Weber has done the painstaking research to find out who were the real-life people on whom Proust modeled some of the most memorable characters...

McClellan explores fan fiction inspired by one of the most-watch BBC series in history...

When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged...

In 1960, a poet and journalist named Lin Zhao was arrested by the Communist Party of China and sent to prison for re-education...

Rubin-Detlev evaluates the place that Catherine sought to occupy in the intellectual and cultural landscape of her time...

Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing...

Alizart offers us a surprising new portrait of the dog as thinker―a thinker who may perhaps know the true secret of our humanity...

What is it about ancient monsters that popular culture still finds so enthralling?

Science fiction has had an obsession with Roman Catholicism for over a century...

McQuade opens up an entirely new field for the study of early modern women’s writing,..

In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life...

Kim tangles with the question of difference so central to French feminism, theory...

Wilson’s "Odyssey" captures the beauty and enchantment of this ancient poem...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Hundorova has written a compelling study of the literary changes that mark Ukrainian literature at the end of the 20th century...

The dominance of the London press in the British national media has long overshadowed the presence of local newspapers in Great Britain...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

The Hindu great epic, Mahābhārata, exists today in hundreds of variant manuscripts across India...

In "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers," Cohan investigates “the behavior of American sports fans to understand (its) cultural relevance beyond mere consumerism.”

Saguisag addresses a gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips...

In the late Enlightenment, a new imperative began to inform theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in the same way that we read the Bible...

Saguisag addresses a gap in scholarship, examining the ways childhood was depicted and theorized in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century comic strips...

DeLoughrey argues that the cosmopolitan position on Global Warming is in truth a provincial one limited to privileged circles in the Global North...

Zafar discusses the earliest formally-published African-American-authored hospitality books from the 1820s to Edna Lewis’s Taste of Country Cooking from the 1970s...

"The Dark Fantastic" is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction...