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General Literature – Literary Criticism and Theory

• 2013

• 25. Tropes of Passing Time in the Nineteenth-Century European Novel

• 26. Going Viral

• 32. Early American Sex

• 35. Fantasizing Stardom

• 49. Beyond Critique? The Possibilities of Post–Cold War Criticism

• 65. Queer Theory without Antinormativity

• 74. Interiorities of Disability

• 87. Minorities and National Literatures

• 90. Paintings and Photographs Remediated in Film, Graphic Narrative, and Newspaper

• 128. The Time of Origin and Repetition: Modernism after Modernism

• 141. Reading Society

• 155. Movements, Incantations, and Parables of Queer Performance

• 161. Reimagining Tragedy

• 176. Modernism and Science Studies

• 190. What's Adoption Got to Do with It? New Directions in Studies of Kinship and Literature

• 211. Literary Criticism in East Asia

• 235. Historically Contingent Practices of Literary Interpretation

• 241. Accessing Romanticism through Atlantic Slavery: Period, Archive, Memory, Scholarship

• 253. Postqueer? Postrace? The Political Stakes of Queer

• 266. Shame

• 273. The Past, Present, and Future of Cognitive Literary Studies

• 292. Queer Theory in a Postcolonial World

• 292. Queer Theory in a Postcolonial World

• 310. Queerness as Form

• 331. Literary Criticism in Latin America

• 332. The Experience of Class in the Academy

• 358. Where in the World Is World Literature?

• 368. Debt Theory

• 370. Marxism and Modernist Studies Today

• 383. The Archival Turn

• 384. What Is a Journal? Toward a Theory of Periodical Studies

• 385. The Mechanics of Fictional World Making

• 443. Love and Its Discontents

• 457. Biopolitics and Its Limits

• 468. Responses to Werner Hamacher's "95 Theses on Philology"

• 483. Disability Studies Methodologies

• 494. Perspective and Interior Spaces before 1850

• 508. New Materialism and Cultural Critique

• 532. Between the Postcolonial and the Global

• 549. Why Marx Was Right

• 554. Postcolonial African Cinema

• 572. Queer Occupations

• 573. The Via Regia of Language: Hamacher's "95 Theses"

• 583. Intellectual and Cognitive Disability Studies

• 585. Negotiating Sacred and Secular in Muslim Everyday Life

• 631. Literary Theory and American Sign Language Literature

• 641. Racing, Queering Psychoanalysis

• Cash Bar Arranged by the GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages

• 662. Queer Times: Affect, Phenomenology, Temporality

• 672. The Legacy of Suspicion

• 673. What Short Story Theory and Narrative Theory Can—and Can't—Do for Each Other

• 691. Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention

• 711. Literature and Constructivism

• 723. Literary Criticism in Africa

• 731. What Is Post-AIDS Literature?

• 744. Identity Knowledges and the Future of Critique: A Conversation with Object Lessons

• 747. Oscar Wilde in Print and Visual Culture

• 768. Forgetting, Memory: Time and Mourning in W. G. Sebald

• 789. The New Racial Capitalism

• 2012

• 6. Inter-nature-nality: International Perspectives on Environment

• 8. Teaching the Bible as Literature

• 17. Fernando Vallejo's Poetics of Transgression

• 20. Public Discourse, Islamism, and the Arab Revolutions: On Paul Berman's The Flight of the Intellectuals (session canceled)

• 33. Cetacean Nations: Thinking Transversely

• 36. The Tragic and the Heroic: Phases in a Modern Affair

• 49. Why Habermas Matters Now

• 51. The American Transcendentalists as Continental Philosophers

• 76. Teaching Theory One Generation Later: What Is the Canon in the Introductory Theory Course Now?

