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General Literature – Themes, Myths, and Archetypes

• 2013

• 12. The Prehistory of Animal Studies

• 38. Theories of the Romantic Grotesque

• 53. The Futures of the Transnational: Interrogating Border Crossing

• 246. Trauma Studies and Contemporary East Asian Literature and Film: Trauma, Memory, and History

• 293. The Study of World Literature in Anthropological Perspective

• 458. Religion in Science and Speculative Fiction

• 552. Anger in Women's Literature

• 733. Service Learning in Literary Studies: New Ways to Read Texts and Communities

• 2012

• 74. Revisiting Emotion and Gender in the Regency

• 110. What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Sensationalism?

• 111. American Exceptionalism after 9/11

• 117. Passions in Premodern Hispanic Literature (XV+XVII Centuries)

• 149. The Environment, Trauma, and Contemporary Fiction

• 155. Authority, Sovereignty, Postcoloniality: Recent Narratives of Dictatorship

• 168. Defining Form

• 213. The Languages of Hospitality in Literature

• 256. Ecstasy: The Writing of Delirium in Middle Eastern Literature

• 291. Acrobatic Figures, Acrobatics of Figuration in Zola, the Goncourts, Seurat, and Rachilde

• 335. Thing and Symbol in Everyday Life and Narration

• 345. Animals, Machines, Forces of Nature: Alternative Agencies in Arthurian Literature

• 426. Global Exiles: Images of Otherness on Austria's World Maps

• 427. Becoming Animal: Representations of Posthuman Kinship in Recent Hybrid Poetry

• 562. Representations of Muslim Male Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature

• 592. Answering to Debt: Benjamin, Schuld, and Literature

• 641. Technologies of the Real: Early Cinematic Naturalism in Norris, London, and Wharton

• 657. Nature and Ecological Perspectives in Latin American Literature and Film

• 661. Heroic Idiocy and the Search for a Modernist Ethics

• 668. Shakespeare and Hospitality

• 717. Servitude in the Contemporary Transnational Literary Imaginary

• 741. Suspension of the Will in Early Modern England

• 2011

• 89. Sentiment and Lament: Responses to Death in Poetry of the American Civil War

• 174. The Problem of Color in Early Modern Europe

• 207. Lives and Archives: Finding, Framing, and Circulating Narrated Lives Now

• 231. Image and Action: A Proposal for Thinking Visual Culture in Hispanic Studies

• 270. Freedom's Visions and Urban Landscapes: Spaces and Places in Language and Literature

• 286. War, Literature, and Memory

• 359. Infrastructures of Transport

• 363. Telling Life Stories of Korean American Adoptees: Testimony, History, and Politics

• 389. Feminist Transnational Spaces: Narrating Lives of Asian Women

• 472. Afterlives of Slavery in the Post-Civil-Rights Era

• 514. Thought Experiments in Speculative Fiction

• 548. Criminals and Colonies: The Geopolitical Rhetoric of Punishment

• 554. Class Politics in Recent Los Angeles Fiction

• 589. Victorian Cultivations

• 625. Philip Roth and Celebrity

• 629. Gender and Sexualities in Contemporary Central American Fiction

• 687. Prison Writing in Transnational Contexts: Forms, Rhetorics, and Politics

• 718. Writing the City

• 817. Transnational Encounters with Islam in English Literature

• 2009

• 288. Marital Exchange and Narrative Structure

• 412. Postapocalyptic Utopias and Dystopias

• 597. Eighteenth-Century "Thing" Theory in a Global Context

• 607. Transnational Ameritopias

• 624. The Anthropology of Sex

• 732. Liberation as Theme and Strategy in Languages and Literatures

• 2008

• 76. Race, Modernism, and Transnationalisms

• 101. After Culture

• 138. Rape and Conquest

• 149. Cultures of Poverty

• 219. Where Nation and Empire Converge: Writing the Panama Canal

• 358. Hunger and Food as Literary Expressions

• 418. Strained Relations: (Narrative) Conflict in the Literature of Adoption

• 463. The Ascendance of Ugliness from Dostoevsky to Petrushevskaia

• 473. Kinship and After

• 556. Storytelling in Contemporary Fantastic Literatures

• 565. "Postsecular Europe?": Religion and Spirituality in Contemporary Fiction and Film

• 719. Bodies and Borders in the Atomic West

• 741. Animetaphor: Figuring Animals in Theory and Literature

• 746. Early Modern Genocide

• 780. Animots

• 2007

• 67. Jewish Secularization? The German-Jewish Example

• 88. The Tragic Mulatta/o: Transnational Narratives before 1865

• 143. Age Studies and the MLA

• 153. Primitivism in Theory

• 179. Ruminating Repasts in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

