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5.  Teaching American Literature in an Age of Scarcity: Pedagogy and the Profession
6.  Center of the Mission Cult: Reading (at) Riverside's Mission Inn
7.  German in the Life of the University: A View from the Trenches
8.  Serial Narrative: Theory and Practice
9.  Philippine Studies: Transnationalism and Interdisciplinarity
10.  Literature and Rights in the Age of Enlightenment
14.  Modernism at Mid-Century: New Models for Reading, 1930–60
15.  Stories of Souls: Women's Spiritual Narratives
20.  Capitalism and the Humanities
21.  Rehabilitating Scholarly Ethos: Theory and Practice in Hard Times
23.  The Afterlives of Ophelia
24.  Amerindian Faith, Visual Hybridity, and Colonial Latin American Texts
25.  Storytelling and Memory: Ventriloquized Narratives and the Art of Legal Storytelling
26.  Channel Crossings: Rethinking the Anglo-French Renaissance
27.  The Religion (Re)Turn
28.  From Victim to Heroine: Redefining Female Detective Fiction across Cultures
29.  The Brave New World of Scholarly Books: Publishing in Tempestuous Times
30.  Spain's Conflict at a Screen near You
31.  In and out of the Archive: Biography, Autobiography, and Constructing the "Self"
47.  New Intersections in Lorca Studies
48.  Hacking the Profession: Academic Self-Help in an Age of Crisis
49.  Translation and the Construction of Transcultural Memory
53.  Critical University Studies
63.  The Globalization of the Holocaust
64.  Biographical Truth: Literary Biography and Experiments with Form
66.  Imperial Tensions: Questions of Local and Universal Knowledge in Early Colonial Latin America
67.  Modernist Transnationalism and Japanese Noh: (Mis)Translating Culture in Yeats, Pound, Konishi
68.  Silence and Signification in Medieval and Renaissance Literatures: Formal Challenges
69.  Retheorizing Modernism in Yiddish Poetry
85.  Magic Realism versus Religious Realism in Ethnic American Literatures
88.  Latin American Neobaroque and the Illogic of Rupture
89.  Sentiment and Lament: Responses to Death in Poetry of the American Civil War
90.  The Keywords Project (www.keywordsproject.pitt.edu)
91.  Meeting in the Library: Academic Labor at the Interface
92.  Speaking to Marginalization: Examining Prison Life through Narratives
100.  Unions in Academe: Navigating Hard Times
104.  Fragmented Memories, Languages, and Identities in Contemporary Galician Literature
105.  Consensual Empires: Orientalism as the Economy of Sameness
106.  The Strange Death of the Liberal University in Britain?
124.  Comparative Perspectives on Homosexualities in South Africa and Uganda
128.  The Epistolary Poem in a Twentieth-Century Context
129.  Teaching Early Modern Ecocritically
131.  Villon's Body of Verse: Food, Torture, and the Ownership of Language
132.  Rejecting the Periphery: Rewriting Modernism in Hispanic Studies
133.  In Our Own Image: Remaking Academia in a Changing Economic Climate
144.  Toward a Pan-American Literature
148.  Performances of Black Cultural Trauma and Memory
149.  Form, Genre, and Judgment: Law and Literature beyond New Historicism
150.  New Tools, Hard Times: Social Networking and the Academic Crisis
151.  Adult Memory and Reimagining the Past in Children's Literature
152.  The Territorial Imagination
153.  Games and Theater?
159.  Cognitive Cultural Studies: Cognitive Approaches in Dialogue with Other Approaches
166.  Modernist Transgressions beyond the Avant-Garde
173.  The Avant-Garde in Contemporary Chinese Poetry
174.  The Problem of Color in Early Modern Europe
175.  Narrative Imag(in)ing and the Comics of the Hernandez Brothers
176.  Exploring Victorian Subjectivity: Nineteenth-Century British Diaries
177.  Narrating Illness and Disability: Risks and Rewards
184.  Scholarly Publishing in an Age of Translingual and Transcultural Competence
185.  Planet Wiki? Postcolonial Theory, Social Media, and Web 2.0
186.  Federman's Fictions: Writing the Recombinant Life
187.  Persistence of Empire: Hispanic Asian and African Literatures and Postcolonial Nationhood, 1885–2004