• 84. Rethinking Empathy: Feeling with Others in Contemporary Literature

• 92. Preference

• 96. Transgendering Psychoanalysis

• 105. Race and Metaphor in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American and Continental Thought

• 118. Linear Isomorphism and Represented Environments in the British Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

• 120. Writing the Cuban Nation

• 131. The Very Thought of the University

• 132A. The Futures of Jewish American Literature: Celebrating the New Studies in American Jewish Literature

• 141. What Popular Culture Suggests about Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice . . . and Vice Versa

• 149. The Environment, Trauma, and Contemporary Fiction

• 154. Mutant Fictions: Networks, Objects, and Cities in the New Wave of Spanish Narrative

• 156. Genre in the Genome Age

• 166. Tone in Narrative

• 176. Christianity and the Literature of the Global South

• 180. Destruction

• 209. Corporate Humanities

• 213. The Languages of Hospitality in Literature

• 266. Realisms after Modernisms

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

• 280. Forming Histories, Historicizing Forms

• 282. The Avian Turn: Human-Avian Desire and Anxiety in Medieval Literature

• 292. Modernists and Vagueness

• 305. The Novel after Postmodernism

• 319. States of Consciousness in Literature

• 334. A Comparative View of Passion and Affect in Early Modern Tragedy

• 339. Evolution without Progress: Late-Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

• 340. Literature and Secularization

• 346. New Temporalities of Old Age

• 348. Why Neo+Slave Narratives in the Twenty-First Century?

• 351. Zombie Modernism

• 354. Queering the Indigene: Rearticulating Intersections in Postcolonial, Indigenous, and Queer Studies

• 359A. Scholarship, Censorship, and Academic Change: The Case of A. K. Ramanujan

• 393. Codes, Conventions, Connotations: Intertextuality in Modern Arabic Literature

• 394. Flexible Authorship: Recontextualizing Sui Sin Far / Edith Eaton

• 396. Chinese Narrative, World Literature: The Appeal and the Peril of Being Worldly

• 398. The Gift of Literature: Recent Developments in Gift Theory

• 432. Postcolonial Literary History: Concepts and Permutations

• 454. What Happened to the Social?

• 462. Queer Memoir

• 476. New Directions in Ecocriticism: Scientific Knowledge and Literary Critique

• 493. Women's Utopian and Dystopian Fiction

• 495. Form and Ideology

• 503. Queering Puget Sound

• 526. Transatlantic Women's Humor in the Nineteenth Century

• 526. Transatlantic Women's Humor in the Nineteenth Century

• 528. New Directions in Language Science and Literary Study

• 532. Reading Writing Interfaces: Electronic Literature's Past and Present

• 533. Islamic Discourse in Global Literature in the Post-9/11 Era

• 535. Rereading Mary Wroth

• 550. Stasis and Constraint

• 554. What Was the Modernist Novel? Three Appraisals

• 559. Torture and Sentiment: Laurence Sterne's Fiction and Sermons

• 572. The Philosophical Example

• 583. Perversion and Revolution

• 588. Nineteenth-Century American Sentiment, Radical or Otherwise

• 590. Revising Neoclassicism

• 633. Zoopolitics

• 634. Modern Echoes of Platonic Poetics

• 635. Queer Anachronisms and the Question of History

• 642. Foregrounding Backgrounds: Theorizing British Settings from 1772 to 1893

• 655. Unemployment

• 663. Subversive Epistemology in the Erotic Dialogues of the Renaissance

• 669. Sentimentalism's Unread Stories of Slavery

• 670. Constancy in Distress: Transnationalism and Transgression in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

• 686. Philosophy and the Novel: The Case of Adorno

• 692. Human Rights Modes: Testimony

• 702. Pain Studies

• 709. Sex Ed

• 718. Reading Affect in Twentieth-Century Literature

• 720. Katherine Mansfield and Modernist Form

• 724. Romantic Number(s): Body, Individuality, Automaton, Multitude

• 728. New Paths of Flânerie: Crossings of Gender and Space and the Nineteenth-Century French Flâneur/Flâneuse

• 729. Refashioning the Poetics of "Post"; or, How to Imagine beyond Postmodernism

