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General Literature – Cultural Studies, Folklore, and Popular Culture

• 2013

• 24. Secluded Lives, Visible Bodies: Representations of Zenana Fashion in Film and Literature

• 26. Going Viral

• 51. Speculative Turns in Culture and Critique: A Collaborative Exploration

• 88. Age, Obsolescence, and New Media

• 132. Black Studies and Comics

• 166. Whatever Happened to Materialist Feminism?

• 205. Peterloo Revisited: New Forms of Political Dissent in the Aftermath of the 1819 Manchester Massacre

• 229. Cosmopolitanism in Teaching and Reading: Uses and Limits

• 268. Disability Discourses: Bodily Selves and the Embodiment of Deviance

• 313. What Is (a) Jewish Language?

• 361. Video Games

• 405. New Liberalisms and Twenty-First-Century Culture

• 427. Modernity or Postmodernity?

• 504. New England DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Comics

• 549. Why Marx Was Right

• 572. Queer Occupations

• 585. Negotiating Sacred and Secular in Muslim Everyday Life

• 640. Transnationalism and Folklore: Strangers, Acquaintances, or Much More?

• 649. Film Premiere: May 4 Voices

• 657. Cash Bar Arranged by the Discussion Group on Comics and Graphic Narratives

• 676. Re–Understanding Comics

• 708. Victorian Oral Culture, circa 1861–1901

• 741. Remapping Transnational American Studies

• 782. Adaptation

• 2012

• 19. Postnationalism: Comparative Theories and Practices

• 21. Globalization, Latinidad, Chicano/a Literature

• 24. Archipelagic American Discourses: Decontinentalizing American Studies

• 31. Colonial Violence, Indigenous Feminisms, and Sovereignty

• 33. Cetacean Nations: Thinking Transversely

• 39. Where New European Literature Begins . . .

• 41. Social Networks, Jewish Identity, and New Media

• 52. Post-Operaismo, Techne, and the Common

• 75. Education and Ideology in the Jim Crow South

• 83. The Color Curtain: Political Identity and Solidarity in the Global Cold War

• 119. Toward New Humanity: Theoretical Interventions into Literature in Modern Chinese Aesthetics

• 135. Textual Scholarship and African Americanist Studies

• 136. Modeling Girlhood: Reassessing Martha Finley's Elsie Dinsmore Series

• 142. Affect, Distance, Confession: Emotion and Popular Music

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

• 170. Queering Value

• 189. Transpacific Formalisms of the Mid-Twentieth Century

• 191. Folklore and Literature of the Iraq War

• 203. From Car Culture to the Apocalypse: Northwest Folklore

• 221. Temporality of Fairy Tales in Postwar and Postunification Germany

• 224. Michael Field and the Arts

• 255. Travel and Ethnography in the Time of Jean de Léry

• 273. Queer Performance: Space, Bodies, and Movement(s)

• 293. Dissent and Rebellion in the Arab World

• 294. Humor and Subversion: Approaches to Pacific Literature and Orature at the Universities of Hawai‘i and Guam

• 308. Charlie Chan Is Undead: Reopening the Case of America's First Mainstream Minority Detective

• 336. Cultural Activism and the Uses of Maya Literature

• 342. Asynchronous Empire

• 352. The Body in Motion: Gesture in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature and Culture

• 371. The Material History of Spider-Man

• 399. How Seattle Changed Comics

• 405. Why Race Matters: Rewriting the Lusotropical Nation

• 430. Contemporary American Fiction and the Fate of Individuality

• 441. The United Front: Colonial and Ethnic

• 469. Interwar Encounters with Metropolitan French Literature: Diffusions, Responses, Censorship

• 471. Asian/Jewish/American

• 473. Performing Identity in Late Life

• 522. The Seattle Sound

• 534. From Conchita Piquer to Isabel Pantoja: Divas and the Spanish Cultural Imaginary

• 561. Institutional Affections

• 563. The Predicament of Success: Recent Literary Representations by and of "the New Elite"

• 571. Coding Culture: Humanities Responses to Biological Theories of Culture

• 586. Early Modern Possible Worlds

• 587. You Will Know Them by Their Shoes: Footwear in the Cultural Production of the Early Modern Hispanic

• 630. Comics, Bande Dessinée, Manga: For a Comparative Approach to the Study of Comics

• 633. Zoopolitics

• 638. Gettin' Around: Transnational Jazz Literature

• 640. Geographies of Urban Female Labor in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature

• 643. Trauma and Tradition: Intertextuality, Storytelling, and Lyric Address in Post-9/11 Literature

• 659. Chinese Biopolitics, Global Aesthetics

• 662. Crossing into America: Continuities and Fresh Contexts in Immigrant Narratives

