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While globalization is often credited with the eradication of 'traditional' constraints tied to gend
The Tempest, one of the last plays Shakespeare wrote, draws on themes and stories that fascinated hi
In The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales (Reaktion, 2023), Dr. Ann
In this episode of High Theory, Matthew Kirschenbaum talks about txt, or text. Not texting, or textb
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (U Toronto Press, 2022) off
In Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy: From Muslim Spain to Post-Colonial Italy (Palgrave Macmillan,
Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics (Ohio State UP, 2017) explores an oft
In Part 3, Professor Simon Palfrey offers close-readings of some of the play’s most significant scen
Conflict and trauma remain among the most prevalent themes in film and literature. Comics has never
If you are reading this, it’s probably hard—nearly impossible—to imagine a world without writing—wit
Geraint D'Arcy's book Mise en scène, Acting, and Space in Comics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) explores
A full transcript of the interview is available for accessibility.Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez's C
A pathbreaking exploration of the fate of utopia in our troubled times, this book shows how the hist
Our season of the weird starts off with a conversation between the writer The New Yorker called “the
John Guillory (NYU English author of the pathbreaking Cultural Capital) is here to discuss his amazi
Tom Boomershine, one of the pioneers of performance criticism for biblical texts, joined the New Boo
Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote letters,
With Professor Simon Palfrey, Part 2 looks closely at the play’s characters, and especially at the i
During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals proje
Moving from the aftermath of Reconstruction through the AIDS crisis, a new cultural history of the U