• 745. Affecting Affect Theory

• 749. Pushing the Boundaries of Testimonio: Theory and Practice in the Twenty-First Century

• 2011

• 27. The Religion (Re)Turn

• 44. Surface and Depth: How We Read Now

• 71. Conversion Narratives

• 74. Queerness and Disability

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

• 141. New Thresholds of Interpretation? Paratexts in the Digital Age

• 159. Cognitive Cultural Studies: Cognitive Approaches in Dialogue with Other Approaches

• 180. Comparative Marginality: A South-South Conversation

• 186. Federman's Fictions: Writing the Recombinant Life

• 208. Queer Los Angeles

• 230. Dorian Gray Forever: The Aesthetic Life (and Afterlife) of Wilde's Novel

• 232. Pastism

• 253. The English Bible

• 256. The Lightness of Reading

• 266. Film Simulations of Disability

• 304. American Military Intervention Abroad and Literary Reintervention

• 313. Postcolonial Narratology: Do We Need One?

• 316. Surplus Value, Surplus Life

• 323. Beckett in the Republic of Letters

• 341. Reading as Critical Practice in American Literary Studies

• 344. The One and the Many: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy in Modern Literary Contexts

• 345. Psychoanalysis and Love

• 366. Sedgwick's Endurance: Writing with Loss

• 369. Trans-queer

• 373. Dada Lives!

• 388. Politics of Paratexts

• 418. Alliances, Collaborations, Common Ground: The Modern Language Association and the Association of Literary Critics, Scholars, and Writers in Conversation

• 435. Queer City Limits: Expanding Perspectives on Class and Region in LGBTQ Studies

• 448. Rethinking Ritual Murder

• 449. Where Are We Now? Ecocriticism and Narrative Scholarship

• 464A. Julia Kristeva

• 467. Shakespeare and Phenomenology

• 476. Commonism

• 502. Contemporary Approaches to Literary Narrative

• 522. Whither Posthumanism?

• 545. Queer Studies and the Future of the Profession

• 549. Imperial Mechanisms

• 550. "Persons and Things": Barbara Johnson's Legacy

• 569. Cognition, Culture, and History

• 578A. Cognitive Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice

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

• 584. Public Intellectuals and the Question of Celebrity

• 609. Disability and National Identities

• 615. Racism and Posthumanism

• 620. Autism/Text

• 632. From World Literature to World-System Literature

• 680. Is the Postcolonial South Asian?

• 684. Why Literature Matters

• 697. Victorian Internationalism: The Victorian Novel and Continental Politics

• 705. Wittgenstein and Literature

• 724. City of Night at Fifty

• 730. Parsing the Unspeakable

• 732. Mapping the Transnational in Novels of Migration

• 735. Theory after "Theory"

• 739. Marxism and Dialectical Literary Critique Now

• 755. What Is Posthumanism? Responding to Cary Wolfe

• 757. Buddhism and Critical Theory: New Approaches

• 762. So Close and Yet So Far: Close Reading and Sociology

• 801. Cuban and Cuban American Narratives of Home and Exile

• 802. Beyond Critique: Reading after the Hermeneutics of Suspicion

• 810. What Was Literary Criticism?

• 2009

• 8. Critical Credos

• 24. Geocriticism: Spatial Practices in Literature

• 29. The Representation of 9/11 in French and Spanish Literature

• 48. Queer Poetry and Poetics

• 52. Psychoanalysis and Religion

• 54. New Voices in French Philosophy

• 76. (Auto)Biography and Disability

• 77. Postcolonial Comparisons: Literary History

• 106. Rorty, Pragmatism, Criticism

• 108. History and Race Consciousness: Lukács, East and West

• 115. Regarding the Enemy

• 176. Rereading Jesus

• 197. How to Do the History of Criticism: Twenty Years after American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Eighties

• 219. Masculinity and Disability

• 259. Length

• 273. Postmodern and Unnatural Narratives

• 294. The Death of Freud?