• 672. Ralph Ellison and Civil Rights

• 685. Staging a Woman's Life in Academia

• 714. Catalans in the Americas: Transatlantic Perspectives

• 717. Servitude in the Contemporary Transnational Literary Imaginary

• 722. Faces, Masks, Maps: World Literature and the Russo-Japanese War

• 725. Poetry, Poetics, Politics in the Modern Arab World

• 735. After the Jacobites

• 750. Haunted Travel Writings: Journeys to the East

• 2011

• 9. Philippine Studies: Transnationalism and Interdisciplinarity

• 40. Routes to Roots, Hollywood to Neighborhood

• 66. Imperial Tensions: Questions of Local and Universal Knowledge in Early Colonial Latin America

• 105. Consensual Empires: Orientalism as the Economy of Sameness

• 148. Performances of Black Cultural Trauma and Memory

• 200. Jews, Paranoia, and Conspiracies

• 242. Urban Perspectives

• 260. Narrating United States Security: State Violence and the Literary Imagination

• 276. Revisioned Fairy Tales and Myths in Fiction

• 288. Oscar Wilde in Los Angeles: Stories of an Afterlife

• 312. Comics and Conflict in the Middle East

• 338. Locating African American Radicalism

• 339. Counterculture and the Arts in Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s

• 386. Graphic Aging

• 399. Postmedieval Justice

• 428. The Politics of Realism in Popular Narratives

• 468. Narrating Crime and Justice in North America

• 469. The Museum of Jurassic Technology: A Creative Conversation with David Wilson

• 506. LA's Museum of Jurassic Technology: Site of Wonder, Memory, and Disruption

• 508. Isherwood's Los Angeles: A Single Man

• 552. Drawing Women's Lives

• 559. Remapping United States Drama and Performance: From Vieux Carré to the Whiskey a Go Go and Beyond

• 580. The Traffic in Gender: New Directions in Trans Scholarship

• 590. Late-Nineteenth-Century Media Consumption, Literature, and Modernity

• 623. Writing Ethics in Settler Colonial Societies

• 624. Technology, Culture, and Authenticity, 1850+1910

• 636. Film and Revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean

• 693. The Colombian Condition: Narratives of Violence and Human Trafficking

• 694. Modernism and Branding

• 732. Mapping the Transnational in Novels of Migration

• 740. From the New Song and Rock en Español to Spanish and Iberian Pop

• 755. What Is Posthumanism? Responding to Cary Wolfe

• 786. Spiritual Lives in Chicano/a and Asian American Literature

• 794. (In)Tolerance in Queer Cinema

• 804. Global Aging: Arts and Culture

• 2009

• 53. Girlhood and Nationhood

• 137. Greening the Globe

• 244. Grieving in Song: Processing Emotion through Music and Words

• 267. Autobiography in Graphic Narratives

• 489. Archives! Preserving Literature, Narrative, and Art from Local Stories to the Library of Congress

• 506. Theorizing the Coen Brothers

• 562. Cities, Sounds, Frequencies, Translations

• 571. Fame, Stardom, and Celebrity

• 639. The Graphic Novel as Comic Book

• 671. Jews in Visual Culture

• 2008

• 121. Chemistry, Medicine, and Technology in Household Words and All the Year Round

• 128. Torture and Interrogation

• 145. Graphic Novels as Literature

• 165. Folklore and Gayl Jones's Corregidora

• 238. Transmitting Public Feelings: Collective Emotion in Cultural Criticism

• 269. (Un)Making Men: Cultural Constitutions of Arab Masculinities in the Age of Empire

• 326. Octavia Butler and Her Legacies

• 334. Remapping Jewishness

• 412. Queer Urbanities

• 461. Family Dissonance: Critiquing Familial Authority in Film and TV

• 462. Presidential Electionspeak 2008

• 495. Postwar Technologies of Canonization: Addressing the High-Low Divide

• 548. Reality TV and the Economics of Entertainment

• 564. Robots and the History of the Future

• 620. Objects of Terror and War

• 688. Reckless Daughter: Some Perspectives on Joni Mitchell

• 708. Historical Cosmology and Its Nineteenth-Century Horizons

• 746. Early Modern Genocide

• 779. Aestheticism and Politics: Rossetti, Pater, Wilde

• 800. Biopolitics, Romanticism, and the Persistence of Literature

• 2007

• 68. Pleasure Now!

• 83. Folklore and the Literature Classroom

• 96. Marginal Illustrations: Race and Ethnic Identity in American Graphic Narrative

• 102. Class, Inequality, and the Digital

• 112. War Zones

• 127. Narrative, Spectacle, and the Human in Contemporary War Discourses

• 170. American Literary Lecture Tours

• 179. Ruminating Repasts in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

• 210. Reevaluating Jewish Stereotypes

• 282. French National Space in Focus: The Louvre at the Intersection of Art and Politics

• 283. Celebrity Coupledom and Cinematic Desire

• 318. Migrations across Planetarities: Transbordering Citizenships and the Public Intellectual from South, North, and Beyond

• 375. Cultural Studies and Eighteenth-Century Studies in the Classroom

• 419. Museum Studies and Literary Studies Today

• 443. The Cosmopolitan Nation; or, The End of American Exceptionalism?

