Explores the life and career of Rahel Szalit (1888–1942), among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin.
An interpretation of architecture and urbanism in seventeenth-century Isfahan, Iran, through the analytical lens of urban experience.
Explores stereotyping and electrotyping in U.S. literature and history. Examines how printers, typefounders, authors, and publishers managed the transition as new technologies displaced printing traditions of the early nineteenth century.
Reconstructs Kenneth Burke’s drafting and revision process for A Rhetoric of Motives and The War of Words, placing Burke’s work in historical context and revealing his reliance on the concept of myth.
A collection of essays exploring medieval rape culture, survivors’ speech, and female subjectivity in a late medieval lyric genre known as the pastourelle as well as in related literary works.
Examines several illustrated copies of the late medieval health guide known as the Régime du corps, demonstrating how the manuscripts’ depictions of household care highlight female-dominated expertise within the domestic sphere.
Examines internet virality as a critical framework for considering early modern artworks’ global mobility and replication. Explores the role of artistic labor, gatekeepers, infrastructures, and social networks to reassess art’s role in processes of globalization.
A collection of critical and creative essays exploring pataphysics, a late nineteenth-century French absurdist precursor to Dadaism, surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd.... Læs mere
A graphic novel examining the fat body in contemporary Western culture through the experiential journey of the book’s hero, who chooses to lose weight in a world that has dictated the medical and social dangers of being too fat.
A collection of essays examining the history of Quakerism from 1830 to 1937, tracing the resurgence of missionary work and the development of Quakerism as a global faith.
A reference grammar of the Hittite language grounded in linguistic and textual analysis, and a tutorial that offers a series of lessons with a comprehensive vocabulary list and illustrative sentences for students to translate.