• 306. Cash Bar Arranged by the Marxist Literary Group

• 346. Feminism, Class, and Race in the "Post" Academy

• 352. Futures of Collectivity

• 360. Psychoanalysis and Geography

• 372. Belles Lettres

• 403. The Future of Critical Exchange in Academe

• 419. Postcolonial Comparisons: Indigeneity and Translation

• 438. The Literary Cavell: The Claim of Reason at Thirty

• 449. Oil Ontologies

• 467. Democracy and Disability

• 472. Critical Exuberance

• 497. Susan Sontag Studies Reborn: A Roundtable on Sontag's Journals

• 527. Visual Performance and Cognition

• 538. Cash Bar Arranged by the GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages

• 577. Buddhism and Literature

• 585. Affected Pasts: History, Feeling, and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century

• 592. The Cosmopolitan Novel: Old Paradigms and New Directions

• 595. Back to This Bridge

• 599. Postcolonial Comparisons: Race and Aesthetics

• 611A. Criticism in the Era of Crisis Capital

• 616. Contemporary Poetry and Prayer

• 631. Rethinking Sex: Queer Theory and Feminist Theory

• 642. Queer Universalism

• 645. Politics in Deconstruction

• 659. Culture, Theory, and the Collapse of Neoliberalism

• 693. On Planned Things

• 720. Narrative and Evolution

• 724. Hunger

• 742. Writing, Reading, and Teaching Queer Literary Relationships

• 2008

• 33. Emotions: On the Affective Turn

• 46. The End of Literature or Marxist Literary Criticism

• 68. Narrating Conflict in Postindependence African Fiction

• 89. Privacies, Gay Rights, Gay Lives

• 102. War on Gender, Gender on War

• 122. Critical Theory and the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Toward New Horizons of Understanding

• 123. Modernism, Religion, and the Secular

• 129. Human Rights and the Photographic Essay

• 131. Queer Passive

• 140. Agamben and Marxist Thought

• 143. Secular Feelings, Religious Feelings

• 168. Psychoanalysis and Science Fiction

• 192. Explaining the Literary Today: Memorial Session in Honor of Ralph W. Rader

• 216. Fundamentalisms

• 228. What Is an Explorer?

• 280. Cognitive Approaches to Ethnic and Postcolonial Literature and Culture

• 283. "The Animal That Therefore I Am": On the Politics of Nonhuman Life

• 292. Native Studies Meets Disability Studies

• 296. Our Energy Futures

• 347. Queering Women's Studies

• 347. Queering Women's Studies

• 352. Modernism, Architecture, Space

• 368. Postcolonial Comparisons: Methdologies

• 398. Religion Today

• 402. The Queer Contradictions of Capitalism

• 445. Anonymity

• 446. Future Ruins: The Temporality of Climate Change

• 447. Putting Feminism Back into Queer Studies

• 448. New Directions in Modernist Studies

• 472. Freaks at Thirty: A Fiedlerian Retrospective

• 492. Pragmatism and Literature

• 504. Leo Bersani: Celebrating a Career in Writing

• 523. The Insurgencies of Violence: Revolutions, Rebellions, and Epistemes

• 542. Novel Forms of Victorian Consciousness

• 553. Postcolonial Comparisons: Geography and History

• 559. The Unreadable

• 563. Beyond Analogy: Intersections of American Indian and Queer Studies

• 585. "Secular" Criticism?

• 591. Writing out of Limbo: International Childhoods, Third-Culture Kids, and Finding the Words to Tell about Them

• 603. Adam Phillips, Psychoanalytic Theorist?

