is not reducible to the biographical; it goes beyond the uneven successes, financial hardships, and, in one case, outright failure (i.e., Rimbaud) shared by the authors in the literary market of their lifetime. At stake in this study is not an account of the ironies of literary history, wherein, to gloss Walter Benjamin's take on Baudelaire, one given era sees little to care about in an artist in which a later epoch recognizes the genius of modernity. Rather, what my book demonstrates is how each author in this critical corpus insists on tarrying with history as an experience of irrevocable loss: each lingers with history as a force of negations, and thereby insists on the significance of historical setbacks and political defeats that seem to affect—if not more dramatically wipe out (cf., Flaubert, Baudelaire, Rimbaud)—the collective hopes of entire generations. Each one gives us losers as subjects who matter in the nineteenth century (Baudelaire, Flaubert, Rimbaud), narratives of historical defeat that are as negative as they are meaningful (Baudelaire, Flaubert), or the contours of events whose meanings and narratives are themselves lost (Baudelaire, Rimbaud), whose meanings remain, in other words, perhaps less absent than open-ended: a possible grammar for what may come next, when hope seems lost and dreams dashed.  Indeed, as Constellations of Loss seeks to show, it is precisely in its representation of history as a dilemma or undoing of meaningfulness, a problem of legibility and not-knowingness, that we can most fully recognize the formal calling-cards of literary "modernity": ironic undecidabilities and difficulties, open-ended interpretability and the dissolution of previously stable cultural and historical narratives, formal breaks with semantically oriented modes of representation, and so on.

The principal claim of this book is that what we find in these works is thus a form of 'writing against the grain' of history: not the elegant lyricism of history's victors, but a use of literature against the erasures of past injustices and for those 'lost futurities' (A. Gordon) upon which the order of the present is founded. What we find in the works of these authors is a critical literary archive of the powerless that persists in contesting the legitimacy of the powerful, which persists in haunting the nineteenth century every bit as much as it does our own achingly out-of-joint present. The story tells is, in other words, about the meaning of loss, and the significance of losers as possible figures of opposition to the dominant order, in nineteenth-century French literature that is also a story about modernity as an aesthetic politics.

Poetry, Politics, and the Body in Rimbaud: Lyrical Material (Oxford University Press, 2018).

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/poetry-politics-and-the-body-in-rimbaud-9780198826583?cc=fr&lang=en&#

Bodies abound in Rimbaud's poetry in a way that is nearly unprecedented in the nineteenth-century poetic canon: lazy, creative, rule-breaking bodies, queer bodies, marginalized and impoverished bodies, revolting and revolutionary, historical bodies. The question that this book seeks to answer is: what does this sheer, corporeal density mean for reading Rimbaud? What kind of sense are we to make of this omnipresence of the body in the Rimbaldian corpus from the earliest poems celebrating the simple delight of running away from wherever one is and stretching one's legs out under a table, to the ultimate flight away from poetry itself? In response, it argues that the body appears – often literally – as a kind of gap, breach, or aperture through which Rimbaud's poems enter into contact with history and a larger body of other texts. Simply put, the body is privileged "lyrical material" for Rimbaud: a figure for human beings in their exposed, finite creatureliness and in their unpredictable agency and interconnectedness. Its presence in the early work allows us not only to contemplate what a strange, sensuous thing it is to be embodied, to be both singular and part of a collective, it also allows the poet to diagnose, and the reader to perceive, a set of seemingly intractable, "real" socio-economic, political, and symbolic problems. Rimbaud's bodies are, in other words, utopian bodies: sites where the historical and the lyrical, the ideal and the material, do not so much cancel each other out as become caught up in one another.

Reviews of Lyrical Material

Hugues Azérad, Dalhousie French Studies, Review of Poetry, Politics, and the Body...

Marshall Olds, H-France, Review of Poetry, Politics, and the Body...

Daniel Finch-Race, Esprit créateur, Review of Poetry, Politics, and the Body...

Thomas C. Connolly, French Forum, Review of Poetry, Politics, and the Body...

Joseph Acquisto, French StudiesReview of Poetry, Politics, and the Body...

Renaud Lejosne-Guigon, Acta FabulaReview of Poetry, Politics, and the Body...

Frédéric Thomas, dissidences, Review of Poetry, Politics, and the Body...

