An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels.

Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies.

Examines the impact of Persian poetry in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.

Pairs literary works with philosophical and theoretical texts to examine how the Kantian sublime influenced authors in their treatments of freedom and subjectivity through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought.

Analyzes literary and cultural representations of iconic Mexican women to explore how these reimaginings can undermine or perpetuate gender norms in contemporary Mexico.

Argues that Jewish writers used depictions of Jews as animals to question prevalent notions of Jewish identity.

Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them.

A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.

An interdisciplinary examination of French fashion, modernity, and materiality from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries.

Analyzes contemporary Yucatecan and Chiapanecan Maya narratives.

Examines how Jewish women have used poetry to challenge their historical limitations while rewriting their potential futures.

Explores Yalom’s profound contributions to psychotherapy and literature.

Offers a new framework for reading American literatures that critically links African American and Latinx traditions and struggles for liberation.

Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time.

An innovative philosophical meditation on the muteness of Holocaust survivors and the human faculty of storytelling.

A broad examination of climate fantasy and science fiction, from The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia series to The Handmaid's Tale and Game of Thrones.

Provides in-depth analyses of key moments in Brazilian utopianism, including theologico-political, matriarchal, environmental, and work-free utopias.

Explores a little-known history of exchange between Anishinaabe and American writers, showing how literature has long been an important venue for debates over settler colonial policy and indigenous rights.

Develops the sustained, relational, dynamic, and reflective attention demanded by Gertrude Stein’s novel into a theory of reading and critical analysis.

Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.

The first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.

Argues that multiculturalism and hybridity are key components of the nation’s poetry and its culture.

Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico.