Heterosexuality is usually regarded as something inherently “natural”—but what is heterosexuality, and how has it taken shape across the centuries? By challenging ahistorical approaches to the heterosexual subject, Heterosexual Histories… Read More
Looking for some winter break reading? Be sure to check out Dr. Jaipreet Virdi’s recent publication “Material Traces of Disability: Andrew Gawley’s Steel Hands, ” which appears in a special issue of Nuncius: The Journal… Read More
The Modern Language Association of America announced the winner of its fifty-seventh annual William Riley Parker Prize for an outstanding article published in PMLA, the association’s journal of literary scholarship.… Read More
Margaret Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and professor of humanities, is the author of an article in the 2020 special issue (with the theme of “Home”)… Read More
“Nothing ever really disappears from the internet” has become a common warning of the digital age. But the twentieth century was filled with ephemera—items that were designed to disappear forever—and… Read More
Over summer 2020, Dr. Alison Parker contributed to the commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Check out her blog post, “Mary Church Terrell: Black Suffragist and Civil Rights… Read More
Want to learn about the early modern pearl industry? Check out Dr. Mónica Domínguez Torres’s chapter “Mastery, Artifice, and the Natural Order: A Jewel from the Early Modern Pearl Industry” in The… Read More
The current issue of The Gissing Journal (Volume LIV, No. 4, October 2020), an international scholarly periodical established in 1965 and devoted to studying the works and the world of… Read More
At the age of four, Jaipreet Virdi’s world went silent. A severe case of meningitis left her alive but deaf, suddenly treated differently by everyone. Her deafness downplayed by society… Read More
Check out Dr. Sarah Wasserman’s recent contribution, “Thing Theory,” to Oxford Bibliographies Online. If you’ve been looking for a resource dedicated to material culture studies and thing theory, this publication is for you! Wasserman summarizes… Read More
