Addiction Recovery and Resilience
(February 2022)
Faith-based Health Services in an African American Community Townsand Price-Spratlen - Author
Barcelona, City of Comics
(February 2022)
Urbanism, Architecture, and Design in Postdictatorial Spain Benjamin Fraser - Author
Between Camp and Cursi
(January 2022)
Humor and Homosexuality in Contemporary Mexican Narrative Brandon P. Bisbey - Author
Examines how contemporary Mexican literature uses humor to contest heteronormativity.
Between Camp and Cursi examines the role of humor in portrayals of homosexuality in contemporary Mexican literature. Brandon P. Bisbey argues that humor based on camp and cursilería—a form of “bad taste” that expresses a sense of social marginalization—is used to represent key social...(Read More)
Drawing on Merleau-Ponty offers new insights into our understandings of health and illness, ability and disability, and the scientific and cultural practices that both enable and limit our capacity for diverse experiences.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work draws our attention to how the body is always our way of having a world and never merely a thing in the world. Our conception of the...(Read More)
Continental Theory Buffalo
(December 2021)
Transatlantic Crossroads of a Critical Insurrection David R. Castillo - Editor Jean-Jacques Thomas - Editor Ewa Plonowska Ziarek - Editor
Revisits, reassesses, and reclaims the legacy of May ’68 in light of our present cultural and historical emergency.
Continental Theory Buffalo is the inaugural volume of the Humanities to the Rescue book series, a public humanities project dedicated to discussing the role of the arts and humanities today. This book is a collaborative act of humanistic renewal that builds on ...(Read More)
Mexico Unmanned
(December 2021)
The Cultural Politics of Masculinity in Mexican Cinema Samanta Ordóñez - Author
Demonstrates how transhistorical myths of masculinity are both perpetuated and challenged in recent Mexican cinema.
Iconic images of machismo in Mexico’s classic cinema affirm the national film industry’s historical alignment with the patriarchal ideology intrinsic to the post-revolutionary state’s political culture. Filmmakers gradually turned away from the cultural nationalism of...(Read More)
Historical and theoretical discussions that describe and reflect on personal objects from a variety of perspectives.
The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that take on cultural power and reverence to such a degree that they are treated (whether metaphorically or actually) as “persons,” or as objects wi...(Read More)
Sisterlocking Discoarse
(November 2021)
Race, Gender, and the Twenty-First-Century Academy Valerie Lee - Author
Follows a Black woman's forty-year career in academia, sharing how race and gender can disrupt and enhance the professional and the personal, from leadership and policies to family life.
In Sisterlocking Discoarse, hair is a medium for reflecting on how academic leadership looks, performs, and changes when embodied by a Black woman. In these ten essays, Valerie Lee traverses...(Read More)