• 606. Modernism and Californian Literatures of the Environment

• 638. Religion and the Construction of English National Identity

• 669. Ecocriticism, Evolution, and Cognition

• 670. Globalizing Disability

• 709. Reconsidering Trauma: Subjectivity, History, and the Work of Narrative

• 712. Theory, Religion, and Literature

• 727. Gender, Science, Culture

• 730. Conference Sex

• 732. Postcolonial Comparisons: Form

• 741. Animetaphor: Figuring Animals in Theory and Literature

• 742. Writing as Material Culture

• 759. Psychoanalysis and Citizenship

• 773. Holocaust Memory in the Age of Decolonization

• 782. Literature and Religion at "34": Then, Now, and Next

• 789. The Narrative Techniques of Violence

• 795. Are Cognitive Approaches to Literature a Legitimate Literary Theory? Who Decides, and Why Does It Matter?

• 2007

• 23. Religion and Spirituality in Afro-Hispanic Texts: From Spiritual Affirmation to Prophetic Signification

• 29. Narrative and the Human Rights Paradigm

• 74. The Future Pasts of Colonial, Neocolonial, and Neoliberal Power

• 79. Persuasive Games

• 101. Writing the Caribbean in(to) the United States

• 105. Cosmofeminisms

• 122. Holy Beauty

• 125. Shakesqueer

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

• 128. Late Formalisms: Some Twilights of Twentieth-Century Poetry

• 157. New Worlds on the Page Space: Science Fiction Poetry, Book Art, and Collage

• 166. Tiresian Poetics: Modernism, Sex Change, and Mythographies of Power and Pleasure

• 183. Writing Empires: Composition and the Expansion of English

• 201. Poetic Form and Disability

• 204. Religion and the Teaching of World Literature: Sacred Texts

• 238. Disability and Graphic Narratives

• 248. Women's Studies at Work in the World: Social and Environmental Justice

• 249. On the Enigma of Peace

• 265. Testimony in an Age of Terror

• 273. Psychoanalysis and Relational Space

• 300. Samuel Beckett and Bilingualism

• 307. We're Used to It: Institutionalizing LGBT, Sexuality, and Queer Studies in the Academy

• 308. Languages: America's and Americanists' Languages and Discourses

• 316. War and Disability

• 343. Cash Bar Arranged by the GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages

• 363. We Have Always Been Cognitive (Have We?)

• 379. Postcolonial Environments

• 382. Early Modern Passions

• 399. Religion and Spirituality in African American Literature

• 401. Biomarxism

• 410. Writing out of Limbo: International Childhoods, Third-Culture Kids, and Finding the Words to Tell about Them

• 413. Queer Intermedia

• 418. Style and/as Knowing

• 437. Signposts of Fictionality

• 461. Cognitive Approaches to Genre

• 467. Reviewing American Literary History

• 475. Biocultures: An Emerging Paradigm

• 496. Literary Criticism for the Twenty-First Century: Dialectic, Affect, Mind

• 512. Whither Liberal Democracy? The Future of the Political

• 515. Religion and the Teaching of World Literature: Contemporary Issues, a Roundtable

• 517. Women's Studies at Work in the World: Theoretical Interventions

• 528. Technologies of Horror in Latin America

• 544. Postcolonial Studies since 1983: Reflective Assessments

• 554. The Inhuman: Philosophy and Biopolitics

• 565. Modernity: What? Where? When?

• 571. Cash Bar Arranged by the Divisions on Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture and English Literature Other Than British and American

• 591. Psychoanalysis and Exceptional Spaces

• 608. HIV/AIDS, Disability, and Culture

• 632. Literature after 9/11

• 633. Empathy and Nation in the Nineteenth Century

• 638. Rethinking Polar Fictions in the Age of Inconvenient Truth

• 639. Reading Christianly: Christian Hermeneutics Today

• 647. Writing Transnational Adoption across Asia and America

• 656. Rereading the Sublime and Beautiful

• 662. The Novel and/as Written Testimony

• 663. Walter Benjamin's Intellectual Incorporations: Franz Kafka and the Avant-Garde

• 664. Women's Studies at Work in the World: Transnational and Global Interventions