216.  Narrating Urban Lives, (Re)Mapping Urban Spaces in Francophone Maghrebi and Beur Literature and Film
217.  Experimental European Crime Fiction: Rethinking Nation and Metanarration
218.  Analog and Digital: Texts, Contexts, and Networks
219.  Romanticism and Globalization
220.  What's American about Nineteenth-Century Modernism?
221.  Transatlantic Transactions: The Dialogue between British and American Experimental Poetry
222.  The Death of the Reader
223.  Radical Temporalities in Shakespeare Studies
229.  Remembering Madrid's March 11th: Terrorism, Immigration, and Identity in Contemporary Spain
230.  Dorian Gray Forever: The Aesthetic Life (and Afterlife) of Wilde's Novel
230A.  Speculative Fictions: "Near Future" Visions of Race and Politics
231.  Image and Action: A Proposal for Thinking Visual Culture in Hispanic Studies
246.  Polyglot Poetics
248.  The Dictionary in Print and in the Cloud
249.  Career Options in Translation for Language Students
255.  What Has Globalization Done to Modernist Aesthetics?
256.  The Lightness of Reading
258.  Recasting the Hollywood Novel
259.  Memorializing Cuba: Revisions of History
260.  Narrating United States Security: State Violence and the Literary Imagination
261.  African Women Writers: Living New Lives, Telling New Stories
283.  Narratives as a Diagnostic and Teaching Tool in the Heritage Language Classroom
286.  War, Literature, and Memory
287.  The Celluloid Classroom
288.  Oscar Wilde in Los Angeles: Stories of an Afterlife
289.  Recovering the Historical Catherine Blake, 1761–1831
290.  Rendering Old English Poetry: A Reading and Discussion of New Poetic Translations
291.  Fan Mail: Narrating or Garbling the Cultural Work of Popular Fictions?
292.  Central American Lives: Writings from the Diaspora
300.  Toward the Aesthetic Reeducation of Latinamericanists
301.  Between Liberators and Perpetrators: Americans and Germans Read the Holocaust
303.  Life Writing across Languages
304.  American Military Intervention Abroad and Literary Reintervention
324.  Good Vibrations and Globalization: LA Pop and the Urban Crisis
326.  World War II, Women, and Citizenship
327.  "Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?": Food and Desire in Twentieth-Century Literature
328.  Reverberations of the Past: Lost Memory in East German Literature and Film
331.  The Open Professoriat: Public Intellectuals on the Social Web
337.  Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on the Moroccan Literary Journal Souffles-Anfas
338.  Locating African American Radicalism
339.  Counterculture and the Arts in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s
340.  The Self and Others in the Works of María Zambrano, Jesusa Alfáu, and María Teresa León
341.  Reading as Critical Practice in American Literary Studies
342.  The Spanish Comedia Rewrites the Hebrew Bible
343.  Difficulties in Biographical Research and Narrating Lives
359.  Infrastructures of Transport
360.  Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in African Literature: Fiction, Memoir, and the Discourse of Human Rights
362.  The Age of Nashe: How a Literary Malcontent Changed Elizabethan Literature
363.  Telling Life Stories of Korean American Adoptees: Testimony, History, and Politics
365.  Popular and Experimental African American Literature
368.  Narrative Studies Today: Three Perspectives
369.  Trans-queer
370.  Contemporary Italian Cinema: Mediterranean and Transnational Echoes
380.  Negotiating Difference in Contemporary German-Language Literature
381.  Human Rights and the Literary Imagination
382.  Graphic Novels and Cultural Memory
387.  Other Antilyrics: Beyond the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde–Mainstream Divide
388.  Politics of Paratexts
389.  Feminist Transnational Spaces: Narrating Lives of Asian Women
399.  Postmedieval Justice
445.  Materializing Memory in the Early Twentieth Century
446.  Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock: The Men Who Knew Too Much