Articles

"A Victor Hugo, cygné Baudelaire: Notes on a Hauntopoetics of the Political in the Tableaux parisiens," Baudelaire and Philosophy, Julia Ng and Alberto Toscano, eds. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming, 2027), 26pp.

"Voilà le peuple: Reading and the Politics of Literature (on Reading Flaubert in the Dark)," Romanic Review 115:2. Special issue: Les prophètes du malheur/Prophets of Doom, Julien Lefort-Favreau and Eric Trudel, eds. (September, 2024), 239-259.

"Le peuple au palais: notes sur le pouvoir d'un signifiant (Kant, Flaubert, Marx)," Le XIXe siècle à la loupe: Hommage à Steve Murphy, Judith Wulf, ed. (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2024), 397-415.

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Les Essentiels: "Les Poésies de RImbaud"

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Les Essentiels: "Les lettres dites 'du voyant'".

"Parā," Rimbaud et Verlaine. Un devoir à chercher (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023), 415-428.

"The Commune, Today," Nineteenth-Century French Studies—Special Issue: La Commune n'est pas morte49:3-4 (Spring-Summer 2021), 151-161.

"Départs: entretien avec Jacques Rancière," Nineteenth-Century French Studies—Special Issue: La Commune n'est pas morte…49:3-4 (Spring 2021), 162-172.

"Known Unknowing: Review essay of Poetry's Knowing Ignorance," H-France Review , 10pp

"Material Inscriptions - Charles Baudelaire and the Poetry of the Modern World," The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature, vol. 4, 1771-1919 (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 12pp.

"Manières d'écrire, manières d'être (ensemble): l'Album zutique et la poésie de l'impropre," in Rimbaud, Verlaine et zut: hommage à Jean-Jacques Lefrère, S. Murphy, ed. (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2019), 451-466.

"Nature, the City, and Other Lyrical Material: Baudelaire with Rimbaud," L'Esprit créateur 58:1 (2018), special issue: Baudelaire and Other People, Maria Scott and Alexandra Wettlaufer, eds., 59-73.

"Dérèglements des sens de l'histoire: poétique et idéologie," Parade sauvage - numéro spécial: herméneutiques rimbaldiennes, Alain Vaillant, dir. (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2018), 69-87.

"Failure is Our Only Option: Or, Some Thoughts on Reading" - Incipit: Reading (Chambers)Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 45:3-4 (Spring-Summer, 2017), 122-130.
http://muse.jhu.edu/article/657651/pdf

"Introduction: Time for Idleness..." (with Dr. Audrey Evrard, Fordham University), Nottingham French Studies 55:1 (March 2016), 1-4.

"Zut pictura poiesis: Lyric Relations and Legacies in Coin de table and the Sonnet du trou du cul," in Poets as Readers in Nineteenth-Century France: Critical Reflections, Joseph Acquisto, Adrianna Paliyenko, and Catherine Witt, eds. ( London: IGRS, 2015), 149-168.

"Reframing the Commune: Violence, Intertextuality, and Event in Tardi's Cri du peuple," Romance Notes, 55:1 (2015), 147-159.

"Écrire, la main dans la main: de la fleur parodique au communisme littéraire – 'Le Sonnet du trou du cul'," Parade sauvage 25 (2015), 69-104. (Highly commended for the Society of Dix-neuviémistes Publication Prize - best journal article by an early career researcher, 2016)

"Misères de la poésie – microlecture des économies de la violence dans Les Yeux des pauvres," Lectures du Spleen de Paris, Steve Murphy, ed. (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014), 307-320.

"Laughing Matter(s): Poetics, Politics, and Ethics of the (Utopian) Body in Rimbaud's Effarés,"Romanic Review 104.1-2 (2014), 83-104. (Official Commendation, Malcolm Bowie Prize 2014)

"Writing Poetry Against the Grain – or, What Can Be Seen in Les Yeux des pauvres," French Forum 39.1 (2014), 49-63.

"The Bomb in (and the Right to) the City: Batman, Argo, and Hollywood's Revolutionary Crowds," The International Journal of Žižek Studies 7:3 (Oct. 2013).

"Le Désordre du val: réflexions sur la blessure de l'histoire et le temps révolutionnaire dans un sonnet de 1870," Parade sauvage 23 (2012), 25-45.

"Le Moderne absolu ? Rimbaud et la contre-modernité," Nineteenth-Century French Studies 40: 3-4 (Spring-Summer 2012), 307-326.