• 669. Wittgenstein and Poetics

• 672. Ontologies of the Posthuman and Politics in the Wake of the Human

• 698. Postsecular Professions

• 703. Religion and Postcolonial Literature

• 704. Literary Criticism for the Twenty-First Century: Topology, Politics, Mind

• 722. Toward a Divine Poetics: The Persistence of Theology in Literature

• 723. Wolfgang Iser, Cosmopolitan Aesthetics, and Modernity: A Life's Work

• 724. Psychoanalysis and Irigarayan Space

• 729. The Inhuman: Earth, Sea, and Animal

• 737. Anxious Thefts: Imitation and Intertextuality in the Eighteenth Century

• 759. On Christian Scholarship and the Turn to Religion in Literary Studies

• 763. Whither Liberal Democracy in the Twenty-First Century?

• 769. Ballots and Benefits: The Material Effects of Legislation on Our Working Lives

• 770. Writing Empires: Writing Histories and Theories

• 2006

• 11. Theorizing the "First Wave" Globally

• 14. Postirony in Theory and Fiction

• 17. Modernist Wisdom

• 18. Politics of Engagement: Reconsidering Women Writers in Times of War

• 23. Erotic Devotional Poetry and the Crisis of Identity in Early Modern Europe

• 26. The Transatlantic Politics of the Aesthetic in the Eighteenth Century

• 39. Asian and Asian American Feminisms: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches to Literature and Culture

• 47. Nostalgia and American Modernity

• 48. Philosophy and Culture I: Theory and Its Discontents

• 60. Disability and Science Fiction

• 73. From Sympathy to Romanticism

• 77. The Pragmatist Revival and George Herbert Mead

• 78. Case Studies in Psychoanalysis and Religion: Belief

• 79. Queer Love

• 84. Divergent Dictions in Cuban Culture

• 88. The Fate of the Person in Literary Studies

• 91. iPod Capitalism

• 108. Walter J. Ong's Orality and Literacy at Twenty-Five

• 113. The New Milton Criticism

• 116. Latin American and Latina, Chicana, and Native American Feminisms: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches

• 117. Slow Reading

• 139. Latinos, European Subjects, and Hispanic Studies

• 149. The Company We Keep: Reflections on the Work of Wayne Booth

• 160. The United States Constitution: The Founding and the Future

• 194. Literary Studies in the Public Sphere

• 199. Spinoza's French Legacy

• 238. Queer Lineations: Robert K. Martin and Gay Literary Studies

• 243. Marxism and Disability

• 245. Globalization I: Necropolitics

• 258. Case Studies in Psychoanalysis and Religion: On Mourning

• 262. Wisdom and Antiwisdom

• 277. Pearl S. Buck and the Transpacific Imagination

• 285. Cash Bar Arranged by the Society for Critical Exchange

• 302. Cash Bar Arranged by the GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages

• 303. Cash Bar Arranged by the Marxist Literary Group

• 319. Literature and Political Theory

• 324. Trauma, Narrative, and the Postcolonial

• 328. A Celebration of the Life and Work of David Daiches (1912+2005)

• 331. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Influences: Past, Present, Future

• 348. Theory's Futures: Whither the SCE? A Thirtieth-Anniversary Exchange

• 351. The New Class in Post+World War II Literary Culture

• 360. Marxism, Feminism, and the Gender of Empire

• 381. The Digital Postcolonial

• 401. Television and Film Narratives

• 403. Globalization II: Situations, Contradictions

• 418. Postmodernity: Liabilities and Opportunities

• 429. Case Studies in Psychoanalysis and Religion: Religion in Julia Kristeva's Work

• 439. Pain and Disability

• 440. The Ethics of Comparison

• 478. Khronic Mediations in Modern Critical Discourse: John W. Kronik's Legacy to Hispanism and Beyond

• 480. Unacknowledged Influence: Leslie Fiedler and the State of Contemporary Theory and Criticism

• 490. African and African American Feminisms: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches to Literature and Culture