447.  Transnational Americas and the Literatures of the United States
448.  Rethinking Ritual Murder
449.  Where Are We Now? Ecocriticism and Narrative Scholarship
450.  Narrating Human Genomes
451.  Hybrid Narratives: Representing Space and Subjectivity at the Turn of the Century
452.  Twenty-First-Century Walter Scott
453.  Document and Antidocument in Asian American Photography
463.  Service Learning Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Curriculum: An Introduction
464.  Narrating Lives: An Indigenous Perspective
465.  Primitivism and Modernity in Latin American Literature
467.  Shakespeare and Phenomenology
468.  Narrating Crime and Justice in North America
469.  The Museum of Jurassic Technology: A Creative Conversation with David Wilson
470.  Narrating the (After)Life of a City: Sighting, Sounding, and Moving in Detroit
471.  Pre- and Early Modern Literature in a Mediterranean Context
472.  Afterlives of Slavery in the Post-Civil-Rights Era
473.  Periodical Magazines and Literary Periodicity in the Long Eighteenth Century
498.  Yehuda Abravanel and the Intellectual Foundations of Humanism
501.  Teaching Orhan Pamuk
502.  Contemporary Approaches to Literary Narrative
503.  The Cold War in Africa
506.  LA's Museum of Jurassic Technology: Site of Wonder, Memory, and Disruption
508.  Isherwood's Los Angeles: A Single Man
509.  The Young Side of the Femme Fatale
510.  Rethinking the "Arms and Letters" Debate in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain
511.  The "New Southern Studies" at Ten
512.  Other Sounds, Other Worlds: Literary Soundscapes in Asian and Transnational Contexts
520.  Multicultural Freud: The Cultural Reception of Psychoanalysis around the World
521.  Close Reading the Digital
522.  Whither Posthumanism?
530.  Victorian Geology: Gender, Empire, Temporality
538.  Marilyn French as Writer of an Iconic Novel
541.  Electronic Literature: Off the Screen
547.  Circus Thoughts: Arenas and Artistes from Nietzsche to Nichetti
548.  Criminals and Colonies: The Geopolitical Rhetoric of Punishment
550.  "Persons and Things": Barbara Johnson's Legacy
551.  Narrating the Life of the Artist as a Young Man: Borders, Boundaries, and Peripheries in Proust
554.  Class Politics in Recent Los Angeles Fiction
556.  Autobiographies from the Arab World in European Languages
557.  Toru Dutt
558.  Worrying the Line: Rereading African American Poetry, 1940–60
559.  Remapping United States Drama and Performance: From Vieux Carré to the Whiskey a Go Go and Beyond
560.  The Cinema of Marco Bellocchio
561.  Victorian Cut and Paste: Class and the Performative Politics of Print
578A.  Cognitive Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice
579.  Language, Identity, Nation: Ethnic Albanians in the Postcommunist Balkans
581.  Transmedial and Interdisciplinary Narrative Theory
586.  Crowds and Masses in Modernist Poetry
587.  Baleful Postcoloniality: Narratives of Life and Death on the Margins
589.  Victorian Cultivations
590.  Late-Nineteenth-Century Media Consumption, Literature, and Modernity
591.  Life Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World
592.  Literatura latinoamericana del siglo XXI
593.  Domesticated Terror: Toward a Post-9/11 Aesthetic
594.  Occupational Hazards: United States and Japanese Empires and the Politics of Asian American Literary Studies
595.  Teaching Frenchness: The Classroom in Francophone Literature and Film
596.  Will Publications Perish? The Paradigm Shift in Scholarly Communication
597.  William T. Vollmann: Methodologies and Morals
615.  Racism and Posthumanism
616.  Reading, Race, and Representation in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
618.  Collaboration and the Reward System in the Humanities: A Follow-Up to the 2006 Task Force Report
619.  Ecocriticism beyond Literature
620.  Autism/Text
620A.  Remembering Rohmer
623.  Writing Ethics in Settler Colonial Societies
624.  Technology, Culture, and Authenticity, 1850–1910
625.  Philip Roth and Celebrity
626.  Daily Life under the German Occupation of France, 1940–44
627.  Women's Narrative of the Spanish Republican Exiles
