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Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay came out in 2000, but still resonates in literary circles nearly 20 years later. The Spring 2018 issue of MFS Modern Fiction Studies featured "The Politics of Escapistry...

When Andrew Benjamin Bricker watches Saturday Night Live or the Jordan Peele film Get Out, he thinks of the eighteenth century. An Assistant Professor in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University in Belgium, Bricker recently published "After the...

Five years ago, Grinnell College professor Thomas L. Moore audited an English class on Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson at his institution. A Professor, Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Grinnell, Moore worked over several years on a...

Earlier this year, the Journal of Asian American Studies turned over the editorial reins to University of Washington professor Rick Bonus. An associate professor of American Ethnic Studies at UW, Bonus will lead the journal for the next three years. He joined...

Earlier this year, the Journal of Asian American Studies published an article by Miami University graduate student Nicolyn Woodcock. The essay "Tasting the 'Forgotten War' Korean/American Memory and Military Base Stew" focused on the role of gastronomical...

The late Michael Rogin, a political theorist who taught at the University of California, Berkley, spent his career finding creative approaches to critiquing the intersections of culture and power. His work "foregrounds the patterns of racialized nationalism...

The first issue of the 2018 volume of SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 seeks to answer the question, "can there be anything 'After Sovereignty.'" That title presents a special issue of nine papers examining the historical aspects of sovereign power...

In 2018, Karen Pinkus moved into the editor position at the journal diacritics. The journal is based at Cornell University where Pinkus is a Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature. We previously spoke with Pinkus on a podcast about a 2014 special...

Discussions concerning the ethical issues related to stem cells have been ongoing for many years, but a special section in the latest issue of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine takes a deep look at some of the newest and most complex issues – including the...

The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University held a September 2015 conference and subsequent talks about the New Russia of President Vladimir Putin. The journal South Central Review recently published a collection of articles from...