• 496. Philosophy and Culture II

• 515. The Intersectional Thesis

• 531. Cognitive Approaches to Literary Character

• 570. Media Theory and Cultural Transformation

• 576. Poetics and Cultural Studies: Engaging the Debate

• 606. The Insistence of Spinoza: Literary Connections

• 618. Literature and Systems Theory: Current Debates

• 632. Literature, Aesthetics, and the Senses in the Long Eighteenth Century

• 639. Violence in God's Name

• 646. The Avant-Garde and the Left: New Readings

• 648. Parables of Race, Genes, and Power: Remembering Octavia Butler

• 660. Secrets and Lies

• 665. Culture, the Concept

• 666. Susan Sontag and the Public Woman of Letters

• 675. The Future of Poetry Criticism: Problems and Solutions

• 688. Queerness and Race: Queer Interrogations of Race—Praxes, Strategies, Representations

• 729. Narratives of Postcolonialism

• 731. Evil

• 2005

• 7. Inside/Out: Psychoanalysis and Winnicott

• 11. Black Enlightenment, Black Atlantic

• 39. The Antisocial Thesis in Queer Theory

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

• 41. The School of Criticism and Theory and the Past, Present, and Future of Critical Theory

• 46. Marxist Theory: Between Aesthetics and Politics

• 57. Walter Benjamin's "Life"

• 69. Periodization and Its Discontents

• 72. Salut! A Salute to Jacques Derrida

• 74. New Work on Fin de Siècle Women Writers

• 75. Ambiguities of Places/Spaces and Other Literary Appraisals

• 111. Specters of History, Traces of Memory: Modernism, Literature, and Religion

• 125. Marxism Now: Beyond Cultural Politics and Back to Class

• 136. Thinking after Derrida I: Politics

• 142. Veinte años sin Borges

• 171. The Role of the Intellectual in the Twenty-First Century

• 205. Theoretical Approaches to ASL Storytelling

• 212. What's Religion Got to Do with It?

• 219. Cognition, Emotion, and Sexuality

• 221. Outsiders and Literary Censorship in the Interwar Years

• 232. New Media and Literary Criticism

• 257. Postmillennial Minefields: Feminist Literary Criticism since Kolodny's "Dancing through the Minefield"

• 266. A Conversation with Ariel Dorfman

• 268. Literature, Affect, and Anaesthesia

• 278. New Approaches to Elegy

• 279. Inside/Out: Psychoanalysis and Deleuze

• 280. Humanity—or the Humanities?

• 304. Cash Bar Arranged by the GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages

• 339. Heterosexuality: Queer Perspectives on Visual Culture

• 343. Violence in God's Name

• 357. Posthistoricist Approaches to American Literature

• 364. Disability and the Nation

• 380. Inside/Out: Psychoanalysis and Derrida

• 384. Consuming Women

• 401. A Conversation with Julia Kristeva and Ngugi wa Thiong'o

• 402. Temporal Anomalies: Querying the "Early Modern" as a Literary Period

• 403. Visualizing Theory: Deaf Critical Theory and Practice

• 423. Family and Postcolonial Nation

• 428. Learning to Be Modern: Aesthetic Sensation, Cosmopolitan Nation, and the Cult of the New

• 440. Byron and Byronism

• 477. Thinking after Derrida II: Ethics

• 495. Cultures of Exhibition I: National Extensions

• 506. Detecting Ethnicity

• 538. Narrative Medicine

• 559. Cash Bar Arranged by the Marxist Literary Group

• 564. Reception at Lambda Rising Bookstore Arranged by GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages

• 568. Public Opinion and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England

• 591. Aesthetics and Globalization I: Aesthetics

• 601. Fictional Entomologies

• 626. Narrative: Convergent Perspectives from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Other Fields