628.  Excavations: The Production of History in the Chicana/o Literary Imagination
629.  Gender and Sexualities in Contemporary Central American Fiction
636.  Film and Revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean
638.  Personal Narratives of Home and Displacement: Mexico and the USA
639.  Where's the Pedagogy in Digital Pedagogy?
640.  Narrating (Later) Lives
658.  Florence Howe and Feminist Studies: A Creative Conversation
678.  Interpreting Lives in Kafka's Short Stories
679.  The Maghreb, the World, and the Text
682.  Twenty Years of Sherman Alexie
683.  Rethinking Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009)
684.  Why Literature Matters
686.  Cross-European Dialogues
687.  Prison Writing in Transnational Contexts: Forms, Rhetorics, and Politics
690.  Forms of Ruin: Economics and Aesthetics in the Long Eighteenth Century
692.  Life on Pandora: Immersive Technological Narratives and Nightmares in Avatar
693.  The Colombian Condition: Narratives of Violence and Human Trafficking
694.  Modernism and Branding
695.  Beyond "Hispanism": New Paradigms for Iberian Studies
696.  Reading Sarah Schulman
697.  Victorian Internationalism: The Victorian Novel and Continental Politics
698.  Women's Life Writing: Gender, Genre, Authorship
714.  "The Bastille of a Word": Writing within the "Carceral State" of the British Romantic Era
716.  Telling Lives: New Approaches to Literature of the Iranian Diaspora
718.  Writing the City
723.  Badiou's Theater
727.  Market of Memory: Spanish Film and TV as Media for Public Debate?
728.  Forgotten Romantic: Reassessing Jane Porter
729.  Representations of Dante's Inferno in the Visual Arts
730.  Parsing the Unspeakable
731.  Postcolonial Representations of Al-Andalus and Sefarad in Contemporary Literatures
732.  Mapping the Transnational in Novels of Migration
733.  Black Literary Los Angeles
734.  American Literature, Disciplinarity, and Interdisciplinary Studies
735.  Theory after "Theory"
736.  Speaking with the Dead: Critical Conversations with Saint Erkenwald
737.  The Sugar-Coated Pill and Other Seemingly Sweet Conceits
745.  Tao Te Ching and English Translators
751.  Writing and Curatorship: The History of the Book
755.  What Is Posthumanism? Responding to Cary Wolfe
756.  (Un)Told Stories: Narratives from the Global Sex Trade
757.  Buddhism and Critical Theory: New Approaches
759.  The Specters of Latin American Humanism
760.  Themes and Aesthetics in the Work of Bernardo Carvalho
761.  Language Ideologies, Policies, and Discourse in Contemporary Galicia: A Cross-Dimensional Analysis
762.  So Close and Yet So Far: Close Reading and Sociology
763.  Goethe's Concept of Nature: New Views from Ecocriticism, Philosophy, and the Geography of Space
764.  The New Materialism
765.  Asia and Pacific Mysteries
766.  Rethinking Radicalism and Seventeenth-Century English Literature: Gerrard Winstanley, Then and Now
767.  Theological Terror: Puritan Legacies across African American Literature
768.  The Beast of Translation: The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
769.  The Aesthetics of Time in American Literary Realism
786.  Spiritual Lives in Chicano/a and Asian American Literature
787.  American Patterns of Exemplarity: Novelizing the Lives of the Faithful
789.  Teaching and Translating Austrian Literature and Culture
792.  Sound Reproduction and the Literary
794.  (In)Tolerance in Queer Cinema
797.  Still Connecting: A Queer Celebration of the Howards End Centennial
798.  Theory around the World: Translation and Ideas from the Rest of the World
799.  Canon Formation and Cultural Identity: The Generation of '98 in Focus
800.  Displaying Culture in Contemporary French Best Sellers
801.  Cuban and Cuban American Narratives of Home and Exile
802.  Beyond Critique: Reading after the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
803.  T. S. Eliot and Violence
817.  Transnational Encounters with Islam in English Literature
821.  "Preponderance of the Object": Three Ways of Looking at Early Modern Things

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