Publications
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The Politics of Reproduction
(2019-10-29)
The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism uniquely brings together three sites of reproduction and reproductive politics to demonstrate their entanglement in creating or ...
Environment and Narrative
(2020-01-01)
Never before has a collection of original essays strived to create such constructive, shared discourse between ecocritical and narrative scholars as well as environmental humanities scholars interested in narrative. Erin ...
A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century
(2019-11-01)
Story, in the largest sense of the term, is arguably the single most important aspect of narrative. But with the proliferation of antimimetic writing, traditional narrative theory has been inadequate for conceptualizing ...
Typical Girls
(2021)
In the years following 1975, a group of female-created comic strips came to national attention in a traditionally male-dominated medium. Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips uncovers the understudied ...
Comics and the Body
(2020)
Eszter Szép’s Comics and the Body is the first book to examine the roles of the body in both drawing and reading comics within a single framework. With an explicit emphasis on the ethical dimensions of bodily vulnerability, ...
Diagnosing Desire
(2020)
In Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century, Alyson K. Spurgas examines the “new science of female sexuality” from a critical, sociological perspective, considering how today’s ...
Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime
(2021)
In Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime, Dana M. Olwan examines how certain forms of violence become known, recognized, and contested across multiple geopolitical contexts—looking specifically ...
Violent Exceptions
(2021)
Violent Exceptions turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril in twenty-first-century political discourse to better understand how this figure is appropriated by political constituencies for purposes rarely to ...
Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature
(2022)
In Women’s Friendship in Medieval Literature, Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala bring together established scholars and new voices to illuminate a previously understudied but consequential element of life in the Middle ...
Adoption across Race and Nation
(2022)
Analyzes transnational and transracial adoption, highlighting the past and continuing discourses around adoption as it relates to race, nation, immigration, belonging, and citizenship.
Deflective Whiteness
(2022)
Details the appropriation of social justice rhetoric to claim Whiteness as an aggrieved social status, enabling White supremacy and deepening racial inequities.
Beyond the Icon
(2022)
Demonstrates how contemporary Asian American creators employ graphic narrative to counter harmful misrepresentations and show Asian Americans as complex, nuanced individuals.
Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS
(2025)
In Black Women’s Health in the Age of Hip Hop and HIV/AIDS, Nghana tamu Lewis chronicles the work of five black women creators to demonstrate how hip hop feminism operates as a vital tool for interpreting and building ...
Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature
(2017)
Spanish Perspectives on Chicano Literature and Culture: Literary and Cultural Essays explores how Spanish literary critics from the U.S. and Spain view and study Chicano literature and culture, and reflects on Chicano ...
Sponsored Migration
(2018-04-30)
Sponsored Migration places Puerto Rico’s migration policy in its historical context, examining the central role the Puerto Rican government played in encouraging and organizing migration during the postwar period. Meléndez ...
Hip Sublime
(2017-11-01)
In their continual attempt to transcend what they perceived as the superficiality, commercialism, and precariousness of life in post-World War II America, the Beat writers turned to the classical authors who provided, on ...
Migrating Fictions
(2018-01-01)
In Migrating Fictions, Manzella turns to U.S. Women’s literature that represents internal migrations in the US in the twentieth century. This project situates itself within the “spatial turn” of literary studies to analyze ...
Post-Postmodernist Fiction and the Rise of Digital Epitexts
(2023)
Explores how digital epitexts surrounding contemporary novels by Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, Catherine Lacey, Meg Wolitzer, and Dave Eggers influence audience understanding and response.
Precarious Crossings
(2019)
Examines the underlying precarity in twenty-first-century immigrant fiction and reveals the contradictions inherent in neoliberalism as an ideology.
Reality Bites
(2018)
Fake news, alternative facts, post truth—terms all too familiar to anyone in U.S. political culture and concepts at the core of Dana L. Cloud’s new book, Reality Bites, which explores truth claims in contemporary political ...