• 229. American West and Geopolitical Imaginary

• 242. Black Aesthetics, Black Time

• 319. Ink as Metaphor and Material Practice in Early Modern England

• 382. Early Modern Passions

• 415. Consuming Places: Human Geographies in Early Modern Drama

• 418. Style and/as Knowing

• 458. Science Fiction in the "Third" World

• 466. Sovereign Exchanges: Ruling Bodies and Theories of the Gift

• 559. Orientalism and Intersections of Race in the Eaton Sisters' Writing

• 647. Writing Transnational Adoption across Asia and America

• 676. Affective Citizenship

• 740. Representing Anthropology

• 2006

• 9. Contraband in the Americas

• 28. Hypermodernity and Malaise in the Novels of Michel Houellebecq, Maurice Dantec, and Annie Ernaux

• 46. Ethnography and Visuality

• 57. Reading and Writing against the Grain: African American Literature beyond Race

• 80. Neoimperial Irony

• 88. The Fate of the Person in Literary Studies

• 89. "Never Again Would Bird's Song Be the Same": Marriage and the Contemporary Lyric

• 92. Confronting Historical Amnesia in the Classroom

• 106. Sacrifice in the Work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• 118. Transnational Education: Imperialism, Race, and Childhood

• 156. Multiracial Pedagogies: Teaching "Mixed Race"

• 195. The Celebrity Culture of British Romanticism

• 212. Darwin Revisited

• 256. Homecoming Narratives in Post+World War II Cinema

• 259. If We Must Die: Death-Bound Subjects in Twentieth-Century African American Literature and Culture

• 334. Time and Temporality in African Diasporic Literature: New Approaches

• 335. Saved? Religion in Literary Representations of Adoption

• 361. Press Ganged? Revisiting Robert Louis Stevenson

• 379. Anthropology as Literature

• 400. The Place of Music in Science Fiction and Fantasy

• 423. Subjectivity and Love in Contemporary German Literature: Franck, Hermann, Maron

• 424. The Troping Wall: Politics and Aesthetics in Israel, Palestine, and the New Berlin

• 438. Early Modern Migrations and Turn-of-the-Seventeenth-Century London

• 477. Transpacific Configuration of Nation and Subjectivity

• 511. Fantasy Fictions in the Twenty-First Century

• 521. American Women's Theater and Performance since 1980

• 578. Feeling Sovereign

• 603. Cosmopolitanism and Criminality

• 619. Sites of Textual Memory and Trauma in Korean American Literature

• 633. The Place of Place in Contemporary Experimental Poetry

• 644. Seducing the Revolutionary Atlantic World

• 647. Masculinity, Addiction, and John Berryman

• 678. Reading the "Unreadable": Sense and Sensibility in Postmodern Literature

• 2005

• 27. Belles Juives: The Jewess in European Literature, 1765+1845

• 40. Redeeming Violence: Globalization and the Resistance to History in Postcolonial Writing

• 80. Colonial Intersections: Between Anthropology and Literature

• 123. Representing 9/11

• 137. The Cultural Politics of British First World War Veteran Identity

• 221. Outsiders and Literary Censorship in the Interwar Years

• 333. Inside Empire: Multilingualism, Literary Style, and Migrant Perspectives in the Gilded Age

• 334. Images of Masculinity during the Weimar Republic

• 369. Lewis Henry Morgan

• 385. Aging and Atwood: Physical and Intellectual Journeys

• 389. Social Fantasy

• 430. Charming Measurements and Pretty Molecules: The Beauty of Science, the Science of Beauty

• 471. Sensibility Revisited: The Ethics of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century and Today

• 526. Franz Boas and the Harlem Renaissance

• 558. A. M. Homes and Jeanne Marie Laskas Read Adoption Memoirs

• 579. Worldly Women: Imagining Cosmopolitan Feminisms

• 601. Fictional Entomologies

• 658. New Routes in Middle Passage Literatures

• 2004

• 10. New Perspectives on Literature, Illness, and Health

• 37. How to Do Things with Saints: New Approaches to Female Holiness in Late Medieval Europe

• 39. Transnational Transformations: Remaking America in Asian Pacific American Literature

• 47. Primitive Marriage: Nineteenth-Century Theories of Marriage and Kinship

• 97. Romantic Friendship: Texts, Theories, Histories

• 129. On Truth and Lying in a Contemporary Sense

• 170. Paranoia, Theory, Paranoia

• 171. FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) in Creative Writing: Activism and Aesthetics

• 194. Evidence and (Literary/Ethnological) Objects

• 272. Making Exceptions: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the "Normal" in America, 1915+25

• 333. Anthropologies of the Secular

• 349. Race, Violence, and the Nation

• 384. Epics without Nations

• 405. Fanaticism

• 428. Alternative Collectivities: Reimagining the Social

• 451. Phillis Wheatley and Identification

• 495. Recovering Hispanic Philadelphia

• 540. White Postcolonials

• 584. World Literatures in Debt

• 610. Literary Studies, Genre, and Geography: The Function of Space in Modern Fictional Prose

• 624. Other Longings: Nostalgia as Cultural Industry

• 640. Writing Philadelphia: Inscrutable Spaces, Impossible Maps

• 671. Women Making History as Writers of Fictional History and Appropriated Historical Figures

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