• 635. Agamben and Literary Criticism

• 638. Dykes to Watch Out For

• 640. From Moses to Muhammad: Teaching Scripture Today

• 650. Race, Ethnicity, and Dissent in Midcentury American Fiction

• 651. Slavoj Zizek and Early Modern English Literature

• 653. Palimpsest Lives: England 1550+1700

• 667. Thinking after Derrida III: Literature and Art

• 678. Studying How Genres Change

• 679. Aesthetics and Globalization II: Globalization

• 685. Being in Narrative: The Historical Tradition of Caribbean Literature

• 689. Myth and History in Contemporary Balkan Literatures

• 694. Things That Last: Durable Ideas and Trailing Objects in Renaissance Studies

• 727. A Dialogue on Dialogue

• 732. Critical Intellectuals and the War at Home

• 742. Queers and Religious Rhetoric in Contemporary America

• 792. Cultures of Exhibition II: Global Circulations

• 2004

• 4. Constellations I: The Social Life of Aesthetic Forms

• 8. "Labored" Writing and the Discourses of Social Hierarchy

• 18. Iberian Encounters between the Crescent and the Cross: New Perspectives

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

• 33. Death Penalties I

• 36. Modernism and Infirmity

• 48. Forms of Experiment

• 51. Theories of the Will

• 75. Queering World War II: Questioning Community

• 79. Independence and National Literatures: The Construction of Identity

• 79. Independence and National Literatures: The Construction of Identity

• 90. Literature of Cultural Exchange: Writing the Foreign in Fiction and Poetry

• 99. Inscribing Media: New American Discourse Networks

• 103. The Differences Barbara Johnson Makes

• 123. Feminists in and/or on Love

• 129. On Truth and Lying in a Contemporary Sense

• 131. Hugh Kenner's Portrait of Modernism in Perspective

• 150. Get Down: Disability, Depression, and Difference

• 158. Criticism at the Crossroads of Public Life: The Legacy of Edward W. Said

• 213. Constellations II: The Social Life of Aesthetic Forms

• 224. Literary Syncretism

• 232. AIDS and Representation

• 235. Creativity and Cognition

• 268. Literary Work, Theory Work, Political Work: In the Tradition of Stanley Fish

• 278A. Imaginary Secularisms

• 303. Funny Women

• 318. Psychoanalysis and the Political: Abject before the Law

• 322. Comparative Queer (Re)Readings: Crossing Time(s), Crossing Culture(s)

• 336. Death Penalties II

• 347. Women and Criminality/Liminality

• 355. Materializing Whiteness: Seeing Race in the Gothic

• 366. Queer Japan: Literature and Culture

• 367. Approaching, Opposing Fascism: State, Capital, University

• 384. Epics without Nations

• 406. Cognitive Disability and Textuality: Autism and Fiction

• 429. Religion and Authorial Identity

• 447. Literary Representations of Queer History: Medieval to Postmodern

• 450. Emblem, Rebus, and Blazon in Early Modern Literature

• 482. Subjetividad y modernidades en las Américas

• 500. Marxist Theories of Reading

• 526. Psychoanalysis and the Political: Democratizing Psychoanalysis

• 532. Beginnings in Fiction and Nonfiction

• 554. Cash Bar Arranged by the Gay and Lesbian Caucus for the Modern Languages

• 573. Actually Existing Colonialisms

• 575. Love, Sex, and Globalization

• 577. Point and Snap

• 597. Aging, Death, and Feminism

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

• 611. Rethinking Eighteenth-Century Empiricism

• 619. The Interplay of the Secular and the Sacred

• 649. The Rhizome and the Errant Self: Approaches to the (Neo)Medieval Narrative

• 651. Psychoanalysis and the Political: Subjectivity and Citizenship

• 672. Edward Said: New Perspectives

• 675. Rethinking Metonymy: A Poetics for the Twenty-First Century

• 714. Narrative Endings

• 716. Shadowing Film Noir: Hollywood's Political Unconscious

• 735. The Politics of Public Feelings

• 771. Voices in the Wilderness: Teaching Queer Studies

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