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Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature

By Mitchum Huehls

Elizabeth Bishop: A Very Short Introduction

Jonathan F.S. Post

Letters to America

By Fred D’Aguiar

Year of Plagues. A Memoir of 2020

By Fred D'Aguiar

Willa Cather’s Queer Economy

By Joseph Dimuro

Among the Skyscrapers: Henry Blake Fuller’s Chicago Novels

By Joseph Dimuro

Letter of Recommendation for NYT Mag on Hot Cheetos and Growing up in LA

By Summer Kim Lee

Ali Behdad Explores Photographic Constructs

Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic

By Barbara Fuchs

Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West

By Blake Allmendinger

Immaterial Archives: An African Diaspora Poetics of Loss

By Jenny Sharpe

Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Performance

Edited by Lowell Gallagher, James Kearney, and Julia Reinhard Lupton

Exhaust All Poisons

Reminiscences of poetry and the internet.

By Brian Stefans

The Fire Files

A personal narrative about living through the Woolsey fire and its aftermath in the Malibu canyons.

By Claire McEachern

Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery

Tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms of human rights abuses are understood.

By Yogita Goyal

Book from Professor Michael Rothberg: The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators

Arguing that the familiar categories of victim, perpetrator, and bystander do not adequately account for our connection to injustices past and present, Michael Rothberg offers a new theory of political responsibility through the figure of the implicated subject.

By Michael Rothberg

Professor Emeritus Frederick Burwick’s A History of Romantic Literature

Historical narrative offers introduction to romanticism by placing key figures in overall social context

By Frederick Burwick

Cultural Evolution and its Discontents

Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure by Robert Watson

Allegories of the Anthropocene

by Elizabeth DeLoughrey

Volpone

Revised Edition by Ben Jonson; Edited by Robert Watson

Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages

by Arvind Thomas

The Legacy of Boethius in Medieval England

The Consolation and Its Afterlives Edited by A. Joseph McMullen and Erica Weaver

Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature

By Stacie Cassarino

Still Modernism

Photography, Literature, Film By Louise Hornby

The Book of Ephraim

By James Merrill, Edited by Stephen Yenser

Satan

A Biography By Henry Ansgar Kelly

Embodied Avatars

Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance By Uri McMillan

Civic Longing

The Speculative Origins of U.S. Citizenship By Carrie Hyde

Neoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture

Edited by Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald Smith

Literature and Food Studies

By Allison Carruth and Amy Tigner

Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood

Edited by Joseph Bristow

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

Second Edition Edited by Claire McEachern

Blood Royal

A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris By Eric Jager

Urban Tumbleweed

Notes from a Tanka Diary By Harryette Mullen

Casebook

A Novel By Mona Simpson

The Poetics of Piracy

Emulating Spain in English Literature By Barbara Fuchs

The Official World

By Mark Seltzer

Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder

By Sarah Tindal Kareem

The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature

Edited by Yogita Goyal

Oscar Wilde’s Chatterton

Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery By Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell

Making England Western

Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture By Saree Makdisi

The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America

Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies By Rachel C. Lee

A History of California Literature

Edited by Blake Allmendinger

Stone Fruit

Poems By Stephen Yenser

The Middle English Bible

A Reassessment By Henry Ansgar Kelly

Utopia, Limited

Romanticism and Adjustment By Anahid Nersessian

Sodomscapes

Hospitality in the Flesh By Lowell Gallagher

Imagining Extinction

The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species By Ursula K. Heise

After Critique

Twenty-First-Century Fiction in a Neoliberal Age By Mitchum Huehls

Camera Orientalis

Reflections on Photography of the Middle East. By Ali Behdad

Chinese American Literature without Borders

Gender, Genre, and Form By King-Kok Cheung