• 488. The Political Value of African American Literature

• 522. James Brown

• 619. Nineteenth-Century Technologies and Explorations of Narrative Form and Genre

• 652. Race and the Sci-Fi Future

• 666. Representations of Medicine in Contemporary Culture and Theory

• 667. Psychoanalysis, Cinema, and the Politics of Culture

• 699. Narratives of 9/11: The Maghreb and Its Diasporas

• 738. What Is "Popular"? Minor Politics and the Protest Narrative

• 2006

• 10. The New Literary Journalism

• 69. Slavery in the Americas

• 80. Neoimperial Irony

• 91. iPod Capitalism

• 107. The Rap on Poetic Form: Hip-Hop and Contemporary Poetry

• 141. Jewtastic! Marketing Jewish Culture

• 203. Terrorism, Technology, and Visual Media

• 234. Folklore and Collaboration

• 255. The Fight against Fascism

• 323. Conceptualizing Diaspora, Rethinking Europe: Black European Studies Today

• 362. Voicing Minority Poetries

• 366. Early-Twentieth-Century Zionism and Its Discontents

• 405. Warming the Cold War: Counternarratives of Difference; or, "Baby It's Cold Outside"

• 411. Closing Borders, Bridging Gaps? German Pop at the Millennium

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

• 466. Popular Votes

• 510. Folklore and Dramatic Literature

• 563. Popular Culture and the State

• 576. Poetics and Cultural Studies: Engaging the Debate

• 579. Jimmie Durham: Art and Politics

• 581. Occupying Forces: Cinema Culture under Military Occupation

• 582. Culture and Crisis in Cuba

• 604. Around Cities: (Sub)Urban Cinematic Representations from France, Germany, Argentina, and China

• 612. Lesbians in the Spotlight: The Representation of Lesbian Protagonists in Contemporary French Popular Culture

• 620. Time after Time: Literary (Re)Visions of Puerto Rican History after New Historicism

• 649. Meet the Bloggers: Blogging and the Future of Academia

• 676. Cultural and Political Transformation in Contemporary Spain: The City as Symptom

• 699. Folklore in Postcolonial or Ethnic Literature

• 2005

• 22. Religion and Cultural Studies: Postmodern Approaches

• 35. English Studies and Political Literacy

• 59. Narrative Violence: Africa and the Middle East

• 62. Religious Folklore and Literature

• 88. Modernism and Celebrity

• 123. Representing 9/11

• 160. Alternative Modernist Salons

• 178. Marxism and Globalization

• 239. Arab Pop Culture Speaks Back

• 269. What Video Games Teach Us about Literature

• 318. Ethnicity and Technicity: Race and Technoculture Studies

• 370. The Absent and Present Feminine in The Da Vinci Code

• 404. Revisiting Carmen Miranda Fifty Years Later

• 447. Pop Culture and the War on Terror

• 486. Folklore, Literature, and Ethics

• 515. Popular Modernism

• 594. Disciplining the American Child: National Identity, Citizenship, and Childhood in Antebellum America

• 611. Critique and Terror: The New Americanists and Cultural Politics Today

• 618. Religion and Jewish Cultural Studies?

• 625. New Angles on Graphic Narratives

• 648. Museum Discourse in Literature

• 684. Narratives of National Identity in the Aftermath of United States Occupation

• 707. Literary Theory and Folklore Theory

• 2004

• 15. Print History, Posthistory, and Vilém Flusser

• 16. Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Sequential Art

• 23. Feminist Activism inside and outside the Academy: The Legacy of Carolyn Heilbrun

• 52. The Future of Franco-American Relations: Que Faire?

• 121. Folklore, Literacy, and Education

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

• 245. Rhetoric and Hermeneutics, 1250+1750: The Legacy of Walter J. Ong

• 264. Black Popular Culture: TV and the Realities of Race

• 348. The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies

• 407. Representing 9/11 in the Cultural Discourse

• 439. The Life and Work of Amanda Cross

• 443. Performing on the Margins of Europe: Gender and Nationality in the Eurovision Song Contest

• 492. Slavery Museums and Heritage Sites: Trauma, Tourism, and Culture

• 549. The Semiprivate Life

• 582. The Uses and Abuses of Folklore

• 606. Jews, Gender, and Popular Culture

• 615. The Hymn in English: Affect, Cultural Politics, Identity

• 644. Cultural Studies and Ghosts of Culture: Making Culture Count (Again)

• 660. Race-ing New Media

• 765. Cultural Authenticity: Contemporary Approaches to Folklore and Literature

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