"'Soyons chrétiens!'? Mémoire, anticapitalisme et communauté dans Paris," La poésie jubilatoire: Rimbaud, Verlaine et l'Album zutique, Seth Whidden, ed. (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2010), 241-260.

Professor Stewart
Roberta L. Stewart

Forthcoming. "Witnessing and Poetic Receptions of the Experience of War: Homer, Doug Anderson, and Jehanne Dubrow," In Just Classics. Edited by E. Perry and D. Machado, University of Michigan Press.

2024. "Gender, Class, and Slavery in Plautus' Rudens in 1884 St. Louis," CJ 119: 413-438.

2023. "Seeing Fotis: Slavery and Gender in Apuleius' Metamorphoses," CA 42: 195–228.

2019. with Dominic Machado, "Progress and Precarity: 150 Years of TAPA," TAPA 149

Supplement: 39-60. 

2019. "Seeing Caesar's Symbols: Religious Implements on the Coins of Julius Caesar and His

Successors," in Concordia Disciplinarum: Essays on Coinage, Ancient History, and Archaeology in Honor of William E. Metcalf. Edited by N. Elkins and J. ​DeRose Evans (American Numismatic Society publications) 107-119.

2015. "Ancient Narratives and Modern War Stories: Reading Homer with Combat Veterans," Amphora 12.1: 1-3, 20-21.

Patricia Rachael Stuelke

Book

The Ruse of Repair: US Neoliberal Empire and the Turn from Critique (Durham: Duke UP, 2021.)

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Andrea Tarnowski

 "Color Values, or Life with Grey." In Tracy Adams and Charles-Louis Morand- Métivier, eds., The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval France. University of Delaware Press, 2023, 21-43.

"Filiations in the Epistre de la prison de vie humaine. " In Dominique Demartini and Claire Le Ninan, eds., Genèse(s) et filiation(s) chez Christine de Pizan. Garnier, 2021, 347-360.

"Le temps signifiant et le Moyen Âge français." In Anna Loba and Joanna Teklik, eds., Le temps et les saisons. Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, vol 48/1, March 2021, 5-15. 

"Philippe de Mézières, All at Once (Allegory and the Visual)." In Joël Blanchard and Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, eds., Philippe de Mézières – rhétorique et poétique. Droz, 2019, 187-203.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Christine de Pizan, ed. Andrea Tarnowski, Modern Language Association of America, 2018.

"What Is French?" In Daniel Rockmore, ed., What Is the Arts and Sciences? University Press of New England, 2017, 160-169.

"Alain Chartier's Singularity." In Emma Cayley, Daisy Delogu and Joan McRae, eds., Alain Chartier (c.1385-1430), père de l'éloquence  française (Brill, 2015), 33-56.

"To Console and Control:  Philippe de Mézières' Epistre lamentable et consolatoire." Digital Philology, vol. 2 number 2, 2013 (Johns Hopkins UP), 181-200.

"Faithful to Letter and Spirit? Translating Christine de Pizan." In Patrizia Caraffi and Giovanna Angeli, eds., Christine de Pizan. La scrittrice e la città (Alinea, 2013), 203-210.

"The Consolations of Writing Allegory:  Philippe de Mézières' Songe du vieil pelerin." In Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Kiril Petkov, eds., The Age of Philippe de Mézières. Fourteenth-Century Piety and Politics Between France, Venice and Cyprus (Brill, 2011), 237-54.


"Christine's Selves." In Liliane Dulac, Anne Paupert, Christine Reno and Bernard Ribémont, eds., Désireuse de plus avant enquerre… Actes du Vie colloque international sur Christine de Pizan (Champion, 2008), 181-188. 

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Michelle R. Warren

Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (Stanford University Press, 2022), awarded the 2023 History of the Book Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing

Dennis Charles Washburn

Norton Critical Edition of The Tale of Genji (2021)

Margaret Williamson

Sappho's Immortal Daughters, Harvard University Press, 1995.

MICHAEL WYATT FRIT
Michael W. Wyatt

Ariosto and the Arabs: Contexts for the 'Orlando furioso' (co-editor with Mario Casari and Monica Preti), Officina Libraria and I Tatti–The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, forthcoming; including my essay "Trobar, Cantar, Recitar–Performative Poetics across the Middle Sea," pp. 427-454

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